The baby's condition was 'off the charts bad'. It was so extreme that the specialists stopped measuring and monitoring his fluid level because, at that point, it didn't really matter. The MRI's were sickening to look at.
“It was the most awful and difficult 24 hours of my life watching my son in so much pain, not being able to do anything to make it better and know that this could have been 100% avoidable."
As mom nervously waited for Slade to wake up from his anesthesia in the patient waiting room, an unexpected blessing arose in the form of nurse Annie Hager.
"To the nurse who has been admitted to the ICU. To the nurse who can no longer breathe on their own. To the nurse who wonders if this is how they treat 'heroes.'"
"Some pain etches itself into your retinas. It’s beating us, pretty much every time. If you end up on a ventilator, you are not coming off until your heart stops."
