Last year was hard. A year ago around this time, we were struggling with Daniel and his enemas. They weren’t working and he would have big accidents in the middle of the night. Daniel was born with VACTERL, a medical condition that affects multiple body parts. Daniel doesn’t have feeling in his bottom area and […]
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My Fighter Daniel, You truly are the strongest boy I know. You just turned 5 years old last week, but the amount of surgeries, challenges, and struggles you’ve gone through makes you braver than most people. You were born with a syndrome that affects a lot of your body parts, hence all the procedures you’ve […]
My son Daniel was born with a disorder that affects multiple parts of his body called VACTERL association (V – Vertebrae, A – Anus, C – Cardiac, T – Trachea, E – Esophogous, R – Renal, L – Limb). Out of the seven conditions, Daniel had complications with five of them including: tethered cord, imperforate […]
Nothing is harder for me as a mother than to watch my kids suffer through surgeries, procedures, and hospital visit after hospital visit. It’s even more hard when I can’t do anything about their pain or help them in any way. All three of my kids have had surgeries, but nothing compares to my son […]
Another baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This time for different reasons. My son Daniel’s stay was a little different than my son Nicholas’s time in the NICU and more dramatic. We knew Daniel was going to be born with some complications. At 16 weeks in the womb, through ultrasound we saw that his […]