Sometimes Life hands you your biggest blessings in the most Mysterious ways. I say this because somedays I find myself asking Why? Why you? Why me? Before you I was lost without a purpose floating through life looking for a way out. Praying for a reason to live, a reason to not give up and he gave me you.
Read MoreToday marks 1 whole year since my little warriors first open heart surgery. I honestly remember it like it was yesterday, it was one of the toughest days I ever had to go through as a mother a first time mother at that.
Read MoreBrysons favorite person is his Dad, we have a special bond but that kid loves his daddy. They literally are Bestfriends let DeMarcus tell it.
Read MoreBeing a Heart mom is by far one of the hardest yet most rewarding things I ever had to take on. It comes with lots of challenges, restless nights, long hospital stays, countless doctors appointments and never ending worry. Somedays I just sit and think about all the what if’s, what if his heart just stops, what if I put him to sleep one day and he never wakes up, or what if he’s doing so good right now and tomorrow it just all goes down hill, what if his next surgery isn’t his last and the list goes on and on.
Read MoreA year has come and gone faster than I could have ever imagined. It feels like just yesterday you were this tiny little baby who depended on me for everything. Who wanted no one but Mama. I miss the days before you were born where I would just sit in the bathtub, rub my tummy, and tell you to be strong and never stop fighting (Little did I know in your own way you were telling me the same). It was just you and me. I will always cherish those moments.
Read MoreToday marks the first of many Father’s Day’s. I am filled with so much emotion as I think back to the day we found out we were having a little boy. It was the most emotion I ever seen you have towards the pregnancy I could see you were truly happy to be a daddy.
Read MoreCritical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) is a term that refers to a group of serious heart defects that are present from birth. Babies with a critical CHD need surgery or other procedures in the first year of life.
Read MoreIt’s the night before the procedure. Now, this isn’t a big procedure. It’s just something that needs to be done before his Glenn procedure, which is happening three days later. I’m not freaking out. Are you freaking out?
Read MoreNever would I have imagined giving birth to such a strong beautiful baby boy. No, my pregnancy was not like I envisioned my labor and delivery was not what I had planned. I didn’t get to hold my baby for long and from the moment he took his first breath, I held mine wondering if all those doctors piled in the corner of the room hovering over my sweet child were going to whisk him away to surgery before I even got to fully see him or touch him.
Read MoreIt felt like the longest five days of my life leading up to this appointment. Hearing such life changing news just days prior, and having to wait the whole weekend before you could get any clarity on the whole situation was nerve wrecking to say the least. But, we had the first appointment that day, and boy was I ready to get there and get it over with.
Read MoreToday was the big day. The day every mom anxiously waits for: gender ultrasound day. I was finally going to get to see my little man for the first time since 6w2d when he was just a little blob and a sac. And yes, I knew it was a boy from the blood test taken at around 12 weeks.
Read MoreCongenital Heart Disease (CHD) or Congenital Heart Defect is the abnormality in the heart that develops before birth during the early stages of pregnancy when the baby’s heart is forming.
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