First Stop on My Journey

Well it has been a rough journey so far, and let me tell you how it all started!

My name is Riley, and I was not suppose to enter into this beautiful world until May. However, anything that could have gone wrong with my mommy's pregnancy did, and I came here on March 1st. Mom had, what the doctors has called an abruption--don't worry, for little ones like me I didn't know what it meant either-- but I did know that mom was in a lot of pain. At first I had no heartbeat, and the doctors did not think that I had made it. As my mommy's doctor was coming to check how they were going to deliver me, he thought he saw something. He did not want to make any promises to my poor mommy and daddy-- they had been through enough that night, and Grammy was with them too. The doctor called for an emergency C-Section. Within 6 minutes from the room to the scalpel- I was born. The doctor was not going to make any promises and I was born without a heartbeat, but with some CPR and my determination I fought back and got my heart beating again! The first 3- 24 hours were a tough battle for me, and my family-- but I made it through.

The next couple of days my mommy kept getting sicker, as I kept getting stronger. It turns out that mommy had a clotting deficiency, and would need several transfusions and some strong medicines to get her well enough to go home, ONE FULL WEEK and a day later.

I continued to surprise everyone with my strength and my amazing power to surpass the odds. After only a few days on the ventilator, I am on a C-Pap machine, and breathing on my own. I have amazing strength to fight off nurses and doctors, when I have had enough stimulation-- yet my mommy and daddy can calm me right down by talking sweet to me, or touching my hands. The most amazing odd that I have beaten is the fact that I am here!! I am still with my mommy and daddy, and I am where I need to be!

Well the day has been long enough! I will try to keep in touch when I can, but until then keep praying for me and my family!


Love,
Riley