Posts Tagged ‘open-heart surgery’

Eat, Pray, Love… Without the Eating.

Posted on September 14, 2010, 9:46 PM, by dkillo, under General, Health, Kids.

September 14th at St. Francis Heart Hospital. Nine-month-old Mikey has been in the Pediatric ICU for just a few hours. Earlier in the morning, he had open-heart surgery to close a large hole in his heart.  His family was standing around his bed watching him as he lay in a medicine-induced sleep, a respirator breathing for him, and at […]

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Oh, Baby… CPR

Posted on February 26, 2010, 10:35 AM, by dkillo, under General, Kids.

My son was born at 2:07 a.m. on a Monday morning after a routine, full-term pregnancy. As a nervous, exhausted new Mom, I let the nurses take him for his first feeding. A couple of hours later, they wheeled him into my room in a neonatal incubator. His lips had turned blue when the nurses fed him, […]

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