My son was born at 26 weeks gestation on Oct. 1st, 2008, 14 weeks early. Three days later I bled out into my belly and got a basket ball sized hematoma (blood clot) that had to be removed, so they cut me back open to release the clot and left a 10 inch wide by 4 inch deep hole in my belly that had to be closed from the inside out. I then spent 33 more days in the hospital attached to a pain pump and having my wound packed and unpacked with gauze every 7 hours. To this day home heath care and or my husband clean, pack and rebandage me daily. My son is doing very well after surviving such a small birth weight, 2.3 pounds, and heart surgery at 30 days old. He's projected to be home at Christmas. My two girls 5, and 8 have been very patient and supportive but they want their brother home. I've since lost my job as a licensed insurance agent, my husband a Stormont Vail employee of 11 years has used all of his sick and vacation hours because of being there for his son's emergency birth and getting into a car acciedent a week before and going throught the wind shield of our only car. The hours he's missed caused our home to go into forclosure, unable to have a car to get to the hospital when we want and unable to have anything for our children for Christmas. I was unable to make it to the bureau to get signed up because I didn't know this existed. However, please realize there are HUNDREDS of people in Topeka in situations like mine so please, please, please, if you have a little extra, give a few dollars, it WILL make all the difference in the world! Maybe not to me and my family this year, but somebody...MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Dec. 4, 2008 at 9:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)Pattysniece (anonymous)
My son was born at 26 weeks gestation on Oct. 1st, 2008, 14 weeks early. Three days later I bled out into my belly and got a basket ball sized hematoma (blood clot) that had to be removed, so they cut me back open to release the clot and left a 10 inch wide by 4 inch deep hole in my belly that had to be closed from the inside out. I then spent 33 more days in the hospital attached to a pain pump and having my wound packed and unpacked with gauze every 7 hours. To this day home heath care and or my husband clean, pack and rebandage me daily. My son is doing very well after surviving such a small birth weight, 2.3 pounds, and heart surgery at 30 days old. He's projected to be home at Christmas. My two girls 5, and 8 have been very patient and supportive but they want their brother home. I've since lost my job as a licensed insurance agent, my husband a Stormont Vail employee of 11 years has used all of his sick and vacation hours because of being there for his son's emergency birth and getting into a car acciedent a week before and going throught the wind shield of our only car. The hours he's missed caused our home to go into forclosure, unable to have a car to get to the hospital when we want and unable to have anything for our children for Christmas. I was unable to make it to the bureau to get signed up because I didn't know this existed. However, please realize there are HUNDREDS of people in Topeka in situations like mine so please, please, please, if you have a little extra, give a few dollars, it WILL make all the difference in the world! Maybe not to me and my family this year, but somebody...MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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