Tuffbucker
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On December 22, 2004, my wife gave birth to our first child, a little girl. We named her Maddisyn. Maddisyn was born 7 weeks early, and with her fair share of compications. We nearly lost her just hours after she was born. She had to be taken to Primary CHildren's Hospital, where she was placed on a heart/lung bypass machine, to give her little lungs a chance to heal and get strong. After 6 days on the machine, it was decided that she was doing okay to be taken off of the machine, but still had much of her breathing done by a respirator.
She did wonderfully her first night off of the machine. I spent the next day at her bedside, feeling that things were looking up, even though the doctors said she wasn't out of the woods yet. The day after she came off of the ECMO(bypass) machine was exactly 1 week after she was born. At approx. 5:30 pm, she took a drastic turn for the worst, the reason why is still unknown. Maddisyn passed away just prior to 7:00 that night. I literally feel like my world has just ended. Tommorrow I have to bury my little girl. It is the hardest thing I have faced in my entire life.
I truly hope that no one here will have to go through this kind of pain. Many of you on here have been like a second family of sorts, so I wanted to share with you all the story of my blessed daughter, Maddisyn Maree Arnold.
God Bless,
Scott
Here is a link to her obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/DeseretNews/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=2986997
She did wonderfully her first night off of the machine. I spent the next day at her bedside, feeling that things were looking up, even though the doctors said she wasn't out of the woods yet. The day after she came off of the ECMO(bypass) machine was exactly 1 week after she was born. At approx. 5:30 pm, she took a drastic turn for the worst, the reason why is still unknown. Maddisyn passed away just prior to 7:00 that night. I literally feel like my world has just ended. Tommorrow I have to bury my little girl. It is the hardest thing I have faced in my entire life.
I truly hope that no one here will have to go through this kind of pain. Many of you on here have been like a second family of sorts, so I wanted to share with you all the story of my blessed daughter, Maddisyn Maree Arnold.
God Bless,
Scott
Here is a link to her obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/DeseretNews/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=2986997