So around 3 I was sent to the hospital to have my baby, I can remember the hospital not being very happy thinking I was going to be induced and they were crowded beyond what I had ever seen them! Turns out I didn't have to be induced (thank God "Pit" I am convinced, is of the devil!) things happened rather quickly and Gary barely made it to the hospital from work. I remember holding my baby girl for a few minutes then they took her to clean her up and do the newborn test. It seemed like they were gone forever, and finally a nurse came back and we asked and were told Jadyn was breathing very rapidly and they weren't sure why. They assured me it was nothing to worry about and I believed them. So Gary went to see Jadyn. It took a while before I realized everybody was real serious around me, and exchanging glances with one another and all of them looking at me with this worried and scared look, all my friends and my family, and the nurses, still they hadn't brought Jadyn back to me.
I think it was Gary who finally told me, it was a serious problem. So from that point on I wanted to be alone with just my sister or Sara, or Gary. Once again things didn't work out that way, the hospital was so crowded that instead of going to a room like normal, I was put in a "extra room" with another new mother who had annoying, loud family & friends. The whole night all I remember was trying to walk to the other part of the hospital where the newborn ICU was to just watch Jadyn. My sister stayed with me that first night, and we didn't sleep much that I remember, just went back and forth from the bed to the ICU as much as I could.
The next morning things were worse, still the rapid breathing and finally a nurse was honest with me about the situation. She told me that Jadyn couldn't continue to breathe at that pace because it would wear her out. They had not called in any DOCTORS, or specialist to examine Jadyn, just my pediatrician on call, which was a new guy, I had never seen who was young and dressed in jeans and very retarded. Finally, one of the pediatricians I had seen before came on call, and I was able to let her know I was not happy with how nothing was being done and she still acted like everything was going to be okay. I think it was the 2nd day that the hospital called in a lung specialist from MVH NICU. He told us Jadyn had a hole in her lung. This is also when we found out Jadyn was only a 36 weeker, which they consider premature. As the day progressed it got worse, the air escaping her lungs was filling her chest cavity and moving her heart, which was even more dangerous. And she was getting tired from fighting.
They were going to transfer her to the MVH NICU , and put her on a ventilator, and get the air out of her chest somehow. I think I had held it together without breaking down up to that point. I was afraid to cry because so many people were there, not in my room but just in the waiting area to be supportive which meant a lot. I couldn't see anybody except family and close friends. Hospital staff kept saying it was going to be okay but instead things just kept getting worse, until I was facing that awful thought that was yelling at me in my mind the last two days, my baby girl that I had prayed for, for forever it seemed, she was going to die.
So as they prepared to transfer Jadyn I got checked out and they told us to go home to get things we needed and it would take a while to get her situated before we could see her, just meet them back at MVH. The drive from Kettering Hospital where Jadyn was born to Miami valley Hospital is maybe 15 mins or so. We lived actually a little closer to MVH, but really in the middle of the two,I am saying all that so you understand it was a short and fast drive from one hospital to the other. In the meantime, Richlands campmeeting was going on (prob Camp Golan?) as was Eastern Indiana Campmeeting, \
I guess people were called and they had a special prayer for Jadyn and our church was praying as well as a lot of others. when we arrived at MVH we were expecting the worst, we were told that from the drive from one hospital to the next that the hold in Jadyn's lung had closed, her heart had moved back where it was supposed to be and that her breathing was normal. They would keep her for observation for a week but didn't foresee any problems. Words can't describe what I felt in that moment, nor what I had felt those 2-3 days prior. Just a deep thankfulness, that all though sometimes God gives and sometime He takes away, this time He had given us, the gift of my daughter's Life. And she is definitely a priceless gift to our family.
soooooo
HAPPPY BIRTHDAY JADYN BROOKE ISAACS, I LOVE YOU!!!
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mom that was good i read it mom this jadyn
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