“I became frantic. Something terrible was happening. I told my husband to find help immediately. He needed to prepare himself that he may leave the hospital with a baby, but not his wife.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My husband and I arrived at the hospital to await our baby’s arrival. I had no idea the very bed I was settling in would soon become my death bed.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was originally told it was Eczema. He was seen later that day and instantly rushed to hospital. 3 days into our stay, we finally had a diagnosis – Herpes.’
“It is just as deadly as meningitis in babies if not treated right away because it starts to attack their brain.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I woke up being wheeled to the ICU in the worst pain imaginable. All I could silently mouth was ‘How’s my baby?’ I needed a doctor to believe me.’
“I was frustrated and angry. I know my body and I know that this isn’t a migraine!”
By LJ Herman -
‘I can’t let you leave with that blood pressure reading.’ Her statement was so unexpected. It was too early. I had too much to do before the boys were born.
“Several hours later, the situation hadn’t improved, ‘We’re going to deliver you today,’ she said.”
By LJ Herman -
‘We found a mass on his brain. I am so sorry’: How in the hell does a 2-year-old get cancer? Nothing in life prepares you for this.
“It was supposed to be a chill day. I was so oblivious to the fact this could end up bad. I wasn’t prepared for what she said next.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Every time I went to sleep I wasn’t sure if it would be my last night or not.’: Dad donates kidney to 27-year-old daughter in ‘crazy’ and ‘daunting’ experience
“I remember laying there I don’t know if I was conscious or not and I thought have I achieved all I want to achieve yet? Have I done everything in life I wanted to? Was I ready to leave the world yet?”
By LJ Herman -
‘The last note he wrote me said ‘LOVE’’: Dying father’s handwritten notes to daughter before she had to do ‘THE HARDEST THING’ for him
“It’s hard to read, but I knew what he was trying to say. As he was writing it, I said, ‘Are you writing you love me?’ He shook his head yes.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘He would only have half a heart. This defect is so dangerous that without at least three surgeries, our baby boy would die within his first week of life.’
“Using our wedding-ring fingers in a ‘pinky promise,’ we made a pact and promised that we would move forward with the pregnancy and never look back, come what may.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I lost the father of my children because he was bit by a tick’: Wife details illness of husband who had been sick twice in 26 years
“Within 12 hours after being admitted, he went from joking and talking to being in ICU on a ventilator.”
By LJ Herman -
‘He is her protector, it’s not my role anymore.’ With daughter in ICU, emotional moment father accepts boyfriend has taken his place
“We always knew Bryan loved her, but we never truly understood the depth of that young love until that day—a day we watched their young love experience a very adult situation.”
By Eliza Murphy -
