[tri-wings] Re: introduction

Hi Barb,

I am sorry to hear about Annie's passing and the difficult 
circumstances surrounding it and the problems with the medical support. 
  I'm so glad though that you had at least 80 days with her.  We had 34 
wonderful hours (which doesn't seem like enough but then there are many 
who have had less) with our sweet Gabriel.  How wonderful that you have 
nine other children.  We have just five others (the oldest is 19 and 
the youngest is 6).  I come from a family of ten, and my husband from a 
family of eight.  My mother and oldest sister were pregnant together 
when she had me (I'm her ninth and youngest natural child--she adopted 
number ten).  I was the same age she was when pregnant with me when I 
was pregnant with Gabriel (44) so I had high hopes that everything 
would go well.  In retrospect though, I feel that in most ways things 
did go well--I feel so blessed by every minute of Gabriel's life and am 
so glad that he is in our family even though his birth and death 
involved so much sorrow and pain and we long so much for him.  I have a 
strong belief that we will know him once again in the next life and 
that our family relationships will continue to develop then.  I do 
worry about what we might have done differently--but know in part that 
it is a natural part of the grieving process.  I have also learned 
things since his death that made me wonder if we could have done more.

Take care.

Colleen


Wife to Paul, mom to Austin (19), Noelle (17), Ethan (11), Isaiah (8), 
Truman (6), and Gabriel (9-15-05 - 9-16-05)

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