Today is a day we will celebrate….celebrate life, second chances and above all the miracles of God!!! It is my Mother’s birthday today…any other year I would say happy Birthday and that would be it. But this year is different…a week and a half after having my baby my Mother, who was staying with me, went with some family to Laughlin. While there she was experiencing some pain and so they took her to the hospital. After several hours they discovered she had a ascending aorta aneurysm.
Imagine me…..just trying to adapt to motherhood, the joy, sleepless nights and now the threat of losing my best friend. I just kept telling my Husband “she HAS to be ok, there is NO other option!” While frantically looking up on the internet what this all mean’t she was air lifted to Las Vegas for emergency open heart surgery. The surgeon was awaiting her arrival to perform an operation that has a less than 2% survive rate…….good thing I didn’t know that then. I just kept praying to God and to my Grandma, my Mom’s mom, to be with her. The surgery took several hours and we were not sure of the outcome or if she were to even pull through. But God was with us and so was my Grandma because she did it!
The funny thing is when she came true and had more than 35 different tubes in her she told my sister that she had just had “the BEST DAY EVER!” My sister would was perplexed said “oh a good dream?” My Mother said said “no, not a dream…I got to see Mom and Dad!” My sister just listened…She went on to say a few things about the day and then told my sister that they were there to “help her get better!” But she said then Mom looked at me and said ” we are gonna go on now but you need to go home!”
Thank you…..thank you to my sister for being there to remember this, to my Grandma for answering my prayers and being there with her and most importantly to God……you knew I would need my Mom and gave her a second chance. If only to witness me being a first time Mom and to tell me what a good job I was doing, which she told me when she got better.
Sometime we all get caught up….caught up in the news, social media…..a plethora of different things. But I will tell you one thing, during this experience I was PRESENT. Present in the moment with her and with all my loved ones. I inhaled my new baby’s breath and took it all in.
For that I am complete.
Happy Birthday to my Mau, and here’s to many more memories and eternity in God’s heavens someday.
But for now……. let’s be PRESENT!
xo
your baby
I took the above pic while in hospital after having my baby……if only I had known what was going to happen…no you know what, I am glad I didn’t. This moment would not have been as real as it was.
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