Walking In Love
Walking in love requires a certain type of muscle to be exercised. The heart is the muscle in question. Normally a long walk would require a stretching of the muscle through a short warm up program. Then, you begin the main portion of the activity where the muscle groups get a great workout. Then, lastly a warm down to once again stretch the muscles in a cool down to prevent soreness later.
Walking in love, God’s love, is more of a continous stroll that you take down life’s path. Walking in love is to step out of one’s own selfish desires and to get out there and help someone else. Start out small, like a warm up, and eventually you’re heart muscle with crave longer, larger needs of giving and helping and loving.
You don’t have to be a religious finatic to walk in love. Give of your self to someone else by donating your time at the local library. Volunteer to help at a school function, be a class mom or dad. Help someone take their groceries to their car. It’s the small things in life that create a better place to live for all of us. Sometimes, just a small soft spoken word of encouragement can change a life forever.
I remember when my son was born. He was born two weeks early and had fluid in his lungs. I had a C-Section and as the doctor took him out I heard that sweet sound of a baby cry and then it suddenly stopped. I couldn’t see what was going on, I could only hear the anxiousness in the nurses voices. A stat this and a get him breathing and they whisked him out of the surgery room. I prayed that he would be ok and my doctor doing the surgery took my hand and said they’ll take care of him.
After I had returned to a regular hospital bed and had rested for a few hours, a different doctor came in and gave me an update on my baby. He said they were going to transport him to a different hospital just a few miles down the road where they had a NICU (a neonatal intensive care unit) that specialized in newborns. They wheeled my baby in and he was strapped in a transporter. It was one of those plastic incubators that you see in the movies when the new babies are born and the family is looking in at them through the glass window in the nursery. I couldn’t hold him or touch him or let him know everything was going to be ok. He was in an induced medical coma so he wouldn’t hurt himself and so the breathing tube in him could do it’s job and provide the oxygen his little body and brain needed to stay alive. He was born 7 lbs 11 oz., so he was a good size baby, his lungs were just a little underdeveloped.
I was released from Whittier Hospital three days after the C-section, and my husband took me over to the other hospital down the street, Whittier Presbyterian Hospital, to the NICU section where my baby was still in critical condition and the news was day by day as to whether he would make it through or not. I was still very sore, so my huusband got a wheel chair and he wheeled me in to where all the special babies were. Some were only a few ounces in weight and would be there for many months. I looked at the incubator where my little baby lay and I started to cry when I saw all the needles coming in and out of him. The head nurse on that shift that morning came over to me and put her hand on my shoulder. She said he is doing well, he had a few rough moments, he is still not out of danger. She said he was a fighter and they had to sedate him even more than normal because he wanted to start breathing on his own and his little lungs still had some fluid in them. She said I’ll be right back and she walked over to the nursing station and pulled something off the wall.
She came back and had a picture of another baby. The baby in the picture was sitting up and was about four or five months old and had a big smile and looked like the perfect baby. She said a few months ago this beautiful, healthy little girl was lying there just like your baby and look at her now. It may seem like he is in a bad situation, but I’m sure he is going to be just fine and will be like this little girl in a few months. For the next few days, I lived by her words and my little Jeremy made a full recovery. He was released two weeks from the date he was born and his lungs were completely clear of any fluid. My heart goes out with a gratitude of thanks to all the nurses, who work in an NICU, especially Mila and the other nurses there at the Whittier Presbyterian in Whittier, California. They are so loving and caring and understanding.
My little guy is now in his terrible two’s and I love him to death. Everytime he gets sick with a little runny nose or a cough, I’m reminded of how fragile he was and how he nearly died and how that wonderful NICU nurse made that one kind gesture that I will remember forever. Make an effort today to walk in love. Your heart will leap for joy.
Jeremy taking a bath at 1 years old.
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I received this story through a friend and I also have had a preemie. My biggest disappointment was the inaccuracies I found in the story. There is no such thing as a medical induced coma when an infant is transported to another hospital, it is only given sedation to keep the baby comfortable and asleep during the transport. The NICU does not put any needles in the babies and leaves them there, yes there are tubings and moniters leads, but all are plastic including the IV’s. The story also stated that the baby nearly died, I don’t underestimate the parents anxiousness or worry, nor that the baby was ill.
But from my own personal experience, when an infant has fluid in their lungs and can’t breathe well, it is put on a ventilator to support the baby because the fluid creates a resistence and is unable to oxygenate properly.
This is only temporary and is not severe, and once the fluid clears up, the baby is fine. From the ending of the story and the brief hospital stay the baby had, it seems that is what happened in this case.
I am just sorry that the story was written in a manner that implies extreme severity of a common condition with infants that have had to undergo a Cesarean Section.
My own baby was born at 24 weeks, he was hopitalized for 7 months, underwent mutiple surgeries and had chronic brain hemorrhages. He truly was near death many times. Again, as a mother of a true micro-preemie, I am truly dissapointed by this inspirational story.
Rebecca,
I appreciate your comments as a mother who underwent many weeks of NICU and a much more serious condition than my baby. In reference to several of your concerns, I told this story from the heart, and I was grateful than my baby came home to me in such a short time. He was not a preemie, he was born two weeks before his due date. However, his lungs were so full of liquid, that he was placed in an induced coma state so that he would not move and hurt himself while the tube was inside him keeping him alive with oxygen. At one point the head doctor of the NICU did approach me and he did state that there were several different times in the first few hours of his ilfe that they almost transported him to another NICU at Long Beach Memorial because his situation was so critical. Any moment that your child is not breathing on his own, is a critical moment to any mom.
My baby did have needles in him no matter what type they were. The nurses showed me where they had taped up the bottom of one foot and had placed a needle in his other foot. I felt the lumps on the bottoms of his feet from all the times he was poked. It may have been to take his blood, but never-the-less, the discomfort that I felt as a mom was still there. He did have tubes coming from all directions and it is a scary sight.
The main point of my inspirational story was to show the kindness that I received from the nurses who showed hope and courage in a situation that seemed uncertain. It is my own personal story and if I misconstrued any of the medical terminology I apologize. I was just grateful to have my son in the best care and I was even more overjoyed when I was able to take him home. May God bless you and your baby.
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