It's A Corny Life: Public Service Announcement

Friday, July 18, 2008

Public Service Announcement

In case anyone is interested, tomorrow at noon (you may have to check your local listings for the time) the Discovery Health channel will be airing a one hour show called Twins in Peril: Twin to Twin Transfusion. It follows 4 families and their journeys to save their babies from TTTS. It also shows video of the fetal surgery performed to cure the disease (which happens to be the surgery I underwent as well). Anyhow, our miracle doctor, Dr. Chmait, is on the show as well. I happened to catch the show the other night when I was flipping channels and found it quite interesting (although I guess I would considering I lived it!). Just thought I would share in case anyone is interested in learning more about TTTS or what we have been through to save our babies.

3 comments:

Membership Required said...: I shared this on my MOPS board so those that have been praying for you can watch if they would like.
Thanks for the heads up. Also it was great talking with you today.
Misses & Hugs,
ML; July 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Heather said...: I think I may have seen this if it's a couple years old? (Yeah, I watch all those baby shows...) Will tivo it and watch!

Hope all is going well - have a great weekend!

Love, Heather; July 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Membership Required said...: I had DVR'd the show and we watched it tonight with my parents. WOW! However the whole time I kept thinking of you in the hospital and hoping that things turn around. We are praying for you and the girls. I just knew as soon as I heard your message that you were there. I am so glad that you called me!! I know you wont be able to read this until you are released but I had to make a post as a way to reach out to you. Hugs, ML; July 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM

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Who we are...

We were married on Christmas Eve 2006. We are the parents of identical twin girls...our Miracle here on Earth and our sweet Angel in Heaven. We have been blessed with yet another miracle and welcomed our third daugther into our family in December 2009. We love life. We love our families and our friends. We love love.

This is Abigail. Our first born daughter and survivor of Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. She was born at 28 weeks weighing slightly over 2 pounds. She suffered from Necrotizing Enterocolitis and had a tough go of it for the first 6 months of her life. She is stubborn. She is feisty. She is as funny as all heck. She is our little fighter. She is our IVF miracle and we couldn't be more proud to be her parents.

Madison is Abby's identical twin. She was born into Heaven one minute after her sister, weighing a mere 9.4 ounces. We love her and miss her every minute of every day but we have peace in knowing that she is our Angel and one day, a long time from now, we will see her and hold her in our arms again.

Lillian is the newest addition to our family. Blessed with another miracle we got pregnant naturally after IVF. She was born at 31 weeks, weighed 3 pounds 11 ounces and came home after 21 days in the NICU. Lilly turned one on 12/21/10. She looks just like her sister (and her Daddy) and made our little family complete.

Remembering

Go ahead and mention my child,
The one that died, you know.
Don’t worry about hurting me further,
The depth of my pain doesn’t show.
Don’t worry about making me cry,
I’m already crying inside.
Help me to heal by releasing
The tears that I try to hide.
I’m hurt when you just keep silent,
Pretending he didn’t exist,
I’d rather you mention my child,
Knowing that he has been missed.
You asked me how I was doing,
I said “pretty good” or “fine”.
But healing is something ongoing,
I feel it will take a lifetime.

~ Elizabeth Dent ~