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Inside Children'sFollowing Your Heart is a blog by Sarah Plant. She shares her experience as a first-time mom whose daughter was born with a congenital heart defect. Sarah lives in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, in Trumbull County with her husband, Christopher, their daughter, Rebekah, and their rabbit, Gussie. She is a former high school English teacher.
Rebekah spent the first five weeks of her NICU stay with a variety of neighbors. Some had parents we loved, and some we never really knew. The last five weeks of her stay were spent in a double room in the TLC section of Akron Children’s NICU with Tailyn Dailey and her family.
Bekah had a routine cardiology appointment a little over a month ago. For the last month I’ve been debating what to write about it and how I feel about what we learned there.
March 5, 2012, was a long day. We knew that the next morning we’d be taking Bekah to Akron Children’s Hospital for open heart surgery. It seemed like we spent the entire day just watching the clock, calculating how much time we had to spend with our baby girl before we needed to leave for the hospital.
Chris and I have reached the point where we don’t often think about Rebekah’s heart. Over the past few weeks, however, we’ve been thinking of her heart all the time.
Chris and I have been working on remodeling our house, well, since we bought it four or five years ago. Built in 1905, the house had some incredible details that we loved, a huge well landscaped yard that connects to a section of woods, and neighbors who are close enough but not too close. There [...]
For us, 2012 was a pretty big (and busy) year. Looking back, we’ve been amazed at all that has happened, and recently we spent some time discussing all that a year can bring.
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