A Warm Blanket : Parents
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following represent each family's individual experiences
and beliefs. Every family is different, and the needs and
feelings of the children involved will be unique. We
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Literally it is a real blanket, among some other things.My
son died 3 weeks after open heart surgery, he was a newborn.
The hospital staff was amazing, both before his death and
especially at the time of his death. What I wanted
most during those 3 weeks was to hold and rock my baby boy.
That wasn't possible, he was connected to too many machines,
most importantly a ventilator and an ECMO machine. When it
was clear that he would not survive when taken off ECMO, the
doctors made it possible for me to hold him. I held him and
rocked him until he died.
After his death they dressed him and wrapped him in a knit
blanket. That may sound a little creepy, but I wasn't
ready to leave him. They let our family be with him as long
as we needed. The blanket is ours, since he never came home
and didn't ever use or wear any of the things we had
prepared for him. It is comforting to have something that he
actually did have with him.
God bless the staff that gave us 3 and a half weeks with our
son, and thank you for the "warm blanket".
R.
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| The warmest blankets are the people who
stand by you. On the day of my son's open heart surgery, the
surgeon's nurse provided updates to those of us waiting in the
waiting room. The chaplain also spent a good part of the day
with us. Throughout our stay in the hospital, those two
remained available. Once he was admitted to the PICU. the
intensivists and the nurses were there to give us information,
support and the warmth of a blanket.
We felt blessed to have the staff we had. Even though our
son eventually died, we have no regrets about the care he and
we received.
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When my son was in the hospital the doctors always talked to
us in length about everything that was going on. They didn't
rush through any explanations, and didn't hesitate to draw
pictures or re-explain anything. That was very comforting to
us to made us feel like they really cared about him. The
nurses always let us hold Kaden when we went to visit, and I
believe that helped him thrive and recover.
I will forever be grateful to the staff there.
A.S.
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| Our "Warm Blanket" is our
PC. Everything about this woman is wonderful. She is the
person who greets us in the waiting room, weighs us in,
measures for height and does her PC work too.
After we left from our first visit, she followed us out to
our car and gave us a hug just to make sure that we were going
to be all right. Sometimes it seems like she has more of the
concern/love of a Grandmother than of just a doctor. God has
blessed her with a wonderful gift of compassion.
B.C.
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