It all started Friday night....

I decided to go play Facebook. I couldn't believe what I read. A set of twins were born in Arkansas. They had adoptive parents waiting for them. The adoptive parents took one of the babies home. They left the other baby at the hospital with a DNR order on him..... because he had Down syndrome.

Grrrrr.....

First I was very sad. How could this happen in the USA? I sat staring at The Brookster sleeping so peacefully in bed. I thought to myself "Why", "How can this be?", "These kids are so precious"...etc, etc. I started to cry. Thoughts went back to the day The Brookster was born. After just a couple hours of holding her and falling madly in love, she started turning purple. She was not doing well. The nurse took her away and next thing I saw was this...



My precious Brookster, on Life Support. She had briefly passed away and the hospital staff saved her life. I still tear up thinking about it. I remember BEGGGGING them to do what ever they had to do no matter the cost to save my girl. She was taken to OHSU/ Doernbeckers where she remained on Life Support for 5 days. My husband, her devoted Daddy, never left her side. They had to sedate me at my hospital an hour away b/c i'd just had a c~section and they could tell I was going to get to her one way or another. When they finally let me out I went straight to her. Two days later I took her home!!

After thinking all these thoughts and remembering the days gone by...

I got MAD!!! Real mad. When I get mad I also get to the bottom of whatever the thing is that made me so mad.

I started posting all over the place and pretty soon this wonderful community I belong to was just as pissed as I was.

I posted about Baby Doe everywhere. I wrote governors, adoption agencies, hospitals, news stations, newspapers, anyone who had an email address and who I thought would care as much as I did.

Our community rallied together!!



By Sunday afternoon our community had learned that the DNR was lifted and there are parents ready to fight for this little child.

Can I get a woooot wooot!!!

For two days I have had nothing on my mind except this little boy. Tonight I just might be able to sleep and not close my eyes and picture a sweet little boy all alone at the hospital.

Thank you God for anwsering our community's Prayers and for making me so darn stubborn so I would not quit w/o a big fight.