The Journey

It had been a couple of weeks and my baby girl was over coming everything thrown her way. She went from being in a coma for 2 weeks, to the nicu for a week and a half and then in pediatrics for a week. She was paralyzed on the right side of her body and her diagnosis was she injured her left temporal, her thalamus. She could no longer talk, walk, hold her self up, eat on her own and was back to wearing diapers. I was discouraged at times but she was alive and no doctor thought she would make it. SHe is an amazingly strong child with the grace of God by her side. After she was released from the hospital we had to go to Baltimore, MD for intense rehab. This was so scary and emotional. Watching her try to talk but couldnt, standing but falling, wearing diapers, ect. I broke down. My 4 year old daughter was like and infant again and no one could tell me her out come. In the 6 weeks we were there she spoke a few words, could walk with assistance, and was wearing pull ups because she refused to use her diapers. She was proving everyone wrong...even me! I admit I didnt think she would make it. I was in shock over it. I had two other children who were going thru all of this with us. We pulled them from school to go to MD with us and then we sent them to my sister in laws house in Ohio for 2 weeks so we can focus on Aliyah and they would have some normalcy. Life was anything but normal for my family. Everyone was telling me how strong I was being but they didnt see me on the inside...i was a mess. I wanted to die because my daughter was not "normal" anymore. In mid october we were able to come home with her!!!! When we arrived home we had to get set up in therapies, baby proof our house again life was going to be different. So much different. I had to just remember she was alive! She was home with her family and we had God in our hearts and in our home!