EDRG 3344 Memories

EDRG 3344 Memories

In class on Thursday, the class was talking about their past memories. Some that made you laugh, cry, and think about the ones you had forgotten yourself from the past. One of my memories that I talked about was cry. I have a daughter who is now eight years old and in great health. Praise God. When she was born she was born with fourteen birthmarks all over her body. They are called hemangiomas. The doctor at the time told us that they are not harmful to her and they would disappear as she got older. A few months had gone by and several of them did go away. One afternoon my daughter bumps her head on my coffee table and got this humorous bump on the left side of her forehead. I took her to the doctor and they said the bump will go down in a few days not to worry. A few days turned to weeks and then a few months. At this time we are seeing a Neurologist who now tells me it may be a tumor. My daughter is about 7 ½ months old now. They ran several tests. The hardest for me was her blood test because the hospital tied her down to take blood from her arms. Thank heavens for moms who will stand by you at any given time. The doctor at this time said the only way to make sure that it is not a cancerous tumor is to remove it and be tested. My husband and I decided to go ahead with the surgery and hope for the best. The day of the surgery I was awful mess. It was so hard for me to keep myself in order. By this time she is 8 months old and has never been away from me. Everyday I was with her feed her, bathed her, and held her at all times. As they gave her medicine to start to calm her it did not work. They ended up taking her out of my arms and just take her straight to the operating room. The terror in her cry killed me. I finally at this time broke down completely. I could not quit crying and wondering what was taking so long. The doctor had told us it would be a 15 minutes procedure and almost 1 ½ later he walks through the doors. That was the longest 1 minute walk he took from the doors to me it felt like an eternity. He had told us the surgery went fine and that they went ahead and took out the whole mass from her head. A sigh of relief that she out of the surgery and doing well. Going into the recovery room and holding her I till this day can remember the smell after the surgery. It was a burnt smell from the doctors cutting her from ear to ear and the iodine made me sick to smell it. I not sure if it was the smell of that or all the stress from that day but I suddenly got very sick to my stomached. We were finally aloud to take her home and got the results from the test and the mass ended up being one of those birthmarks called hemangiomas that were growing on to her skull. The doctor said it was a good thing that they removed it now to prevent further damages. This memory still to this day makes me cry. You don’t realize how precious life is till you come to a situation like this and it could be taken away at a blink of an eye. Today she only has 4 more of the hemangomas birthmarks left and they themselves are almost completely gone.