Thank you for sharing your wife's story. It made me cry because of the memories it brought to the surface. In 1992, our first born son developed problems 12 hours after birth. He had a very serious heart defect, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. He was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in NYC and from there medical helicoptered to Boston Children's Hospital. Literally hours after giving birth, my wife and I are driving into NYC and then up Boston. In his third day of life, he died on the operating table during open heart surgery. Worst day of our lives and it is something that haunts us both to this day.
That said, the NICU nurses at the birth hospital, the NYC hospital and finally in Boston, are absolutely Angels sent from above. We still keep in touch with the Nurse Liaison from Boston's and she actually drove down from Boston to NJ just to join us for our daughter's Baptism about a year and a half after my son's passing. It is a connection that we forever share with her. The NICU floor nurse in Boston that took care of our son just happened to go to the same high school as me in central New Jersey! Small world.
Please tell your wife, although I'm sure she knows this, that we parents can never thank them enough for the work they do, and the compassion they show. I seriously don't know how they do it, but thank goodness they do.
I wish you both good health and well wishes!!
