wee leandra is in pittsburgh

[ontology]

She's all right, is what the nurses have been reassuring us with. She's not doing any worse: it's just that she isn't getting any better, and there's some stuff that they can do for her at a bigger hospital in Pittsburgh that they can't do for her here (something about her lungs needing to get stronger), or nearly as well, and maybe she won't even be there long. The very second she's completely stable, they'll send her back to where we can be with her. They'd like to move her while she's completely okay, just in case she suddenly got worse, so that the airlifting isn't any danger to her. So, Leandra had her first helicopter ride this morning. We were all there and spent a precious hour with her before the helicopter people from Magee Hospital in Pittsburgh arrived; I touched her fragile skin for the first time, and put my forefinger in the palm of her hand; she gripped it and squeezed a few times. We prayed over her and sang to her and are all trying to be reassured by the very reassuring nurses who insist we haven't got anything to worry about, really.

The good news is, Mum is coming home tomorrow (so much sooner than we anticipated when she was first hospitalised!). And we have so many wonderful people all over the world praying for us and sending us things. Mum told me this morning about a Sonlight friend of hers working in (rural?) India whose eleven-year-old daughter was severely injured by falling boulders, and as they're American, they were flown by the military(?) to better hospital care in Tampa(?) (sorry, my memory for details is rubbish). She's taken time out of her own emergency to send a gift for our wee Leandra. It's kind of--overwhelming. Like there's a ribbon wrapped around my throat. People are so beautiful, God.

We're trying not to worry, but hoping we'll see our wee one again very soon, and she'll grow strong and healthy. ♥

Comments

[builtofsorrow.livejournal.com]

Ahh, she's so lovely and spindly and tiny and darling. Am praying for her, of course, and I hope ya'll get your Leandra back soon. ♥

(I think one of the most beautiful things about humanity is that as ugly as we can be, and as horrible as the things we can do are, we can swing just as extremely in the other direction of goodness and love.)

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww. She's so cuttttttttttte.

Praying for ya'll a lot. It's really hard to be seperated from the little one.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, she's so tiny...that's good they're taking her to the best facility available, though. I hope she's back soon too.

[un-titled-love.livejournal.com]

She's so tiny and so adorable. I hope everything goes well at the other hospital and that she's able to come back to you all soon. ♥

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear that your mom will be able to come home. :)
I hope your baby sister will be able to come home soon too. Such a tiny, precious little baby~
I was a preemie & my mom hated having to leave me at the hospital. I'm sure everything will be fine. :) You & your family are still in my prayers. Best wishes~

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Thankee! A friend of Mum's visited her in Pittsburgh yesterday and took a few seconds of video for us of Leandra kicking about. She seems like she really just wants to catch up with everyone else and do things her own way, darling girl. :D

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

Very glad to hear it. :)