Tragedies

When I got pregnant with Luke I joined a birth club on babycenter. It was awesome to go through my pregnancy with people due in the same month and get to know them.

A few weeks after they were born, we started a facebook group for March mommies. And eventually that split into several smaller groups. I am now apart of more then I can count. But I got closer to a lot of people. Just recently got one phone number, and that's nice too. :)

But one of the mommies, her sweet, sweet baby boy was diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It is a fairly rare cancer, and generally found in adults. Very rare below age 40, and usually around age 60.

He was diagnosed around 3 months of age.

After undergoing 5 rounds of chemo, and basically living in the hospital for 7 months, baby Carter was released to go home, in remission, right before Christmas! How happy is that?

Two nights ago, they took him to the hospital because he was having some problems. After some tests they discovered a tumor covering 1/4 of his brain! He went into surgery that lasted about 6 hours, and they were able to remove a good chunk of it.

This morning, he was able to breathe on his own again, and was cuddling up to his giraffe. That just warms my heart. I have been following this sweet, sweet baby through this, and it's horrible. No one deserves that. His mom is so wonderful, and so strong. And Carter is a fighter! He smiled his way through fighting Leukemia, and I know he'll fight through this too!

A whole bunch of us are putting things together for them. Birthday cards, a teddy bear, etc. I'm so excited. I feel like crying in happiness in the support we have for this.

Another tragedy from another mommy has occured. It appears her boyfriend shook her sweet little girl so hard as to cause retina swelling and damage. We don't know how well she's fairing at this time. It's absolutely awful. Then it appears she was lying and covering it up! And they are both still sticking to saying she fell off the bed! But there is NO WAY the injuries in those pictures is from falling off the bed! (Of which she looks MISERABLE in!)

It makes me sick that Megan, Carter's mom, is by her child's hospital bedside more then she has him at home, and this person can let such harm come to her child. It makes me sick.

My brain is going crazy now, trying to organize everything for Carter. PLUS I'm cross-stitching a piece that has two hearts and his name on it.

Luke's crying. Bedtime bottle time! Goodnight!