By: Melissa H

Melissa H — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:46:15 +0000

I can atest to the miscommunication that can occur between neonatal doctors and parents. When my daughter was in the NICU it was like pulling teeth to get any kind of positive news. We would walk in to be with our daughter and we would be jumped with terrible reports. Our daughter eventually died when her kidneys failed. We would have done anything to hear a little bit of positive. One visit with our daughter when the doctor jumped us I asked him if there was anything positive that he had to give me… he stopped and then listed three different things that had improved… and add that it didn’t mean much in the long run. I told him that our little fighter had to take on one thing at a time. As I was walking away he told my mother in law… that I had to start seeing the truth. That there was little hope. My mother in law told him that was my daughter and I was looking for what hope I could until the time came that there was none. Eventually my husband and I had to take her off of life support. But the staff in the NICU worked so hard on trying to make me see how little chance she had that they refused to look at what hope there was. They gave up on Aislynn long before she breathed her last breath, and that is one of the saddest memories I have of her short little life.

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By: Melissa H