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[valkryor]

One of the other kids in the room with Shannon died last night. He was very very wee (maybe even premature) and on an ECMO. I figured something was up when they let his mother hold him yesterday (probably for the first time) and there were pictures taken. Just moving Shannon to change her bedding is an ordeal that requires at least three people, so you can imagine what was needed to achieve this.

Even though he wasn't mine, I'm still saddened by the loss. When you have a child in the Critical Care Unit at Sick Kids, you secretly (or openly) cheer when the other kids go upstairs to a different ward to recover before being sent home and you are hit when one of them, for whatever reason, doesn't make it.

So, to the parents of the babe who passed (but who will never read this): my condolences. It's not much, I know, but it's all that I have.

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[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

I fool myself, often, into thinking myself eloquent. And then sometimes something happens that just strikes me wordless. These dramas, tragedies and great victories both, play out in our hospitals every day, so many people affected.

{hugs}, I guess. I am reduced to this.

[carolep.livejournal.com]

oh, that's heartbreaking...

I am so sorry for their loss. No children should die. Ever.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:( *hugs*