precious moments

Hi Lyn here again. Mandy has kindly let me use her computer to update while I'm here for dinner with her. Thankyou Mandz!!!

It all started with a phone call from my sister on Monday night to say she had just woke up from anesthetic after coming out of 6hrs of surgery and that Jayden was dead and Callum was on life support and that she had nearly died on the operating table.

And I never realised the reality of this until today when one of the surgeons came to speak to us and with a look of "pay attention to this!!!" she told us how they came so very very close to losing my sister on the operating table!! She lost 5litres of blood!! had 1.5litres of PUSS taken out of two 15cm burst absesses in her uterus, had every part of her intestine taken out, inspected, put back in, her uterus (with babies still inside) taken out and put back in and her blood pressure dropped to 85 systolic (anything below 100 systolic is death door material!) and her kidneys went into organ failure along with slowly bit by bit other organs in her body. By the grace of God she was saved and through a horrible 40hr journey is back on the road to recovery.

But so sadly because of this her beautiful twin baby boys have sacrificed their lives. Yes today sadly little Callum who has been on life support for the last 4 days passed away. The decision was made to turn off the life support today given the circumstances that there was no brain activity recorded and nearly continuous seizures for the last 4 days. It then was up to little Callum if he would survive or not. The hardest decision I think anybody could possibly have to make and one I am very proud of my sister and husband for having the strength to make.

When the moment came to turn off the machines the nurses brought little Callum up from Neonate Intensive Care, took all the chords, wires and moniters off and let my sister just hold him ... mummy and baby ... a beautiful sight! With lots of support around her she announced he had gone, that she felt his spirit leave and sure enough a few moments later he stopped breathing. The most precious moment I have EVER experienced!!!

The result's on little Jayden's autospy came back today which stated reason of death as organ shutdown of maternal mother. In other words as my sister went into shutdown mode (right before death) the body considered the uterus to be a non-essential for sustaining life organ and stopped all supply, hence babies suffered.

It's been a very emotional week with still more tears to come with the funeral for her little babies. But we're holding strong ... especially my one and only dear sister!!!!