{"id":268,"date":"2010-02-05T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annakatedonovan.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:09:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:09:35","slug":"sometimes-you-gotta-have-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"sometimes you gotta have faith…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today our middle daughter, Hattie, had an outpatient procedure to put tubes in her ears and remove her adenoids.\u00a0 In the grand scheme of things it was not a big deal.\u00a0 We have been through this twice before.\u00a0 Hattie had her first set of tubes 3 weeks after her 1st birthday.\u00a0 Laura got tubes less than a year ago.\u00a0 Hattie breezed through and is already feeling and hearing better.\u00a0 No biggie.\u00a0 Our past experiences made today much easier for us as parents.\u00a0 This wasn’t the case when Laura got her pacemaker two years ago.<\/p>\n

As many of you know, Laura was born with 3rd degree heart block.\u00a0 In lay terms, it is an electrical problem.\u00a0 The top and bottom halves of her heart do not communicate with each other about what her heart rate should be.\u00a0 She will have a pacemaker to correct this problem for the rest of her life.\u00a0 (I know that I am being overly simplistic.\u00a0 It’s easier for writer and reader alike, I promise!)<\/p>\n

As parents, we have a heavy burden.\u00a0 There is a lot involved with raising children.\u00a0 It is an enormous responsibility to be “in charge” of the life of a child.\u00a0 In our house of girls there is a lot of drama and a lot of cleaning up – both physically and otherwise.\u00a0 Robert and I have gotten pretty good at managing the chaos.\u00a0 Some days are better than others and some days we’d rather forget altogether.\u00a0 But for the most part we’re successful…and busy.<\/p>\n

When it was time for Laura’s surgery, we felt helpless.\u00a0 In all the things that needed to be done, the only thing we could do was get her to the hospital on time.\u00a0 Everything else was out of our hands.\u00a0 We handed over our 13 month old baby and were forced to put our trust in the staff of doctors and nurses.\u00a0 We had to have faith.\u00a0 In modern medicine.\u00a0 In others.\u00a0 In whatever is out there that is bigger than we are.\u00a0 In the unknown.\u00a0 In our daughter.\u00a0 In ourselves.\u00a0 It was not easy but we survived.\u00a0 Laura is doing great.\u00a0 She is a stellar patient and has amazed more than one cardiologist.<\/p>\n

This morning when the nurse came to wheel Hattie back to the OR for her procedure, Hattie flashed me a smile and a little wave as she rolled down the hall towards the big double doors.\u00a0 I got that all too familiar feeling.\u00a0 There is some cliche involving heartstrings…it felt like a little tug.\u00a0 Once again, I was reminded of my deep and unending love for this little girl.\u00a0 And I had to have a little faith….<\/p>\n

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