Elijah was my nephew who was born Nov. 10, 2002. He was born weighing only 1 pound 9 oz. The Dr.s gave him little hope, but he always seemed to come through. He had had several surgeries, one of which they took out most of his intestines, because they started to die. He was doing fine, in and out of the hospital was nothing to him. Then the meds he was on began to effect his liver. He would die within one year if not for a transplant. A donor became available 2 days before thanksgiving. He had a 4 organ transplant, since the donor baby had very healthy organs and he didnt they transplanted all of them. He was doing very well, all the organs were working as they should, he developed a virus that one out of every 4 transplant patients get. A antibiotic was flown up from Florida. The transplant Dr. said if they see no change in 1 week they would have to discuss taking him off the ventilator that they had put him on. They left him on it for 2 weeks. I work with his grandma, we got a call at 1:00pm on Jan. 18th.that they HAD to take him off of it. We went up to Riley Hosp. And at 4:00pm they put him in his mothers arms and unplugged the ventilator. He never took another breath. The Dr.s did allow all of us to stay in the room. Its the first time I ever saw a Dr. cry.
What a beautiful little boy - he looked like a little angel here on earth so surely he must be one in heaven. Thank you for sharing your precious memories of Elijah with us.
There' not much I say that hasn't already been said...only that if it turns out there is a heaven, there's no one who deserves it more than that little boy. My sympathies are with you, Lori.