One year ago this week, my little Aislynn was released from Nationwide Children's Hospital after ten weeks of recovery from surgery just three days after being born. One of the worst things anyone's ever said to me is that after resuscitation, a blood transfusion, and scary labor complications my not even four pound daughter needed surgery on her intestines. There are no words to explain the gut wrenching feeling of a parent knowing their child is in trouble, if you've been there you know what I mean.
So many fears - will she make it through surgery? Will they find something else wrong? Will I ever get to take my baby home and hold her in my arms without needing a nurse to hand her to me and check vitals and wires and ahhhhhh! I wanted her to get the care and recovery she needed but I also knew that near the end of her stay, she needed to be home to heal. Home, the place of safety, security, love, acceptance, support, joy, laughter...all of those healing components that are basically impossible to recreate in a hospital environment.
 |
| Mommy and Aislynn packing up to come home! 8.4.2012 |
I'll never forget the nurse on duty that morning who pushed the doctors and surgeons to let Aislynn be released knowing she was going to a place that would help her heal and finally start her life!
The lyrics to the song below were a constant reminder that only Christ Jesus was my way through this trial and because of him I have a beautiful, healthy, healed daughter. I pray that God uses her story to show others that he is not held back by death, disease, pain, sorrow, or persecution and he loves his children with a fierce and powerful love.
"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus name
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus name
Christ alone; cornerstone
Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love
Through the storm, He is Lord
Lord of all"
-Cornerstone by Hillsong
