Busy Mom of 5

My oldest daughter, Danyel, just had a birthday. She turned 17, I do not know where all the time goes.

On August 26, 17 years ago, I had the sweetest little girl. She was 6 weeks premature and only weighed 5 pounds 7 ounces. She was so small and fragile. I didn’t to even hold her til she was 3 days old. I was so scared for her. I had sugar diabetes while I was pregnant with her. This hurt her and caused her meconium plug to enlarger adn therefore she could not pass it.  She started throwing up her bowels and she got 3 ulcers from trying so hard. I coud tell at that very moment she was a fighter and would not be giving up easily. She was sent to a near by children’s hospital for 11 days. With many rectal temperture checks and a few light ran up we were able to help her pass the plug. Atthis point they has stopped feeding her a bottle and had supplimented with IV’s. She had to be taught to eat from a bottle. It took so long for her to even eat 2 ounces. They wanted her to eat every 2 housr and he literally took her that long to get the 2 ounces down. She lost weight and she was down to 4 pounds 8 ounces. After a lot of prayer and work with her she finally got the hang of it and gained weight. When she weighed 5 pounds they said we could take her home. When she was 2 weeks old we finally got to take our sweet little baby girl home for the first time. We were so happy and felt so blessed that we had a beautiful little Danyel home at last.

Danyel has proved to me that she is truly a strong person and as the years have passed by us she proves it daily. I know that God sent her to me for a reason. Without Danyel in my life I honestly do not think I could have made it to where I am today. I am no where as strong as she is and I have leaned on her so many times. As I look back at it all now I know that without her there is no way I could have done it without her being there. Sometimes she didn’t do anything but just be there for me. She didn’t even know that she was and still is such a big part of me getting through what ever the situation may have been. I draw strength from her as we go through life. I didn’t realize I was until right here right now as I write this. It’s funny how God allows us to do and see things and until years later we finally open our eyes and see how truly great God is to us. I haven’t done much in life to brag about or to get recognized for. But I do feel like God gave me each one of my children for one reason or another. And with Danyel it was so I could make it through this world with her by my side so I could use her strength. She has touched so many lives and she doesn’t even know it. She now is a senior in high school and already has plans to start college in the Spring semester. She wants to become a neonatal nurse and I could not think of anything else better that she can do. I feel all those sick babies that Danyel will work with will also draw from her strength and get better faster. I believe God has a great plan in store for Danyel and she will be something BIG one day.

Danyel,

I love you and although you don’t even know how much you have helped me through all you have, I just want to say THANK you. You are truely a blessing from God and I thank him everyday for you. I feel so blessed out of all the families God could have given you to, he choose this one family right here. You are special to each of us in our own way. You are the solid rock foundation of our family. I want you to know how proud I am of you and I know you are going some where in you life and as you already have you will continue to touch and be such a blessing to others. I hope you enjoyed your birthday with the family. Just like you wanted it to be. I love you Danyel, always and forever.

Love, MOM