Happy Heart Week 2024! ❤️❤️❤️ Admittedly, knowing we are going into a pacemaker surgery this year, and having already spent some time in the cardiac care unit with RSV, it’s a little closer than usual. This sweet girl of ours and her warrior ways. Always strong, always fighting. Always reminding us of what’s important and to make each day count. To all the warriors, to all the angels, to all the families. ❤️
Broken Hearts to Mend
My little girl full of light. It’s a wonder to me that her tiny body was born with a broken heart: 3 holes and a bicuspid valve. Two surgeries and a severed electrical system now powered by machine. Medicine, men, and miracles saved her. Our lives have and always will be full of appointments for the broken-hearted. And yet, and yet… she has the strongest, purest, most fully functioning & perfect heart of anyone I know. Far healthier than mine. Far closer to God. How different the measuring sticks are for body and soul. I believe in the grand scheme of things, when Lydia was born we both received the same diagnosis: you were born with a broken heart. One physical, the other metaphysical. This is what it means to be alive. The same surgery that saved her life and set in motion her journey set in motion in new and more advanced ways her mother’s. A different heart, a different system, different holes needing mending; forever intertwined.