On this day last year, my husband and I kissed out 1yr old daughter and handed her off to doctors for open heart surgery.
Yup.
Supravalvar Pulmonary Stenosis. Essentially-there was too much pressure in her valve, and they needed to fix it. (Seriously simplified version here people).
It was, at the time, the hardest thing we had to go through as parents.
Now- now it seems like a damn piece of cake-almost.
But that does not lessen how much of a damn warrior our daughter is. She went through throat surgery at just 3mos old, and open heart surgery at 1yr, and you would have no idea.
She is the true definition of warrior, and when she grows up and asks about her scar- I will tell her, it is her battle wound- a battle she fought and won in crushing fashion.
She inspires me all the time, and today, I am so very grateful she came out of that surgery the same way she went in-as a wild child, through and through.
Even if some days, I wish she was a little less wild. I will never take for granted her fight, and I will always remind her of just how much fight she has.
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