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The security guard led the way upstairs.\u00a0 Well, actually I led the way. I was racing down the hallway pushing Lisa in the wheelchair while he was 4 or 5 steps behind me giving me directions!\u00a0 We got to an empty room that was quickly filled with doctors and nurses.\u00a0 Unreal!\u00a0 It was as if they all just appeared. Moments later one of the nurses tells me to hold Lisa’s leg back.\u00a0 I had the right leg and the nurse had the left.\u00a0 At 1:57a William M. Yancey Jr was born!!!!\u00a0 Life as we knew it changed in that instant.\u00a0 Among several other serious complications, William’s most severe problem was the IVH Grade IV brain bleed.\u00a0 Grade IV is the most severe brain bleed possible.\u00a0 It leaves babies with severe brain damage, Cerebral Palsy along with a list of other complications assuming they even survive.<\/div>\n
William was born on a Monday.\u00a0 His Neonatologist met with us and would be off until Friday.\u00a0 I’ll never forget what he told us upon his return that Friday.\u00a0 He said, “When I came in this morning I did not expect your son to still be here.”\u00a0 That cut through me like a knife.\u00a0 It wasn’t a feeling of hitting rock bottom.\u00a0 It felt more like I was falling into an abyss.\u00a0 Looking down at William in his make shift bedding was as if he were lying deep in the bottom of a well.\u00a0 He was sooo small.\u00a0 I wanted desperately to help him and he seemed so far away.\u00a0 I could only reach him through prayer.\u00a0 A painful, “Hang in there, son” prayer.\u00a0 I was in a lot of pain!\u00a0 This pain was not ordinary.\u00a0 Not like a tooth ache or hangnail.\u00a0 This pain was invasive.\u00a0 There was no substitute for reality.\u00a0 Couldn’t cut to a commercial.\u00a0 There was no remote.\u00a0 I was engulfed.\u00a0 By pain.\u00a0 Do you know of such pain?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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