Our Girl
On Sunday it is the first anniversary of the passing of Evelyn. I want to tell you about her, I am ready. Evelyn was born at 32 weeks weighing 2Ib 15oz. I got to see her briefly before she was rushed away to NICU. She was so cute and looked like a little old lady, Evelyn was a beautifully fitting name. I was sown up and moved to recovery. A nurse brought an iPad to me in recovery that showed Evelyn in her incubator. She was so tiny and I couldn’t wait to have feeling back to go and see her. She was a TOF, which stands for tracheal oesophageal fistula. Her oesophagus hadn’t detached from her trachea and she would urgently need surgery to detach the oesophagus and attach it correctly to her throat. At barely 3 days old Evelyn was taken for surgery to correct her defect. While in surgery a further complication was discovered - Evelyn’s right lung had grown on her oesophagus rather than her trachea. This was a lot to take in. TOFs are born 1 in every 4000 babies, but Evel...