Sadness

It is with a sad heart that I am relaying the death of Kim's daughter M. About 1.5 weeks after referral, Kim got a call that M had been hospitalized, become septic, and did not have the strength to make it through. A very sad week. Kim is doing amazingly well (as I would expect). Her cousin, Sara, flew in for the weekend and "the girls" came over to my house on Saturday (as previously planned) for dinner. I know it's good for her to talk as she knows we all "get it". No, she had never met her daughter, but had begun bonding with her. I know when I receive my child's story, they will be mine, in my heart. The only thing I can compare it to is a miscarriage. While she did not have M in her body, she had a picture and her whole story.

Just when you have it all figured out, life throws you a curve ball...

Of course Kim, being the eternal optimist, told me, "maybe we'll be able to travel together now!". Yeah, that would be fabulous! Both of us could potentially be looking at traveling in December. All of the planning and guessing we have been doing, you just cannot predict.