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I Believe in the Priesthood I have a little brother, name Charles Jr. We were all so happy to know that my Mother was pregnant. We all hoped for another girl for our family. But, on Halloween back in October of 1966. My sweet Mother gave birth to our little brother. Named after my Dad. My Dad was oh so proud of his finally little boy after three girls. When he was born the Doctors informed my parents that my sweet little brother had been born with a hole in his heart. We as a family were scared what all this meant but with time, we would all come to understand what that meant for his life. the Doctor informed my parents that sports would be great to help strengthen my little brother’s heart condition. Someday, He would need surgery to correct his heart. My …show more content…
A pretty good pitcher, as it turned out. He would go on to play baseball my of s life. During all this time, after his birth. The Doctors had to see my brother every year to see when they would perform his surgery. These visits become very scary for us as his family. We didn’t want to have anything happen to our sweet little guy. One visit came and my parents informed us that they were scheduling my ten year old, little brother for surgery in just a few weeks. None of us wanted to have this surgery. The surgeons told us that my little brother might not come out if it alive. As the day approach, Charles Jr. was so scared. He didn’t want to go. They had checked into the hospital and getting him ready for surgery. When Charles remembered that he had not been given a Priesthood blessing yet. He called my Dad and Mom. Told them he wanted a Priesthood blessing before surgery. They called the Home Teachers at the time. They came and gave my brother a blessing. He went into surgery after that. We waited like forever for news from his Doctor. All of a sudden, the doors of surgery room open up. There was my brother’s Doctor.
I had my surgery. Luckily everything turned out great. I had bad points in the beginning. I wasn’t able to walk talk especially laugh. My chest would hurt when I would even breathe. It took a while for this whole situation to heal. My life after this was normal. I didn’t live a bad child hood or anything like that. My whole child hood got into a different perspective. I actually got out and played with all the other children. I enjoyed my child hood years.
Lewis is a fifteen year-old student who is top of his class. He was well rounded student, a prize winning mathematician, a writer for the local newspaper, and an experience actor. Lewis was born with a congenital deformity called pectus excavatum. The sternum and rib cage grow abnormally and produces a caved in appearance of the chest. Lewis’s parents saw an article advertising a new procedure to help correct the defect. After researching the surgeon, an appointment was made and soon after Lewis was admitted for surgery. The recovery of Lewis’s surgery was longer than his family and he expected. Three days after the surgery, Lewis experienced severe pain in his abdomen. Complaint after complaint, the healthcare providers shrugged it off and said it was gas pain. Painkillers were given to help the pain but the underlying symptoms were still present. The results of the labs and vitals showed signs of critical blood loss. The next morning Lewis’s pain...
Much to their amazement, the hospital managed to locate a heart donor from the other child. The donor appeared at the perfect moment for their daughter to survive. While she still had medications and further treatments to take, it seemed like she would survive and live a normal life. Thankfully, their daughter's health problems seemed to be improving. Unfortunately, her medical care had created another problem instead.
When I awoke after the surgery, the nurses told me I had a beautiful baby girl. I began crying and I told the nurses I was not crying because I was sad, but I was crying tears of joy as I knew Dee had made to heaven.
Playing outside, getting into cabinets around the house, and messing with our cats. At this point in my life I was still a little nervous about going to my cardiologist and the hospital, but at such a young age most kids are afraid of the doctor and hospital. Every appointment I went to in my early elementary school years I would become extremely nervous. Arriving at the waiting room I would wait with thoughts rushing through my head of what the doctor would say, whether or not I need a surgery or an MRI that coming year. For several years nothing had to be done. Until one day my cardiologist said I needed an open heart surgery. I was frightened to the thought of having to be put under. The surgeons cutting me open, cracking my ribs, and changing my old valve with a pork hind valve. My parents however would always comfort me telling me that, “to not think about it you will be under for the whole time and we will be there when you wake up.” After waking up from my surgery in the Phoenix Children’s Hospital I was relieved to find out the procedure went perfectly fine, ten years, the doctors said the heart valve would work until another discussion on surgery would occur. I was now aware that I could need another surgery in the future, but the next time I would not be as
On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank all of you for your compassion and for being present here today. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Mauri-Lynne, and I'm Lionel's daughter. Dad was devoted to every one of you. We all hope that you'll share your memories of him with us, if not today then in the weeks and months to come.
In October of 2013 my family’s lives and mine were turned upside down when my seven-year-old cousin was in an accident. My cousin fell through a sliding glass door and cut the main artery in his thigh. He was flown to the Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) where he spent the next four months having surgeries and fighting for his life. My family spent those four months traveling back and forth from Monterey to Stanford in order to help and support my cousin.
This all happened when I was very little, as soon as I learned how to talk and understand things. At the time, all I knew was that my older brother Tyler had a very bad heart. He would come home with a stethoscope and a cool balloon device which I figured out was used to open up his heart. I remember reading stories about Curious George going to the doctor so Tyler would get used to the fact he was going to have another heart procedure. I mean, I was just five years old. How does a five year old even comprehend what the heart is let alone what’s happening to her brother? So much of this was beyond my comprehension, yet it all seemed so normal. My side of normal was doctor visits, procedures every year in Miami that I couldn’t go to, and seeing a ton of pictures of his procedures! I remember him eating a lot of food to have him gain weight so he could have the procedure. He hated it so much. Even the scar on his chest seems so normal. I don’t even look twice when I see it. Yet if I see another person with a scar, my eyes are drawn to it.
I stand before you today to pay my last respects, and to say my final goodbyes, to my father Harry.
Since I was about four or five years old I had watched my brother play baseball that I remember of. He had resigned from baseball at the same time I was about seven or eight, because he did not usually earn an amplitude of action while playing baseball. My mom was doleful when he stopped, but immediately upon the baseball and softball season came around I was asked to play so I decided why not. In this case this changed my life and my family's too. To go
My parents decided to take my brother, Noah, to the doctors office to see what was wrong. My
One of the earliest memories I have of my father is when he would take me to the park and we would play baseball. My father was eager to teach me everything he knew about the game, and I was eager to learn. He took it easy on me at first, allowing me to overcome my fear of being hit by the ball. Each time we went back to the park he would throw the ball a little harder. It was not long before I could catch almost anything he threw at me. My father also used his knowledge of the game to teach me to hit a baseball. Eventually, I was skilled enough to play any position on a baseball team.
Before I begin I would like to thank all of you here on behalf of my mother, my brother and myself, for your efforts large and small to be here today, to help us mark my fathers passing.
When my father had come home from the hospital, he told us all that our
He was put into the hospital, and he was in need of blood. A stranger donated blood for him. Thanks to that stranger, he was able to live for a few more days. Those days were the most meaningful days of my life.