It's a long struggle
But I know the people that are here are
Here for me, and they're behind me and backing me and helping me
Some of the best things that happened while I've been here
Has been meeting the people?
and the caring there's always a smile always a pat on the back from
nurses technicians and doctors and
When you're kind of in isolation, and you can't see people you've got people coming in [and] talking to you
the human interaction was
very important my job is to get through the transplant process and
Get better
No matter what it takes
Their job is to help me
To me, they're heroes
Mitchell was
You know he was in a wheelchair, and he couldn't you couldn't walk and he couldn't feed himself
but he was bright eyed and happy and he was smart and he was in school and
He had this this lust for life
when Mitchell started to get sick in
Early 2010 I ended up having to call 911 a couple times
He was rushed to our local emergency room and the first thing
I would do when I would go to the emergency department would say okay
I think something's hurting my child, and that's what's causing all these problems and
They don't listen
So we brought him to you of m and they listened to me, and it was hard, and I was stressed and I was confused
but the staff gave me the clarity and the focus that I needed and
I kind of just took a deep breath and I said I
Want to let him go?
when you have the support
From in the respect from staff like I did it
Empowered me to make that [decision] and to in to Honor Mitchell's wishes
We all have the same goal. We all have that the ultimate goal of of healing the child
Why wouldn't we want to work together u of m is has really wrapped themselves around this concept?
from the time we came here, we
Felt Comfortable I think we world in you know in the ambulance at about 5 to 12
And and they were like we've been waiting for you. I think just saying that that we've been waiting for you
Like thank God like okay now
We're finally going to get a plan in place, and we're going to move forward and something's going to happen
Somebody was never more than a from coal away question on anything on meds on this on that
when she decided
That we were going home at her hospice care, and we knew it was the right decision
And her in colleges said I'll come back and see you before you go
He said what else can I do for you?
And I thought you know at this point. She's just told you
That you got her through parts of this when she didn't think she could get through it herself. You're still asking more I?
Think just him and the entire staff we just know an immense not a gratitude for because just all of those little things
Kind of made a difference
She was born at outside Hospital
They didn't quite give us to give her the care that we thought she needed I knew if I could just get her here
it would be okay, and so I called and she's