Re:Mutli Organ stuff (Score 1)

My son was born @ 24 weeks. We gambled and got lucky, he's now 3 year old and though he has been hospitalized several times for pneumonia (one of the things these kinds of kids have trouble with is pulmonary diseases) he is more or less a normal 3 year old boy. The only thought I had when the doctor said that they needed to deliver because the baby was in distress (as my wife was on a lot of drugs at the moment and not capable of coherent thought) was "save my son". I don't know if I made the right decision, I don't know if Alessia's parents made the right decision, but speaking as a parent that has been in this type of situation, RATIONAL decisions are the last thing on your mind. Yes, if it hadn't been for the miraculous work of the staff at the NICU my son would not be here. Yes, we had a lot of people praying for us and we lucked out. But I wouldn't exchange the chance to have my son for anything.