The Unexpected (4)

This is a emotional post......BEWARE! As they sat there waiting, the dad needed to smoke a cigarette. The bad thing was you had to go all the way outside of the hospital and cross the street to be off the property. He left and was only gone about 15 minutes and they called the family's name. The mother jumped up and went to the Nurse. She led her back thru the double doors past all the rooms with full length glass doors. Inside she saw some rooms had tiny babies, some rooms had small children, machines beeping everywhere. Doctors & nurses everywhere moving about but all the mother could think about was her baby. As they continued thru the PICU. They finally came to a room and there laid her lil baby. The IV needle still in her babies head among other IVs now in her babies hand and foot, Her lil 2 week old baby was wrapped up laying in the mini hospital bed. There was something taped to the babies toe that lit up. This all being new to the mother she didn't know what any of it meant. There was a machine that had various numbers on it that was beeping steadily. The mother needed her baby, she needed to wake up from this dreadful dream. She just wanted to start this day over. She asked the Nurse if she could hold her baby. Trying to hold herself together with whatever she had left in her. The nurse placed the baby in her lap and the mother held her baby, kissing him, so many thoughts running thru her head, as the mother held the baby the numbers on the machine started to drop. The nurse was busy writing something on a chart. The numbers slowly kept going....down, down, down.....finally the mother said, Nurse......why are the numbers dropping. The nurse looked up, frantically grabbed the baby from the mothers arm and screamed CODE BLUE. The room immediately filled with so many Doctors and Nurses. They start doing CPR on her precious baby.Then it hits the mother that her baby just had cardiac arrest in her arms. The mother looses it and it starts crying almost in a screamed cry like her life is ending. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?????? WHY GOD WHY? The Chaplin came rushing to the mother trying to console her, which did no good. The father came walking into the PICU the mother seen him at the far end of the hallway and rushed down not knowing what was going on. As he was being told, he again being stronger than his completely broken wife, held her as they both cried together. This went on for what seemed eternity. The Doctor came up to the couple and said, your baby is fine. We brought him back and his heart is beating. We had to intubate him (put a breathing tube down his throat). They went in the room to see the baby. That poor little sweet baby, what did he do to deserve this? God please let me take his place. His life is just starting and I would gladly give mine in place of his. Her insides were screaming TAKE ME INSTEAD GOD....over & over To be continued....