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February Prompt #17

17. Name one situation in your life or that of a family member or close friend that seemed insurmountable, but was indeed overcome, and how it was overcome.

Just ONE? Wow....there have honestly been SO many times in my life that I have thought, "OMG I am never going to get through this"....but I have.

I would say one that is a BIG one, was having Raegan. Having a 26 week micro preemie, surgery after surgery....being told 3 times that she was not going to make it and that I should make arrangements...dropping to my knees, broken so many times...yet she would pull right through. Sitting by her tiny little bed everyday for hours and hours..I had 2 other kids at home and a failing marriage going on during all of this as well. I would go to the hospital and sit there, staring at her with all of her tubes and machines...watching as she showed that while she may have some physical problems..there was nothing wrong with her development..she had the sweetest, most expressive eyes and because she had a trach she could not speak, she used her eyes to "talk" a lot..as well as I taught her sign language..did not hear her voice till she was 4 years old and got the trach removed. Raegan will be 13 this July, she still has to be cathed to drain her bladder and she has future surgeries and unknown outcomes as to if she will ever be able to urinate on her own or if she will always have to be cathed. There were so many times that I truly thought I was going to lose my child...I watched her have 39 surgeries so far...and even though the future is still unknown...she has come a LONG way from where she started! I have never been as scared in my entire life as I was when I had Raegan...and even though she has had such a rough life so far, she has the best personality...she is caring and kind, thinks about others and so smart...Oh don't get me wrong, she can throw a fit with the best of them LoL

We overcame this by being strong and believing that Raegan was put here for a reason...a big one! And here we are, almost 13 years later...trucking right along in life! She is my miracle!