7 October 05

Enhorabuena

Aranzazu's wedding day I don’t have children so I can barely imagine what it must feel like to give birth to a baby who within seconds has medical personnel screaming for oxygen, transfusions, needles, and who is then whisked off to intensive care.

This happened to some friends of my parents’ in Spain some 33 years ago. Aránzazu was born with a hole in the heart. By age 12 she’d had at least five open heart surgeries.

She got married last week in the village of Aránzazu in the Basque country, and she wore the biggest of her scars like a precious necklace, urging us all to embrace life, the life she’d had to fight so hard for.

Hermosa, te queremos mucho…

Posted by at 08:03 PM in Miscellaneous | Link |
  1. Que bonita novia! Reciba me mas cordial enhorabuena!

    Susanna
    — Susan Chaffee    8. October 2005, 15:11    Link
  2. Great story. Our son had to go into intensive care when he was born – meconium aspiration syndrome it was called. Very scary at the time. He also had a murmur but it was a bicuspid aortic valve not hole in the heart as was originally thought. Great the way medical technology saves lives.
    — Jenny    10. October 2005, 03:23    Link
  3. Que bien! Beautiful story.
    — leslee    11. October 2005, 06:40    Link

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