Asking for your thoughts

As I've gotten older, I've realized that heartbreak affects all of us. It affects those we know now and those we once knew long ago. It hurts equally no matter who you are, what you do, or where you've gone. Today I received a phone call that broke my heart.

Eleven years ago, Tim and I chose to take on one of the hardest jobs we would ever face. We were becoming parents. Little did we know that we would also be taking on the job of feeling every single emotion known. The highest of highs and the lowest of lows was just another perk of becoming Mom & Dad. As we traveled down the roads of parenthood, we did indeed feel every single emotion. The good and the bad. The amazing miracles and the devistating losses. Our journey took us places we never imagined and because of that, I am a better person. It's the difficult times that have made me who I am today. Not only have I worked in the field and saw devistation and miracles, but I have also lived them over and over again. I am able to know the emotions of feeling estactic when the two lines appear to feeling your heart ripped from your chest knowing you've lost another child. The uncertainty of facing complication after complication. The sinking feeling when you're told to plan on burying your child instead of welcoming him home. The bitterness you feel when you're trying so hard to get pregnant month after month and it seems everyone around you is having no problems at all. The question in your mind of how to answer when asked, "How many children do you have?" when you know that not all of them are with you. And even though I have felt so many emotions over the years, the one thing that will always sting my heart is hearing another person, couple, or family is facing something as devistating as losing a child.

Having said that, I come to you all asking for your thoughts and prayers for a young family as they begin to process and face the most devistating times of their lives. They have recently learned devistating news during an ultrasound that has rocked them to the core. As they face these uncertain times and prepare for a premature birth and quite possibly the loss of their child, please be thinking of them.

To protect their privacy, I won't be sharing their names with you. However, I am asking to please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

And if the two of you happen to be reading this and would like to be put in touch with others who has walked the road your on now, please let me know. I will gladly send along any information I have that may help you through this time.

Thinking of you,
Becky