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04/05/2023
Preeclampsia Awareness Month means a lot to me. 3 years ago in May, my wife was diagnosed with preeclampsia. Something we both didn’t even know existed and my daughter was born 5 weeks early.
The month of May is a reflection for me. Not only is it the awareness month, it is the month I almost lost my wife and daughter in the same day. It was supposed to be the happiest day of my life.
This is a picture of me before I was allowed into the OR. Before all the really bad stuff happened. Don’t get me wrong, it was already bad since Courtney’s BP was sky rocketing and Cora’s heart rate was decelerating rapidly. But there was so much more they both had to go through.
And I just watched.
I couldn’t do anything.
I just watched while my heart broke.
Cried when no one was around. Because I had to be strong. I was the husband, the new father, the man. I had to be strong for my girls.
Preeclampsia is so much more than just high blood pressure. It’s living in fear that you’ll lose your wife and baby. It’s just watching all the bad things happen to them while you wished you could take both of their places.
-reposted from May 2022-