To all of our OS brethren out there, it is with a very heavy heart that I am putting up this post this evening. One of our long time members has reached out to me today and is on a bad road. He is in a very dark place and one that I am all too familiar with, which is why he reached out to me. He is just not in a place to reach out to anybody right now but has asked me to post so that we can send good thoughts, and whatever prayers you feel comfortable sending.
Flight or CampBlackMamba24 as he is now known is sitting in an ICU unit watching his daughter struggle to stay alive as she waits for a heart transplant. I will post some of what he sent me, but I will be editing out details that I feel he would not want to share..............
"My 20 year old daughter Amari is currently in ICU at the Children’s Hospital on life support. She has been on the transplant list for a heart for the past 18 months and on this past Tuesday she was admitted which has been the norm whenever she didn’t feel well. On Thursday evening while I visited her with my wife around 3 pm she went into distress and her heart stopped with no pulse. Bullit I had my wife taken out of the room as I watched them perform CPR on our daughter. To hear the words we have no pulse is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. They had to bring our daughter back 8-10 times in a 2 hour period.
She’s had 3 surgeries in the last 48 hours and everything they have done is not working due to blood clots forming in her heart. We are having one last procedure on Monday, a artificial heart, but if they run into the same complications as today we are going to have let her on to a better place."
As a father who has lost his only child, I am well aware of the road and the darkness on it that this family faces. For the past 6 years of my life many of you have helped me walk this road and if not for some you folks on here, honestly I am not sure I would still be walking it.
Loosing our children is the most horrific pain we as parents can endure. So please bring the love and support you have shown me for all of these years to another family in distress. This is what we do folks, take care of own. Right now this is what we need to do.
Bullit
Flight or CampBlackMamba24 as he is now known is sitting in an ICU unit watching his daughter struggle to stay alive as she waits for a heart transplant. I will post some of what he sent me, but I will be editing out details that I feel he would not want to share..............
"My 20 year old daughter Amari is currently in ICU at the Children’s Hospital on life support. She has been on the transplant list for a heart for the past 18 months and on this past Tuesday she was admitted which has been the norm whenever she didn’t feel well. On Thursday evening while I visited her with my wife around 3 pm she went into distress and her heart stopped with no pulse. Bullit I had my wife taken out of the room as I watched them perform CPR on our daughter. To hear the words we have no pulse is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. They had to bring our daughter back 8-10 times in a 2 hour period.
She’s had 3 surgeries in the last 48 hours and everything they have done is not working due to blood clots forming in her heart. We are having one last procedure on Monday, a artificial heart, but if they run into the same complications as today we are going to have let her on to a better place."
As a father who has lost his only child, I am well aware of the road and the darkness on it that this family faces. For the past 6 years of my life many of you have helped me walk this road and if not for some you folks on here, honestly I am not sure I would still be walking it.
Loosing our children is the most horrific pain we as parents can endure. So please bring the love and support you have shown me for all of these years to another family in distress. This is what we do folks, take care of own. Right now this is what we need to do.
Bullit
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