5 Years Later

Holy moly! How has it been 5 years already?!?! Norah just celebrated 5 years of health thanks to her Liver donor on 9/27/2020. I can’t believe my sick little baby is now a nearly 4ft tall little girl while beautiful pink skin and she just lost her fourth baby tooth! I know she would not have survived had we not gone through what we did in 2015, but man was that the hardest year of our lives! I didn’t even write about getting discharged from the hospital on 11/3, the day my mom flew into town to help me take care of Norah following transplant. I didn’t write about how Norah fed at least every 2.5yrs, often more, refusing the bottle yet again so leaving me to breastfeed almost around the clock, with a nipple shield, and my poor mom feeding her baby food in the middle of the night trying to let me sleep for a couple hours stretch when she wasn’t beyond tired. The first night we were in a quaint little 2 bed/2 bath Air BnB we were beyond overwhelmed and we cried, not knowing how we would survive even though Norah had her new liver! I will always say that things got better after transplant quickly, but they got harder before they got easier! This picture says 1,000 words