Today after school we took the kids up to see Baby Abby and her family...our focus this time was to help celebrate Charles and Linnea's 8th birthday. Right now they are staying in a new hospice type home near Oakland. It's beautifully situated against the hills and it's fully staffed to support and house families that are preciously savoring their last moments with their struggling child. I never knew such a place existed! I was truly impressed, and touched. The "house" has several suites in which families may call their temporary "home". The staff/nurses work round the clock to cook, clean, do laundry, babysit, play...all so that the family can be free from the daily grind and have more time to spend with baby Abby. They welcomed us all like we were family, stayed to even have dinner. I couldn't help but thank God for such a beautiful, healing, selfless, loving place it was. The beauty of it in stark contrast to the painful reason we were all there.
Abby is hanging in there, taking one day at a time. She is now on oxygen and morphine, to help keep her heart as steady as it can be. She is sleeping a lot, but she opened her eyes for a while to take us all in. As we were leaving the home I snapped some shots of a beautiful bamboo grove. I thought, Abby's like a little bamboo shoot...a little bamboo-ito. Tiny compared to the others but sprouting in her own little way, her journey her own amongst the rest of us all that are lovingly around her.
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