After healing

It’s been a rough few days. Both for Daws, mom, dad and the nurses! Which is why I haven’t been able to update. I just haven’t mentally or physically been able to sit down type anything at all. Though, I will say first off, Dawson has healed very well from the surgery! Thank God!

This picture is him tonight, here at home, while taking his bath, which he loves so much! This virus he caught after surgery is sure holding onto him! He’s not sleeping more than about an hour at a time, coughing continuously, although we’re giving all the meds and breathing treatments available! He doesn’t want to be put down at all, so very little time is he lol. He’s the boss for sure right now🙈😂.

Exhaustion doesn’t even begin to explain how we’re feeling around here! We will make it through this! But there is no way to prepare for the mental toll all of this takes on parents. I think I can speak for most, if not all of us Apert families here... The pain and changes a baby goes through affects the parents even so much more than you can ever imagine! No one prepares you for just how much it affects you, to look at your baby and know there’s no going back to the baby you see in the pictures around your home. You learn to love this new look, because it’s still your baby on the inside. But it’s hard and emotional.

I will always be real, with the good and the bad! I don’t think updates should be sugar coated. It isn’t for sympathy or for people to try and make things better, but when people ask, I feel the truth should be said. Life isn’t all fairytales, no ones is and all we can do is our best! This little boy has a story, one that can potentially change lives and hearts, it already has changed ours drastically! We are learning love, acceptance and resilience like we’ve never known before! Writing about this helps process everything we’re going through, but I also pray it helps others! We are so grateful for everyone who reaches out! You never know just how much your kind words mean and when they come at just the right time. Brighter days are ahead! Until then, we will lean on those that we love and Jesus like never before!❤️