The Man At The Waterfall
I cried tears of pain and anger and confusion and peace yesterday. A wild day... Our little Heidi has had a tough go this year (and really all her years) with her lungs. But yesterday, we got some long overdue answers. Heidi is part of a small group of people (that will probably grow with time) that likely and unbeknownst to us and doctors in December of 2019 contracted COVID… She wasn't yet in her 10th week of life. Like the rest of the world, we didn't know it at the time and there was little that could be done then (or really can be even now). But now that she is growing up and getting bigger and continuing to develop, her lungs are not exactly what we would expect…and that's seeming to be a normal trend of our now toddlers who were then infants when COVID hit them. Heidi is going to be treated like an asthma patient for awhile - possibly forever - but it's not asthma that she has. It's still very much unfolding in the medical world. It hasn't been reall