Re: preemie-l Intro of the Murphy Family
Amy & Kyle Ellars (lrz@indy.net)
Sat, 08 Jun 1996 17:56:55 -0700
murphy@TeleCheck.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am very excited about finding this group and am looking forward to learning
> from the experiences of others and sharing our experiences.
>
> The Murphy family is comprised of myself, Chris Murphy, Michelle my wife,
> Michael Wayne Murphy II (our lovely terrible 2 1/2 year old), and the very
> beautiful and very early Hope Victoria Murphy. We live in Pasadena, Texas
> (near Houston.)
>
> We were very excited to find out that Michelle was carrying twins. We were
> told from the start that about 50% of all twin births were premature so we
> began preparing ourselves early, but we were in no way prepared at just 25
> weeks (Due Date: April 18, 1996). Michelle's water broke unexpectedly on the
> night of Jan 9, 1996, and we rushed to our local hospital and then we were
> transfered to Texas Women's Hospital. The doctor rushed in and explained that
> he was going to try and stop the birth and then immediately changed his mind
> and it was off to the delivery room. Faith Elizabeth Murphy was born first at
> 1lb. 4oz. then came Hope Victoria weighing in at 1lb. 15oz. They were
> identical twins, but Hope was much larger due to twin-to-twin transfusion.
> Although Faith was the smaller of the two, she at first seemed to be doing the
> best. Hope was very sick and had severe problems with her blodd pressure and
> circulation. After 7 days Hope started getting somewhat better, but Faith
> took a turn for the worst. One of her lungs collapsed and she passed away on
> Jan 19, 1996 at approx. 11:00 pm. If I tried to document all of the
> complications that occured this would be one huge message, so to shorten
> things up:
>
> Hope is now home. She was released to us in April and came home on oxygen and
> an apnea monitor. She has done very well, as a matter of fact, she was
> finally taken off of the oxygen just this Thursday! We are very excited about
> it, especially now that we can look at her face without seeing the tubes.
> Hopefully, with no problems, she will loose the apnea machine in a few weeks.
> Michelle is very eager for this, but I'm afraid I've become kind of dependent
> on the obnoxious machine. Hope is I guess about 2 months old adjusted and is
> weighing about 7lb. 3oz.
>
> I and Michelee are looking very forward to sharing information here. There is
> so much that I don't even know were to start. Michelle and I are probably
> considered young parents (we are both 25), and we want to be the best parents
> we can. I think sharing information with others is probably going to help us
> more than anything else we've been doing up to this point.
>
> Looking forward to talking,
> The Murphy's
> Chris, Michelle, Michael, and baby Hope (Michael (2 yrs. old) calls her the
> baby "Shister").
>
> --
> Chris Murphy | e-mail: murphy@TeleCheck.com
> Applications Supervisor | Dialer Data Processing
> TeleCheck Services International, Inc. | Consumer Systems
>
> ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer,
> my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any
> resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic.
> The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold
> them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the
> existence of the reader is left as an exrcise for the second god
> coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism
> is beyond the scope of this article.) Welcome to the group. I hope you and your family continue to do well.
Sharing information has proven to be the best medicine for me.
Amy(wife of Kyle & mother of Zoë, born May 9, 1996 1lb 12oz)