99 Balloons (for baby Eliot)

[Number23]

Run time: 06:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0   Posted on YouTube: April 03, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 24, 2008 By DU Member: Number23 Views on DU: 1414

 
I did a search and this didn't appear to be posted, which surprised me.

Absolutely gut-wrenching... but the beauty and kindness of Eliot's mom and dad makes this one of the most touching things I've seen.

[pnwmom]

1. What a loving family. A perfect story for this season. Thank you. n/t

[Number23]

4. I felt exactly the same way.

And let's just say it's hitting particularly close to home for me right now...

[pnwmom]

7. For you then, at Christmas.

:hug:

[Number23]

12. Thanks so much.

[sasquatch]

2. Pray in one hand and piss in the other and tell me which one fills up the fastest

Sorry, I'm just having a shitty day.

[Number23]

3. Do you think that you could have your "shitty day" somewhere else?

What the hell...?? Why in the world would THAT be your response to this story??

[sasquatch]

5. I hate and loathe false hope

[Number23]

6. That's your choice. I still have no idea how you could look at this story and respond how you did.

[REP]

10. You are pragmatic

Clenched hands
Crossed legs (preferred position)
Heart disease (congenital)
Hole, split, or cleft in the iris (coloboma)
Kidney problems
Horseshoe kidney
Hydronephrosis
Polycystic kidney
Low birth weight
Low-set ears
Mental deficiency
Separation between the left and right side of the rectus abdominis muscle (diastasis recti)
Small head (microcephaly)
Small jaw (micrognathia)
Umbilical hernia or inguinal hernia
Underdeveloped fingernails
Undescended testicle
Unusual shaped chest (Pectus carinatum)
VSD (ventricular septal defect)
ASD (atrial septal defect)
PDA (patent ductus arteriosus)

All of these are associated with Trisomy 18, and none can be prayed away; nor are particularly thought by those afflicted with them to be gifts from a deity.

[Number23]

13. The child was expected to die in utero, if not immediately at birth

Those folks had 99 days to spend with him. I seriously doubt that you could convince that family that prayer doesn't work.

[pnwmom]

8. Any chance you could self-delete?

And help someone else's day not get any shittier?

[Number23]

14. 1.5 MILLION views on YouTube. 170 on DU...

and the comments here are enough to make you want to shoot every Santa Claus that comes within 600 feet of you.

This place is massively dispiriting and depressing at times...

[pnwmom]

15. Forgot to recommend before. Did it now! n/t

[lamp_shade]

9. Oh my.

:cry:

[lucasbaiano]

11. oh wow

oh wow

[kickysnana]

16. Kicking for my niece Elizabeth who lived 23 hours in April 2001, also Trisome 18.

O8)