In the beginning every thing was rosy. Chaseton was born around 10:30 pm on a Sunday. All four grandparents and his 2 aunts were greeted by a wide awake baby boy. We all took turns holding and loving on him. The delivery was problem free and we had no indications of the trouble that would follow. We left Chase in the arms of his mother and he spent the night with both of his parents.

The following morning we arrived at the hospital around 10 am. Everybody was laughing and joking. We were all so excited to see Chase and his parents again. We were met at the door by his visibly upset father who broke the bad news.

They found a problem in Chaseton’s heart and would have to transport him to another hospital that was better equipped to deal with it.

Our whole world came crashing down. What was wrong? How bad is it? Is his life in danger? How will they treat it? It was too early for the Dr. to give us any information. We knew nothing but a crushing fear.

This is a copy of my FB post from that day.

We received some bad news this morning. Baby Chaseton has a congenital heart defect. He is stable at this time and will be transfered to a children’s hospital in Atlanta in the next few days where he will have to undergo surgery to repair the defect.
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