Reply #191: April 1999, Children's Hospital Boston, Pavillion 6 Cardiac ICU... [View All]

[benEzra]

we woke up to find out that our 2-week-old son had just had an obstructed airway/aspiration episode and came very, very close to dying. His heart rate had slowed so much from oxygen deprivation that they called a code blue, got the crash cart, and were actually giving him CPR (a day after heart surgery, his little sternum wired shut and bandaged, and they're doing chest compressions--that's how close it was).

Thank God he came through, they got his airway cleared, got him intubated, and he just turned seven years old this past week.