AaronMatthew's Near Death Expierence

A couple of weeks ago, my husband took a trip back to St. Paul, Minnesota to get our son Tres who was staying with his oldest sister Cassie.

It was just AaronMathew and I.

I spent all day Saturday at the hospital. We were to be discharged to go home the following Monday. I learned infant CPR and I learned how to insert a feeding tube into my son's nose and down to his stomach.

That Saturday, later on in the day, I could see something had changed in my baby's eyes. He just didn't look like himself. He looked sick in his eyes. And he was very pale. I told the nurse and the charge nurse. There was some thought that he could have a virus or bacteria infection of some kind. The charge nurse said that he would probaly get an IV put in because he needed fluids. The thought was that he possibly lost too much fluid in his body due to the diuretics?

I got a phone call from the nurse later on in the late evening saying they started AaronMatthew on an IV and that his resperations were getting fast.

Early the next morning, a nurse called me and told me that the Pediatric Cardiologist that was on call was called in to assess AaronMatthew and his condition. The said that he might need to be put on a respirator to help him breathe.

His stats dropped. His resperations dropped. His blood pressure dropped and was dangerously low.

I immediately went to the hospital with my best friend Sheila and when we got there my precious baby was moved to a different area of the NICU and was surrounded by doctors and nurses and hooked up to machines and tubes.

I don't remember what the doctor said, but I lost it and turned around and began to cry. I got a quick grip on my emotions and just turned around and put my hand on my baby and began to pray aloud that God would heal my baby.

Around 11:00am he was given breastmilk through a feeding tube and he began to arch his back really hard and scream out. I could see that he was in pain. He was given morphine and a seditive to help to relax him.

His stats were continuing to drop. His respirations were 8 to 15 a minute and his heart rate reached the 230's!

We didn't know if God was going to take our baby home with Him. I saw in my son's eyes the same look my Grandmother and Dad had before God took them home with Him.

I kept calling my husband in St. Paul and texting him.

About an hour later, I was asked to step out of the room because AaronMatthew was critical. The doctor decided to put him on life support and told me to prepare for his death.

I was in the hall crying and I took out my Bible and began to read it.

It was October the 5th. I began to read Psalm 5. King David wrote the Psalm and wrote down how God heard his crys. I began to feel comforted by the Holy Spirit. I continued reading Psalm 6, Psalm 7 and I turned the page to Psalm 8. I saw in the margin something I wrote that was dated, June 3, 2014 next verse 2 which says, "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength." I had just read that verse earlier that morning in the book of Matthew before the nurse called me. What I wrote in the margin of my Bible was, "6-3-2014 AaronMatthew will survive. God has ordained strength for him. For His glory and for His honor."

Great peace suddenly came over me and I called my husband and told him with tears that I know AaronMatthew will survive this! I had forgotten that I even wrote that. I remembered that I was a high risk pregnancy and that AaronMatthew could have been stillborn and that is why I wrote that back in June.

It was decided by the doctors to transport AaronMatthew to Children's Hospital where they felt that he could be closley monitored. I went with him in the ambulance and just left my car in the parking lot at the other hospital.

By this time, my husband and other son were on their way back from St. Paul, Minnesota. I stayed with my baby until about 3am and then the hospital put me up in the Ronald McDonald house next to the hospital.

My husband and son arrived the next morning.

It wasn't until late the next day that the doctors decided to try and ween him off the ventilator. They took him off the ventilator and he began to vomit blood and have bloody stools. Doctors could not figure out the cause to all of this. To this day, it still remains a mystery. God had mercy on us.