Surgery scars Surgery I can literally remember every little detail from Elijah's surgery. Whenever someone asks me about the surgery the first image I have in my mind is him laying in intensive care just an hour out of surgery. The chest drain stitched into his little chest and seeing the blood drain out of him was like something out of a horror film. I remember thinking how small his incision mark really was and to be covered by just a plaster! I can think back and see the ward we were on, the surgeon coming round to draw the arrow on his chest. We watched Mike the Knight, and C Beebies before we went down. My legs were heavy, I wondered if this was it. The last time I would ever see my baby alive. I then had flashes of us going home on our own. I held him as he was put to sleep and then he was taken from me and put on the operating table. I couldn't even kiss him goodbye in case it was for the last time. My legs buckled beneath me and I was carried from the ...
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