Today was a year to the day since Easter Saturday 2016.. the day we said goodbye to our little boy and started the process of 'active withdrawal' i.e. stopping treatment and removing ventilator support.
We told them the day before, when we were pulled to one side and advised to consider switching off Dylan's ventilator, that we needed more time and we arranged to have him baptised. Being that it was Good Friday that was no easy task but the hospital chaplain went above and beyond to contact the Catholic priest who came and did the ceremony for us.
Despite the situation, his words stuck with me that day, "when Dylan is better I will redo this and baptise all three boys together".. however, Dylan worsened over night and was at a very high risk of cardiac arrest so we discussed and agreed on a DNR and just prayed he would get through until morning so the rest of the family (his brother etc) could be by his side. Of course then at the point of saying goodbye he showed signs of fighting so we held on.. which again somebody else had eerily predicted.
Father John came back to Dylan's bedside on Easter Monday afternoon and said a healing prayer and that was when the real changes and improvements slowly started to happen!!
So today our THREE superheroes were baptised together by Father John at his church, surrounded by family and their new God Parents. We chose this date as a way to turn a day full of traumatic memories into a day full of happy memories for future years to come.. <3
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