A Personal Plea from a broken heart

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

At 1am on the 17th, I got a call from Mount Hood. A baby boy, born into heaven, he was a twin, the other little guy was alive. It isn't often that I get calls regarding twins, but I get Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep calls nearly weekly. I grabbed my bag, my file and my suitcase of backdrops/props and was at the hospital by 1:30am. I met the family (it happens to be a woman I went to high school with). I met the babies, and started photographing. The surviving twin was only able to join us briefly as he was still pretty stressed out from all that had happened and was in the nursery on oxygen. I called the hospital the next day to let the mom and dad know I would be bringing their images to them in the afternoon, but one of the nurses let me know that the family had been transferred to Emmanuel. The surviving twin had to have surgery and yesterday was having an MRI. Megan Gebhardt (my friend who makes the amazing memory boxes) went with me and gave the family one of her boxes and shared her story. It was amazing to see Megan who's grief is still raw, share her heart and love with a family she has never met. I share all of this with you because, as you can imagine, this family is devastated. I don't know much about them, but I do know that there hospital/funeral bills are going to be ENORMOUS, baby #1's funeral costs and all that comes with that, mom's hospital stay & surgery, baby #2's hospital stay and surgery etc. costs. We are in the process of setting up a "relief account" at Bank of America to raise money to help offset this families cost. If you know me at all, you'll know that I rarely ask for money (unless you owe it to me!!!) :o) But this family needs all the love, prayers and financial support we can give. If you can/want to give anything at all, please let me know and I will direct on how to do so. As soon as the bank account is up and running I will post a paypal link to it, but there are legal steps to go through to make it official and I am trying not to call the family too often so I don't overwhelm them anymore than they already are. I'll keep you posted as they give me permission to do so. Thanks Everyone.

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