Life's Little Mishaps



Hi!

Today I’m sharing a layout I made for the saddest day of our life’s as parents.  Our daughter was sick at midnight and we took her to the ER, there, the doctor did some blood tests and never came back because he had a stroke (thankfully he survived and is doing great).  At 6 am some doctors came to the pediatric ER in the hospital and started attending other patients with worst situation, my daughter appeared to be having a vomiting virus and that was not a rush like other cases in the ER.  Finally, a doctor came to us because she recognized our daughter from school.  She was not supposed to attend her, it was another doctor who have her record, but she asked for permission and started attending her.  To make the long story short, she ordered a CT Scan not matter everything was pointing to be a virus.  The CT Scan was not made immediately because our daughter was vomiting the contrast she needed in order for the radiologist to perform the study.  At the end, the test was done around 12pm and at 3pm, the doctor's shift ended, but she called the radiologist to his personal phone because she needed that result before leaving, and he asked for a few minutes to read the results.  That was something she doesn't have to do, but she wanted to do it before leaving.  He called her back and told her our daughter needed  and emergency surgery because she was having an appendicitis and it was already suppurating, which means it was pretty rush.  The doctor stay in the hospital, and gave us the bad news and call the director of surgery of the hospital to his personal phone.  He was in the road but told her to prepare everything because he was going to arrived in 15 minutes.  Everything happened so fast, people started coming to us with papers to be sign, then we were moved to the surgery floor, I changed her clothes for the surgery ones and  then they asked us to say goodbye to her while they took her to the surgery.  We were in shock, we didn't have time to think, just to trust God and asked for him to be with her all the time and be the surgeon.  Everything went perfectly, the doctor told us a few more minutes would have been a disaster because of the suppuration.  We are really thankful to the ER doctor.  Our daughter was not having the common symptoms of appendicitis because hers was inverse, this was the reason why she was only having vomits and a little fever.  The doctor said, something told her to do the CT Scan no matter it was looking like a virus, and she follow her guts and faith.  Now, we think about all that and understand God’s purpose.  Maybe if another doctor have taken her case, she would have been released with medicine for a virus and the end would have not been the same.  Sometimes we don’t understand why things happen but we must trust God because He always have a reason.
To create this layout I used the PhotoPlay Under the Weather papers and die cuts. This is a very bright, colorful and cute collection.  I like it because no matter this was a very hard situation for us as parents, the end was a happy one and I don’t want to remember it with sadness but with gratitude.  She is now with us thanks to that surgery and she is healthy and enjoying life. 
The pink paper of the background is from American Crafts Shimelle Glitter Girl Collection.  Since this is a very bright paper for a background, I  matted the photos in a lighter pink tone to make them stand out.  I made some little embellishments clusters, specially for the title and journaling area using the die cuts from the collection and some stickers of the American Crafts Paige Evans sticker book. To enhance some of the hearts I drew some black lines around them to simulate stitching. 
 
The white scalloped border is from Ki Memories, a company that sadly no longer exists, but since the colors match perfectly with the colors of the PhotoPlay collection, I used it.  At the end, I decided to mat the layout in white cardstock to help it stand out from all the colors, and machine stitched around the border using white thread. The date was stamped and the journalilng was handwritten using a Sakura Micron .01 black pen.
Thanks for your visit, hope my work inspire you to create!

Until soon,

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