MamaLema
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 17, 2004
My story is not the typical rescue story but I did feel rescued emotionally.
Overnight, DS16 turned from a normal healthy teenager into someone who developed an extremely rare disease. He spent weeks in the ICU and there was a night where he made a turn for the worse. I had held it together up to that point, but upon hearing that, I went out to the hallway and started crying like I had never cried before. I started hyperventilating.
A stranger came out of nowhere with a bottle of water and a sandwich and said "If you want to take care of your son, you need to take care of you" He had no idea that I didn't eat for days and didn't remember when was the last time I drank. Then he said "everything will be OK", something you can't really know in the ICU wing. He will never know the difference he made in my day. In the end, it took 18 months to recover but DS is doing great like nothing ever happened.
Edited to add : Sorry, just realized it asked rescued from an akward situation, mine is just from a situation
Overnight, DS16 turned from a normal healthy teenager into someone who developed an extremely rare disease. He spent weeks in the ICU and there was a night where he made a turn for the worse. I had held it together up to that point, but upon hearing that, I went out to the hallway and started crying like I had never cried before. I started hyperventilating.
A stranger came out of nowhere with a bottle of water and a sandwich and said "If you want to take care of your son, you need to take care of you" He had no idea that I didn't eat for days and didn't remember when was the last time I drank. Then he said "everything will be OK", something you can't really know in the ICU wing. He will never know the difference he made in my day. In the end, it took 18 months to recover but DS is doing great like nothing ever happened.
Edited to add : Sorry, just realized it asked rescued from an akward situation, mine is just from a situation