Today Ashley handed me her school progress report. Normally, Ashley is nervous when receiving her grades, she assumed this time she would have lots of B's. However, Ashley has straight A's. I don't think Ashley has ever made an A in math, not on her report card or a progress report. She is so proud of herself, she has worked so hard. I prayerfully hope that Ashley can maintain those A's until the end of the quarter. I am so proud of Ashley, I knew she could do it!
“Although Ashley’s liver is failing, she isn’t sick enough to be placed on the liver transplant list. We were told that Ashley would need a new liver by the time she reaches puberty." Ashley was born at the end of July in 1998, but her story doesn’t start there;her story begins when she was just a little peanut in my womb. At 24 weeks gestation we learned we were having a girl, but our little girl had something wrong with her. Imagine sitting in the examining room, and the excitement of learning you are having a girl, then at the same time you hear the silence in the room when something is just not right with the baby. We were told that Ashley possibly had an ovarian cyst. It was normal and not to worry. But something told us it was more than just an ovarian cyst. As soon as Ashley was delivered she struggled to live. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck twice, and she was blue. Thankfully the doctor cut the cord immediately and although Ashley was still blue; she was b
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