In Heaven for Eternity

Posted on August 14, 2011 by teahouse1

I would like to share my story of Veronica- in hopes of possibly helping someone who has lost a baby or child-

Veronica is my daughter who passed away from Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 1 at the age of five months. She was born January 6, 2004, in Comox, BC. At three months old, she was not moving properly, even though she looked perfect in every way. I can still hear the pediatrician’s words if I think back to that moment that is forever encased in time- “She may have till the age of two.” I realize the mighty hand of God was holding me up in that chair, and that he was in this, somehow I needed to trust him completely. This couldn’t be happening, this wasn’t real, God was testing me; I knew it. I even told the doctor this later in the hospital, just before the chaplain came to have a few words with me.

Veronica and I  flew by Air Ambulance directly to the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, where we stayed with her for a couple of weeks. We then went to Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, to spend three and a half weeks with her there, where she died on June 6, 2004. I spent each day with her, holding her, loving her, feeding her through a naso-gastric tube, talking to her, telling her how short a time it would truly be, before we could spend eternity in heaven together-how wonderful for that- so very amazing that we would be separated for a short time on this earth but actually be together in heaven. For this earth is but a fleeting moment. On her grave, I chose the verse:  “In just a little while the world will not see me again, but you will. For I will live again, and you will too.” John 14:19