The nights are an odyssey
But it’s not just during the day, the nights are complex: “Our break begins when we get home and we start watching a competition program. Mrs. Antonella loves it, she is happy seeing how others win and manage to overcome obstacles, my daughter also loves to overcome obstacles and is happy pushing herself and fighting to be day by day a warrior and be a better little person, from there more or less type and by 9:30 at night she is already falling asleep, we go to bed to “sleep”, my daughter at night must use a device called Bipap to help her and remind her that she must breathe because sadly my daughter has 116 apneas per hour, that is severe apnea, which means that at any moment my daughter can have a sudden death, miraculously she has not come to this, God willing she does not have it because we are going to fight to strengthen those little lungs, but every night they are an odyssey, since this device sends puffs of air so that she does not stop breathing but she has not adapted to that device, the mask is uncomfortable for her and she gives “You have some tricks to take it off, I don’t know where he gets the strength from and he takes off the mask, he screams, he gets desperate and they are quite complex nights.”
This is how the last 15 months have been in the lives of Verónica and her husband and thanks to that routine, perseverance, the wonderful network of support made up of the family of both and as Verónica says: “Love keeps Antonella alive.”
And for Verónica, each medical committee in which Antonella passes with excellence the tests that qualify her to be able to continue her treatment, is an impulse so that she does not mind not sleeping at night and working harder every day, Antonella has exceeded expectations, in 17 months of life she has not needed to be intubated, she eats normally, she keeps her head upright Most of the time, he already says mom, dad and also names his other moms, his grandmothers and aunts. All the merchants on 14th, between first and second, meet Verónica and her husband and celebrate with them Antonella’s every step.
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