One shining moment

After Tricia was born late at night, I went home to the rest of the children and to sleep. In the morning mom called me and told me that there was a problem with Tricia’s heart and would I come and give her a blessing.

I was terrified, this was a life and death situation. I wasn’t up to it but realized I couldn’t hand it off to anyone else. I closed the bedroom door and knelt down in the corner by the closet to pray. I shared with Heavenly Father all the reasons why I couldn’t do this. This came to my mind, “You can give your daughter a blessing because I have been there, I can be here with you.” As I got up and walked across the bedroom it felt like my feet were not touching the floor.

I called my home teacher, old brother Cole, and asked him to go with me. We found tiny Tricia in a incubator giving her extra oxygen, we couldn’t take her in our arms, we could only reach her through two ports on each side. We held her in our hands and I gave a blessing. The only thing I remember saying was “this would be of no consequence in her later life”.

The heart doctor was from India and had strong accent and hard to understand. She said Tricia would need an open heart operation because there was a hole between two chambers of her heart but it couldn’t be done until she was 6 months old. They kept her in the hospital for two weeks and when we took her home the doctor said she wanted to see her every week.

After 6 months we took her to the hospital for tests, the doctor said the hole was almost completely closed on its own and in very clear English said,” it will be of no consequence in her later life”.

With tears in my eyes, I still thank Our Heavenly Father for walking with us thru that terrifying experience.