For Baby Jessica Luby From Big Sister Sarah, copied with love from Junior Let’s Face It.
There
was joy and excitement as little Jessica Elizabeth Luby was born at 5.57am,
and she weighed 8lb. 7ounces on Sunday 7th February 1993.
The next day she was home. but... something was wrong her nose looked bent, sort of broken WHY! The question was answered six weeks later. On Jessica's nose appeared a cavernous haemangioma.
Our doctor was very concerned. He sent us to the Queen Elizabeth’s so they could find out what was wrong. Later on we were told it was a cavernous haemangioma (a form of birth mark) .The hospital said they don’t want to operate until Jessica was seven or eight, hopefully it won’t be to major then (it could even go when she is five or six years old)
On the fifth of November (fireworks night,) the day before my sister Rachel’s birthday around 8.45 pm. Little Jessica's nose burst. She seemed so happy at first smiling, as the blood streamed down her face, when we noticed we didn’t know what to do, and were not prepared for this happening. My mum held Jessica in her arms, with one hand holding the cloth onto Jessica’s nose, while my dad phoned 999. An ambulance was here in 15 minutes, but it seemed like hours.
Jessica stayed over night in hospital with my mum. My dad stayed at the hospital till late, but returned home that evening. Jessica came home late afternoon\early evening the next day, to celebrate my sister’s birthday.
When we show Jessica her ‘haemy’ in the mirror, (we call her cavernous haemangioma ‘haemy’for short) She laughs and prods it, ‘haemy’ has become her special little friend. As Jessica gets older the more people stare and make rude remarks. Luckily little Jessica does not yet understand the rudeness and wickedness of some people.
Jessica
is very well known at the junior school because of me Sarah, at the infants
school because of Rachel, and at the Nursery school because of my brother
Patrick. We now have had another opinion from another doctor from St Thomas’s
hospital. He said the older Jessica gets the worse the operation will
be, he wants to operate on her now. This has put my mum and dad in a difficult
position.
We are now getting another opinion from the new King George Hospital in December 94 Jessica is full of lovely smiles, and has got bright big eyes that show up. Jessica is loved by everyone. Her name means a gift, and she certainly is.
By Sarah Lauren Luby (Oct. 94)
