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August 26, 2006

To have and to hold

The St. Louis Post Dispatch published a wonderful article about a family who lovingly care for a severely disabled 6 year old boy.

"When Jeremiah was unhooked from life support machines six weeks after his birth, doctors at St. John's Mercy Medical Center feared that he would soon die. But Suzan and Sandy Cross, who would later serve as Jeremiah's foster parents, were not swayed."

"We told the hospital, 'Let us take him home, and we will hold him until he passes,' " Sandy Cross says. "And we've been holding him for five years."

" No one really understands what happened to Jeremiah's brain on Aug. 27, 2000, the day he was born..."
Doctors say he has a functioning brain stem, which controls his breathing and heart, but the rest of the
brain isn't there."

To Have and to Hold

Posted by Mary at August 26, 2006 9:00 PM

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