Welcome to our site about our son Brodie Dick who will join our family on August 8, 2011 at 8:00. At 22 weeks we went in to find out if we were having a boy or a girl and we found out that we were having a boy but that he may have a birth defect. After an agonizing week we found out that our son had CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia). CDH occurs when the diaphragm fails to fully form, allowing the abdominal organs into the chest cavity and preventing lung growth. CDH occurs in 1 of every 2500 births and a baby with CDH is born every 10 minutes. 50% of babies diagnosed with CDH do not survive. The cause is not known. This will be a journal of our journey and will allow our family and friends to keep up to date on what is happening with us and our son Brodie. Thanks for your prayers and support!


Friday, August 19, 2011

Thanks to All

I know that in just about every post I thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers but I wanted to do entire post about it so that everyone would truly know how much that it means to us. Even though we are going through so much it has actually not been too bad of a journey. Thanks to all the doctors and nurses and support staff at all of the hospitals and doctor's offices. We have met some amazing people and had tons of laughs along the way. LaVona gets attached and hates to see some of them go as we progress through this process. Thanks to both our employers and our bosses for being so understanding and caring during all of the appts and now with the hospital stay. What we need right now is to be with Brodie and each other and without them it would not be possible. We also want to thank our family, friends and even strangers that have been so helpful to keep our spirits up. Without them it would have been impossible to make it through this process. We hear each and every word of encouragement that comes our way and you have no idea what your small act of kindness does to us in this difficult time. Sometimes we feel like this is an impossible journey and then something happens that reminds us that this is much bigger than us and that everything will be ok. It kills us that we can't get back to each of you individually to let you know what an impact you have had on our lives. When we started the blog we hoped that we could get 500 hits and now we have almost 7000. Brodie has touched so many lives and he is an inspiration to all of us. I just pray that everyone that reads this will understand how fragile life is and that life is not about money or things but the people in our lives. Please allow our struggles to help show all of us what life is all about. We love you all. Todd, LaVona, Bradie and Brodie.

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