Every Parents Nightmare

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On July 20, 1993 my oldest daughter was born. She was a healthy 6lb. 5oz. baby girl. When took her home, she started sleeping all night within a couple of weeks. She was lively and just a joy. Little did I know that within a few short months her life would change drastically.
January 9th, 1994, was a cold, winter day. Bryanna, (my daughter) was asleep on the floor. Since it was so cold I picked her up and put her into the middle of my waterbed. I placed a cover over her and walked away.
About on hour later I heard her start screaming. My husband ran into the bedroom and scooped her up off of the floor. She had fallen off of the bed. She had a lump form on the right side of her head immediately. My husband and I decided to take her to the hospital to get her checked out.
When we got to the hospital they put us in a room to await x-rays. After the x-rays were taken the doctor came in and said that everything was fine but she began to cry uncontrollably so he decided to go ahead and do a cat scan.
After the CAT scan I went out to talk to my husband and let him know what was going on when a nurse asked me to bring my daughter back to the room. When we walked past the room I was in earlier, I knew something was wrong. The next thing I knew a nurse grabbed her out of my arms and started putting oxygen on her and putting IV’s all over her little body. I ran and got my husband.
After we got back to the room, the doctor cam and told us our daughter had a scull fracture that had severed one of the main arteries in her head. She was slowly bleeding to death. They had called lifeline at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
I had to leave the hospital in Terre Haute before my daughter so that I could be in Indianapolis when she got there. When I left here I didn’t know if I would even see my daughter alive again. The hospital said they didn’t know if she would make it or not.
When I got to Methodis...