Firstly, I wrote this before the morphine and scalpels. Chances are I’m recovering from Marshall’s birth.

And he’s fighting a battle no family, let alone any baby, should ever fight.

There have been so many risks, so many challenges, and so many things that made this path one of the hardest we’ve ever walked. And I don’t expect it will get any easier. But I want people to know that every kind word, gesture, thought, prayer, message, text, donation, offering, and contribution made this process (in all of its terribleness) better for us all.

We don’t know what will happen next. But we do know this little miracle we’ve named Marshall has forever changed us. Thank you for your part.

And all the love in the world to Marshall’s brothers and him.