Nature is not infallible, and less since human beings have dedicated themselves indiscriminately to attempt against it, and this means that sometimes what we would never want to happen happens: that some babies arrive in the world sick, with malformations or serious problems that make you have the days counted.
Luckily for them, luckily for everyone, there are people with infinite goodness (perhaps we should call them angels) as Cori Salchert, a woman and mother who adopt the babies that nobody wants because they are sick or have some complication that makes them consider themselves in a terminal situation.
Who is Cori Salchert
As explained in Today, Cori is a woman who worked as an expert nurse in perinatal grief, mother of eight children, who shares her life with her husband Mark, residing in a home that they both call "the house of hope" . This is what they call it since in 2012 they decided to start adopting babies with terrible diagnoses, those who say they will not be able to live long, and those who no longer take emotional charge.
They are children who come from families who find it difficult to accept the condition of their children, and some who are not able to bear the idea of witnessing the end of their lives.
The first of the babies they adopted was Emmalynn, who lived 50 days with them until one day he died in the arms of his adoptive mother. Since then, both the couple and their children decided to take care of these babies, to help them in their last days.
Cori Salchert bathes Charlie along with his 22-year-old daughter He already lived it as a sister
Salchert had a little sister, Amie, who as a baby contracted a meningitis that seriously affected him at the brain level causing him a marked disability. For this reason, Amie was living in a residence for children with special needs for a few years until one day, at eleven, she was able to go out the door. That day, alone, came to an area with water on a golf course and died there drowned. Cori could not bear the idea of how alone he must have felt trying to understand why he could not breathe and why no one helped him.
Already with his nursing degree he began working with all kinds of patients, being his favorites those who were close to saying goodbye to life and those who were on the other side, saying hello for the first time: newborns.
Cori's daughter, 14, hugs Charlie On the maternity floor he discovered the strange feeling of arriving to see how your life was going to change for good and leave empty-handed for a death at the end of pregnancy or after birth, and he felt the need to do something for those families, to help them. Where many professionals prefer not to be in pain, she saw the opportunity to help.
So he ended up working on the Hope After Loss Organization, an organization designed to offer help and try to bring hope to families whose babies had died, at which time they had serious health problems: an autoimmune disease began to damage their digestive organs and required several surgeries and a lot of time in the bed. Wondering how God was going to redeem that pain, he received a call asking if he could take care of a two-week-old baby who wouldn't live long.
And so Emmalynn arrived
The girl was born without part of her brain and doctors said there was no hope for her. They explained that he was in a vegetative state, unable to see or hear, and that he only responded to painful stimuli. Cori and her family studied the case, the situation, and agreed to take care of her explaining that they didn't really do her a favor, but that it was really a privilege for themWell, it was they who named her and welcomed her as one of the family.
Her alternative was to live in a hospital, alone, fed by a bomb until her body said enough, so they took her home where they took care of her and gave her love for the 50 days she lived.
It was days when all family members got involved in their care, in giving love, affection, and in treating her as one more. Almost two months that led them to accompany her in her last minutes, with the pain of loss, but the illusion and emotion to do the same with another baby.
And then Charlie arrived
October 2014 they received Charlie in their family, a baby who was four months old at the time, with a diagnosis of brain damage that limits his life. Without knowing very well what their life expectancy was, they did know that they are children who do not usually live more than two years.
Charlie is 19 months old and in the past year had to be resuscitated up to ten times. Now, living thanks to the vital support provided by a lot of tubes and machines, it has been decided that the next time your heart fails, they will do nothing to avoid it, but to accompany you and give you love, as until now, by letting go.
Before that time, the family is trying their best to make you feel one more. They have taken it with them whenever they could and they even made a bed large enough for the child to receive their care connected to the machines while they could curl up with him and hug him.
What a great gift
What for many people would be a burden, an impediment to continue with their lives, for Cori is a big present. This is how she considers it, a gift for being able to be part of the life of these babies, with the ability to relieve their suffering a little, to give them affection and affection and to see that they, with only that, and despite what they suffer, are able to give back a smile in returnthankful
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