Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Gardner and his wife, Natascha, visit their newborn son, Alexander, March 11 in the Wilford Hall Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The baby underwent a rare ex-utero intrapartum treatment, or EXIT, procedure where he was partially delivered and intubated to provide access to his airway which was blocked by a large tumor. Sergeant Gardner is assigned to the assigned to 23rd Armored Calvary Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Josie Kemp)
1 posted on
03/13/2009 5:40:21 PM PDT by
SandRat
To: SandRat
Prayers for the family. This is tough stuff to deal with.
2 posted on
03/13/2009 5:42:22 PM PDT by
Gene Eric
To: SandRat
Best wishes to the Gardners and Baby Alexander.
4 posted on
03/13/2009 6:03:55 PM PDT by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: SandRat
God Bless this family. While other infants not so lucky and unloved will be used for body parts. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
To: SandRat
Some of the best doctors in the world.
6 posted on
03/13/2009 6:18:15 PM PDT by
steveo
To: SandRat
Awwww. Prayers for the family and baby. Now if this family lives anywhere near my DIL she will spoil them rotten.
8 posted on
03/13/2009 6:47:14 PM PDT by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: SandRat
Big Willy has always been special to me, since I put in some years there. I am sorry to see the pathetic attempt to “militarize” hospital departments by calling them Squadrons, Groups, whatever. Buh Low Nee. Get a life. Find somewhere else to play army please. This is a hospital.
10 posted on
03/13/2009 6:55:13 PM PDT by
Check6
To: SandRat
I doubt that under Obama care such treatment would be given as it wouldn’t be cost effective.
11 posted on
03/13/2009 7:26:39 PM PDT by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: SandRat
Yay God
Yay surgeons!!
I pray total restoration for that child.
13 posted on
03/13/2009 7:41:36 PM PDT by
Guenevere
("He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose")
To: SandRat
Wilford Hall always brings fond memories to me. “Big Willy” is where I learned surgery and taught it to residents. My fondest memories and best years were spent there. God bless these great docs and the families they help. I make a hell a lot of money now but the best days of my career were down in San Antonio at Wilford Hall when I was just a mere major with a paulty income. Great job and kudos to the boys in blue.
To: SandRat
In my research of different countries’ infant mortality rates numbers, this child would not have been counted. It would have died & that’s why the numbers look so much better under “socialized medicine.” They just don’t county them.
So much for the statistics about how much better other countries medicine is than ours.
15 posted on
03/13/2009 8:16:55 PM PDT by
Bhoy
(TEA PARTY ON)
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