While doctors had not initially been sure that Naseem would survive until Thanksgiving, he could be home with his family as early as Christmas, Rosenkranz said.
"I'm sure everybody goes through denial, depression, but I have a strong faith in God and know he isn't going to give me anything I can't handle," Hasni said. She and her husband, Ghazi Habib Hasni, have two other children, a boy, 13, and a girl, 8.
"Everybody I know is praying for him — my husband's family in North Africa, Tunisia, and my family is in Great Britain, and friends and family here, too."
Although his condition is listed as critical, Naseem has been doing well and will be weaned off the machine that is helping him breathe in the next day or two, Rosenkranz said.
"I haven't been able to hold him yet," Hasni said wistfully, "but I'm hoping to get him home before Christmas."
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It is wonderful what surgeons in USA can do. You would think the rest of the world would applaud this, rather than calling us the great satan all the time. My friend's baby was born many months early in early Sept. He isn't due until Christmas. He just went home last week. At birth he was only 2 lbs and about one foot long. He made it to 5 lbs and went home. He had the most wonderful 24 hour care in neonatal in Tulsa Okla. Kyler is doing great. Thanks to our wonderful doctors in America! We are still praying for Kyler's continued progress and we are still praying for God to guide all doctors as they save lives.