A week ago, we were celebrating the birth of my friend Scott’s twin girls: Holland and Macy. Today Holland passed away. Please pray with me.
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At 6:11 PM today, Holland Marie Phillips, aged 8 days, died in Mom and Dad’s arms after spending the past 3 days in the pediatric intensive care unit battling complications stemming from hepatoblastoma, a type of cancerous liver tumor. Lin Dah and I are simply shattered. This is tough.
That said, in Holly’s 5 healthy days, she captured our hearts and provided us with memories that will last our lifetimes.
To give you a sense of the unusualness of this circumstance, hepatoblastoma affects roughly 0.0015% of US infants each year and is very often mis-diagnosed until it is too late due to its rarity. This was the case for Holly. NYC’s best liver and pediatric specialists were only able to confirm hepatoblastoma as the source of Holly’s health problems a few hours before she died.
i can’t imagine anything more devastating than losing a child. i’m glad they got to spend some time with holly before she died.
i pray that through their grief they are also able to embrace the joy of their new life with macy.
really puts my life back into perspective. thank you for sharing their tragic story cathee.