I'm praying for your family OP. may you all find peace and healing at this time. Sending lots of love to you.

Just checking in to mentally tuck you both in for the night.

OP, I too have been following this post. I think of your child and you many times during the day. Your story has forced me ti be in the moment(s) with my kids. I wish you both peace and comfort.

OP: Don't know what to say to you so I'll share how you inspired me.

I hugged my two year old extra tonight since i read your posts today, for the first time. I also held him in my lap a couple of times after work tonight, and smelled him a lot.

I lost a fiance when i was in my 20s. I missed my lover's smell very much.

Thanks for the reminder that life is precious. and fleeting.

OP, I think of you often. I don't have words...just know that one more person is out there praying for you, your daughter and those who love you.

I am sobbing reading your post and I pray for you and your precious daughter.

I cannot imagine what you are going through but I am deeply, deeply sorry. There are no words for such a thing.

OP, I read your initial post and have been thinking about you every day since. I simply didn't have any words, and still don't, words seem so useless...but sending you hugs and wish you peace at the end of your journey. Hugs to you and your family.

Sending hugs and support from Columbia, MD OP. Glad to hear your daughter is more comfortable. Wishing strength for you and her.

reading this for the first time now, and feeling so moved by your story and that of the other posters. you have my deepest sympathy, and respect. peace be with you.

I am the OP checking back in...

So many thanks! My daughter is being kept much more comfortable here. It is still a struggle for all of us but not quite so acute and piercing if that makes sense. I only have a few minutes, checking in from the cafeteria, but wanted to send you all my love and let you know that we are surviving!

(((hugs)))

New poster adding my thoughts and voice to those above. OP, you are dealing with a situaiton right now that is unimaginable to many of us. We want to be there. We want to help. We are all thinking of you and sending our thoughts and love and strength and prayers for those who are the praying type.

Giving us the chance to be there for you - albeit virtually - is not in any way self-indulgent. We want to do it. We want to know how you are, and how your daughter is doing, and we all hope to write a little something that may give you sustenance. In this great disconnected world, you are giving us a chance to try to help and to join together in that effort. Frankly, those chances come way too seldom in many of our harried lives.

You do not owe us anything, including further information and updates. But I really hope you will not stay away because you think you are being self-indulgent in posting how you feel or updates. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Dear OP, My heart aches for you and your dear daughter. Tears are rolling down my face as I type this response. I pray for you and your family. I know that there is no love greater than that of a mother. Your daughter is a blessing to you and to all of us who have read your post, as she reminds us to cherish the moments with our own children as any breath can be the last breath. I send lots of love and light your way.

New poster, read this when it was first posted and cried and hugged everyone I could. I'm so so sorry. All of my love.

new poster - I too have been following and you and your daughter have been in my prayers and thoughts. I pray you are able to find comfort