| Jibreel's Album |
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| Mummy expecting us to arrive during the first week of November 2003 |
| We could not wait till November. Mamma gave birth to us extremely prematurely on the 09th of August 2003 at 26 weeks of gestation. The doctors warned Bappa of extremely narrow chance for our survival. It is only 01 or 02 weeks after our internal organs were formed but they were not developed enough to take on the challenges of living separate lives from Mamma. Especially our lungs were much too fragile and we were not able to produce enough surfactant (a fatty substance that coats the tiny air sacs in the lung and keeps the lung from collapsing) causing us to suffer a breathing disorder called Respiratory Distress Syndrome. These are the very first pictures of us and most importantly the only picture of Israfeel and myself together. These pictures were taken when Mamma visited us first time after she came out of labour room, approximately 02 hours after we were born. |
| 12 hours into our life on earth . Israfeel (right) and myself (left) still struggling. His condition was desperate. We will only be able to produce enough surfactant to breath on our own after 04 or 05 days later. We were being helped with our breathing process. We were given oxygen and a variety of other medical treatments to aid our breathing. |
| 30 hours on, tragedy stikes. Israfeel's condition deterorated. He stopped breathing. A mask attached to a soft plastic bag was placed on Israfeel's face and the bag was squeezed to push air into his lungs and trigger the breathing cycle. This might have caused a tear in the membranes that covers the lungs or one or more of the alveolis in his lungs might have burst. This would cause air to leak in to the surrounding chest spaces and could have caused the lung to collapse. Israfeel died at 20:30 on 10th of August 2003 |
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| Immediately after Israfeel passed away, my condition started getting worse. It is understandable that loosing the other half of me after growing up in the same womb for 26 weeks, I felt a huge loss even though I was not in a condition to see him or hear him, but I felt him leave me, forever! These pictures were taken right after Israfeel passed away. |
| Here I am 25 days old. By now I am considered out of danger. My lungs seemed working alright and slowly started gaining weight. I am still unable to produce enough blood therefore, transfusion was required. Unfortunately my blood group turned out to be a rare type which is B negative. But with help from a lot of Mamma's friends, we found some donors who were willing to come forward. |
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| I have put together some of our pictures for you to see. I also added some comments to the pictures and arranged them on separate pages i.e; all pictures taken in August are on this page and those of September will be on the next page and so on... For a larger picture please click on the thumbnail. |