But a big surprise lay in store...
You see...
I was pregnant with my second baby!
I had become pregnant when Danny was 3 months old...In fact his due date was supposed to be December 12 and I think I was pregnant before that!
I was confident that it was a girl because I felt that God wouldn't let me have another son to come home before Danny did.
I was also confident that she would be healthy which I think was a God given confidence because if I was on my own I'd be scared to death...
I had spent the entire pregnancy in Riley Children's Hospital in the NICU with my son, and I had seen the most severe medical cases our state had to offer while I was carrying my daughter.
Emmett and I went to a Pentecostal Church in Noblesville during the whole  pregnancy....
which we left the month after she was born for personal reasons.
Life would  take a few more twists and turns for me before long.
So on September 12, 1986 I had Summer Dawn.
(I named her that because I thought it sounded like something John Denver, whom I dearly love, would have put in a song.)
She was perfectly on time.
She weighed 7.3 pounds and was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen in my entire life.
And two weeks after I gave birth to Summer,
Danny celebrated his first birthday...
Still in theNICU...
Although we had moved over to the new part of the hospital about 3 weeks earlier...
And soon he was upgraded to Module Three after having spent his entire first year in Module One.
We were now waiting to open "The Nurture Center"
which was a 6 bed Infant ICU that was much more "homey" and was developed for long term kids like Danny so that they wouldn't have to be in all the bright lights and noise in the NICU.
So thus begins the biggest dilemma of my lifetime...
No one under the age of 18 is allowed into the ICU at Riley.
I still had my husband for the time being...
(he'd stick around for a couple more months before our divorce proceedings started)
But he was very busy doing his own thing and  wasn't very much help when it came to babysitting!
I was staying at the Ronald McDonald House,
but I couldn't figure out how to keep Summer safe and taken care of and spend time at the hospital.
Up until this time I spent every waking hour by my sons side and now I had to figure out how to be two places at once!
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