Cheyenne’s parents have separated and the baby visits her father every second weekend. But this time everything happens differently: Cheyenne’s mom receives a terrible call – and that after just an hour.
Cheyenne is just 8 months old. Her father grabs her and shakes her all because the little girl will not stop crying. The adult’s strength is too much for the baby and her skull breaks, leading to internal bleeding in her brain.
The desperate mother is informed that her daughter has been flown to a nearby hospital. She is no longer breathing.
The horrible news from the hospital is: her daughter will require long-term care for the rest of her life, remaining in a vegetative state: “Between crying so hard I was shaking and throwing up, I was begging God to please save her or to take me instead.
Right
when I got by her bedside — seeing her covered in bandages, IVs
everywhere, her leg was black from a blood clot, she was so swollen — my
phone rings and it’s the cops saying James confessed to shaking her.”
“The
man I was in love with, my first love, high school sweetheart, a guy I
had known and shared a life with almost 10 years did this to OUR
daughter. My whole world came crashing down.”
Cheyenne’s
father confesses to what he did. He simply “lost control” and is
sentenced to 20 years in prison. But while he sits in prison, the mother
continues to fight for Cheyenne’s life. The doctors say that she will
not survive the night. And that if she does, she will spend the rest of
her life in a vegetative state.
But then a miracle
happens: even though half of Cheyenne’s brain has to be removed, the
little girl actually wakes up! She can speak and move, but the right
side of her body is paralyzed. Nevertheless, she doesn’t lose her joie
de vivre and doesn’t give up despite her disability.
In the
meantime, Cheyenne has turned 3 and now can enjoy her life to the
fullest. When you look at her smile, you can’t believe what once
happened to this sweet girl.
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