How did this happen?

Fourteen years ago this week, we began hanging out in the NICU at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. We were there to visit Camden and Tenley, whose premature arrival made them automatic residents. In their tiny plastic boxes, this was their home for eight weeks.

The NICU was dimly lit. You entered through wide swinging doors after scrubbing up just like surgeons. There were lots of tubes, the soft whirring sound of blowers running somewhere, flashing lights and numbers of various colors, beeping sounds, and the occasional alarm.

Extremely competent and in-charge nurses moved quietly about checking on their tiny babies in the boxes, making sure you didn’t touch anything you weren’t supposed to, and always asking if they could do anything for you. 😎 They almost always were smiling… very important in this setting.

We were never allowed to stay long.

So my question is, how did those two babies in the boxes get this big? Why is the topic of discussion now drivers tests?

I remember thinking from the moment of their arrival, “Are they even going to make it?”

I needn’t have worried. We have a great God!