Their names are Talbot and TJ, and their father Greg Olsen is a football player for the Panthers. Greg and his wife Kara found out at their 18 week ultrasound that TJ, the little boy twin, was diagnosed with half a heart.
It's rare that you see something you've experienced personally in High Def with moving music playing in the background. I guess that's why we go to the movies -- to see something or watch someone else experience things we can relate to. Well, I can definitely relate to this video and this story.
It's also important to know that money, success, a huge house, and a nice grill don't take away the pain, fear, and worry that come with receiving a diagnosis like this. It's one of those things that strips away all that stuff and makes us all the same. We love our spouses and we love our families. We love our children, and we want them to be healthy and safe. We don't want anything bad to happen to them.
In this video, the father, Greg says something that completely reminded me of my husband when we were going through this. He says until his son's diagnosis, throughout his whole life -- if things weren't ok he could always make them better, that his son's diagnosis was the first time he had felt utterly helpless. It was the first time his wife of eight years had ever seen him cry. This was exactly the case for my husband on the day we got our diagnosis.
After the diagnosis, I crazily searched the internet for videos like this one. I tried to picture myself in these people's shoes and desperately wondered what the end of our story would be. Now, I watch this video and desperately wonder what the end of their story will be.
It's crazy to think that a journey that we are still (thankfully) in -- is just beginning for someone else. It's hard to get an update today from Echo of Hope and know that the battle is still very precarious for so many heart kids out there.
Talbot and TJ were born on October 9th and TJ will have his first of three open heart's this week. I can only hope and pray that they weather all the storms that we have and have a similar outcome to ours.
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