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Paul Aitken

  • Joined:January '09
  • Location:Glasgow
  • Age:32
  • Last Online:2 weeks ago

About me

hi my name is paul aitken
i'm staying down in loch lomond at the moment just until my fiancee and i can get a house from the housing...
my son Paul john aitken was born on the 18th nov 08 at 01.55am - 25+5 days (born 15 wks early) by emergency caesarean due to cord prolapse, BREECH as that was immediate threat to rosemarie or baby paul his weight was 930grams (2lb's & 1 oz's) and breathing on his own, he was took up to NEONATAL UNIT and was stable in ICU,
the wee man had a blood tranfusion and was comfortable.. the next few days he caught a chest infection, he was forgettin to breath so he was put on the ventilater so he could have a rest while the infection was gettin treated.. the next few days he was back off the ventilater and breathing on his own and he was a wee rascal as his oxygen levels were up and down due to him keeping his mouth opened, then the next few days he was back on the ventilater due to him catching another infection but he was tryin to fight the ventilater by tryin to breath while being ventilated so they had to sedate him, then on the 9th dec 08 we got a phone call at 08.50am and was told baby paul wasn't feeling too well could we come up... once we were at the hosp baby paul was a funny colour and his tummy was all bloated out, he get an x-ray and when they changed his nappy their was blood in it, we were told that he had NECROTISING ENTEROCOLITIS known as NEC + PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOUS (a heart defect) he only had 20% chance of surviving this as its a miracle if they do, but he fought long and hard as the nurses & docs
weren't expecting him to last as long as he did..the poor wee guy had blood coming up out of his mouth which was frightening for me and paul, he was critically ill the next few days so i decided to stay overnight with him on sunday the 14th dec 08 then mummy got a phone call on the monday at 06.41am to come up as baby paul was very poorly, mummy got to the hosp at 07.10 but baby paul had already past away at 7 am, the doc took all the tubes & needles out and we got to hold him for the first time, baby paul gave up his fight as NEC just got too much for him and we're so proud of him but he's in no more pain now...forget to mention when baby paul past away we got asked if we wanted a post morton on him just to see how bad NEC had infected his wee body and to check if their was anything else but we said no as we'd thought he'd been thru enough just let him rest now...



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Thank you just not seem enough.

To my dear GTS friends, I just want to sincerely thank you for all the strength & support you have given to me in the past year. It's one year now since I lost my beautiful baby girl, it has truly been the worst experience of my life. However you have all helped me to grow strong again, I know that whatever my future holds, my life is better for being Casey's mummy, you have all played a big part in getting me through.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Love always,
Karen x

1 week ago

Hope life brings you guys lots of happy times in future x

October 5, 2009

Slow
Dance


This
is a poem
written by a teenager with cancer.

She wants to
see how many
people get her poem.

It is quite the poem
Please pass it
on.



This
poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a
New York Hospital .

It was sent by
a medical doctor -
Make sure to read what is in the closing statement
AFTER THE
POEM.




SLOW DANCE

Have you ever
watched
kids


On a merry-go-round?


Or listened to
the
rain


Slapping on the ground?


Ever followed a
butterfly's erratic flight?


Or gazed at the sun into the
fading
night?

You better slow down.

Don't
dance so
fast.



Time is short.

The music
won't
last.

Do you run through each day

On the
fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do
you hear
the
reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie
in your
bed

With the next hundred chores
Running through
your head?


You'd better
slow down

Don't dance so
fast.

Time is
short.

The music won't
last.



Ever told your
child,

We'll do it
tomorrow?


And in your
haste,


Not see
his sorrow?

Ever lost
touch,


Let a good
friendship die


Cause you
never had time

To call
and say,'Hi'


You'd
better slow down.

Don't dance
so fast.


Time
is short.


The music won't
last.



When you run
so fast to get somewhere


You
miss half the fun of getting
there.

When you worry and hurry
through your
day,


It is like an unopened
gift....

Thrown
away.


Life is not a
race.

Do take it
slower

Hear the
music

Before the song is
over.

PART 2.....FORWARDED
E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL
COUNT...do not change the title

Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know -
even to those you don't
know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon
leave this world
due to cancer.


This young girl has 6 months left
to live,
and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to

live their life to the fullest, since she never will.




She'll
never make it to prom, graduate from high school,
or get married and have a
family of her
own.



By you sending
this to as many people as
possible, you can give her and her family a
little hope, because with every name
that this is sent to, The American
Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name
to her treatment and recovery
plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know
that we can at least send
it to 5 or 6. It's
not even your money, just
your
time!

May 16, 2009

A SMILE FOR YOU

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Smiling is infectious you catch it like the flu
When someone smiled at me today i started smiling too
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin
When he smiled i realized i'd passed it on to him
I thought about that smile then i realized its worth
A single smile just like mine could travel round the earth
So if you feel a smile begin dont leave it undetected
Lets start an epidemic quick and get the world infected

Keep the smile going by sending it to a FRIEND
EVERYONE NEEDS A SMILE !!!!!!

May 5, 2009

A LITTLE HUG ♥♥♥

A little hug from me to you
to make you smile
when your feeling blue,

To make you happy
when your sad
to let you know life aint so bad

Now i have given
a hug to you
somehow i feel
much better too

Hugs are better
when they there shared
so pass this on to show you care

sending you all my love victoria xxx

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