Reaching For His Sleeve.
On May 1st, 2008, I gave birth to my third daughter, Chloe Louise. She was beautiful. When the nurse handed her to me, I gave her the usual mom exam. Ten fingers, ten toes, I looked into her big eyes and smiled. Then I saw something. I immediately called the nurse over and asked her to look at Chloe's tongue. She had three flat white spots on her tongue. The nurse said she thought they were "sucking blisters" from possibly sucking her fingers while in my womb. The blisters did not go away. When she was a month old she started going to an ENT and he had honestly never seen this on a patient before. After his exam and some research he said come back in a month to see if there were any changes. We went in once a month, no changes. As a mother, I was terrified. I was exhausted with bad thoughts. I would stand in my living room with my precious baby in my arms, and cry to God to not take her away from me. That I believed He could and would heal her. I didn't know how, b...