I am posting this because I need the WSO community's prayers, your good vibes, positive energy, anything you can send my family's way. Monkeys, I am going through a very difficult time right now. This site has helped me in many ways, I have tried to give back. You all know I am a family man - if you are religious, please say a prayer for my daughter Lilliana Hope.
I am posting this in success stories - I hope and pray that this proves to be correct. My intent here is to communicate my daughter's battle and raise awareness for premature births. If you can send some good vibes my way, I really could use them.
Please, any trolls out there, please stay off of this thread. This is my life.
This is Lily's story. This is Lily's Battle. http://prayingforlily.blogspot.com
disclaimer: ^ this is not an easy read.
My thoughts are with you and your family. I post this entirely without facetiousness:
Lily,
I'm sending you all the love that I can from Montreal !!!!!!
Will keep Lily in my prayers. I wish you and your family well; I can imagine this is a tough time for you.
Lilliana Hope - it's a beautiful name. AVP, I wish you and Lily the best. Stay strong and keep us updated!
Even though I am not religious, I hope the best for Lily and your family.
I hope the best for your family and Lily. If you don't mind me asking why was her birth premature? I read your blog but it didn't say. I really hope she makes it through.
Will keep your beautiful daughter and your family in my prayers.
Sending some positive vibes toward your family. Hope Lily gets another wonderful day of life and many more to come.
The stuff that doctors are able to do nowadays is crazy. My prayers are with your Lily and your family
My heartfelt wishes and thoughts are with Lily and your family.
Here's to your daughter growing stronger every day!
My prayers go out to your family.
Wishes and prayers bro....
I wish you and Lily all the best. Hang in there and don't lose courage.
One more Wall Streeter praying for you and your family. It's times like this that bring us face to face with our humanity and change who we are.
Keep us updated.
Good luck.
Best of luck brother, anything we can do, let us know.
My prayers for your little Lily and your family. We will offer a mass for her.
Take care and God bless.
My prayers to you and your family.
Prayers go out to you and your family.
Thoughts and prayers.
May God protect Lily. Your family will be in my prayers tonight. God bless.
Praying for you, the daughter, and your family.
My wife and her twin sister were born extremely premature and were not expected to make it; both survived and have led very healthy, happy and successful lives. I said a prayer for you and your daughter to have similar results.
Thank you everyone. I really appreciate it. Means a lot - every prayer and good vibe counts for lily.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your precious daughter.
Hang in there and God bless.
Sending prayers from DC...beautiful name and all the best
Praying for Lily
Praying for Lily and for your family.
She will power through.
One day and prayer at a time. I wish you and your family my best.
Keep hanging in there. She's a fighter.
Prayers from the breadbasket
I will keep her with my pray!
As a soon to be father a little girl myself (due in October)....I can't even imagine what you must be going through. Wish you and your family all the best my man. We did have a few scares at the beginning of the pregnancy, but all of the medical staff was so amazing and got us through it. It gave me a new appreciation of the field of medicine...those guys are everyday heroes. And from reading your blog, I think you'd agree.
She'll be fine! Sounds like she has a great dad/family supporting her. Hang in there!
thoughts and prayers with you and your family, AVP
As a parent myself my heart goes out to you and your family. I still remember the moment I got to look into my child's eyes - you will never, ever forget it. As a point of hope - my best friends daughter was born at 24 weeks and she is now a very healthy 6 year old that is queen bee of the kids social circle when we get together :)
I am non-religious, but I am praying for you! Remain strong even if you feel weak inside, be there for your wife.
praying for lily and all the best to you and your family
Best of luck AVP, I'm hoping for the best
Best wishes man.
Good luck!
I was quite premature and my parents talked to me a bit about their difficulties. My prayers are with you.
I hope that she gets well. wishing you and your family all the best
Praying for you and your family. Best of luck, stay strong.
Hang in there AVP. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Keeping Lily and your family in my prayers.
Thank you everyone- people all around the world are praying and wishing lily well. The blog has had about 2800 hits, from everywhere.
Lily had a good day. I'm hanging in there. Thanks for your support WSO. I appreciate the prayers, messages, and well wishes more than you know.
http://prayingforlily.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-good-day.html
I wish you the best of luck!
http://prayingforlily.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-7-one-week-mark.html
Just read the latest update. I'm glad to hear she's doing well! Sounds like a fighter, and besides that, the interwebs are on your side AVP. Tell her to keep rockin' for us!
just came across this post - my prayers are with Lily and your family AVP.
AVP- had no idea it's so recently. Wish the best for you & your family... My prayers are with Lily and hope you and your wife are holding up well.. keep us updated
Just checking in. Hope everything is still going well brother.
Just wanted to pop in- have been pretty much offline on WSO for a while for obvious reasons.
Lily is doing REALLY WELL!! I'm confident it's because of all of the good energy and prayers that are being sent her way- they are working, so please keep them coming!
Http://prayingforlily.blogspot.com
Thank you everyone for the prayers, well wishes and PMs. I try to answer all PMs, but if I have overlooked yours please accept my apologies... Tough to stay on top of them all.
The amount of support I have received from WSO has been amazing- second to Facebook, it's the second-highest referring link for the blog, which has had about 11,500 views as of this writing. It amazes me that the two groups taking the most interest in Lily's battle are a) my closest friends and family and b) total strangers from WSO.
That says something special about this community. I've never met most of you in person, yet everyone here is pulling for my kid, praying for her, or sending good vibes. They are working miracles, thank you all from the bottom of my heart. It means a lot.
AVPG
great to hear lily has been doing awesome! the picture of lily holding one of your fingers is really touching. such a little creature is battling for life and she is strong!
best wishes
Great to hear a positive update. Keep the faith...
Prayers sent man. I am married, but no kids yet. I can't even imagine going through something like this. She's a fighter that's for sure!!
AVPG,
Awesome that you are getting so much support through WSO. Keep the faith brother!
praying for her
Glad to see your kid is still going strong, hope all remains well!
Just read todays update. Really excited to hear the positive progress! And congrats to getting a sliver of normalcy in your life this weekend. Best wishes to your growing family.
AVP, you better invite me for Lily's 1st year old birthday !!!
AVP, I have a young son and can't even imagine what you are going through. Keep the faith and best wishes to you and your family. The next few years are going to be the most joyous of your life!
Glad to see things are still going well, keep up the fight Lily!
Thanks all for the prayers and well wishes. Things are beginning to look up, ever so slightly, but it's getting easier to start thinking about her coming home. Beat case, we're looking at late September.
On that note - I can't make the conference for obvious reasons, but maybe we can have a little WSO get together in the city once she comes home-- I want to thank each of you personally for your prayers and well wishes! Least I can do is buy you all a round!!
AVP, for sure, keep us updated. Great to hear things are looking up! Once she is home, feel free to make an event in NYC so all the members in town can celebrate with you :-)
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/events
This hits close to home so it's great to hear your daughter's doing well. Best of luck and keep updating your blog.
Sorry to hear about today's update, but it sounds like all-in-all she's still trucking. Keep it up, Lily!
Glad to hear! Keep on.
According to the latest update, Lily has no brain damage, which is great to hear! Keep up the fighting!
best of luck and to your daughter's good health
Prayers are with you, hope the best for your family!
Wishing the absolute best outcome for your family. Please keep us posted. Chin up.
After reading the recent bankrella thread, I really hope Lily don't go into finance.
Lily, if you're reading this, please go to med school !!!!!!!!!!!
Praying for her and for her to keep up the fight.
Prayers sent your way. She's a cutie. Hoping for the best!
Very cool to see so many people sending you and your family positive thoughts; I too will be sending tons. And that's a beautiful name...
wishing you and yours the best brother, stay strong.
Good luck! Saying a prayer for you and your daughter!
All the best man !
All the best and beyond my brother from another mother. My heart goes out to you and the family.
Glad to hear she is doing well! Precious daughter.
Great news to hear about the brain scan. Congratulations to you, your wife, and Lilly for hitting a milestone. Keep truckin' through the many more I'm sure are on the way!
Much love and best wishes from down south!
Wish you guys luck and medicinal science.
You definitely have my prayers, and I am very happy to hear that good news is coming in!
If it's worth anything my wife's sister was born under similar circumstances, I believe 4 months premature as well, and she spent many months afterwards in the hospital and her parents weren't sure what would happen to her.
She will be 30 years old this year, healthy, and has a beautiful 2 year old of her own; my nephew! Stay strong and keep us posted with the good news.
Hope someday that blog is on her facebook page and you all think back and laugh at what she's able to do in her teens that you never thought would be possible. Chin up. You got a fighter.
good luck
whish you all the luck and strength in the world your life had put you and your family on the tough challenge - it is a chance for you to rise as a human being
will send many positive thoughts to her i hope for the best
ps - congratz on the success so far
Best wishes to Lily! Great to hear she's doing well so far! From the picture, she's a fighter alright, an awfully cute one at that! Keep us updated!
My thoughts and prayers are with Lily.
I was 3 months pre-mature and went through a lot of similar experiences..stay strong and prayers for the whole family and wishes -- from Houston.
Wish the best for your daughter. Hope she feels better soon. My prayer and thoughts to your family.
Wish you, your family, and Lily all the best.
Ill definitely be sending my prayers from Denver, CO!
She'll be perfectly fine, you'll see!
Thoughts and prayers with you and the family dude. Keep fighting Lily!
Will definitely keep your daughter and family in my prayers. "If He brings you to it, He will bring you through it" Stay strong!
AVP, you are younger than I thought. Why have an avatar of an old guy? I saw your blog. From the pictures of your baby, she seems like a fighter. I think she will make it just fine. Best of wishes for your family.
All the best for you and your family!
no brain injury? YEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I closed my eyes and said a prayer; I really do wish you all the best and pray that she continues to respond well (saw the great news in your blog)
My prayers are with Lily and your family, best wishes :)
I've just read all the updates and a tear came down my chin while reading. My prayers go out to Lily and your family. She's a fighter and will pull through.
My prayers are with Lily and your family
Hoping for the best. My prayers are with Lily and your family.
i know someone who was born about 4 months premature. she literally fit into the size of her father's palm. she came out perfectly normal in the long run, no neurological or development issues. a lot of people are born premature and live long, normal lives. my friend's parents still marvel that such a small, delicate mass of flesh grew into a healthy adult, but these things do happen.
God bless her and your family.
Thoughts and prayers, good vibes, and best wishes...pressing 'SEND'.
My prayers for your little Lily and your family.
God bless you Lily. Keeping you, your wife, and your daughter in my prayers, AVP.
Lily: Origin: English - The lily is a flower symbolic of innocence, purity, and beauty.
May your daughter grow up to exemplify all of those qualities.
So sorry, AVP. This is the first I've seen of the story as I've been AWOL since we had our own baby at the end of May. He was a premie, but not nearly as early. Hang in there bro. You've made it a long way and there's absolutely nothing better than being positive and having people rooting for you. It's amazing how babies sense your feelings. You never know whats going to happen, but she has fought hard this long, so you have to continue to believe she will continue to fight.
A friend of mine is also having a difficult time with his daughter. She is a fighter too, just like Lily. Both of your girls are going to make it. They have to.
http://www.hannahmaeneedsaheart.com/default.html
Didn't know you and your girl popped out a kid, too, congrats! Best of luck to your friends as well.
Keep your head up AVP, all the best!
Hi AVP,
I have read all your blog posts and my heart goes out to you. I'm glad to see from your latest post that Lily is doing much better, she's absolutely adorable.
Also, I just wanted to share that my Aunt had her daughter at 25 weeks and my cousin went through much of the same medical issues that Lily is going through currently. Fast forward 20 years and my cousin is a pre-med student majoring in Bio-Chem with a 3.8 GPA, who received a partial athletic scholarship. She's an all around amazing young woman, just as Lily will be!
Just wanted to pop in- it's been a few months since I've been on WSO given all that's going on. But I want everyone here to know how much I appreciate your support, well wishes, and (as applicable) prayers.
The PMs I have gotten have all been so touching. The stories of hope that some of you have shared have helped tremendously, even though I've been laying low on the boards- I read the comments, and appreciate them so, so much.
As some of you already know, Lily is really doing well. We had a scare a few weeks ago with pneumonia and two collapsed lungs- but she fought through it!
The support of complete strangers has been amazing. Thank you. From the depths of my heart - I mean that - thank you.
It has been a very difficult summer but we are hopeful to bring lily home by the end of September. It will be a VERY happy day :)
Something creative- please know that I am keeping your friend, his family, and especially his daughter, in my thoughts and prayers. My heart aches for him and I wish him nothing but strength, courage, and hope.
Thank you again, WSO, for your support. The blog has had about 35,000 views now, about 5,000 of which originated from WSO. Amazing.
I hope to soon be posting a celebratory event in manhattan, where I can thank each of you personally. Plan on fall- not too far away!
Fantastic news buddy. I'm sure she's looking forward to getting home too. All the best.
just saw the recent pics - totally miracle!
Bumping this thread - if anyone's interested, his daughter is home now (check the blog). Looks like Lily won the battle.
CONGRATS!!!!
WOOHOO!!!! WAY TO GO!!!!
Best of luck AVP and Lilianna!
It has been months since I posted here. As strange as this might sounds, baby Lily came to mind this weekend and I kept thinking that I need to check the site to know how she is doing.
I am happy to know that she is home with her family and won the battle.
my thoughts are with you family
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