The Saaimans had a deep feeling of despair and powerlessness as the course of therapy developed and the gravity of Juwan’s illness became apparent.
“It meant the brain did not recognize the eye anymore and stopped sending signals to the eye,” Michelle said, expressing this feeling.
The eye dried out when the gel that had been shielding it vanished. Michelle became an advocate for raising awareness of the dangers of viral transmission to newborns because she was determined.
To save other families from going through the same heartache. “This is something that I’ve read a thousand times, but we’ve never really been too bothered about it — I mean,
What’s the worst that can happen, right?” she said, urging other parents to set limits around physical contact with their infants. False. I was completely mistaken.
There are two forms of HSV: HSV-1, which is mostly responsible for oral infections, and HSV-2, which usually results in genital herpes. Juwan’s case featured HSV-1,
