Since we had to wait many hours for a doctor to respond, the whole ordeal became even more terrifying. “All I could think about as a mother was where I went wrong,”
the mother stated, adding, “and the hospital had little knowledge or support for such a rare condition, so this added another layer of difficulty.”
The constant fear that Vercher had done something wrong throughout her pregnancy and caused her baby’s ailment was a major source of anxiety for her.
“As a mother, all I could think about was the times when I might have messed up,” she said. The mom was reassured by
the doctors after a battery of scans and tests that this problem was totally out of their hands and that they were not to blame.
