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About Me
- DevynsFight
- Florida
- Our baby boy, Devyn Costanzo, drowned in our pool on April 23rd, 2009. He was brought back to us, and has been in the PICU since then. This is our journey, fighting for Devyn to come back to us!
Prayers for Devyn in the rock garden
Friends, Family, and perfect strangers have come from all over to put prayers in stone for Devyn.
Precious Devyn
I don’t even know how to begin this. I received an email from my husband, who received it from a co-worker of his named Mitch Long. It was a very difficult email to read. I myself found my daughter at 21 months old floating in our pool. She was blue and double her size, and I could not find a pulse, so I began CPR. I was able to revive my child before emergency intervention. I don’t know how, because it was all a blur to me, but I did. While riding in the ambulance to the hospital, I begged and prayed for her to be alive and healthy. My husband and I took shifts at the hospital, but I was afraid to come home, afraid of looking at the pool, looking at the baby barrier gate & wondering HOW? I kept thinking that I was a bad mother for letting this happen to my child.
ReplyDeleteWe got the news that Olivia was going to be OK. Then 2 of the paramedics told me about a drowning prevention program, and suggested I enroll my child in it immediately. I was hesitant, because I wanted my daughter to never be around water again… A few weeks later my daughter was able to begin these lessons. They were very hard for me and my family to watch, but after 3 weeks my baby would be able to fall into a body of water and turn over and float face up until someone came to get her. It was at that moment that I heard someone whisper in my ear “This is what you need to do” but no one was around…. I realized it was god telling me that I made a promise to him while in the ambulance, I prayed and told him I would do anything if I could have her back and I had to keep it.
We are given different obstacles in our life, we can give into them and feel guilt or we can defeat them. I chose to defeat mine, I realized I was not a bad mother, her accident was just that, an accident. I took my tragedy and decided NO PARENT, GRANDPARENT, SIBLING, AUNT, UNCLE, COUSIN should never find their child the way I found mine. I have been teaching drowning prevention for 5 years now, and I am not the only instructor that decided to become one due to a tragedy. I would like to have permission to post your blog on our National Website, as well as my personal one. I have already forwarded the email that I was sent to the founder of our program Dr Harvey Barnett. I have asked him to help me find a way to sponsor the run you will be having in honor of your little boy. Please don’t give up hope, you were handed this challenge to help change the world. Your family and especially Devyn is in our prayers.
don't give up hope our family is still praying and i pray everyday i come on here cry my eyes out and pray to god to let u keep ur lil boy here with u and i hope he gives u a mircale. i love u guys and will never stop praying.
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