Callie Brooke Roemmich

Tuesday, June 12th, my pregnant wife, Ashley, who was expecting our second child, Callie Brooke, was involved in a front end crash with a drunk driver on her way home from work. She was rushed to the hospital where she had an emergency c section. Callie Brooke was born at 36 weeks at 10:31 pm weighing 6 pounds and would have been a perfectly healthy baby if it weren't for the traumatic injuries to her body. Ashley was hit so hard that the placenta separated from her uterus causing mom and baby to lose significant blood. They baby that had a perfect heartbeat earlier that day at a scheduled OB appointment was now without a detectable heartbeat. Callie was deprived of oxygen when this happened and after her c section, they spent 11 minutes giving her chest compressions to restart her tiny heart. She was resuscitated and under the care of 2 physicians and her pediatric physician who called Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Angel Flight came to get her and that's when we were finally able to see our daughter for the first time, enclosed in a flight incubator attached to so many tubes and equipment that we could barely see the side of her face before they took her away. They told us her injuries were life threatening and we had to prepare ourselves that she might not pull through. 
  Callie was flown away while my wife and I awaited for my wife to be discharged so we could get to our daughter. We hurried down the next day to Children's, about 3 hours away and found our precious baby girl in the NICU. The update was grim. They told us she had not regained consciousness, she had extreme oxygen deprivation, she had lost and been infused over and over with blood products, she was having seizures, and her kidneys could not work due to the blood loss. We had planned to stay until she healed but early that morning we were awakened by nurses to come quickly. Her little heart had stopped beating and we watched them do chest compressions to revive her.  They then told us that her little body had so much trauma that she couldn't take any more treatment and the doctors recommended stopping all life support and let her go peacefully. We spent her last final hours getting to hold her, kiss her, and surround her with love until she died in our arms. 
   We both have missed work and we are in need of money to cover funeral costs, a headstone and our loss of work. We would appreciate your help and continued prayers for strength.