LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas mom is grateful for a Southern Hills Hospital nurse who stepped as much as assist her and her child after they wanted it most.
8 Information Now sat down with Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley, as they returned to the place the place they confronted the very worst and received.
“He really has been such a little miracle boy,” Hillstead stated about her son.
At eight months previous, Bentley is a cheerful, wholesome child, however in September, he was born untimely, weighing only one pound and eight ounces.
“The fear that I had when he was first born,” Hillstead recalled. “Was just really unexplainable.”
Hillstead stated Bentley’s months-long keep within the neonatal intensive care unit at Southern Hills Hospital was a scary and difficult course of.
“It was just us against the world basically,” Hillstead stated. “And the nurses were just there for us.”
Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley, reuniting with Southern Hills Hospital NICU Registered Nurse Mia Hernaez (Courtesy of Nicci Hillstead)
Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley, reuniting with Southern Hills Hospital NICU Registered Nurse Mia Hernaez (Courtesy of Nicci Hillstead)
Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley (Courtesy of Nicci Hillstead)
Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley (Courtesy of Nicci Hillstead)
Nicci Hillstead and her son, Bentley (Courtesy of Nicci Hillstead)
The nurses within the NICU unit have been there for the household after they wanted it most, by Bentley’s therapy and even after he was discharged.
“Bentley and I and my daughter, we were looking for a stable place,” Hillstead defined. “Just to get me back on my feet.”
Hillstead informed 8 Information Now she needed to take go away from her job to take care of Bentley, so she was searching for a steady place for her household to remain. One nurse particularly went the additional mile and made a very beneficiant provide.
“Whatever I could do,” Southern Hills Hospital NICU Registered Nurse Mia Hernaez stated. “What I was able to provide is what I did at the time.”
Hernaez opened her dwelling to Hillstead, her daughter, and Bentley, permitting them to stick with her till they obtained again on their ft.
“She took care of me at the time, too. I feel that I also needed her at the time,” Hernaez stated. “I needed a friend and she was there for me too.”
It was a scenario nobody anticipated, however each girls informed 8 Information Now they’ve now modified endlessly.
“A hundred times over I would do it again,” Hernaez stated. “If it means saving another life.”
They each stated it was an expertise and true friendship they would not commerce for the world.
“Maybe it was fate for us to meet each other,” Hillstead concluded.
Bentley remains to be on minor oxygen eight months after his untimely start, however Hillstead informed 8 Information Now they’re slowly weaning him off of it.
Hillstead and her household now have a spot of their very own, however she stated she and Hernaez will all the time be household.
