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Tracy Hermanstorfer kisses her newborn son, Coltyn, Monday, at a hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo.
DENVER – Mike Hermanstorfer was clutching his pregnant wife’s hand in a Colorado hospital on Christmas Eve when she stopped breathing, her life apparently slipping away. Then he cradled his newborn son’s limp body seconds after a medical team delivered the baby by Cesarean section.
Minutes later he saw his son show signs of life in his arms under the feverish attention of doctors, and soon he learned his wife had inexplicably started breathing again.
“My legs went out from underneath me,” Hermanstorfer said Tuesday. “I had everything in the world taken from me, and in an hour and a half I had everything given to me.” More.
Nothing better than a happy ending, even if they had to mangle the spelling of the baby’s name. What’s the best news you’ve heard this week?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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sue on December 30 at 6:39 p.m.
Loved this beautiful story, for it’s own sake. Good news? Having my 2 grandchildren here, even if my 3 yr old granddaughter gave me a whopping black eye—accidentally, of course. My mother said it was cute, but really it’s not.
florined on December 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Sue, pictures? Cindy set the standard, so now we want to see your shiner, plz.
Cindy_H on December 30 at 7:36 p.m.
I showed my pics to the world Sue…
Just saying….
sue on December 30 at 8:05 p.m.
I’ve never shown my mug here, and now you want it with a big ugly black eye? Hey, how about that miracle birth as noted up above?
Cindy_H on December 30 at 8:09 p.m.
Not the whole mug….Just the black eye!
You know…for comparison’s sake.