Hit-and-run shatters dreams
March 1, 2011 - Lynette Venezia was walking on air Monday morning when she left Mercy Hospital.
Doctors had just given her a clean bill of health. She was five months' pregnant, and though in a high-risk category because of her age, the 44-year-old mother and her baby were doing well.
In explaining what had brought them to Mercy Hospital, Venezia said that because his wife has lupus, an auto-immune disease, smokes cigarettes and is 44 years old, her obstetrician-gynecologist insisted on a cardio stress test.
"We'd just left the hospital and Lynette was so excited she called her mother and was telling her she was doing well, when all of a sudden the truck hit her," Venezia said.
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Updated: June 6, 2011 - Lynette Venezia delivered by Caesarean section a 4-pound, 4-ounce girl just after 8:30 Monday morning, her husband told The Buffalo News.
Destiny, who was born at 33 weeks, probably will have to remain in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit for up to a month to give her time to get bigger and for her organs to develop more, Venezia said.
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