Just Like Mama

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Hi, I'm Hailee Louise Oxlade-Chamberlain, I'm 5 years old. My parents are Alex and Perrie Oxlade-Chamberlain and I have a little brother named Nathan Alexander Oxlade-Chamberlain who's 10 months old.

(Focused on Perrie and Hailee)
Perrie's POV: My daughter has been strugglimg with her eating lately, which is making me and Alex extremely worried since her situation is quite similar to mine at her age.
"Hai Hai, come get your din dins, princess!" Alex calls out to our daughter as I carry a fast asleep Nathan on my shoulder. Hailee appears at the table and we all sit down to eat, but then I begin to hear coughing and a loss of air from Hailee. I look over to her and notice that she's choking! I leap out of my chair, grab her and start to perform the heimlich maneuver and eventually a small piece of chicken flies out her mouth onto her plate, but what's odd is the chicken isn't big enough for her to choke on.
"Baby, are you alright?" I ask her and she just shakes her head, tear stained cheeks. "You couldn't have started choking on that small piece of chicken, maybe your tum tum don't like it?" She shrugs, nibbling on her finger.

"Let's get you some soup, little missy" I tell her, picking her up. I'm just gonna see if the soup affects her in anyway...

Spoiler alert: It did so, we are booking an appointment to the doctors to find out if Hailee has esophageal atresia.
"Now we are going to perform some tests on Hailee, if that is okay?" The doctor inquires to which I nod, approvingly.

Hailee's POV: The doctor takes me into a x-ray room and tells me to lay down on a bed, to which I do. Later, we get the results and to put it simply, my oesophagus is really small making the food lodge in my throat, causing the choking. I look up at my mama and ask, nervously "Is this fixable, mammy?"
"I know there is, darling." She replies, kissing my forehead "And there is nothing that me and dada won't do to make this better"
"So, we have to go with surgery so if you could come tommorow at 10am, we can get this done and we'll be a lot better.

The next day at surgery: I'm really scared about what's gonna happen to me in there. But then I get pulled from my thoughts when mama asks "Darling, what's on your mind?"
"I don't wanna go into school and kids making fun of me, I don't want a 'car!" I tell her, affirmatively.
"So you don't wanna be identical to mama?" She asks, making me confuzzled so she lifts her shirt and shows me a scar on her tum tum.
"Mama went through the same thing that you are, and you'll be left with this little scar." Mama reveals, making my eyes go wide. "Mama also had a tight oesophagus and the same surgery that you are gonna have."
"Will you be here when I wake?" I ask and she nods, smiling. And then soon enough, I'm whisked away into surgery that changed my entire life.

2 months later: My life is so much better after that life-changing surgery! I have the ability to eat whatever I wanr and a bonus is a cool looking scar on my tummy, identical to mammy's!

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