Teenagers go to high school prom after they were in NICU together 17 years ago in Nashville.
Two Tennessee teens — who once spent critical days together in a hospital NICU — enjoyed a fairytale ending when they attended a high school prom after staying in touch for 17 years.
Horton, who has been with the hospital for 23 years, was a bedside nurse at that time and remembers caring for Tatum Kelly, she said. “It had been a long journey. And when I found out I was expecting Leighton, you can imagine the overwhelming joy. But I was just really sick. And I was so concerned about them taking him early and that he wasn’t going to make it. We’d already been through so much with trying to have a baby.”“I think for a lot of us as mothers, you grow up and think about being a mom and what that’s going to be like and what you’re going to name your babies,” she noted.
Long said she believes God brought her and Kelly to one another so that they could comfort each other —“We gave each other gifts, we prayed a lot together and, you know, we shared a lot of ups and downs together,” Long said. Tatum Kelly wasn’t far behind and was able to go home shortly after Leighton Long did — and the Kelly and Long families stayed in touch from then on.
Leighton Long said he still has a stuffed camel he got during an outing to the Knoxville Zoo with his pal.
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