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Coco Warner ReportingFor one Biloxi, Mississippi family with Utah ties, their first babies--triplets--just happened to come into the world during this chaotic time, unfortunately, with some tragic results.
Officials at Primary Children's Hospital have been contacted about possibly taking care of two premature baby boys, who right now are in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Their mother Laura is from Sandy, and after losing one of her triplets in Biloxi and having her surviving boys evacuated from New Orleans, she just wants to come home.
Alta Swarnes is always glad to hear from her sister, especially now. Hurricane Katrina forced Laura Graham, her husband Jared and their two premature baby boys Tyson and Landon to evacuate a New Orleans Children's Hospital. The boys have since been taken to Baton Rouge.
The triplets were first born at the Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi at just 25 weeks, each weighing under two pounds. The smallest, Preston, didn't make it. And now the Grahams worry they may never recover his body.
Laura Graham, Mother: "But he's in, you know, the freezer of the basement of the hospital in their morgue, but he's in a little box, it's like a gift box-- it looks like a gift box because that's how tiny he is."
They're hoping someone will find Preston in the flooded mess and return him to his family.
Laura Graham, Mother: "We just want to be able to find Preston and you know, get him to a safe place."
In the meantime, Laura and Jared are trying to rejoin their two surviving boys in Baton Rouge. And once the boys are stable enough, they hope to come to Salt Lake City.
Alta Swarnes, Sister: “It’s been just crazy. You don’t expect these things to happen to your family.”
Laura Graham, Mother: "You think of all the things you would have grabbed or whatever, but you know, the most important thing is that our babies are alive and we have each other."
If anyone has any possible contacts to the medical center in Biloxi where Preston's remains are, the family asks you to contact them through email at altachris@hotmail.com.
