, /PRNewswire/ -- On a greeting successful May 2004, Rajeev Dixit, M.D., a neonatologist successful the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) astatine Edward Hospital successful Naperville, Ill., received a telephone from the Emergency Room that an ambulance brought successful a babe calved unexpectedly astatine home.

Dr. Dixit and Angela Stephenson, RN, rushed to the ER and brought the babe to the NICU. All they knew was the babe miss had a faint heartbeat and was acold erstwhile she arrived astatine the hospital.

Adrianne Noworul of Naperville, Ill. poses with her daughter, Alyssa Noworul and Rajeev Dixit, M.D., a neonatologist astatine Edward Hospital successful Naperville, astatine Alyssa's graduation from Benet Academy successful Lisle, Ill. Dr. Dixit cared for Alyssa successful the Newborn Intensive Care Unit and has inspired her to prosecute a vocation successful medicine.

Adrianne Noworul of Naperville, Ill. poses with her daughter, Alyssa Noworul and Rajeev Dixit, M.D., a neonatologist astatine Edward Hospital successful Naperville, astatine Alyssa's graduation from Benet Academy successful Lisle, Ill. Dr. Dixit cared for Alyssa successful the Newborn Intensive Care Unit and has inspired her to prosecute a vocation successful medicine.

The accidental that Dr. Dixit was the attending neonatologist that time led to life-altering events and a imaginable vocation successful medicine for the present 18-year-old woman, Alyssa Noworul.

"Dr. Dixit is 1 of the astir important radical successful my life. He saved my life, truthful everything I yet bash is due to the fact that of what helium did," says Alyssa. "I emotion visiting him connected my day and talking with him and his family. He adjacent made clip to be my precocious schoolhouse graduation. He isn't conscionable immoderate doc who took attraction of maine 18 years ago, helium is my relation model."

Beyond expectations

Alyssa spent 4 weeks successful the NICU, progressing dilatory from her traumatic commencement to a steadfast newborn.

Alyssa's mom, Adrianne Noworul, was 20 astatine the time.

"I retrieve the unit being truthful bully and answering each the questions we had. Alyssa was calved connected a Thursday and was not expected to marque it done the weekend," Adrianne says. "We had her baptized connected time three. Eventually, Alyssa began responding to attraction and got better.

"Even arsenic a small 1 she was a thinker and occupation solver," Adrianne says, describing Alyssa arsenic her miracle.

Moving forward

Alyssa is present a freshman astatine the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring successful science and moving toward a vocation successful medicine.

"Ever since spending clip with Dr. Dixit and visiting the NICU, I've thought astir going into the aesculapian field," Alyssa says. "Because I person specified a large relation exemplary successful the aesculapian field, I decided connected aesculapian school."

"The beingness sometimes presents america with opportunities to interact with definite people. Alyssa is simply a singular young pistillate and I person been privileged to ticker her thrive successful each signifier of her life," says Dr. Dixit.

Learn much astatine EEHealth.org.

SOURCE Edward-Elmhurst Health