Barack Obama has seen a lot of difficult moments in his time as the former US President, but nothing could have prepared him for the feelings he would experience upon learning of his daughter Sasha’s devastating medical diagnosis at birth.

The politician and his spouse, Michelle, are pleased to be the parents of two grown, content, and healthy children, Malia, 25, and Sasha, 22.

But when Sasha was stricken with meningitis at the age of three months, Barack and Michelle’s world fell apart.

 “People ask me what was the hardest time in my life — they ask, well what about during the debt ceiling debate and this and that and the other thing.” Barack disclosed the diagnosis while out on the 2012 campaign trail.

“Sasha got meningitis when she was three months old. I still remember going to the hospital together and they had to give her a spinal tap.”

 

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In an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Michelle revealed that the excruciating period will also live on in her memory forever.

“I will never forget. It was a day when, you know, one hour she was fine, she was normal, she was happy, doing everything I was used to her doing and the next hour she was crying inconsolably, and that just wasn’t like her. And I did everything.”

She continued: “I tried to do – tried to feed her, tried to rock her, tried to burp her. Finally, I just thought, I need to call my pediatrician.”

The medical personnel demanded they head straight to the emergency department when she recounted Sasha’s symptoms.

“As it turned out, she had meningitis. And they had to do a spinal tap,” Michelle recalled, acknowledging that the situation might have turned out very differently if she had not had access to medical treatment.

“She turned out – obviously, as this story ends, she is fine, she’s healthy, she’s a beautiful young lady, but if we hadn’t had insurance, and access to a pediatrician, and access to a hospital where we didn’t have to worry about the cost of care.

“If we had waited overnight, if we had postponed acting, there’s no telling what the outcome would’ve been.”

 

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Thankfully, Sasha recovered completely, for which the well-known family is eternally thankful.

She and her older sister Malia reside in Los Angeles, where they are both thriving professionally and giving their parents great pride.

Michelle and Barack Obama Celebrate Daughter Malia’s Birthday with Sweet Throwback Photos: ‘Still Willing to Hold Your Dad’s Hand’

“You deserve the world and more,” Michelle wrote to her daughter on Instagram

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are celebrating their eldest daughter, who turned 26 on the Fourth of July.

Barack, 62, posted a throwback photo of a young Malia Obama holding his hand as they walked down a street to his Instagram account on Thursday, July 4.

“Happy birthday, Malia. One of the greatest joys of my life is watching you grow into the extraordinary woman you’ve become today – and the fact that you’re still willing to hold your dad’s hand in public!” the former president captioned the photo, in which Malia matched with her dad in a blue outfit and gazed up at him adoringly.

 

 

 

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Michelle, 60, went even further back into the family archives for her Instagram tribute, posting a photo of Malia beaming as a toddler while holding a stuffed bunny.

“Happy birthday, Malia! No matter how old you get, you’ll always be my little pea and I’ll always be proud of you,” Michelle captioned the photo. “You deserve the world and more. ❤️.”

Malia is a filmmaker and TV writer living with her younger sister Sasha Obama in California. While at a fundraiser for Joe Biden in Los Angeles on June 15, Barack said that neither woman will ever get into politics, per Michelle’s advice.

 

“That is a question I do not need to answer, because Michelle drilled into them so early that you would be crazy to go into politics,” Barack answered a question posed by Jimmy Kimmel about which one of his daughters would make a better U.S. president.

“It’ll never happen,” he added.

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