Update and thanksgiving

I have spent so many hours at the hospital over the past few days…  If I haven’t commented on your blog, it’s because I haven’t consumed with all kinds of baby-get-better business. I have been able to sneak in some reads though, to pass long hours in waiting rooms while the child slept fitfully on me.

She had her IV access removed yesterday, and she’s now on oral meds (which are making her almost as sick as the illness itself – she has vomiting and diarrhea and is totally zombied-out). Her fever still hasn’t gone away completely and it worries me. But I know she’s getting better, little by little.

I haven’t been able to work, and when I don’t work I don’t get paid… So that’s been a bit of a worry. But I have had Faith, because I’ve been down too many times and seen God’s grace so many times that I just know everything is going to be fine. Today when I opened the mailbox – tax refund. (Thank you God!)

I’ve seen His grace so many times this week. Like yesterday when I was so worried about the baby, I forgot I never even had anything to eat or drink all day. My husband had spent most of the day with me in the waiting room and had just left to go get the kids from school. That’s when I realized how thirsty I was. And there wasn’t a water-cooler, and the vending machine was broken, and I couldn’t leave in case they called our name. So I made up my mind to wait it out. Then this baby came in with asthma and was rushed into the emergency room accompanied by her mother. Her uncle waited outside. It turns out that he is a hospital employee, and he’d go back to his office and then come back to check in on them periodically. On one of those trips he brought back a bottle of juice for me from the vending machine. He said he knew I’d been waiting a while and didn’t know how much longer I might have to wait. God sends His angels!

I am thankful that all our medication and hospital care was free, our doctors were kind and knowledgeable and that I was able to spend the time with my sick child without having to hear about where Family should be in my list of priorities.

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