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In January our youngest son was hospitalized with RSV, so I scrapbooked it just to remember our emotions and how we knew that God held our son in His hands and brought us through it all!
The journaling is a email I sent out after we got home as well as the hynm All the way my Savior leads me It reads:
Thank you all for your prayers, we are home.. and we can still use a lot of prayer. I am more tired than I ever thought anybody could possibly be. I've had only a handful of hours of sleep since Wed. night. I don't really think it's going to get much better for the time being either. Carter J is doing pretty good here at home on the oxygen tank, we don't have monitors here at home to watch his O2 levels though, so one of us is going to have to sit up awake with him through the night tonight. Chris has to go back to work tomorrow.. he's already behind in vacation time from when we had Carter, he can't afford any time off at all and we've already taken last Friday while we were in the ER. I'm a little worried about all the logistics of how things will work tomorrow, but I'm so tired I'm not spending much time contemplating it.
The Lord has been so faithful and so good through everything, there have been several ways I've seen His hand on everything. Thursday morning Chris took Carter into the doctors office and they said he had RSV and sent him home with a nebulizer. I did the treatments throughout the day but he still seemed pretty bad.. Then around 11 that night he was sounding really bad so I took him back and layed him down on my bed, when I did this I noticed that his face looked really blue around his lips I scooped him up and he felt warm so I check for a fever and he had one.. My thought was that he had a secondary infection since rsv doesn't come with a fever. This was blessing number one, the fever scared us enough to take him to the ER. When we got there the Dr told me that if we hadn't brought him in, he probably wouldn't have made it through the night.
the ER was really busy and really full, the dr told us it would probably take until 9 the next morning before we could be admitted to a hospital because all the pediatric beds were full in the entire city. (we where told that at about 3am) Well, the Dr we had was a one in a million doctor, he really cared about us, he even offered to make us a pot of coffee himself!! He himself tracked down a rocking chair and brought it to me in the triage area. Then a little later a room in the ER opened up, it was nothing more than a glorified closet, but little did we know at that time what a blessing that room was going to be, we ended up being in the ER for a total of about 28 hours.
It was very hard for me not to get caught up in the trauma of the other patients that came and went.. My heart just ached for the moms and dads going through what we were.. I cried so much I had no tears left to cry for them and for us.
Friday I decided that I just had to get out of the ER after a VERY bad episode with Carter, he was doing really badly and the doctor scared me with other horror storys about similar situations. My entire drive home I just cried and sobbed, pleading with the Lord not to take my baby from me. I got home to find happy kids, a clean house and my dear friend Marcy who calmed me, hugged me and got me a nice hot cup of Chai.. What a blessing she was to me, as well as my mom, Matthew and Jennifer, Karen and several other women who just jumped to the care of my family so Chris and I could focus our attention on Carter J.
Late Friday night they came in and told us they had a room for us at a hospital about 3 hours away in Farmington.. Chris began to fall apart as did I, until yet another friend of ours Parr, came to the hospital with the first food we'd had all day and she prayed with us and held Carter while we were able to get a few bites to eat. When she prayed, God filled my heart with so much peace I will never be able to describe it at all.. I just kept hearing in my heart, "God is in control" and I clung to that through the next hours as they came in and told us that hospital had rejected us and that they now had a bed for us in Denver about 6 1/2 hours away. I never stressed about that at all, I just sat back and remembered that God is in control..
I sat there and fed Carter a bottle, and prayed for a few hours.. About various things, about people in the ER with us, our family, our friends you name it.. Then, God showed me once again that He is in control! The Doctor came in and told me that a hospital about 10 mins away had a bed free and then she left! We had a hospital room!! About an hour later the Ambulance arrived and Carter and I headed to UNM Hospital and Chris followed in the car.
What a change from the loud emotional ER, to arrive at about 3am in our very own quiet little room.. And what a blessing to have the real care that Carter needed! Gradually he began to get a little better with less and less episodes of his O2 dropping.. we stayed there for two days and then today he was good enough to come home..
He is still not out of the woods, he is still pretty sick, but well enough that we can be here as a family again.. I can't tell you how my heart ached to be with my boys!!
While we were there we were continually hearing of those who were praying for our baby Carter J and it warmed our hearts, Marcy brought me scrapbooking magazines that just provided an incredible distraction for me, and gave me plenty of good idea's to work on once we're back to normal! I can't tell what a relief those magazines provided!!
Anyway, all of that to share with you how Faithful God is, He was with us every moment, from the time that He gave Carter J a fever so that we would go ahead and take him in to the ER down to the fact that he had a hospital bed all prepared for him. Though there were moments when it seemed so hopeless, so doomed yet God was ever present in reminding us that He is in Control and that nothing that happens shocks Him. The verses He gave to me, to my heart...
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or stow away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:25-27 really that whole passage...
So again, I just want to thank everybody for their prayers! It was an unbelievable thing to know that so many of our dear loved ones were on their knees for us during all of this.
Consider it pure joy my brothers when ever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance . Perseverance must finish it's work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. -James 1:2-4
All the way my savior leads me;
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,
Who thro' life has been my guide?
Heav'nly peace divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know whate'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know whate'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well; All the way my Savior leads me;
Cheers each winding path I tread,
Gives me grace for ev'ry trial,
Feeds me with the living bread;
Tho' my weary steps may falter,
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! a spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! a spring of joy I see;
All the way, my Savior leads me;
Oh, the fullness of His love!
Perfect rest to me is promised
In my Father's house above:
When my spirit, clothed immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day,
This my song thro' endless ages:
Jesus led me all the way;
This my song thro' endless ages:
Jesus led me all the way;
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