Why is it that time seems so fleeting? So many projects I want to get done, so many things that need tending to. Yet, I'm trying to chose the important things. I do better some days - or some moments - than others. It's always a struggle or a balancing act.
I've been choosing the last couple of days to hold onto my sweet, sick baby girl. (Or maybe she has been choosing for me that I hold on to her.) I wish I could hold onto my oldest girl a little more as she is feeling quite poorly as well. My oldest is also sick - though he doesn't mention it often. It's hard to see your children feeling badly - and hard to take care of sick ones when the ones feeling well aren't always the most helpful. LOL
A quick update and then I need to run. Things are much the same with my sick children - sore throats seem to be the main complaint. Headaches, fever (Eliana only), loss of appetite and general fatigue. I'm not sure what it is, but will be glad when it is gone.
We have had one change tonight for which I'd love prayer. Eliana's g-tube site seems to "ooze" more when she is sick. I noticed this with the salmonella and am seeing it again now. It has been especially bad today. It's different than normal in both quantity and also quality. Also, tonight there was bleeding. I hate seeing this.
I've been trying to just wait it out, hoping it would be a brief sickness. If things are unchanged by tomorrow morning though I'll call our ped. I wonder when I'll feel comfortable just letting things run their course with Eliana. She has been through so much! Having all of her body parts healed and intact will have to help some!
Trusting that God is holding my children in His arms and loving them with my arms. Giving thanks for the time that I have to hold and care for my children. We've cancelled everything thus far this week and the time to just be home has been nice. We are planning a field trip on Thursday, but will cancel that too if folks aren't better by tomorrow.
More tomorrow - or as soon as I'm able to write.
With love,
Leslie
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I just wish you peace and wellness in your whole household!! So sorry for this pesky illness...
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ReplyDeleteI was thinking of emailing you and asking about your sick children. I feel that I can empathize since we just came through this. Severe sore throats were a common denominator for everyone here, too. Slight fever on the first day. A number of the children complained of earaches, and most of them had never experienced an earache before. For my oldest daughter and I, it turned into severe sinus infections. It took a long time for everyone to get over it... half of us were sick one week and just when we were beginning to feel better, then the other half came down with it... but we still had some lingering trouble, so it overlapped some. Then, we who were sick first were well (after 2 wks?) and they who were sick second were still having some lingering trouble, when the 3 youngest ones got sick again!
"Round 2" seemed more like common colds, except Alana coughed day and night for 2 weeks. And Justin is just now getting over his coughing and congestion. I am giving him Shaklee's Defend & Resist, which is a chewable with Echinacea, Zinc, Black Elderberry, and Larch Tree extract. I crush a tablet and mix it with his food. I'm so thankful he has gotten over this without an antibiotic or prednisolone. I am fighting a thrush rash on his front diaper area, probably because he was on those 2 meds a month ago and continues to be on a mild inhaled steroid called Pulmicort. But he has to be on this to keep the passageways in his lungs open.
I, too, have been holding my baby day after day. He likes to be rocked and "thumped" on the back... it helps to quiet his coughing spells. I rock and thump and sing and pray for hours. Well, at least I shall never have regrets that I did not hold Justin more. Don't get much else done, but at least I have older ones who manage the meals and dishes and clean the kitchen and bathroom. Two areas that have gotten out of control are the laundry and the clutter. Now that Justin is feeling better, I need to declare war on the clutter, while keeping the washer and dryer busy doing one load after another.
Well, I need to get some sleep. Been thinking and praying for you. You are doing the most important job in the world! And so am I !
Love,
Anna
praying that all of you are soon well and feeling much better. and a special prayer for that sweet baby girl to bounce back real fast and not have any G-tube issues to deal with. God bless you all, aj
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