Month: March 2007

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” CS Lewis “But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it…

…with no place to go. Unfortunately.

We had to put Joshie back on oxygen for at least a while…he just wasn’t able to keep his blood oxygen level stable where the doctor wanted it. So he’s back on what basically is a trickle, 1/8 LPM. But he did go several hours without it. On a related note, I am apparently a…

Josh is off the oxygen, so we’ll be seeing how he does with that. We’ll also be seeing how well we can keep his nose clear without using the respiration therapist..seeing how well the bulb syringe will work. So…we may be going home as early as tomorrow.

Josh has been nursing well and fairly regularly, but there’s still congestion, and his respiration rate is still a bit higher than it should be. But things are improving, and he’s doing more of his wake time during the day, which shows that he is feeling better. He’s not been feverish for a couple days…

“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.” Rocky Balboa (in the newest and last movie) See clip below…the quote is about 1/2 way through. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIuJt7Rnuo]

While watching over Joshua, have the Animal Planet channel on with a program on about Animal EMT’s. Homeless man whose dog got hit by a car, and because he cannot afford to take her to a vet, his only choices are to turn over the dog, or for the police to be called and the…

So our own doctor was finally back in town and did rounds this morning. He’s always been very supportive of how we parent and the way we make the choices that we do…but he also is very upfront with information. And so it was with the timeline. Despite Josh improving dramatically over the last day…

During our time here, we’ve had some great nurses, some ok nurses, and some not-so-good nurses. Last night we had a situation with a nurse that was more on the latter part of that scale…she chose to do certain things without discussing with us (at one point, she was orienting a new nurse to the…