Our foster boy and I just spent the last three days at Emmanuel Children's Hospital. He has RSV and compounded with his asthma it created a bad situation. The good news is that if we had to be at a hospital, that one is amazing. They have toys, games, a great lady that comes around to sooth the children by singing and playing her guitar and harp, Santa with presents, etc. Make a Wish foundation came the day we were discharged to help Nate pick out presents for everyone living at his house with him. It was incredible.
The bad news is that he is on his asthma meds every four hours for a week or two. And he is on prednisone, a steroid, until March. The energizer bunny now lives at our house. Like a two year old needs any help in the energy departmen! That being said, we are so glad to be back home. I gained a great appreciation for people who have to spend weeks or months in the hospital. I will be much more compassionate in the future.
The other children were happy to have Dad in charge at home. They had sleepovers, pizza, and other things because he is a cool dad. I was just glad to have something to clean. I actually asked the nurse at the hospital if I could empty garbages or something. It was boring to just sit in the hospital room.
Hope you are all getting ready for a great CHristmas. We here in Portland have a TON of snow. They cancelled school almost all this last week and they may even cancel church tomorrow. Our city just doesn't know what to do with so much white wet stuff. Sarah is thrilled and can't wait for our family to go build a snowman. (Ever tried to motivate teenagers to go out in snow on purpose?)
Well, prednisone boy is on the run so I will go chase him and write another post later.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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