Hi, everyone
Sorry I haven't been able to be on here much. My sweet little grandson was taken into the hospital on Monday. He has what they call RSV which is a respiratory virus that really attacks children under 2. He has a 100 to 101 fever (which isn't too high) but he was coughing like crazy (so he couldn't rest) and he couldn't keep anything down including medication to help with the coughing. He was starting to dehydrate and get dark circles under those precious blue eyes and his smile was gone. The doctor saw him on Friday and said if he didn't improve or if he got worse he wanted to see him again on Monday. When I saw him on Sunday night I felt certain the doctor would probably want to admit him because by that point nothing....nothing was staying in and he was breathing about 60 times a minute very hard. It was scary. I even thought my daughter and her husband might end up taking him to the ER on Sunday night. He's improving in the hospital. he has an IV and is on a low amount of oxygen. He was smiling some thing afternoon and playing a bit, BUT he wasn't doing as well as evening approached. Please keep him in your prayers. Thanks so much!
Love,
Susan
Susan
It sometimes seems like it never ends ,doesnt it??
If it makes you feel any better, I have a co-worker whose 2- 10 week old grandkids(twins) were brought to the hospital with the same symptoms & virus that you discribed. RSV. They were kept 4-5 days. IV and all kinds of hospital stuff that I know nothing about and thank God 1 came home yesterday and the other little guy is out of the woods and should be coming home in the next day or 2
Hell they are only 2 1/2 months old - he was terrified and just came back to work today with the good news.
Im sure everything will be ok.
muchlove&prayers
jack
It sometimes seems like it never ends ,doesnt it??
If it makes you feel any better, I have a co-worker whose 2- 10 week old grandkids(twins) were brought to the hospital with the same symptoms & virus that you discribed. RSV. They were kept 4-5 days. IV and all kinds of hospital stuff that I know nothing about and thank God 1 came home yesterday and the other little guy is out of the woods and should be coming home in the next day or 2
Hell they are only 2 1/2 months old - he was terrified and just came back to work today with the good news.
Im sure everything will be ok.
muchlove&prayers
jack
Thanks for the encouraging words, Jack. My nephew had twin boys born prematurely and their doctors advised them to get some kind of shots that cost $900 for each (covered by medical insurance, thank God!) to prevent them from getting RSV because it can be deadly to those born prematurely from what I was told. I'm glad they're improving! I'll keep them in my prayers as well.
Hope things have calmed down in your life!
Love,
Susan
Hope things have calmed down in your life!
Love,
Susan
I got in to see him tonight. He was so cute! He sat in his crib and played peek-a-boo with me and smiled his beautiful smile. It made me feel so much better just to see that smile back! Unfortunately, he's still needing the oxygen so he won't be going home until that changes. He is keeping his food down very well now, and the nurse said his lungs sound much better, but for some reason he's running fever again.
Please keep the prayers coming. His sister Rebekah ( 2 1/2 years old) was really sick with it today. She wouldn't eat anything! I'm babysitting her all day tomorrow because her daddy has to go back to work.
Love,
Susan
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Please keep the prayers coming. His sister Rebekah ( 2 1/2 years old) was really sick with it today. She wouldn't eat anything! I'm babysitting her all day tomorrow because her daddy has to go back to work.
Love,
Susan
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Susan, i will def keep you and your grandchildren in my prayers..........So many children seem to be diagnosed with this lately........and not only premature ones....in the past mnth i have heard of 5 babies with this, and b4 last yr had never heard of it at all..........
My daughter is pregnant with my first grandchild, and already I am in worry mood. she miscarried her last pregnancy, but all seems to be going ok so far....I am so excited, but also realize that being a mom begins a life of worry, and apparently also new worries for the "grandmom" <or as bryn calls me "glamma" :-).........
My daughter is pregnant with my first grandchild, and already I am in worry mood. she miscarried her last pregnancy, but all seems to be going ok so far....I am so excited, but also realize that being a mom begins a life of worry, and apparently also new worries for the "grandmom" <or as bryn calls me "glamma" :-).........
Hi, everyone!
Thanks so much for your replies and prayers. HE'S HOME!!!!! :)
His sister Rebekah woke up this morning and walked to the cabinet for cereal. Looks like they're improving. My other 3-year old granddaughter is a day or two behind. She's calling me now!
Love,
Susan
Thanks so much for your replies and prayers. HE'S HOME!!!!! :)
His sister Rebekah woke up this morning and walked to the cabinet for cereal. Looks like they're improving. My other 3-year old granddaughter is a day or two behind. She's calling me now!
Love,
Susan
Susan, That was quick......I wanted to reply to you last....so it would be the FIRST post.
Oh that's good news.........your such a great grandmom......yes, like Tres said we keep hearing about little ones with this........awful thing.
Cereal eating........that's a sure sign.......getting better.
I'm glad everyone is fairing better.......I'm telling you Susan.......what don't go on in your life.........you're a strong woman......I am proud to know you.
Oh, and BTW yes our GLAMA is a nervous wreck......we saw the ultrasound of the GRAND........I mean cute........I just know it......I study bone structure...I really do in them things.......Tres is all like WHAT?.......oh yeah I tell her LOOK at the bone structure, lady...........this kid is going to be nothing short of a Heidi Klum or a Male underwear model........I can not wait because we get to dress this kid up........I do a mean bow/sock/outfit matching at all times.
Oh that's good news.........your such a great grandmom......yes, like Tres said we keep hearing about little ones with this........awful thing.
Cereal eating........that's a sure sign.......getting better.
I'm glad everyone is fairing better.......I'm telling you Susan.......what don't go on in your life.........you're a strong woman......I am proud to know you.
Oh, and BTW yes our GLAMA is a nervous wreck......we saw the ultrasound of the GRAND........I mean cute........I just know it......I study bone structure...I really do in them things.......Tres is all like WHAT?.......oh yeah I tell her LOOK at the bone structure, lady...........this kid is going to be nothing short of a Heidi Klum or a Male underwear model........I can not wait because we get to dress this kid up........I do a mean bow/sock/outfit matching at all times.
Dear Bryn,
When you see your precious 7 1/2 month old baby grandson with an IV and oxygen canula (sp?) 4 days seems like an eternity! I'm just thankful he's doing so well again and that the girls are on the upswing.
I just had a talking with God today and told Him that I know he says he will never give us more than we can handle, but come on...this is enough. I am truly sick of all this drama in my life. A little normal would be WONDERFUL!
Thanks for all the kind words though. :)
Love,
Susan
When you see your precious 7 1/2 month old baby grandson with an IV and oxygen canula (sp?) 4 days seems like an eternity! I'm just thankful he's doing so well again and that the girls are on the upswing.
I just had a talking with God today and told Him that I know he says he will never give us more than we can handle, but come on...this is enough. I am truly sick of all this drama in my life. A little normal would be WONDERFUL!
Thanks for all the kind words though. :)
Love,
Susan
Susan
Without trying to sound like Im questioning the statemant"[B]He never gives us more than we can handle"- I,ve always had a issue with that.- Different people have different tolerances,and different breaking points.
If we believe God gives us the strength to handle these burdens, as they get heavier and heavier - I guess He means ,it shouldnt matter if the end results are good or bad(to our liking or not) we will be able to handle them.
So if things go bad in life,and we dont like, or dont understand the end results to all our sufferings- we should know it will be OK because God doesnt give us more than we can handle.- ??
Sorry,for bothering you with my questions , especially during this time-regardless of my questions(fears??) I do pray for you & yours
love
jack
Without trying to sound like Im questioning the statemant"[B]He never gives us more than we can handle"- I,ve always had a issue with that.- Different people have different tolerances,and different breaking points.
If we believe God gives us the strength to handle these burdens, as they get heavier and heavier - I guess He means ,it shouldnt matter if the end results are good or bad(to our liking or not) we will be able to handle them.
So if things go bad in life,and we dont like, or dont understand the end results to all our sufferings- we should know it will be OK because God doesnt give us more than we can handle.- ??
Sorry,for bothering you with my questions , especially during this time-regardless of my questions(fears??) I do pray for you & yours
love
jack
Dear Jack,
Thanks so much for your prayers! You can be assured of mine too for you and Sandy.
I GUESS what it is meaning is that we can get through anything because the "we" is Him and us and He will help us get through it. I just know for myself like I've had enough bad things for a while. It would be nice to be stress free just for a few days.
My sister and I have spent most of our waking hours (when our family hasn't needed us) at my mom's house sorting through and packing things because her condo has sold and it has to be empty by this Thursday. It is so emotionally exhausting to do this. Thank God I have my sister to do it with. It would be very depressing to do alone! The hardest thing has been going through her clothes and it's an even longer process because we have to check each and every pocket because of her dementia. Also, we had to leaf through each of her books and check every nook and cranny of everything because she stashed things everywhere. I found $30 stashed inside a VHS box. My dad was also very clever at hiding money so heaven knows if we found all that! He used to tape a lot of movies from TV, and he took one, marked it "Wheel of Fortune", gutted it, marked it damaged - do not use, and hid money in it. I cleaned out her dressers a while back and there was everything imaginable in those drawers...kitchen stuff, cards, gifts, misc. household, etc. I had to do it in two days because of sorting through it all! The dementia has made it a very long, drawn out process!
We were blessed though that the condo sold 3 days after we put a "Sale by Owner" sign on it. We didn't even have to pay to advertise it or anything! It has pushed us to get these difficult tasks done.
If anyone else has any ideas about the the claim about not getting more than we can handle, I'd appreciate your wisdom! I keep telling God that enough is enough!
Love,
Susan
Thanks so much for your prayers! You can be assured of mine too for you and Sandy.
I GUESS what it is meaning is that we can get through anything because the "we" is Him and us and He will help us get through it. I just know for myself like I've had enough bad things for a while. It would be nice to be stress free just for a few days.
My sister and I have spent most of our waking hours (when our family hasn't needed us) at my mom's house sorting through and packing things because her condo has sold and it has to be empty by this Thursday. It is so emotionally exhausting to do this. Thank God I have my sister to do it with. It would be very depressing to do alone! The hardest thing has been going through her clothes and it's an even longer process because we have to check each and every pocket because of her dementia. Also, we had to leaf through each of her books and check every nook and cranny of everything because she stashed things everywhere. I found $30 stashed inside a VHS box. My dad was also very clever at hiding money so heaven knows if we found all that! He used to tape a lot of movies from TV, and he took one, marked it "Wheel of Fortune", gutted it, marked it damaged - do not use, and hid money in it. I cleaned out her dressers a while back and there was everything imaginable in those drawers...kitchen stuff, cards, gifts, misc. household, etc. I had to do it in two days because of sorting through it all! The dementia has made it a very long, drawn out process!
We were blessed though that the condo sold 3 days after we put a "Sale by Owner" sign on it. We didn't even have to pay to advertise it or anything! It has pushed us to get these difficult tasks done.
If anyone else has any ideas about the the claim about not getting more than we can handle, I'd appreciate your wisdom! I keep telling God that enough is enough!
Love,
Susan
Oh I have something on that, Susan.
First though I am so thankful your Grand is O.K. I love when people just use the words "My grands". Ohhhhhhhh, the pain of seeing the poor baby doll like that. It had to break your heart. Alas, he's doing well though. Amen.
O.K. that saying "He doesn't give us anymore than we can handle". You won't like this Susan, but I must speak the truth. What I think it means is "You better just deal with WHATEVER happens to you because you have no choice, and if you think God is divvying that out well then he shouldn't hand ya no problems".
Lord forgive me. Am I downer or what? It's a mindset though. My neighbor has her husband paralyzed and her son was born with ASL I think it is. Kid in a wheelchair and hubby in wheelchair. Her dad is the nicest man ever and suffer?
See, she handles it because too bad for her if she don't. She HAS to.
I better go to confession. I know FAITH i so important, and oh I am one who calls up there to The Blessed Mother straight on when I am in big trouble. I taught my daughter to go to her cause she's a mom. Nevermind that's wrong.
Still, yeah I pray for others, but not ME.
Thanks for listening. I don't know if Jack will feel that's right or not either. I had NUNS!!!!!!!!!! We had to write JMJ on the top of every single test and paper. You best believe and listen cause the good Sisters would beat your tail.
Seriously, I was thinking of looking to go into the convent. I wanted to be a nun for like forever. Could ya see me in the convent? OH BOY!!!!!!!!
First though I am so thankful your Grand is O.K. I love when people just use the words "My grands". Ohhhhhhhh, the pain of seeing the poor baby doll like that. It had to break your heart. Alas, he's doing well though. Amen.
O.K. that saying "He doesn't give us anymore than we can handle". You won't like this Susan, but I must speak the truth. What I think it means is "You better just deal with WHATEVER happens to you because you have no choice, and if you think God is divvying that out well then he shouldn't hand ya no problems".
Lord forgive me. Am I downer or what? It's a mindset though. My neighbor has her husband paralyzed and her son was born with ASL I think it is. Kid in a wheelchair and hubby in wheelchair. Her dad is the nicest man ever and suffer?
See, she handles it because too bad for her if she don't. She HAS to.
I better go to confession. I know FAITH i so important, and oh I am one who calls up there to The Blessed Mother straight on when I am in big trouble. I taught my daughter to go to her cause she's a mom. Nevermind that's wrong.
Still, yeah I pray for others, but not ME.
Thanks for listening. I don't know if Jack will feel that's right or not either. I had NUNS!!!!!!!!!! We had to write JMJ on the top of every single test and paper. You best believe and listen cause the good Sisters would beat your tail.
Seriously, I was thinking of looking to go into the convent. I wanted to be a nun for like forever. Could ya see me in the convent? OH BOY!!!!!!!!
Dear Bryn,
I don't think God does anything to hurt us. Most of our pain comes from the bad choices we make or the bad choices of people around us. God gave us a free will and he won't take that from us. Innocent people, however, suffer the consequences of others who make bad choices. For instance, many people are killed in car accidents as a result of a drunk driver. Just my opinion.
We had to write the JMJ on our papers with a + over it. I never got spanked in school but I did witness a few students who did. My mom said MANY were spanked in her day.
As far as thinking about being a nun...that wasn't going to happen. I was crazy about the opposite sex I think from the day I was born! Before I was even in school I paid the neighborhood boy 1 penny to slow down on the swing and 2 pennies to kiss me. I also got caught kissing a boy named Paul in kindergarten. lol I don't think the convent would have survived either of us!
Love,
Susan
I don't think God does anything to hurt us. Most of our pain comes from the bad choices we make or the bad choices of people around us. God gave us a free will and he won't take that from us. Innocent people, however, suffer the consequences of others who make bad choices. For instance, many people are killed in car accidents as a result of a drunk driver. Just my opinion.
We had to write the JMJ on our papers with a + over it. I never got spanked in school but I did witness a few students who did. My mom said MANY were spanked in her day.
As far as thinking about being a nun...that wasn't going to happen. I was crazy about the opposite sex I think from the day I was born! Before I was even in school I paid the neighborhood boy 1 penny to slow down on the swing and 2 pennies to kiss me. I also got caught kissing a boy named Paul in kindergarten. lol I don't think the convent would have survived either of us!
Love,
Susan
Susan
Im rolling up my pennies right now !!!
lovejack
Im rolling up my pennies right now !!!
lovejack
Hi Susan, I'm glad your grandson is much better now. One worry off your mind, anyway! And as for the God giving us only what we can handle. Well, firstly I'm not sure that the trials and tribulations of life have much to do with God at all. Obviously, some people do get more crap than they can handle. People take their own lives every day. But like Bryn says, you've got to handle it coz you got no choice. Either you sink or you swim. I my experience of life, I sort of look back on my darkest hours as a kind of blessing. Pain is an education. You learn far more about yourself and the best ways of handling things from having to deal with bad times, than you do from the good times. And I find that coming through bad times has given me a lot of inner peace. So although when we are being tested, and it can feel unfair, unjustified, random and cruel at the time, we don't see the blessing, we don't get the reward until we have come through it and can look back on it, and feel that bit more assured of our strength, and feel that inner peace. Basically, we don't get to see the bigger picture until later. Until we've learned the lessons of our pain. Sometimes that lesson is very obscure, and we can be very unwilling to accept it, but each time we do, it ties up a loose end, and resolves an inner conflict. Sometimes we have to be extraordinarily humble. And humility is a lesson in itself.
Some friends of my family lost their 24 year old daughter to cancer last year. My heart truely bled for them, and I cried many tears myself. It upsets me now just to think about their pain, and the grace with which they carried. But even with such a crushing tragedy I believe there are lessons, and I think it would be an honour to their beautiful daughter if they opened their hearts to those lessons. They are a very wealthy family with quite right wing and materialistic values. Money bought them every luxury, but it couldn't buy them the only thing they really wanted. Money does not make you immune from anything.
I dunno, I feel like I'm crossing a barrier I don't really want to. I don't want to lecture anybody about things like that. I'm still searching for the inner peace right now. I've been out this afternoon and when I got home he wasn't here. I rang him and he said that he'd be home in about half an hour. I asked him where he was. At first he didn't answer, so I asked him again. On the beach, he said. Then he just hung up. That's when I realised the van was out front, and his bike was by the back door. And I suddenly noticed the two half drunk cups of coffee by the sink. So he was on the beach with someone, someone who'd been here drinking coffee with him before they left, someone who'd driven him there. And I felt my stomach instantly tie itself in a knot. I need to find my peace, coz I hate feeling like this...
love
Diff xxx
Some friends of my family lost their 24 year old daughter to cancer last year. My heart truely bled for them, and I cried many tears myself. It upsets me now just to think about their pain, and the grace with which they carried. But even with such a crushing tragedy I believe there are lessons, and I think it would be an honour to their beautiful daughter if they opened their hearts to those lessons. They are a very wealthy family with quite right wing and materialistic values. Money bought them every luxury, but it couldn't buy them the only thing they really wanted. Money does not make you immune from anything.
I dunno, I feel like I'm crossing a barrier I don't really want to. I don't want to lecture anybody about things like that. I'm still searching for the inner peace right now. I've been out this afternoon and when I got home he wasn't here. I rang him and he said that he'd be home in about half an hour. I asked him where he was. At first he didn't answer, so I asked him again. On the beach, he said. Then he just hung up. That's when I realised the van was out front, and his bike was by the back door. And I suddenly noticed the two half drunk cups of coffee by the sink. So he was on the beach with someone, someone who'd been here drinking coffee with him before they left, someone who'd driven him there. And I felt my stomach instantly tie itself in a knot. I need to find my peace, coz I hate feeling like this...
love
Diff xxx
Awwww, that was cute, Jack! :)
Dear Diff,
Thanks for your response. Maybe you needed to hear it yourself today. I can't believe he would bring her into the home that you are currently sharing with him! Seeing what a scumbag he is should make it easier for you to get over him. I'm SO SORRY for any pain he has caused you. I hope you realize that you can and will do A LOT BETTER than this!
Love,
Susan
Dear Diff,
Thanks for your response. Maybe you needed to hear it yourself today. I can't believe he would bring her into the home that you are currently sharing with him! Seeing what a scumbag he is should make it easier for you to get over him. I'm SO SORRY for any pain he has caused you. I hope you realize that you can and will do A LOT BETTER than this!
Love,
Susan
