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Things are always interesting in our household. Apparently we haven't had enough excitement recently, and so, decided to take a trip to the ER Saturday evening... The day had gone well, we all enjoyed our rest and relaxation, learning together how to most efficiently give Charity feeds and medications. Everybody was feeling great, most of all me, (mommy), glad to have our girl home at last. Then, as I laid Charity in bed, preparing to hook her up to her food for the night (she receives feeding every three hours during day and 8 hours continuous feed at night) I leaned on the attachment to the G-tube and heard a horrid pop noise...sure enough out came the G-tube! In it's place was a small incision which we hoped would stay open long enough for the doctors to replace it. Once the 6 weeks have passed, should the G-tube come out again, we can simply place it in and blow the balloon ourselves, but because it is still fairly new, the doctor puts it in and takes an x-ray to make sure that it is placed correctly. Surely, if you have been in the ER at nighttime, then you can relate to our 3-hour wait - which thankfully ended happily, g-tube replaced and on the road to home. Thankfully a gracious neighbor came flying over to wait with the other sleeping children while we whisked Charity away to yet another hospital procedure - poor little girl! Nighttime was short, and made shorter by the fact that Charity is experiencing withdrawals in the form of diahrrea. Not a nice thing to clean up at 3am! After that she smiled and cooed and went back to sleep happily - but OH, the laundry :) Church this morning was wonderful...until the sermon began...Charity decided to have another blowout right on me and Chloe. It had to be the biggest explosion I have ever changed, and I am afraid that we rather disrupted our poor pastor by our complete panic and lack of a game plan! We have to come up with a better exit strategy for sure. Now, home, we still can't help it, we are elated that Charity is here with us, no matter how inconvenient things are and how disruptive life continues to be, she is a miracle and our constant reminder of how gracious the Lord has been to our family... |
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