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Jun. 12, 2009
Looking better
Noah's chest is looking MUCH better - still yucky, but vastly improved. He still complains that it hurts but I'm confident that the pain will go away as he heals.
Noah still doesn't feel up to par. I wouldn't be surprised if he were due for a transfusion as that would expain his fatigue. All of the other children came up to visit yesterday and that definitely lifted his spirits (and mine!)
Please pray for Noah's sleep schedule. He gets IV benadryl before each round of antibiotics. The benadryl typically puts him right to sleep, but unfortunately we are on a less-than-optimal schedule. He's getting benadyrl in the morning too early for a nap, then again about 6 Pm which is too late for a nap and too early for bedtime. We are working on shifting things but it is slow going due to the nature of the antibiotics he's on. He ends up very keyed up, cranky, and miserable in the late afternoon due to this schedule. Yesterday he feel asleep at 6:30 with the benadryl and he was sooooooo tired that I was sure that he would just sleep through night, but he was awakened at 8:30 for a finger stick. :-( It had to be done at that specific time so it wasn't that anyone did anything wrong, btw. He woke up crying and had slept just long enough that he couldn't go back to sleep - but was too tired to be happy or pleasant. He spent the next several hours whining and climbing/rolling all over me. The two of us could really use a good night's sleep and I covet your prayers to that end! We have a different style of bed than usual (Noah wants me to sleep with him) and it is extremely uncomfortable and loud. Between the bed and the late night wrestling session with my very strong toddler, I woke up very sore this morning. I am so thankful that I tossed one of those little disposable, single use heating pads in my bag. (I can't remember the name of those things - thermal care or something). It had been sitting on my bathroom shelf and I just "happened" to see it and decide to put it in my hospital bag. I put it on my back and it feels soooooo good. I don't even know why we had it - they are kind of pricey and we have reusable heating pads already - but I am thankful that the Lord directed my eyes to it in the hubub of packing. I'm going to see if I can pick up another package of them to keep in my hospital bag.
I wanted to answer a couple of questions from comments. First, Noah wears a size 3T. He still has some 2T things that he wears, but if I buy new things I buy 3T now. Second, yes, I do read every single comment on the blog. :-) Most of the children read at least most of them, and Jeff reads a lot of them. Sitting with my laptop to read comments is my favorite treat when I get a quiet moment. Right now I can also read email on my laptop, but not easily send it. Jeff is going to be changing things so that my personal email address goes to my laptop, allowing me to read and send more easily. (Right now I read them online where they are stored by our spam filter.)
Third, the address for Noah mail is:
Noah Estes
c/o Hands and Hearts
206 Yosemite Dr.
Greenwood, SC 29649
I have a HUGE favor to ask all of you. We've received quite a few pictures for Noah's Prayer Warrior Wall, and a number of those pictures have come with a little something for Noah - anything from a pacakge of stickers (he loves stickers!) to entire packages of goodies for him. I saved all of the boxes/envelopes with little reminders of what came in each one so that I could send a thank you . . . . until a "helpful" child assumed that it was all trash, emptied the boxes, and took the empty boxes down for garbage collection! I want VERY much to thank each of you (even though sometimes the best I can manage is a thank you here on the blog), so if you have sent anything to Noah over the last several weeks and you haven't heard a "thank you," would you please drop me an email??!!! I know I wouldn't want to come across as begging for thanks if I sent somehting to someone, but we really do want to set this straight. We are so deeply, deeply appreciative of everything that is sent to him and it grieves me very much not to be able to say thank you properly - it is the very least I can do after so many of you have so sweetly given to Noah. (I can say that EVERY single picture and package has been met with absolute delight by Noah - if he sees the mail coming in the house, he yells, "Der's zebwas in it!" :-) It just makes his day to get mail. I am resolved to make a document on the computer so I can list who sent what without worrying about the boxes so we avoid this in the future.
*** Live, breaking, prayer request update :-) **** Our angelic nurse Gail (one of our favorites!!) just came in, sat on the bed, and informed me that it was miserably uncomfortable and that I didn't need to be sleeping on it. She has removed the bed (Noah waved and said, "bye, bye, bad bed!") and is getting us a better one. Yay! Now all we have to do is persuade Noah to SLEEP in it LOL.
Blessings,
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Jun. 12, 2009 - <em>Untitled Comment</em>
I hope you can get some sleep now. :-D
*hugs* Love you!
In Christ alone,
Hannah Grace
Edited by nachoaveragegirl on Jun. 12, 2009 at 9:35 AM