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Nov. 14, 2009
Whew!
Looks like Noah's false alarm is now a really truly official false alarm. It's Saturday night and all of the cultures are still negative. Both Dr. B. and our wonderful home health nurse have spoken to the lab supervisor and we are setting some additional safeguards in place to prevent this sort of issue again.
I'm not really angry anymore, but I am still really sad - sad AND thankful. I'm sorry if my reaction led some of you to think that I wasn't thankful for an infection-free child, and I am fully aware that there are many moms who would love to hear that their child wasn't sick after all. Believe me - there have been so many times that I would have loved to have been told that Noah was fine and I could go home. I loved the "he's not sick and you can go home" part of this deal - absolutely loved it. It just really and truly broke my heart that he had to suffer so very much because of a preventable mistake. He still has bruises and it all makes me very sad. (Oh,and yes, I do see this one as a mistake rather than an answer to prayer. To the best of my understanding, the test was done correctly and recorded correctly but the person who called Dr. B simply literally read the results wrong. When Dr. L from ID called the lab, the tech read the results correctly. I am using the word "read" in the literal sense here, not in the clinical sense of interpreting results. It is certainly an answer to prayer that Noah was not sick, but I'm not getting the sense that God reached in and changed the lab report.) Anyway, I blogged in the heat of emotion and apologize if my words were too heated or if I appeared ungrateful.
Noah's big joy right now is that he received the coveted Thomas toy that caused such a ruckus at the hospital. I had mentioned it in passing to his home nurse and she very stealthily :-) asked me for information about the DVD (which contained the ad for the toy) under the pretext of wanting a good new Thomas DVD for her adorable little boy who is a little younger than Noah. She then ran out, bought the DVD, opened it to find the ad, bought the toy and showed up at our house with it less than five minutes after we arrived home Wednesday night. This is a BIG DEAL toy with a motorized Thomas and everything, and Noah has hardly stopped playing with it. (It's called the Spin & Fix Thomas and would be a big hit if you are looking for a Christmas gift for a Thomas fan.)
God has been good and I've been able to have several VERY productive days. I got almost of my chicken and beef cooked, assembled into various recipes, and frozen. I managed to do multiple batches of meatloaf, tater tot casserole, cheesy mexican casserole, crockpot cheeseburgers, individual beef/bean/cheese burritos, white chicken enchildadas, and chicken divan. I ended up getting a few more pounds of chicken yesterday so that I can do some peanut chicken, and I have several dozen eggs that I want to use to make breakfast burritos. If I can add some baked goods (thinking of cinnamon rolls, muffins, and maybe some danishes) to the freezer next week I will feel very satisfied. It brings me such an enormous sense of relief to know that my pantry and freezer are well-stocked so that neither Jeff nor Hannah have to be burdened with food preparation when Noah is sick. We really ran down our stocks when Noah was sick so often this summer and Jeff had to cook every night when Noah was sick last month. It's not that he isn't capable of cooking (and Hannah is a truly superb cook) - it's just that somehow it makes me feel better knowing that I was able to share the comfort of a "mommy-made" meal even if I am far away in the hospital.
Of course, we are hoping and praying that Noah stays home for a LONG time and that I will get to eat every one of those meals with my family!!
Noah will be going to Hem/Onc clinic again Monday and will probably get another Venofer infusion. I'll try to update when we get back.
In a non-Noah related prayer request, (actually it's also an answer to prayer!), we are finally ready to start selling our Hands and Hearts History kits again! Many of you know that our home business was severely affected by the CPSIA and we had to discontinue our flagship products. Due to a temporary stay of enforcement of the CPSIA, we can now offer the kits at least for now. The stay of enforcement will end February 10th, 2010 and we are praying for a more permanent solution between now and then. In the meantime, we will be taking pre-orders next week and will start shipping the following week. We are offering an incredible sale during the pre-order week with tons of free gifts donated by other homeschool business friends of ours, so if you are interested in getting one of our kits, please be sure that you are subscribed to our newsletter so that you are notified when the sale starts next week. You can sign up on any page of our website ( www.handsandhearts.com). We would appreciate your prayers that this sale will go well, and would also appreciate it if any of you homeschooling moms would help us pass the word along.
Blessings,
Kate
Oh - and please pray for Rafael (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/rafael) who has been very, very sick with a (real) gram negative infection.
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Nov. 14, 2009 - Those recipes sound delicious! :-)
My only son is 30 and we have 3 girls who have outgrown toys. :-( Except for the expensive ones like ipods and phones. ;-) Only our oldest daughter has them at present. Hoping and praying that Noah and YOU are home for a very long time. :-)