Catherine wearing a hat that our wonderful
Along with the start of school I've come to expect it. It somehow finds it's way right through our front door. We Lysol, we wash hands, we run when some one sneezes. It's too late, every one gets sick. I feel the anxiety building. What is it that's making us sick, it doesn't really matter, even the common cold is reason for me to have anxiety. You see when my 2 year old Olivia was 10 months old she caught RSV (can be devastating for little babies lungs virus), it's just a "cold" to you or me, but it put her in and out of the Children's Hospital four times that Winter and the effects of it on her lungs have now put her in the Hospital about ten times over the course of two years. So now every time "something" comes in that front door anxiety comes with it. Whats going to happen now, is she going again? My Husband "I have to go to Work for our Family!", Me "I have to take Her to the Doctor. She's going to end up in the Hospital again" Unexpected guest "Anxiety" tension between me and my Husband. This time when we all got sick I was very aggressive with Olivia and got her on the Prednisone right away before she got severely ill, win right, yes but then I did not expect our little Catherine to get so sick now. Friday night she came down with the " Croup" with "Strider". Strider is when the airway is so swollen that it makes a whistling sound from them not being able to get air, terrifying when it's your 9 month old who can't breath. Thank goodness our Doctor is open on Saturday. More anxiety between me and my Husband, trying to rush up there with her to get treated not knowing what to expect, and he has to go to work as soon as possible. Well she is doing a little better now, they gave her a steroid shot, put her on a liquid steroid, told me how much xopenex I could give her with our nebulizer machine, hot shower steam, vaporizer, etc. Now where does Mr. Anxiety want to put his rotten little head? Well my Insulin dependent Diabetic five year old has not been sick yet, but when he does get sick, blood sugar roller coaster! More anxiety between my Husband and I. Where am I going with all of this Anxiety? Well it used to be fighting between my Husband and I (hard not to still), stress that felt like the weight of the world on my Mother shoulders trying to protect my sick children, but in all of this season of illness we have had to walk through I know that HE has been holding our hands. The key is not to let the "enemy" use his little buddies "anxiety" and "fear" tear apart our Home and Marriage. So where do you turn in times of trouble? GOD! HE has been here all along and this morning HE has reminded me of that . . .
"Guide me in your truth and teach me, for YOU are GOD my SAVIOR, and my hope is in YOU all day long." - Psalm 25:5
"MY HOPE IS IN YOU ALL DAY LONG!" (take that fear, anxiety, and sickness!)
I am so thankful for my GOD and yes you can and should praise HIS wonderful name all day long, even on sick days.
Love in Christ,
Jamie and Family
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