Perspective

I continue to feel like a basketcase today. This always happens. I take a crazy emotional roller coaster ride for a solid week following every surgery. I sat at my desk at work today constantly suppressing much-needed cry sessions. I heard someone gabbing on and on about the drama surrounding last night's Jon and Kate episode (I proudly know nothing about this show) and then I thought of all of the sick babies lying in hospital beds right now. Spending time in a children's hospital has a way of changing a person's perspective. Big time. When you see rows and rows of babies struggling to hold onto life, the little things no longer matter. TV shows, gossip, material possessions, none of that really matters.

I don't have any new pics, so I will choose another random set of numbers and grab an oldie from my archives. I picked my two favorite numbers, 23 and 11, which revealed this photo that was taken at my dad and stepmom's house in North Carolina in December of 2007..



Elijah is doing amazingly well. Like I said yesterday, you would never know what he has recently been through just by looking at him. He is tearing all over the place, being as spunky and funny as ever. He does this thing where he puts random things on his head (crackers, books, cars, whatever is in his hands) and yells, "HAT!" It makes us laugh, so he does it a lot. Today he was putting his cookie on his head and doing this. Then he decided that his cup of milk needed a hat, too, so he balanced the cookie on the cup and said, "HAT!" I love my silly kid.

More random numbers (9 and 18) revealed this photo, taken in October 2008 in the back of our friends Katie and Drew's (parked) truck..



I haven't mentioned that the hearing test that we had planned on having done during surgery never ended up happening. The surgery went so quickly that there wouldn't have been time for it anyway. We did get the immunology and allergy results read to us very quickly in a manner in which I did not fully understand, so I will follow up with Elijah's pediatrician about these. It was something like: one of his numbers came back low which typically indicates a susceptibility to allergies, but that he doesn't currently have allergies. Details to come on that..

Oh, and do you know what is crazy? We don't even do our neurosurgery follow-ups with Elijah's neurosurgeon. That guy is literally just involved in the surgeries. We follow up with The Voice in 3-6 months. Another crazy thing is that a repaired tethered spinal cord can re-tether. That is something to definitely pray against.

It is super hot and humid out today, so we are enjoying an evening inside. Please pray for continued good recovery for our precious little boy, and also for healing, health and peace for all of the babies/families at Children's Hospital right now.