February 20, 2006
February 20, 2006 | Updates
It’s been a slow week. Samuel had a fever Sunday afternoon until Tuesday. It hovered around 101.5, so I didn’t give him much tylenol, hoping that his fever would help his body fight off the infection he had. He was pretty miserable, sleepy and a little upset to his stomach. He threw up several times during his little bout of flu, and we finally had to slow down his feeds and give him just a little at a time throughout the day. Overall, he did really well. It was definitely a far cry from the last time he had a fever. THANK HEAVENS!By Thursday, he seemed to be feeling better, so he had one therapy session at which his physical therapist was really impressed with how hard he worked and how much more head control he had gained. He still is a long way from being able to just hold his head up on his own, but it’s getting better for sure. By Thursday night, I could tell that Samuel was getting a head cold, and so was I. Friday morning, I was totally wiped out and I spent the next 2 days with one of the worst head colds I can remember. Samuel, fortunately, didn’t get it as badly as I did. He was pretty miserable, but he never got much of a runny nose or a congested throat. But since I was feeling so under the weather, we didn’t do any therapy and just slept those 2 days away.
Sunday was much better, and I think by today, we are both well on our way to recovery! So we are just slowly working Samuel’s feeding schedule back to where it needs to be. After a week of smaller bolus feeds, it will take some time to get his stomach used to things again.
We didn’t see many smiles most of the week, but the past two days, they have returned since he is feeling better. And a couple of days ago, his dad got him to laugh a BUNCH of times in a row. I was there, and it was SOOOOOOO CUTE and SOOOOOOO FUN to see. He was playing a little game with his dad and after smiling a bunch of times, he just couldn’t hold it in and started laughing instead!
Well, that’s about all the news on Samuel this week. I do have a bit of other news. Just another little bump in the road that our Heavenly Father has seen fit to place in our lives right now. Despite being on birth control and hardly ever seeing Tom, I am pregnant. I was pretty upset at first, because I had decided we were done having kids and I was very content with that because I wanted and needed to spend so much time with Samuel. I’m also pretty protective of Samuel’s place in our family and I definitely didn’t want him to loose the place of our “baby”. But God thought otherwise. And after reviewing everything and literally seeing how nearly impossible it was for me to get pregnant at the time I did, I have decided it must be meant to be for some CRAZY reason that I may not understand until the next life :)! So, we’ve accepted it and are even excited. Our Ben isn’t home much anymore since he started school, so maybe this baby is meant to be Samuel’s playmate (and maybe more incentive to get well) over the next few years. I don’t know all the reasons, but we do feel very good about it.
Oh, yea, and it’s a boy! Silly, huh? That’ll make 5 boys for us - no girls. But in complete honesty, we’re getting too old for new things and a girl would scare us (at least me) to death. So we are perfectly happy sticking with what we know. Besides, I tease Samuel that on his little trip to heaven during his accident, he must’ve decided he wanted a little brother to play with if he was going to come back to this earth. And it’s no surprice he didn’t pick a girl because his 6 year old brother has indoctrinated him for years on the “fact” that “Dirls are dross!” (Ben can’t say his G’s too well!)
So this baby is due the first part of July, making July a very emotional month - a new baby, Samuel’s 3rd birthday and the 1 year anniversary of his accident. But think of all the wonderful things we are learning from this!
So keep praying for little Samuel!
Love,
Us
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