Counting Our Many Blessings

Beckham getting his chest x-rays...
They wheeled him around on this full sized bed throughout the Emergency area and it was so weird; a 10 pound kid on a full sized bed was a bit odd looking.

Ethan showing off his arm splint (so he wouldn't kink the IV). He hated this thing.

Beckham's IV




These boys are so brave!



Ethan getting his nebulizer (sp?) treatment. This poor little guy had the hardest time. I think I would too if weird people in masks and white coats kept waking me up ever hour and shoving gas in my face. What a fighter! He was so brave.





As some of you already know, Ethan and Beckham were both in the hospital last weekend. Ethan went into the emergency room with Jake on Friday night because he was having such a hard time breathing and couldn't seem to calm down. After transfering to the children's hospital via ambulance, he was diagnosed with RSV and Bronchiolitis, which at the time, the doctors explained to us simply as "worse than RSV". He didn't come home until Monday night. Emma brought Beckham into the children's hospital E.R. on Saturday morning with the same kind of symptoms, and he was also diagnosed with RSV. He stayed until Sunday night.


Both the boys had Xrays of their chests and IV's in their little arms. It was the saddest thing we have ever seen in our entire life. Needless to say, it was a very scary ordeal. Thankfully, we had our wonderful Grama Anie here to help us and keep us sane.


The boys are doing better now, but we are still on high alert because their immune systems are down and they are still so susceptible to picking up germs. We have pretty much quarantined them from the outside world (so don't feel bad if we decline when you offer to come to our house...we still love you!) We will probably be paranoid about it for a while as this ordeal is not something we would like to repeat or pass on to anyone else. Plus, Grama Hansen is here helping us out for a little while too, so we are being well taken care of.


We cannot thank all of you who had us in your thoughts and prayers enough. They were most definitely felt. We know that without your faith, none of us would be able to get through all of this. Thank you all SO MUCH. It really means the world to us. We truly are counting our many blessings and thanking our Heavenly Father right now.