January 13, 2011 in Uncategorized with 9 Comments

GRAYSON IS HOME!!!!!!! After being re-admitted to the hospital Sunday Gray is finally home again Thursday night!! During his stay in the hospital, Gray’s doctors ran tests to try and figure out why he was so lethargic and refusing to eat or drink. All of his blood tests came back normal! He didn’t even need a blood transfusion! That, we were happy about…but we were still nervous and anxious because Gray wouldn’t eat, drink or get out of bed. He definitely wasn’t himself. All we could do, though, was watch and wait. The doctors kept him on an IV and told us he was extremely dehydrated. Dehydration, exhaustion, side effects of chemo…whatever it was we had never seen anything like this before. The nurses kept telling us it was fairly normal but we couldn’t belp but be a bit nervous. It never gets easier to see your baby boy confined to a hospital bed without the will to even get up and walk around. Today, though, Gray made a miraculous recovery!! He ate, he drank and he had a dirty diaper!! Ha!! To most this may not be much of an accomplishment but Gray hadn’t had a dirty diaper in 10 days!! To us, this was a BIG deal!! We have to celebrate EVERY victory these days, even the seemingly small ones!! Today, not only are we celebrating Gray’s recovery but we are also celebrating being home together as a family. (Sigh of relief!) The scheduled hospital stays are hard enough to get through as a family but the unexpected ones are worse. Trying to balance caring for our sick child, giving quality and quantity attention to our oldest son, taking time for ourselves and setting aside whatever is left for each other?? Well there isn’t even a word to describe what that is like. Overwhelming, dauting, frustrating, exhausting…none of them do it justice. All of those feelings take a back seat tonight, though, as we are all under one roof, sleeping in the same house. And that’s just what we’re planning to do, sleep! Thank you all for your prayers this week and always. We are certain that your continued prayers are what have sustained us as a family during this time and what has helped Gray recover from his awful chemo side effects. We know the future holds more hospital stays, doctors visits and unexpected surprises (if you can call them that…) but tonight, if just for tonight, we will do our best to keep that from our minds.

“But it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to place our trust in Him, the crisis will reveal that we can go to the point of breaking, yet without breaking our confidence in Him.” -Oswald Chambers