Birthday Week

Not a new thought for me, but I have to say it...time sure flies!! (Sing it with me. "Memories. Light the corners of my mind!"

J3 just celebrated birthday number seven. Seems like yesterday we were at the hospital going through what was a really surreal situation. J3 was born on March 11 at 9:43pm. He was a whooping 9lbs,6oz (My big boy...was born that way and has been that way ever since!!)I had some complications during pregnancy, but had been released from the specialist's care a few weeks before he was born because all concerns during the pregnancy had resolved and everything seemed to be fine. I remember when he was born thinking that his color didn't look good (he really was gray) and that the nurses seemed a little concerned. They let me hold him for a short period of time and then told me they needed to take him down to the nursery for some testing. Looking back, I don't know if I was in some kind of fog or what, but I was not my normal "give me every detail. I need to understand everything that is going on and then some" self. J and my dear friend K went down to the nursery and came back a little while later and told me what was going on. J3 was in intensive care for treatment of an intestinal condition called Necrotizing Enteric Colitis.

To make a really long story not so long, J3 ended up being fine. He spent four days in intensive care and received strong IV antibiotics. Our first week home was quite the experience. A (our daughter) fell off a swing set and broke her humerus (the upper bone in her arm), then she became sick with some kind of virus with a high fever. Our Dr. said that he had never seen A that sick, and he had seen her a lot! J3 continued to keep me on my toes by spitting up blood (one time a clot that was the size of a quarter) and even having traces of blood in his stools.

Well, bottom line is God is merciful and He brought us through those weeks with nothing more to show for it than some good stories to tell. He is so faithful, far beyond what I deserve. So if you hung on to read this long entry, let me close by saying Happy Birthday Week ( birthday week- that's another story for another time) J3! I love you and am so glad I get to be your mom!