Sickness and Health

A friend wrote about blessings and guardian angels and it got me thinking about my blessings. I thank God everyday for my families health. My children have had their share of sickness,but nothing that couldn't be fixed with medication. I think my oldest was sick more than the other two with my youngest being sick the least. None of them have had any broken bones so I am really grateful there. Now when I was young I was sick all the time. I had chronic ear infections all the time and every time I got an ear infection I always had two other things going on. I was always in the hospital getting buttons put into my ears and it was a hardship on my parents. I had seizures because of high temperatures and was put on seizure medication which gave me night terrors. I finally out grew the ear infections when I was 13 and was very grateful for sure and so were my parents. So when my first child was born and he got sick for the first time he started to have a seizure which my mom knew that's what was going on because of me having them when I was young. We took him to the ER and they said it was seizure from the high temp. What happens is he would start out with a little temp, but it would shoot up so fast that is what would cause the seizure. I tell you that was so scary! He had a few more and his doctor put him on the seizure medication for a year and than took him off and he never had another seizure after that. I thank God for that!







He went on to have ear infections, strep throat, tonsillitis (which he got a lot when he was young, but not often enough to have them removed) When he was 5 he got chicken pox. They didn't have the shot for that when he was young. Well low and behold guess who else got them, ME I was 31 at the time and couldn't believe it! I called my mom and ask her didn't I get chicken pox when I was young, well she said yes but just a small case of them. That was awful! He also got bronchiectasis which he still gets at least once a year. He didn't have any broken bones, but he sliced his finger wide open that it almost cut the tendons. He was at a youth trip and the guy called me and said he might need stitches when he got home and I saw it I couldn't believe it, I said MIGHT need stitches Yeah think!! He had seven put in. His shoulders would dislocate and he would pop them back in, well one to many times and it started not to pop back in he had to go to the ER so they could pop them back in and he would wear a sling for a while. One time he was at youth camp and I got a call and they were taking him to the hospital because they could pop it back in. He had jumped in the lake and it popped out. He had surgery last year they put hooks so to speck in his shoulder. He hasn't had a problem with it since.







My daughter got sick with ear infections and strep throat, but with her it didn't matter what she had she would always vomit. When she was a baby she got croup, ear infection, and strep throat at the same time. The croup was the worst because she had this terrible barking cough. She has had some respiratory problems and she is really bad when she is around cats. No broken bones no bad cuts although I had gotten her ears pierced and they got infected so bad we couldn't take the earrings out and I had to take her to have the doctor cut them out and than she had stitches. She wants to get her ear pierced again but I am not so sure!







My youngest has had a few ear infections but not like his older brother or sister. He hasn't got as sick as they did and not really sick even when he was a baby.







So I am counting my blessings and thanking God everyday for healthy children I don't like to see them sick anyway, but than who does! I am thankful for when they have been sick it was something that could be taken care of with medication.