un-birthday

I wish I were blogging about Noah’s birthday but right now I am just trying to figure out what is wrong with my sweet little boy. What we thought was just a runny nose before his birthday led to a mild fever and then red spots starting showing up on his arm the morning of his birthday party. Despite being more clingy than usual, he seemed to enjoy his birthday. Yesterday morning, the spots had got worse. We went to the walk-in clinic and that doctor was not much help, spending less than 3 minutes and declaring she didn’t know what it is, gave us a prescription of some sort of antibiotic steroid cream and told us to come back. I was not impressed that she didn’t even take off his diaper to look at his spots and was so relieved to get an appointment with our family doctor later that day. She took the time to examine in and took some swabs to get it tested.

I am now reading up on measles, chicken pox, impetigo and not sure if its any of the above. Noah was scheduled to have his 1 year immunizations for things on Thursday this week. What irony if he were to get measles or chicken pox days before he was scheduled to get the vaccine for it.

The last weeks of nights have not been awesome. Noah hasn’t been an awesome sleeper to begin with so add some terrible looking sores on his arms and you’ve got an up-all-night sad, sad baby.

And today I got a call from preschool that Natallie had puked and has a fever. I brought her home and she has a fever of 102.5 F

This is not what I want. Two kids sick.

At first I was feeling so frustrated and mad that God would allow Noah to get sick on his birthday. I mean what a terrible birthday present.  Then after listening to some God-sent  lyrics by Matt Redman, I realize that every day with my children is a gift from the Lord, whether they are sick or well, I am thankful I have them.

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning
It's time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

But do pray for them. And Simon. And me.  For energy and patience and the right attitude during all this.  Just holding him brings me right back to the hospital room 6 months ago. I don't think whatever he has will lead us to ER again but caring for a sick baby is exhausting. God carried us through that and will carry us through again.