I spent about 30 minutes typing an email to everyone, while my parents put Mattie to bed, about an update on the day and as I was ready to send it off the stupid hospital computer shut down and it is all lost! ugh! I write these emails to keep everyone informed but also so that I can have a blog form for myself, so it was quite discouraging since I am not wanting to write it all again!
I will try to do my best and well see how it goes......
The Lord is teaching me to be ministered to, it can be hard sometimes to be on the receiving side of things and I know right now I need to say yes as much as I can. The body of Christ is the hands and feet and mouth of all of you that have offered to help our family and I am amazed! Just the emails alone are a source of love to me since I have the love language of encouraging words.
Mattie had an emotionally challenging day, today. It is so hard for him to have little control in his normally routine world, on top of the pain he is in. I was trying to be patient with him as he slowly lost his patience, with sometimes the smallest things. There was some challenges today with little friends sharing "his toys" in the playroom here on the ward. He has a room mate that is 3, Nathan who also has burns from boiling water, so it has been a good situation for us to be with them in more ways than one. Pray for them as it will be a long process to get "home". Having a buddy helps him to get out of bed and into their police cars to play in the hallways, which is great physical therapy for them both! I thank God for this change of rooms as well as this family.
We have had some good visits with friends throughout our hospital stay which boost all our spirits, being boxed into these hospital walls. It can make you get cabin fever but my social spirit gets fed through interaction with the hospital staff as well as our visits with friends and family, emails, voice mails and text messages...please know that I appreciate you all!
Mattie has a favorite nurse named Joe, that he got a picture with tonight. He laughed with Joe when he said Cheeseburger instead of Cheese! It was cute. He also has a favorite food, hamburgers and hot dogs from the grill man, Hector! He makes Mattie happy with his yummy food, that he is eating more of each day. Last night and at lunch today he ate an entire hot dog. His ability to drink juice, is about normal! He is a juice-a-holic normally and the hospital has a constant supply by just asking. He pushes his nurse call button and ask for juice himself now, as well as his pain meds....I usually end of translating most of what he says but it is cute to hear him trying to communicate. He has a favorite activity, riding in his flinstone style police car, mentioned above, that gets him around quite nicely. He took it down to the cafeteria to get his lunch and on the way back up to the elevator, he got exhausted and threw his yellow, ducky blanket on his head, in his little car and wanted to sleep right there in the hallway! I started laughing and wish I had a camera to capture this moment. He had a highlight tonight of having his friend, Nathan M. come out and play. Yesterday, Luke C. was here with him, so he has had his own buddies come for visits. Both boys responded well to Mattie and played very well with him, being gentle with touching his body and activities with him.
Mattie was able to walk a lot tonight without holding onto anything! Big Praise! He was also using his arm alot tonight as he played spider man memory game with our friends. He had a great sense of humor at dinner as he ate his "salad" piece of lettuce mimicking cookie monster! It was super cute!
Now we await the morning, Jason will be back to change the dressings with me at tub time, which is when we get evaluated on his healing from the doctors. We will hear from the docs an opinion of his release. I am eager to leave, but nervous of being in charge of his care and recovery at home. The recovery is going to be quite lengthy from what I have heard and seeing Mattie this entire week in the hospital. Continue to pray for us and first chance I get tomorrow to update you all I will, for sure.
Much love, Heidi
I will try to do my best and well see how it goes......
The Lord is teaching me to be ministered to, it can be hard sometimes to be on the receiving side of things and I know right now I need to say yes as much as I can. The body of Christ is the hands and feet and mouth of all of you that have offered to help our family and I am amazed! Just the emails alone are a source of love to me since I have the love language of encouraging words.
Mattie had an emotionally challenging day, today. It is so hard for him to have little control in his normally routine world, on top of the pain he is in. I was trying to be patient with him as he slowly lost his patience, with sometimes the smallest things. There was some challenges today with little friends sharing "his toys" in the playroom here on the ward. He has a room mate that is 3, Nathan who also has burns from boiling water, so it has been a good situation for us to be with them in more ways than one. Pray for them as it will be a long process to get "home". Having a buddy helps him to get out of bed and into their police cars to play in the hallways, which is great physical therapy for them both! I thank God for this change of rooms as well as this family.
We have had some good visits with friends throughout our hospital stay which boost all our spirits, being boxed into these hospital walls. It can make you get cabin fever but my social spirit gets fed through interaction with the hospital staff as well as our visits with friends and family, emails, voice mails and text messages...please know that I appreciate you all!
Mattie has a favorite nurse named Joe, that he got a picture with tonight. He laughed with Joe when he said Cheeseburger instead of Cheese! It was cute. He also has a favorite food, hamburgers and hot dogs from the grill man, Hector! He makes Mattie happy with his yummy food, that he is eating more of each day. Last night and at lunch today he ate an entire hot dog. His ability to drink juice, is about normal! He is a juice-a-holic normally and the hospital has a constant supply by just asking. He pushes his nurse call button and ask for juice himself now, as well as his pain meds....I usually end of translating most of what he says but it is cute to hear him trying to communicate. He has a favorite activity, riding in his flinstone style police car, mentioned above, that gets him around quite nicely. He took it down to the cafeteria to get his lunch and on the way back up to the elevator, he got exhausted and threw his yellow, ducky blanket on his head, in his little car and wanted to sleep right there in the hallway! I started laughing and wish I had a camera to capture this moment. He had a highlight tonight of having his friend, Nathan M. come out and play. Yesterday, Luke C. was here with him, so he has had his own buddies come for visits. Both boys responded well to Mattie and played very well with him, being gentle with touching his body and activities with him.
Mattie was able to walk a lot tonight without holding onto anything! Big Praise! He was also using his arm alot tonight as he played spider man memory game with our friends. He had a great sense of humor at dinner as he ate his "salad" piece of lettuce mimicking cookie monster! It was super cute!
Now we await the morning, Jason will be back to change the dressings with me at tub time, which is when we get evaluated on his healing from the doctors. We will hear from the docs an opinion of his release. I am eager to leave, but nervous of being in charge of his care and recovery at home. The recovery is going to be quite lengthy from what I have heard and seeing Mattie this entire week in the hospital. Continue to pray for us and first chance I get tomorrow to update you all I will, for sure.
Much love, Heidi
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