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We are so grateful for everyone's encouragement! We have needed it. Along with so many positive thoughts, prayers, and truths that you all have given us, here are two very concrete reasons why it is AWESOME that Julia did not get her surgery yet:
1. One of my speech-language pathology mentors, with whom I did my pediatric inpatient rotation, reached out to me to tell me how good it was that the surgeon delayed our surgery. She cited a recent pediatric patient who went in for a relatively straightforward surgical procedure. Unfortunately, the fact that the family had been passing around a virus was not disclosed at the time of surgery, and the child was on a ventilator for two weeks. That is definitely not an outcome we want.
2. When we received the news that Julia had tested positive for rhinovirus, the medical team also informed us that about half the children that they see also test positive for this right now. A common cold? We thought that should be no big deal. Well, we just heard from a local friend whose 11-month old, typical daughter was just released from the children's hospital after being in the ICU for complications related to... rhinovirus.
You know, it's probably good that we're hunkering down in this season, anyway. When Natalie was a newborn in Tucson, we never had to deal with a real winter, so cold/flu season was quite different there. I think we are learning in the extreme what it means to have babies on the east coast/midwest! Not a bad thing to keep everyone well.
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| Natalie enjoying part of a care package that the sender probably had no idea would be as fun as it was. |
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