Random Thoughts and Musings

Baby S is not urinating properly, and has been spiking high fevers today.

They are running some tests, and think it might possibly be renal failure.

Why is it everytime we celebrate a small success, we get knocked down again?

So frustrating and scary. I want so much to be in Gainesville, holding C’s hand right now. B came home to be with the other kids when Baby S showed signs of doing well last night. So C is over there all alone.

Please, please … please keep praying for her, loving her, sending her positive thoughts.

xoxo  

Poverty is something that most Americans know nothing about. Poverty is something we *think* we have lived through … but have not, really. Poverty is having nothing, as in … no shoes on your feet … no clear water to drink … no roof over your head … no soap to wash with … no brush to run through your hair … no food … no hope.

Poverty is bigger, more horrendous, than many people would like to believe. It is so horrible that people ignore it, pretend it is not there, and go on with their lives. The poverty-stricken usually do not have a voice of their own: they rely on us to speak for them. Why? Because it is easier to ignore them than to reach out and help them.

Do not ignore the poverty in the world. I am not asking you to go out and save the world. I believe in starting locally and working your way out … because the healthier, the wealthier, you are at home … the better care you can provide to those outside of your home.

So start small. Find a local shelter, a local subsidy group, a local homeless person … and contribute something that you have available. Do you hit Starbucks every day on your way to work? Give up your latte for a week and donate that money. Do you eat out every other day? Make a sandwich, and donate the money you would have spent. Find some way to give to those less fortunate. It will not *hurt* you … but it will help someone else.

I just spoke with C to check up on Baby S. C says that Baby S is in a lot less pain today, and that she seems to be resting more comfortably. She’s doing a lot better than she was yesterday and last night.

She also sent me a couple of phone pics, one showing the bruising around Baby S’s incision.

Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers.

xoxo