Finding Routine
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Asa has been in the hospital 11 days now and I think we are starting to find a routine of sorts. Austin and I switch out at the hospital every few days and we try to get the other 3 kids up there to visit Asa as well. He lights up when he sees them!
We are so grateful for the quick help of family, friends, and the staff at Creekside Christian Academy for getting Gideon and Josie enrolled last minute for the semester. With the uncertainty of this treatment phase and such long hospital stays, we realized homeschooling would not be possible the next few months. They were able to start classes on Tuesday with all the other students.
Because Asa reacted to the chemo med, Asparaginase, on Saturday, he is receiving a different medication every other day in the form of an injection in his leg. We've been told his stay will also most likely be extended 1 week. As you can imagine, he does not enjoy all this but has really been so brave. The nurses constantly tell him he is braver than most of the high school boys they see! He is finding routine as well and willingly cooperates in taking his oral meds and getting his vitals checked.
Asa's levels are still high enough right now that he is able to go for walks around the hospital and visit the library. Yesterday, he took a trip to the gym with a physical therapist for some intentional exercise. On the mornings I'm with him, he likes to take me down to the coffee shop for a coffee date. :)
While God is making a way, is helping us figure out a schedule, and has given us incredible people to help us out, we don't like it. Our family has few opportunities to be together and Austin and I feel like we are ships passing in the night. It's hard, especially knowing we're still at the beginning of this phase.
However—we hold on to the truth and promise of God's word, knowing "Thus far the Lord has helped us." (1 Sam. 7:12) He has not let us down yet, and He never will. He promises to be near, to help, to guide, to provide, to be our shelter, our peace, our hope, and our joy. He is and He has been!
We are so grateful for the quick help of family, friends, and the staff at Creekside Christian Academy for getting Gideon and Josie enrolled last minute for the semester. With the uncertainty of this treatment phase and such long hospital stays, we realized homeschooling would not be possible the next few months. They were able to start classes on Tuesday with all the other students.
Because Asa reacted to the chemo med, Asparaginase, on Saturday, he is receiving a different medication every other day in the form of an injection in his leg. We've been told his stay will also most likely be extended 1 week. As you can imagine, he does not enjoy all this but has really been so brave. The nurses constantly tell him he is braver than most of the high school boys they see! He is finding routine as well and willingly cooperates in taking his oral meds and getting his vitals checked.
Asa's levels are still high enough right now that he is able to go for walks around the hospital and visit the library. Yesterday, he took a trip to the gym with a physical therapist for some intentional exercise. On the mornings I'm with him, he likes to take me down to the coffee shop for a coffee date. :)
While God is making a way, is helping us figure out a schedule, and has given us incredible people to help us out, we don't like it. Our family has few opportunities to be together and Austin and I feel like we are ships passing in the night. It's hard, especially knowing we're still at the beginning of this phase.
However—we hold on to the truth and promise of God's word, knowing "Thus far the Lord has helped us." (1 Sam. 7:12) He has not let us down yet, and He never will. He promises to be near, to help, to guide, to provide, to be our shelter, our peace, our hope, and our joy. He is and He has been!
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