Is the Crud Gone Yet????

I think (maybe) the crud has finally left our house...I hope I'm not jinxing anything! One of the four of us has been sick since January 24th! Since then there has only been two days that all of children have gone to school. I think Thursday night was possible the worst!

I get home and get the kiddos fed. I try to get the house picked up a bit because I have three classmates coming over to work on a group project at 6:30. All the kiddos get settled and the doorbell rings. Over the next couple of minutes all of the group trickles through my front door. The kiddos are behaving great! E is in my room watching videos and P & J are in the living room playing video games. We begin working on our project, I take a five minute break at about 7:15 to get E in bed and return to working at the dining room table. P & J move into my room to watch cartoons/play on the computer. I'm not hearing a single peep from anyone...it's great! At 8:00 I tell P & J to get their jammies on and head into bed. P does this no problem....J usually requires additional effort. After waiting about 10 minutes I finally go to J's room to check on his progress. As I pass by E's door I notice a foul smell...this is not entirely unusual, although it usually happens in the morning. I continue to J's room and assist him with his jammies and debate whether to change E's diaper now or wait about 10 minutes as the group was wrapping things up. I really didn't want to have to subject my group members to the wonderful smell of a dirty diaper from an 8 year old, so I decide to take a quick peak into E's room to assess the situation and see if it's possible to wait a few minutes. As soon as I open the door I realize that this was going to require immediate action...you see, my dear son did not have a dirty diaper as is the norm. E had gotten sick and thrown up ALL OVER the bedroom and the poor kid was still gagging! I turned on the light and took a look at him and nearly freaked out. His eyes were completely red, not bloodshot....RED. Like the entire whites of his eyes were the color of cherries and he had lost all of the color from his face and had the whiteish green tint that you see on a dead person.

Fair Warning....if you have a weak stomach you may want to skip a couple of lines.

E's hair is completely caked in puke, his ears are full of it, it's all down the front of him and dried on his back because he had laid down in it.

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He's STILL gagging. I've been through a lot with E so it takes a lot to get me worked up, but I really started to get concerned because of his coloring and because when he throws up he doesn't understand to sit up, he still lays down and chokes on it so it causes a lot more issues. It's so bad that I'm ready to call an ambulance...I've only done that once, and it wasn't for E. Then I remember that I have a paramedic sitting at my dining room table! One of my group members is a paramedic for a larger city around here....once I talked to him a bit I felt better and was able to deal with the situation. I basically told the group members to gather their stuff together and see themselves out as I usher a puke-covered E through the dining room!

As I was sitting in the bathroom cleaning E up, the only thing I could think of is GOD is SO GOOD!

Even though I was only 15' from E's room, I never heard a thing. I don't usually check on E throughout the night, but God caused me to walk into J's room at a time I never do, passing E's room and noticing there was a problem. Then God placed the paramedic in my home to ease my fears! How cool is that? Because of my crazy life I hardly ever have guests in my home that are not family members, but God placed that guy there just for me and E.

Even though life gets rough with E, I get to see something that most people don't...God's hand at work in our lives every day. This is just one example of the hundreds of times that God has taken care of us!