An Update (Gabrielle)
An update- Seth and Crystal took Justice to the doctor on Saturday. He still doesn’t believe us that anyone had or has whooping cough. Crystal is very frustrated. She is taking herbs that help loosen mucus in hopes that it will go through the breast milk and help Justice. All we can do now is wait. Justice will either get worse or stay the same for another two weeks before he starts to get better. Neither Seth nor Crystal are sleeping because Justice will wake them up coughing or wanting to be held. They are trying a new schedule where Seth keeps Justice for part of the night while Crystal sleeps and then they switch. This way each of them will get a long stretch of uninterrupted sleep. They are both exhausted which makes it harder to care for Justice and the other children. On the plus side we talked to a friend who is a nurse and she listened to Justice cough. She says that he is still breathing while he coughs so there isn’t a long stretch of time when he simply stops breathing. As long as he doesn’t get pneumonia in a couple of weeks this should all be over. Please pray for Justice to be healed and for sleep for Seth and Crystal. And please pray for me to have patience with the older four as I am their primary caregiver right now.