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Breathing Easier

Update on Ella:
Ella has continued to wheeze mildly for the past day and a half since being on her inhaler and steroids, but her cough has loosened up significantly. She did, however wake up this morning with a runny eye and endless nose-bleed, but those have both since stopped "running". We saw Ella's pediatrician again today and she said that she still hears some wheezing, but that Ella seems to be improving. We'll keep her on her oral steroid for a few more days to make sure she is processing sufficient oxygen and then once that's out, we'll go to a daily inhaler. The doctor also wants to move forward on trying to schedule a swallow study to make sure that Ella is not taking fluid into her lungs when she's drinking. There is a slight chance that we may have to have the study done in Salt Lake because her Ear Nose and Throat doc is there, but we'll see. All in all, Ella is doing much better and we are so thankful that she's breathing easier!
Thank you so much for praying! We have felt God's mighty hand guiding us through these past few days. His strength was all that was holding me together this morning after a sleepless night with Ella (the steroids made her really irritable) and then the drippy eye and a bloody nose that just kept running as I was trying to get the girls in the car to take Ari to school. We prayed in the car and I could tell Jesus was there comforting my tired heart.
Many of you have written to me with encouraging words and verses...it just means so much. Thank you.
Well, now I get to go and take advantage of a rare nap-time for Ella and get some sleep myself. :)

I promise, once we're sleeping at night, I'll write something more interesting than health updates.  Thanks for hanging in there with me.

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Anonymous said…
One thing you have to realize is heath updates ARE interesting as well as important. Love you
March 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM
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