Conquering the Beast

My little Man has conquered the beast; he is back in school today after nearly two weeks. It was a funny feeling sending him to school today. I almost had a pit in my stomach like sending him to kindergarten or a similar feeling. He went through so much last week and it was so nice to see him ready to go back to school.

Many people have emailed me and I thank you for your kind words of support. He had what is called C diff, or C difficile. (click the title to read about it) It is a nasty bacteria.
He had just finished a round of anti-biotics and thus was susceptible to this kind of germ. It was quite a severe case, we were concerned about the blood loss and possibility that he had perforated his bowel or something equally horrific.

The interesting thing about this illness is it was most likely caused by anti-biotic use, and is treated with anti-biotics! I can tell you from here on when one of us needs an anti-biotic we will take probiotics. It likely could have prevented this from happening.

We did have a nice visit from Caden's mom Shannon, who was in another ward of the hospital. (Not necessarily where we want to meet!)You can read more about them and their journey at www.cadenwhite.com. I will post more about them in a later post. You can see this Caden's Hope necklace on my website now.