The Seasons: A Poem

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Sunrise over Amazing Grasses Family Farm The mad Artist wields His brush, Painted colors rush, To life and give flush, Before the quiet autumn hush. The life seems to pour, As colors fall to the floor, To be seen no more, Outside the dark, grey door. Brightness from below, Sun upon the snow, High, cold clouds blow, Flakes and ice appear to grow. The man melts with little seen, Underneath, pale, grey green, Hides life in dark unseen, Waits for warmth and to careen. Buds on branches show, Patience starts to grow, Trickles, streams and veins flow, Bringing fruits of melted snow. Sprung to life it springs, Bees, birds, sound rings, Lush green flings, Its gift bounty brings. Green growth gives one last rush, Underneath the Painter's brush. The mad Artist wields His brush, before the quiet autumn hush. More poetry is available from James M. Hahn in  The Last Dragon and Other Poems  available now. My new book of cryptogram puzzles " Secret Messages from the Saints " is avai
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Catherine Update

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Thy will be done!

Thank you so much for your prayers. Catherine, who usually develops some sort of problem or setback on weekends (seriously, I would love to go back through her chart), made great strides this past weekend. Before the weekend, she appeared pale and had lost a significant amount of weight. Her body is not used to being fed directly into her jejunum, her bile was not going down, and so her stools were really watery. She was just not absorbing what she needed from the breast milk. Her doctor said it takes awhile for her body to get used to being fed this way. In the meantime, she got a PICC line and some TPN to supplement the breast milk and it did wonders for her. She looks 100% better today than over the weekend. Other good news is that she has stopped vomiting the green bilious stuff and the output out of her OG tube has cleared up and decreased in quantity considerably.

A small miracle occurred this morning and a great blessing from God. It may not seem significant to any of you but it made me feel so much better about the situation. Catherine's surgeon is very elusive. She makes rounds at 4 or 5 am and then she goes to surgery or she has office hours. I have never spoken to her except right before she's about to operate on Catherine. I wanted to get to the hospital earlier than I usually go so that I could talk with her neonatologist, and I won't go into the details, but our morning was a little busier than usual and if I had left 5 or 10 minutes later, I am sure I would not have been able to talk to her surgeon. I didn't even consider that I would have been able to, but God takes care of us and it was in his plan that I met her in the hallway as she was leaving the unit. So we went into Catherine's room and she explained to me why she didn't think Catherine needed surgery and why she didn't think there was an obstruction and that we just need to be patient and wait especially considering the progress she made over the weekend. It was very nice to ask her questions directly and to hear everything she had to say from her rather than from someone else. Thy will be done. Thank you Lord!

So the plan is to take out the OG tube in a few days and then try to get her just on breast milk feeds and she needs to gain weight.

Again thank you for your continued prayers as we pray for all of you.

Catherine's Mom

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Barbara said…
I continue to keep Baby Catherine in my prayers and am happy to hear she did well over the weekend. God bless all of you.
9:37 PM
Jennifer @ Conversion Diary said…
Glad to hear it was a better weekend. You all continue to be in my prayers!
9:12 AM
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