Nominated by her husband, Gordon
“Never in my life did I ever think I would hear ‘code blue’ over a loud speaker and have it pertain to my son.”
Gordon nominated his wife to receive the Post of the Day Award, explaining: “Recently we went through a horror that parents should never have to go through. My wife, who is so strong, posted about that horrible day so I want to nominate her.” So I visited Everyday Heartbeats: Living each day one heartbeat at a time to peruse Some Things That I’ve Learned. A chill ran down my spine when I read those words.
A moment no parent should ever have to witness: Gordon and Christine’s son being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a children’s hospital.
When their son recently experienced a life-threatening allergic reaction, Gordon told his wife, as they watched the helicopter lifeflighting the boy to a children’s hospital 75 miles away: “We’ve got to have faith he’s going to be alright. It’s out of our hands now.”
About that moment, Christine Lynne, aka Jeroldssis, writes: “Countless times I’ve said to others going through a crisis or dealing with something catastrophic, ‘you’ve got to have faith.’ It’s so much easier to say it than to actually tell yourself to do the same, but at that moment I knew in my heart that my husband was right. I grabbed onto it like it was a life raft and the only thing I had left to keep me afloat.”
As a result of their son’s health crisis, Jeroldssis learned that “sometimes the only thing a person can do is have faith if it seems like there’s nothing else.” Although both she and Gordon each spent some time “lost in our own individual hell,” their son is now doing fine. They enjoyed a traditional end-of-summer family trip to Palm Springs and he recently began the third grade.
A joyous sight: A recovered young boy “underwater and not breathing by choice.”
The Post of the Day Award is bestowed upon Jeroldssis for a couple of important reasons. First, she shared a deceptively simple, but profoundly complex truth with her readers: Sometimes faith is all that is left for us to cling to during a time of crisis when we feel completely out of control, helpless, and bewildered. We all need to be reminded of that fact from time to time so that we continue to be grateful for all of our blessings.
She also highlighted for every parent who reads her post that allergies can be life-threatening. Her son is allergic to cow’s milk. During a family vacation, he injested soy milk that had been cross-contaminated by cow’s milk, causing him to quit breathing. Any parent who suspects that his/her child may have a food allergy should have the child tested immediately.
Jeroldssis, congratulations on receiving the Post of the Day Award! And thanks go to Gordon for bringing his wife’s insightful post to our attention.
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Faith can move mountains so they say and this saying has proven its self to be true more often than not. Thanks so much for posting this moving and yet horrifying story.
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