Hospitals, Miracles, and Other Events

I'm going to start with the most recent miracle and work back in time for the last month. Today we drove down to Salt Lake to see Jon's grandparents who are from Monticello. Last week Grandpa was life flighted to the UofU Hospital from Monticello with heart problems. Miraculously, he didn't need to have surgery and after observing him for several days, they released him. (See the photo, he looks pretty good!)

Miracle number 2- Just as we pulled into the hospital parking garage, Grandpa and Uncle Kim were driving out. They spotted us and stopped. This might not seem like a miracle that we met up, but if you don't have a cell phone it really was! We followed them down to Herriman where Uncle Kim's son and his family live and where Aunt Cindy and Grandma were staying. We visited with them and had a nice pizza lunch. (As a side note, I found out that Autumn's second cousin had a milk allergy too and so did Uncle Kim when he was a baby. It must be a Burtenshaw trait!)

Miracle number 3- Or my most appreciated miracle. Autumn is finally well after 18 days of diarrhea. Yuck! She had a stool sample taken and the lab results came back that she was suffering from a bacteria normally found in the topics. We probably went through 3 months of diapers in a month and washed several pairs of pants a day. We are still waiting for the final results of the stool test but three days of antibiotics really did the trick. Thanks Dr. Visick!

Miracle number 4- Autumn had to go to the Emergency Room after she fell off of a bed and hit her head on a hard wood floor about a week and a half ago. I took her in because she had seizured immediately after the fall and because she couldn't walk or grab things for about half an hour. Miraculously, she didn't have any brain damage and the bruise on her head has finally gone away.

I get to teach the lesson to the young women tomorrow. The lesson is on gratitude. I feel more prepared because I know that each of these events could have turned out in a much worse way. We all have miracles, sometimes we just need to weather the storms before we can learn what they are.