A Very Eventful Weekend

// May 9th, 2010 // Loux Family News

Happy Mother’s Day!  I hope that each of you feels loved and celebrated on this special day!

It has been an eventful weekend, and I wanted to give you all an update on the family.

Silas is doing great! He is recovering well, and so quickly, from his surgery that took place last Monday. Thanks so much to each of you who have been praying for him!

On Friday, my beautiful children surprised me with a special early Mother’s Day celebration.  I will be writing a separate post later about my incredibly special evening.  I was so honored and want to share in detail, a couple days from now, about how our children blessed me!

Yesterday morning (May 8th), our day started out with Ethan being taken to the doctor. He wouldn’t drink or eat anything and hadn’t since Friday afternoon.  Ethan was diagnosed with a respiratory infection and is now on antibiotics. We are so grateful that he is now eating and drinking again and feeling much better.

After Ethan got home from the doctor’s office,  I spoke at the IHOPU Forerunner Music Academy  graduation. It was such a humble honor to be asked to speak.  What a special time of celebration! These graduates are so precious to my heart. They were the first students that attended Forerunner Music Academy, which my husband Derek, helped pioneer.  It was very emotional for me to see them in their caps and gowns. I wish Derek could have been there to celebrate with us all, but I have a feeling the Lord let him get a peek of the students celebrating this special day. He would have been so proud!

As I pulled in to the driveway of our home, after the graduation ceremony, my daughter Michaela came running out of the house with tears pouring down her face, screaming, “Mama, Mama, Sasha is dying! He’s not breathing and he’s not moving!”  I dropped everything in my hands and ran into the house to find Sasha laying lifeless on the sofa.  His eyes were rolled back, he had a gray appearance, and was unresponsive.  My sister-in-law Tracie had been at the house early while I was at the graduation ceremony, helping to decorate for our daughter Michaela’s 10th birthday party.  Tracie had already called 911, and I held Sasha in my arms as we waited for the paramedics and the ambulance to arrive.  When the paramedics arrived, they quickly carried Sasha out to the ambulance.

Michaela was in a state of horror, thinking that her brother was dead or dying.  She was overcome with fear, because of the trauma we have all walked through with Derek’s death just 4 and 1/2 months ago.  One of the paramedics was so kind and stayed to speak with Michaela for a few minutes, comforting her and letting her know that her brother would be alright.  She began to calm down as the ambulance pulled away with her brother.  Shortly after the ambulance left, her friends began arriving for her birthday party.  The party itself was very emotional because it was her first birthday without her daddy.

The paramedics assured me that Sasha was stable and had a strong pulse. My sister-in-law Tracie, offered to go with Sasha to the ER, and I decided that it would be best for me to stay for Michaela’s birthday party to help her feel loved and honored.    Her birthday ended up being a wonderful celebration of her precious life. I was so blessed to have Tracie’s help.  Since she was willing to stay with my Sasha, and I knew she would love him well while I wasn’t with him,  it helped me feel a little more at peace about not being at the hospital.

Three awesome friends: Kristen Carlson, Peter Kiiskila, and Tim Cone went to the ER to pray over Sasha and love on him as soon as they heard that he was there. Our amazing family doctor Wendy Bisset joined to support Tracie, and check on Sasha’s care. I am so grateful for her loving, care of our children. She is an amazing physician and a great friend. Dan Petrilli, another incredibly supportive friend, made the trip to the hospital with our daughter Teyolla to visit Sasha. Our precious boy was surrounded by love the entire evening. One of the nurses was even in tears over the level of love and support that our little boy was given by our great big extended family. Even in sickness, Sasha’s life was a testimony of the love of Jesus.

Our daughter Telma and I drove to the hospital to be with Sasha after the birthday party. He was stable but very “out of it.”  We stroked his head, prayed with him, and snuggled him in his hospital bed.  It was so hard to see him in the state he was in, but so comforting to know that he was safe and being well cared for in the hospital.  We knew the Lord was watching over him well.

Our incredible friend Kristen Carlson offered to spend the night in the hospital room with Sasha, so I could go back home to get a little rest before spending the whole day at the hospital today.  We were also blessed to have Tiffany Larson and Claire Mcintire, two of our most precious family support staff helping out at home, while Telma and I were at the hospital.

Sasha is doing better today, although he is still at Children’s Mercy Hosptial and in pain. The neurologist will be checking him out tomorrow morning to see if there is a problem with his shunt, or to determine whether or not he had a seizure and needs to be put on seizure medications. His fever spiked to 105 degrees at one point, and once he arrived at the hosptial and had been on an IV for several hours, he began to throw up several times.

Our daughter Michaela now has a rash from poison ivy and is covered with red hives from head to toe. Not a very nice birthday gift!

We would appreciate your prayers for Ethan, Sasha and Michaela.

God is good and is faithful and we trust him in every way.

Blessings and hugs!

Renee’