Thankful Thursday ~ the flu/pneumonia edition

Last Thursday Sgt. Elf was healthy.  Her younger siblings had "chest colds", and I was starting to feel one coming on.  Friday it was her turn, and by Saturday night she was in ICU at Children's Hospital with a partially collapsed lung.  Yesterday she got to come home.

I am very thankful for:

• my wonderful husband who insisted on taking her in (I didn't realize how sick she was, since I was spending most of my time in bed myself.)
  


• countless prayer warriors ~ many of whom did not even know us
  


• emergency rooms


• ambulance drivers


• Children's Hospital


• ICU


• doctors


• nurses


• respiratory therapists


• physical therapists
  


• medical technology


• insurance to pay for it


• friends who brought the rest of my family food
  


• 13-year-old lungs that are working again

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the LORD. 
Thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
~Jeremiah 29:11