Things have been crazy for the Bedell Family over the last two weeks.
Roxy Grace Bedell was born on July 9, 2010 at 1:37am.
You can catch up with the family fun at: http://babybedell.tumblr.com
She is healthy, beautiful and even has her dad’s butt chin (sorry baby, it’s genetic).
Then Monday, Carrie had complications and heavy pains from her epidural. The doctors told us whoever did the epidural apparently went in too far, puncturing the spinal fluid area and it began to leak (happens 1% of the time). Because of this leak, she had unreal headaches and the spinal pressure from the brain to the bottom of the spine is not level. The body tried to help level out on it’s own, causing her to feel tremendous pain while upright or simply sitting.
They performed a “Blood Patch” which apparently is identical to the epidural procedure, but they pumped some of her blood in to plug the leak of fluid. I have no clue how this works, but they said it’s 95+% effective. Well, it worked. But, it left her unable to do much of anything for a week. Leaving Mr. Mom to take care of the girls (man, that sounds weird to say… or type… uh, nevermind) and also take care of Carrie.
Through all of this, God has been faithful.
We’ve had meals brought to us every night (Thank you Pollards, Millers, Oran/Wood, Allens, Austins, Rosteks, Merciers, Lukesons, & Laniers). People stopped by the hospital, sent messages on Facebook/Twitter, have come by the house- seriously, we have the best church family in the world. Hands down.
I jumped back into the routine of blogging only to have BabyGate ’10 stop our family in it’s tracks. We’re back to normal though (chaos is pretty normal to us by now) and will be available for meetings, counseling, hanging out, more free dinners, shopping trips (on your dime, j/k. well… sort of). Thanks again, to our family/friends, everyone at Forefront, and our ministry friends all over who have been in prayer for our family. You guys are great!
Jason, Carrie, Chloe, and Roxy *over and out*
