Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for your support and prayers over the past few weeks. Hayden is feeling a lot better now, although his immune system seems to be very low as he has been constantly sick with various things since coming out of hospital. He is still experiencing a lot of headaches, is still struggling a little with eating, and is not really sleeping - all of which were a result of his hospitalisation.
There are a variety of things that can set off high blood sugars to cause Ketoacidosis in a diabetic, and the hospital suggested Hayden could have had some food poisoning (which is what we thought it was originally). Looking up Ketoacidosis showed that there are a variety of things that can help set it off, nothing too extraordinary, but in the previous couple of days before Hayden got sick, all of these causes seem to have occurred.
Basically, we decided to take Hayden to hospital after he had been really ill for about 10 hours, and had been vomiting more and more fequently up to every 10 minutes. I took him to a good hospital with diabetes doctors as I did not want to chance going to a cheap Thai hospital. Upon admission, he was not very with it and we was put straight into ICU for a couple of days. He was then moved to a ward for one more day before we decided to check out because of the high costs (ICU is not cheap).
I (Emily) feel that my family is really being attacked health wise at the moment, with Hayden being just one of the casualties, so please continue to hold us in your prayers during this time.
Before we left England to come here I remember being given a wonderful word from someone at church - someone we hadn't really chatted to before. It included lots of wonderful blessings and things to remember while here in Thailand. One of the words (It was a couple of pages :)) was about health. That we would have healing hands and that health would be an area of blessing but also real struggles - for us and people around or close to us! That we would need to remember to seek God and would need to maintain a true and close prayer relationship with Him during those times because they would be times of attack.
Well...this is being proven right now, many of my family are currently fighting health problems - and Hayden's health is nearly a joke at how much trouble he has now, one thing after another. He has not had anywhere near 80% wellness for a long time now.
Please keep praying that Hayden immune system will be restored so he can fight off the illnesses of the last few weeks.
Thanks everyone for your support, we love you all!
Emily and Hayden
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