Last Friday I visited Sébastien in the PICU of the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital. Surprise, surprise… I bet you weren’t expecting me to write this on the blog after just telling you Sébastien arrived in Winnipeg… on holidays for five whole weeks. Well, we weren’t expecting to come back from a visit to Saskatoon (my lovely little home-city) to hear that Sébastien had had severe bleeding and a bad infection to boot. Catching up on the details with Jasmina over the phone, I was thinking I could chime in to a refrain of “It’s so unfair”… or something similar. But no, Jasmina would simply say: “We learn to go with the flow…” as though this modern and perfectly manicured mother had just attended the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and decided that hospital visits would be all peace and love.
The strange infection which Sébastien only seems to get here in Winnipeg, is sending him back to Toronto on a mission to resolve the infection and find the source of the bleeding. They’re leaving this week… possibly Thursday. And before then, we actually want to see them. More than once. We’d like to claim “first dibs” on Sébastien… but we have to be patient and wait our turn… and hope that events are in our favor. It also looks like it will be the last time that we’ll see Sébastien in Winnipeg for a long time… Jasmina says that until Sébastien has had his kidney transplant, they’ll stay in Toronto.
For now, Sébastien is discharged and the hospital in Toronto will decide if Sébastien is to take a commercial flight back or be airlifted. As I write, my handsome husband is having Sébastien’s most recent pictures put on CD. So, new pictures of Sébastien will be on Flickr soon. Even though I’m on holidays… (Honestly? Sébastien is too cute not to share!)
I stopped on your website to see how Sebastien was doing. I was saddened to hear what has happened. Caleb still prays for Sebastien every night. He prays for him to get better and go home. You are two of the strongest people I’ve ever met. We’ll be thinking of you and praying for you
Melissa, Fred, Caleb and Meagan Whittier
Hey guys! We just got back from our trip to the states and didn’t see any lights in the house so decided to check the blog and to our dismay discovered that you had returned to Toronto. we are disappointed that you are gone but happy to have seen you and your little angel at least once. Hopefully things get resolved asap. Jude, Genevieve and Carter say hello and are always praying for you. Stay strong as you always do. Talk to you soon.
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