My husband mentioned in his post on Tuesday that Max is currently sick and ended up being admitted to the hospital yesterday for breathing troubles. We received a Pulse Oxygen meter last week (right on time) to monitor his % O2 and heart rate at home. 

The blue numbers is his % O2 and the green number is his beats per minute (BPM).

When he isn’t sick his normal oxygen fluxuates between 95-100% due to his severe tracheomalacia (typical lungs oxygen is at 100%).  Since he is sick his oxygen level started to drop going as low as 87%. Brandon took him to the hospital for some deep nasal suctioning to help alleviate his breathing troubles.  They ended up admitting him and we are in the PICU on oxygen praying we get released soon. I had another post I wanted to publish, but decided to list out the 10 Bible Verses and stories that God always places on my heart as we go from crisis to crisis, from doctors appointments, and to hospital stays.  I hope they minister to you as the Holy Spirit brings these verses back to me whenever I’m down and questioning why to God.

 
10 Bible Verses for Special Needs Parents

1. Psalms 139:13-16 13 You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb.
   14 I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.
   15 When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb,
   when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there- 16 you saw me before I was born.
   The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.
2. Mark 10:14-15 14 When Jesus noticed this, he was angry and said to his disciples, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 I assure you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
3. Mark 16:15 He said to them, “Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people.
4. John 9:2-3 2 His disciples asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents’ sin?” 3 Jesus answered, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents’ sins. He is blind so that God’s power might be seen at work in him.
5. Exodus 4:11  The Lord said to him, “Who gives man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? It is I, the Lord.
6. Luke 14:12-14 12 Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors—for they will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did. 13 When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death.”
7. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 The body doesn’t consist of one member, but of many, this includes those with special needs and disabilities.

   12 Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts. 13 In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink. 14 For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts. 15 If the foot were to say, “Because I am not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” that would not keep it from being a part of the body. 16 And if the ear were to say, “Because I am not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” that would not keep it from being a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell? 18 As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be. 19 There would not be a body if it were all only one part! 20 As it is, there are many parts but one body. 21 So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Nor can the head say to the feet, “Well, I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker; 23 and those parts that we think aren’t worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don’t look very nice are treated with special modesty, 24 which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it. 25 And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another. 26 If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness. 27 All of you are Christ’s body, and each one is a part of it. 

8. Romans 8:28. 28 We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him,those whom he has called according to his purpose.
9. Romans 3:23 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
10. Matthew 25:31-46 Least of These Passage!  We are all apart of the least of these, created for a purpose to magnify the Lord!31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

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