Update

Sometimes life is long..... but sometimes its not.  Ive been reminded of this over the last few days.  There are experiences that you have that force you to change, and I'm not saying that i needed this, but I'm definitely focusing on being grateful.  Our wee fighter, Noah is just 8, but he's the hardest working strongest little dude i know.  We are heading into 3 nights in ICU.  That sounded so scary to me, but the reality is, if you need ICU, it can be a very very safe place.  Noah has an type of pnenumonia that can go undetected and cause an acute onset of asthma.  Breathing is something we pretty much take for granted, until you start counting the breaths that someone you love is taking, and boy did he have to work for it.  He's stabilised and he's improving, apparently not enough yet to be let out of ICU, but he's coming back to us.  Some people like to say that we have a crap health system, that its messed up, useless.  But thats not been our experience AT ALL.  As i sat with Noah over the last few days its become apparent that we are incredibly lucky in New Zealand to have a free health care system that is able to respond immediately when you need it to.  At one point there were 3 doctors and a team of 4 nurses working away helping Noah, they escalated him when he needed it and we have been lucky enough to have eyes on him almost continuously.  We are really really lucky, he's not quite out of the woods, but he's definitely on the road to recovery.  Happy actual princess birthday was spent with our boy Noah, and today - happy wedding anniversary me and Reilly has been spent, with a little bit of sleep and a whole lot of 'we got this babe'.  So from us to all of you - we're holding it together. Tired, but in light of everything - doing pretty good.