A Month of Emergencies and Miracles- The Full Story | Sadie & Christian Huff

What's up everybody? Happy Well That's Good Wednesday. I hope you're having a great week, but it is about to get so much better and we are so thankful to come on the podcast today. Me and my boom, my co-host Christian and actually today this is like so crazy because we're recording this and putting it out kind of fast because and we don't normally do that, but we just felt like there's been so much happening in life over the past month that we're like, you know what? Let's just get on the podcast and share and it feels very timely that we share sooner than later. Well, things are still fresh. Well, things are fresh on the noggin. Because like as much hardship as we've kind of walked through the past month and a half, we've also seen so many miracles and everyone keeps saying like, have you written all this down? And I'm like, I've tried to, but I have three kids and life is so crazy. And every time I start journaling, you know, I get interrupted. And so I was like, let's just like do a podcast and try to remember all of the things and testify truly to what the Lord has done because we could not be more grateful for what God has done in our life over the last month. Because like I said, we've walked through some really hard things. And I shared this clip on social media of me holding kit in the hospital and I was singing, you know, I was tossing the water, but I never went under. You were always on time. And that song has been like so accurate to what we've gone through, because I feel like we really were like tossing the water. We really did like go through the fire. Like we've gone through some really scary, hard things, but we didn't get, we didn't go under. Like God always provided exactly what we need at the right time. And we want to testify to that and just kind of tell a kid's story over the past month. And we'll start with the first choking accident because so many of you guys reached out and were so kind on social media after kit choked. And there was a lot of questions asked to a lot of fears raised for moms and also not even I won't say fears necessarily in a fully bad way because I think for a lot of people, awareness, yeah, awareness, like it made people jump into action and like learn CPR, which I was like grateful for that, that, you know, it raised awareness and it's going to help people. But there was a lot more to the story that we knew we would eventually want to share. Because there was also a lot of opinions on social media of like, you know, you need to have a life back back and you needed, you can do those or that and the other. And I was just thinking, man, people just really don't understand what that moment looks like and how could you have, I've never shared it. But we want to today. So we are going to back it up to about a month and a half ago and share this story. And also emotions have been all over the place. Like sometimes I tell this, you know, to friends and I'll cry the whole time or I'll be a little shaky. And then sometimes I'll tell it and I'll be fine and like can get through it. And so trauma has like a weird way of coming in waves. And I've learned that over the past month to just like ride the wave and lean into it and let the Lord meet me in it. And so I don't know if I'll cry the whole time, or maybe I'll just be able to talk about it because again, we're kind of thankfully at this point on the other side of so much of the trauma of it and Kit is doing so good. But back in April, April 6th, we had just gotten down to the beach. We're going on a beach vacation with our family. And Kit up until this point has been like such a healthy baby. She has been like way healthier actually than our other two at this age. Our first two had many hospital visits, many sickness things. Well, you have to clarify why. Honey has had like four tube surgeries for her years. Haven had, Haven had UTI problems that we had to be in the hospital for. So she was on a daily medicine for that. So we thought we were in there clear with Kit because she had never had anything. But we were, we were definitely raw. So we were thinking like Kit is our easiest baby. She's been so great. Now the only thing we did know she had is I remember like right whenever she was born getting home in the hospital and she was like the noisiest breather. She, we would call her like our little pig because she just would have like the loudest snoring as a little baby. Well, the funniest thing was I have a DVA to septum. So I'm a loud breather. I snore. And then people would think or our family thought that Kit got that trait for me. And I was like, my DVA to septum is not a genetic trait. So she did not have her heavy breathing passed down from her. People would say she breathes like her daddy. Chris, I was like, I broke my nose. Like I shattered my nose in middle school playing baseball. It's not a genetic trait to pass down to my children. So that was something obviously that I was like a little concerned by. And so our first trip to the pediatrician, I like tell him she breathes really loud. And he said, Oh yeah, she does. I can hear that. And he said, I bet she has and he wrote it down. Like, I like remember this so clearly. We pronounce it differently every time. Well, now I know because of being in the hospital for two weeks. I didn't say it right for like the first six months of her life. But he writes down Loringa Malaysia. And he was like, this what she has in other words, floppy throat. She has a little turbulence breathing. So he put it in more and like easier ways to understand. He said Loringa Malaysia is very common in babies. It's like their little airway, their voice box is supposed to be a little whole, but it's actually going to be shaped like this because it's like this skin is kind of like vent. And that's what makes it kind of flop. And that's what makes her sound loud when she breathes. And he says, it's really most of the time nothing to worry about. As long as she's eating fine, her oxygen levels are good, which we use an outlet. And so she never had dibs in oxygen. She ate great. She was always great at nursing, easy to switch to the bottle. So really, I wasn't worried about it. He said he's only had one kid in his whole practice has ever had to have surgery. He said 90% of kids grow out of it by the age of one, nothing really to worry about. So I really didn't worry about it. Months, you know, went by and she still had the heavy breathing. And sometimes I would be like, Oh, is it getting worse? Is it getting better? But again, it was more of kind of like, that's just the way she sounds, but it doesn't affect her life. So anyways, going to the beach at this point, like we really were not concerned about kit. She had been eating solids at this point for a couple weeks, eating a lot of solids. She like loves food. She was our best eater ever. Like our other kids at this age would not have wanted food like that, but she would eat anything that was on my plate. I'd give her tiny, tiny little bites and she just loved it. Got so excited about food. So really wasn't worried about that either. So anyways, we get to the beach and it's our first night there. And we're cooking dinner and the rest of the family was about to get there. And I was starting to make some like guacamole because Kit loves guacamole and I put some puffs on her high chair and like tiny, tiny, tiny bits of shredded chicken because she loves chicken. And Christian was watching her in the high chair, eat all that. And then like our whole family got there. So they're all coming upstairs and we're like hugging everybody. And I like look over at Kit and she just looks so cute in that little high chair. And I was like, everybody look at Kit Kat. Look how big she looks over there. And so everybody looked and normally Kit is like the happiest, smileiest baby. And she just wasn't like smiling at anyone. And so my mom was like, what is that face about? Like, why are you not smiling? So my mom like went over and like picked her up. And she was like, what is that? What is that little face? And Kit looked kind of like concerned almost like she didn't know like what was happening. And then all of a sudden, like she just, it was like she went to cry, but she couldn't. And my mom was like, she's choking. And then I'm telling you within like seconds, she completely went purple. And that's why like in this choking moment, like, I say choking with like air quotes, because it didn't seem like a traditional choking situation. Like it wasn't like, let's go get a life back. Like, we need to get this out. Like she didn't grunt. She wasn't trying to cough. She wasn't like literally she made a weird face. And then she was completely purple. And my mom like handed her to me and she immediately just went completely limp, completely purple. And I really just went straight into CPR. And I remember saying like out loud, I was like, mom, what do I do? What do I do? And then I just started doing it. I started doing chest compressions. I started, you know, breathing in her mouth and like doing this whole CPR, which I'm like not CPR certified or anything, but I'm a mom who's watched all the videos because I like to be prepared. And every time I had a baby, I would go home and like refresh all the videos. And thankfully, my body just kind of sprung into action. And, and I really want to say I felt like guided in a way that is really supernatural because I was telling Christian like I, I know like I was very calm in the moment and I was doing exactly what I needed to do. But my mind was like going crazy. My mind was like so terrified. But like I kept just saying like, God, you're good. Like God, you're going to give her life. Like God, you get up, you're going like this is going to work. And I remember Christian, you say, this has to work. And I looked at you as like it's going to work. Like, I just had like an assurance, like she was going to be okay. Although in my mind, I didn't have that assurance that that makes sense. Like my mind was knowing the severity of the situation. But like, I just was like, no, like she's going to be okay. And like kept breathing into her. And then it wasn't working. Because I was doing like I was doing the mouth to mouth to and it was like the weirdest thing yet because she was like she was just limp, you know, so it was like doing the CPR. It was just the weirdest. It was the worst experience. The most frightening thing. It was horribly traumatic. And so we ended up, it wasn't working. And so I like ran outside with her onto the porch and I did it again. And was just declaring life and did it one more time. And she started to cough and it was just like, thank you God, thank you God. And I just, yeah, as this was happening, your mom called 911. Well, mom had already immediately called 911. And so by the time I got outside on the porch with her, I mean, I started to hear like the sound of the ambulance one minute later. I mean, they showed up within four minutes. It was such a huge blessing that they got there so fast. 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Go to liberty.edu slash Sadie to enter the giveaway, explore your visiting options and start moving towards what God has for your future. Don't wait at liberty.edu slash Sadie today. She started to cough. I got done on my knees with her. I was doing back blows and that was the weird thing is nothing came up. Like nothing seemed to have like dislodged and so and she was kind of in and out of consciousness so I knew she was breathing and her color was coming back but she was still kind of in out consciousness and I would say this whole thing was about two and a half minutes. I would say about two minutes. It felt like forever but probably like two minutes. And so I run downstairs with her. The cops are there. They start doing back blows and like the tiniest, tiniest piece of chicken came up but not like that wasn't it. It was like maybe the size of her fingernail and a little bit of blood but it just didn't really make sense. Anyways we got in the ambulance. I didn't even have my phone on me. I had nothing. I just got in the ambulance with her and we just we left and I think I didn't even know like mom was in the front seat. You were driving me out. I didn't know anything. I was just with Kit and just like praying and just like so grateful that she was okay. So anyways we're riding in the ambulance at night and to the hospital and you call mom and you were like hand the phone to Sadie and you said I just want to let you know that there's been like a rainbow over the ambulance like the whole time we've been riding to the hospital and that was like a really big moment for me because I just felt like the Lord was just like with us and just like kind of just making this promise like I have you all and that just like that really meant a lot and just gave a lot of peace you know and I felt like the Lord was really kind of like washing like over us in peace in that moment. So we get to the hospital and at that point Kit was doing great but obviously like we're terrified and her orchestra was a little low and so they emitted us and you know they just said kids choke. It's so scary. You did exactly what you're supposed to do. You know good job mama. You did CPR. You never want to do that but minutes matter and they gave the whole talk and we're just like you did it and you know it was so interesting because that night like I never I kind of just was like was that really choking like I know I know it was because she was eating but like she didn't struggle she didn't whatever like I still understand and it was puffs and it was like all the stuff and that. And with the choking that's why it was confusing because it was puffs so I think the answer we kind of got from them was you know maybe it just ended up dissolving and it just kind of went through which is why nothing really ever came back up which is not the most you know assured answer which does make you have more questions of if that was the cause if there's is there some other underlying issue. Yeah it was puffs which are dissolvable. So we think that's probably what happened. Well now we know but we have to get to that. Yeah but I'm saying at that night that's like we were trying to like okay that makes sense and the lady was like so I mean they were so nice but they were like don't overthink it like she was eating she choked it was horrible but like this is like hopefully like it's not gonna yes kids can choke again but like hopefully you're never gonna experience that again like there's nothing underlying like don't overthink it kind of thing. I was like okay so go back to the house that week and like just tried to like start moving forward. She I mean every night at dinner I would just cry and we just have waves of anxiety and emotions and trauma but I look at her and I'm like she's healthy she's great she was I mean was she not like the happiest little thing. My mom my dad said he thinks she met Jesus because she came back heavenly I mean which is a crazy thing about but like she really was like so peaceful and whenever I would start having that wave of some anxiety remember she was like grabbing my face with both her hands which was like so sweet and she had never done that before and she would just like laugh. So God was really comforting me through her and her health and I was just like okay she's okay and it was really sweet because the porch that I went out and did CPR and I really didn't think I was gonna be able to go out there the rest of the week or sit in that chair or sit on that swing or anything and I kept feeling like the Lord just wanted to meet me there and so I'd go out there and like sit with kid and just like thank God for her life and that he met us there that he gave her life in that moment and you know we ended up kind of leaving and just feeling like God thank you you know she's okay. Well when we came back home it was kind of like okay we're getting back to reality we're trying to get back to reality but I was struggling a lot with it but you know I was like it's okay I just kept talking myself and one of the things I had to work through was I was like I did CPR like and that that's what like brought her back and so I need to like be with her 24-7 and I had to really surrender that and release that and be like no like God you gave her life like you put breath in her lungs you number her days like she's yours first and like just continue to kind of like give up that wrestle wanting to like completely hover and just like can't let her out on my side or go back to work or do anything so I kind of had started to work through it. Well fast forward I guess like two weeks later and we were about to we were supposed to have been leaving for London because I was speaking at this big conference there that we've been really looking forward to and we were like okay before we leave for London and we're gone for a whole month let's like invite all of our friends over have dinner for everybody hang out and so we invited them over on a Sunday night and it was actually like so interesting because I didn't think about this before him but we were making tacos and we were making like guacamole and everything and it was like so similar to that night that she choked like we hadn't in that sense I guess like made tacos and guac and you know how like trauma just rolls in randomly and so all of a sudden I started just kind of feeling really anxious and Kit was in her high chair again which we had like worked back up to her sitting in the high chair because she had kind of a little resistance to food for a little bit too we had gone to her pediatrician we had actually like we were about to start speech therapy swallow therapy all the stuff so and separation anxiety that she was kind of having with food for me like it was like a whole thing so we were already like going to work on all that and so she was in her high chair and we had a smoothie melts and I hadn't like given her anything really like that since everything we'd given her some remember like when she would sit in her lap and not like in a high chair which like all my kids ate smoothie melts and puffs you know I hadn't ever had a problem with that but I put smoothie melts out there and I was like making dinner and then all of a sudden I was like you were making guacamole like you were doing I know so I get super anxious no I didn't make guacamole I was making tacos because I didn't want to make guac because I knew that was going to be like triggering so my friend was and I look over at her with the smoothie melts and I go yeah I'm sorry I'm having so like this web anxiety I was like I just and I hadn't like told them the full story and I said this is actually just so similar to what happened because she was eating puffs and it was puffs that kind of did it and they were like really I was like yeah and I said I'm just gonna I'm just gonna throw all these ways all right this just stresses me out so like threw all the melts away and then I said I'm just gonna watch her for a minute and she had completely swallowed the melt like it was fine then I was giving her some avocado to like make sure it was like washed down which by the way the first night she never ended up eating the guac so if you're thinking is she allergic to avocado or is that is not that that's just happened to be what we were making she never even had it the first night but this night she loved avocado so much she ate that like every day like I'll let her like eat this to swallow it well she did that she was great she was fine all of a sudden I turned around to keep cooking my friend is continuing to feed her avocado and she just like screams and I mean as soon as I looked at her I knew it was about to happen again so I like pick her up all over again turns purple goes limp and how it's just like oh my gosh oh my gosh well praise the lord my friend who was over there is a nikkune nurse and so I was just like grace like screaming for grace and she's just like runs in and she immediately starts to back blows you meet like we go right into it christian calls 911 and at this point I'm just on my face like praying just like lord you're good god you're good you're gonna give her life you're gonna do it again you're gonna do it again um and thankfully she came to you and you know all the things but at that point it was just like so terrifying because then we knew like okay this is something different like she's not just choking like something is wrong and christian and I just sat in that room for like hours our room the rest of our friends were there for like in the next two hours they stayed and like played with honey and haven we were just in the other room for a couple hours like because it was just confusing it was like we don't like there were no answers it's like you're you're you're traumatized you're freaked out it's like discombobulated you don't know like where your emotions are we're about to leave the country for two weeks so it's like is all these yeah it was always competing things that it was just at the end of the day it was just confusion it was like we don't know what and so it's gonna happen again that was on a sunday so the next day we go to our pediatrician I think we've all had those moments where we want to help but we just don't know where to start or what we're doing if it's actually making a difference and that's what I love so much about love one international for just 20 a month you can help provide life-saving nutrition and medical care for a child in Uganda and for so many of these kids that care really is 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and he he hears those and he's like so helpful he's like all right like we are gonna do these tests today and then he said and I really want to get y'all into this doctor in baton rouge because she's specializes in this she's amazing at just ent stuff especially for the airway and he said I really think this might have to do with her luring in Malaysia and we but we need to rule out that this isn't something with her heart or this isn't something else that's a little bit bigger because neurologic or neurological because you know the whole going purple and the fainting is like obviously extremely scary and so anyways he sends us you know down to do some tests and everything at this point we're just praying and we're praying for an open door into this doctor and we're trying to figure out are we going to tell this event that I can't make it I mean it was a global leadership conference there's like 7000 leaders from around the world I'm supposed to be their main speaker like which obviously at this point like your child is the only thing that matters but also they've had me booked for over a year and I'm gonna have to tell them like I can't come they're gonna have to find a replacement and we don't even have answers like we don't even know you know I'm questioning myself is did she joke did she not joke but what is this like you know is this spiritual warfare is this actually something wrong that we need to fix are we what is happening you know fear is this legitimate and so anyways we go through the the local tests that we could do and everything looked fine from the local tests but we really need to get into that doctor in Baton Rouge and it's so hard to get into a specialist in that timely of a manner and so we're just praying and that day I remember going out in the grass and literally laying on my face which I'd never do to pray I felt like in the bible when it says like and they tore their clothes and like lay before the Lord like I just felt so just like God I need you to reveal to us like what to do because this is my baby and we just need answers and just like speak you know and open the door that only you can open and we have like all our prayer group praying for us and everything and anyways I get up from praying on the grass and I go grab my phone I had a voice memo from the friend who owns a beach house who we were staying at and this is so crazy because at this point the first choking incident was three weeks ago okay and so when she texted me this three weeks ago we never talked about kid choking like the the people who own the house I never said to them like kid choked and this whole thing happened mainly because I didn't want them to like you know think oh something so scary happened in their house because really the Lord did meet us there and she was okay and so I just didn't know how to bring that up so I never did so we didn't even talk about it this is the first time she's reached out about it and this is three weeks later and it's this voice memo and underneath that there's a text that says sorry I felt like I need to just explain this and I was like what could this be and because I had texted her the day before like thanking her for everything I'd finally said like something about the choking and I was like your house is such a house of peace all the stuff so then this is her response and I was like what could this be and she said she said my neighbors our neighbors at the beach house called us and they were weeping and they wanted us to know that they haven't known what to do with this and they didn't know if they should tell us or what they should do with this but their ring camera picked up the whole moment that I was out on the porch with Kit doing CPR and they said they have wept over the video because it has impacted their faith so much because of the faith I had over my daughter in that moment and they said they've just watched it and they wept together and they prayed like Lord what do we do with this what why do we have this video and they said we we think Sadie should see this and they said I think she'll be encouraged by her faith in the moment the thing she was saying and so they sent it ended up sending it the next day but in that moment it was so crazy because we didn't have any answers we didn't have anything but it kind of was like that rainbow moment again where I felt like the Lord just was saying like I see you I've seen you I've been with you this whole time and I would have like never in a million years thought that that was good to be on camera um actually that day whenever after everything happened the next day I went outside on the porch to look and make sure there were no cameras because I was gonna have to tell the house owners like hey this thing happened there was no cameras then that's why I didn't say anything but the across the street neighbors camera picked up this whole moment when we were in audio to the outside and the audio was like crystal clear which was like the craziest thing and it recorded 20 minutes recorded everything from the cops get there like the whole thing I can't even believe it um but what was so helpful was that it did record all the audio and I was like oh my gosh like this is so helpful to show the doctor because like up till that point I couldn't explain to the doctor how bad it really was like how terrifying how unique it was because people were like every time we go into it it would be like oh so did her lips turn blue I was like no her body turned blue it was like oh so did she choke yes but was she coughing no was she grunting no like I can't explain it and so anyways okay so that happens then we get a call that we actually got into this doctor in baton rouge and we can go see her like Wednesday and this is Monday I'm like oh my gosh praise the lord and so we go down Wednesday or Tuesday night and then this is such a god thing because the people so I have a prayer group there's like 10 women in it okay only like 10 women they live all over the country and I send them hey we're we got in this hospital in baton rouge I'm so thankful like this is an answered prayer um all this stuff and one of the 10 people in our prayer group she goes uh actually my husband works at the hospital we just moved we lived 10 minutes away from the hospital if y'all want to stay with us now the also significant thing about this girl is that I don't really I hadn't really known her well and the reason she's in my prayer group is because whenever I got pregnant with kid um most of y'all know it was a surprise and I was like oh my gosh you know is due the month of conference and I was thinking holy cow this is gonna be crazy and she is one of lauren dagl's best friends and my friend staff's best friend and she texted them and was like hey I had this dream about saty it was so crazy and she like tells his whole dream and it was a dream that like I was pregnant and I was supposed to be like leading a conference and this is before anybody knew I was pregnant like we knew but no one else knew and then so they sent it to me and uh it was so accurate and on point that I was like wow this girl like the lauren put me on her heart and then she kept praying for her family for a couple months add her to the group and I was like I'm adding you to the group because you hear from the lauren so like that's just so crazy so we ended up staying at her house at this point it was just you and your mommy kit I was yeah you were staying with the girls and we get down there and I was just like god thank you for us even staying at her house because you told her about kids life before anybody knew about kids life so I just was like reminded of his faithfulness and like god has her days and god has had her you know in mind before the foundation of the world began and here we are at this house who really prophesied over her life so the whole thing was just like comforting to me so we go into the doctor the next day and at this point like we don't know we're going to be admitted we don't know anything like we're just like praying we don't even know what we're praying we're just like lord gives the answers and um the specialist walks in who was amazing and hey um actually was able to show her the video and before any test just from seeing the video she goes we're admitting you which was like such a blessing because then we were able to cancel all of our linen stuff and like know from that point on like okay we need to like fully like that's all off like we're just everything we just have to find the answer so we get admitted before we even are fully admitted she already goes ahead and does the the scope to look at the luringa melasia and within the first second she goes okay i would definitely classify this as severe luringa melasia and we already start talking about surgery and it was like whoa and but she was saying before we kind of go down the whole route of surgery we're going to do swallow study we're going to do a heart ekg we're going to go down the neuropath like we're we're going to figure everything out because that is not normal like what happened obviously in the video and so um so many you know fears but also like okay now we know that the luringa melasia was severe we didn't know that before and all stuff and so we're we're just like thankful to be like in good hands and like someone who's like listening to us and taking it really seriously so while we're back we planted an apple tree in our yard and it's been really special watching our kids learn that not everything happens overnight some things take time to grow but a great lesson for the kids doesn't have to be a bigger deal for mom and dad so the fact that fast growing trees made the whole thing so easy from picking it out to planting it was a total win for us fast growing trees is america's largest and most trusted online nursery with thousands of trees and plants and over two million happy 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first purchase when you use the code woe at checkout that's an additional 20% off better plants and better growing at fast growing trees dot com using the code woe at checkout that's fast growing trees dot com with the code woe now is the perfect time to plant let's grow together use woe to save today offer is valid for a limited time terms and conditions may apply so we go to the hospital within like hours we had already done every test like they were not playing around like it was awesome how on it they were heart came back great which was just so huge and then we went to the swallow study and when we did the swallow study um we were able to see that kit was having like it was the milk and everything was like penetrating the airway but not only that but she was having like minor aspirations whenever that was happening um which not good um and they actually said with her severe leering in Malaysia and the swallow study they said most babies who have this combo and look the way she looks um normally are failure to thrive like are in the hospital every single month since they're born with pneumonia they were like she is such a rare case a unique case because she is a severe case but she doesn't present as a severely sick baby and like the symptoms that you should yeah they were like typically have because every nurse that came in and doctor was like she looks too well to be in the hospital and I was like I know like she seems fine but like two moments she was not fine and um it really was just like such a miracle honestly that we hadn't had issues before so I'm so grateful for that but that was also why it was like so confusing because we were like we would have never known you know like she was fine um so that was just like very eye-opening like okay lord who like thank you god for that you've been with us this whole time you know and that she's been fine and that you let us here and we're getting the right help um and thankfully with those two things it was kind of the answer to our problem we didn't need to keep going down the neuropath or anything like that and what was really interesting seeing that I was like oh you can see now why it happened because the way that the milk was going into her airway then it would come out then go down the right pipe they were like if a puff went down there it wouldn't have been able to swoop out and go down the right path it would have gotten lodged and because of her severe luring in Malaysia her like her entire airway was covered by this floppy skin and it wasn't able to open properly and so anything like a puff would have like just completely covered her airway well and they were thinking too that the second time it happened was more of like a reflux like like a like a trauma trigger yeah and so it was like good because like that made sense it was like okay that makes sense so then we were about to go into surgery so that was a Wednesday she was going to do surgery on Thursday and then they were like let's just test her for any viruses just just to make sure and then she came back positive for rhino virus so uh they were not able to do the surgery the day that they were hoping to do it so that pushed it back to that pushed it forward to the next week and then we were like all right well y'all got to get down here because I missed y'all too much yeah so that was on Thursday me and the girls drove down Friday you and your mom got an awesome Airbnb it was super epic since we were going to be there for what what what looked to be a week London was canceled which was super sad but this was of utmost importance so me and the girl let's get there Friday everything's going great we wake up Saturday and honey he has bites all over her and we're like what the heck is that so she has bites all over her and then we start searching the bed and we see some little bugs and we're like are you kidding me are these bed bugs I didn't look like bed bugs we're like what is this we reach out to the host and find out that there is a family that stayed there right before us who had a dog with fleas and they just sprayed for fleas before we got there but that you know the person told them there was a chance you know they didn't get it all and that it could have laid eggs well they did not tell us that when we got to this Airbnb we also had a roof leak so there was like mold and we all like felt really sick because of it had been down pouring the whole time we were there and just to top it all off that day when I went to get ice from the ice maker there was a frog in the ice maker okay so we felt like the plague had hit us we were like what is happening oh my gosh but at this point we were like I don't like which I know this sounds crazy but like we couldn't even think about moving because I was just like we were so tired and everything was going so crazy and we're in Louisiana and we didn't want to go stay at a hotel because everywhere we went everyone was recognizing us which normally is a blessing and I love talking to people but at this point everyone's like what are you doing here and I didn't want to tell them what happened to kid and I was like I just want to go stay in a hotel and we're going to see people every day and so we like washed everything we were like nobody go in that room we're like we just had to just like make the most of it so we just like stayed out of the house all day pretty much and then we just like go sleep there and thankfully there was no more bites but it was it was pretty bad okay it was pretty bad and so when we go in to have the surgeon the next time it was the following Tuesday and the night before a kid had like the worst like creepy sounding cough which is something she's never had she's never had crew we've had crew with our other kids she's never had crew I'm like are you kidding me not only am I scared for her but I'm also like what is happening so at this point I'm so discouraged but Paul is in the discouragement because that morning that Tuesday Monday morning Monday morning our friend Jin who was the prayer warrior girl she was like just trying to think of ways to bless us which is so sweet the hospitality I mean it was so servant-hearted I think it's Romans 12 13 that I keep talking about it was like be eager to be hospitable to others I mean that was her like it was so amazing I just had to shout out just her and her like the way she showed us the love of the Lord and she reached out because someone at her church that she knew owned an iron tribe gym and she was like Christian I called him and was like telling the situation and if you want to go work out there like that would be great just if you need to like clear your head to Christian you call the guy I called the guy he did not answer or return my phone call what you didn't let me finish what I was saying I called him he didn't return my phone call so I called Jin back and then she put us in a group text and then he responded to that and then he said we have like a 5 a.m. class that one's fully booked you can come to the 545 workout class if you would want to and I'm not much of a group workout fitness person nor classes nor 545 in the morning hate working out early it's not my cup of tea so I show up to the gym at like 530 540 rolls around I'm sitting in the corner you know everyone's in this little local in this little room waiting to go into the gym before the 5 o'clock class finishes I'm in the corner I have my hat on had my beard at that time pretty incognito and this girl walks up and she asks if I was married to Sadie and I was like yes and then she says you know I'm from Marouge which is right next to where we live she said that she had met you one time and yeah that was really about it and so we did the workout and I did she text you before or did I or did I mention you you were like hey I met someone that you met a long time ago and I was like I was like I couldn't think of it because honestly it was so crazy I literally met this girl one time eight years ago I did dove hunt which I don't even dove hunt I went dove hunting one time in my life you don't hunt I went dove hunting one time because if I did I was like okay and um anyways met her we kind of like we totally hit it off we had great conversation that day but it's eight years ago so I didn't know like her and her family lived in Baton Rouge I didn't know I don't know like what she does I don't know anything and we don't like keep in touch and so she texts me though because we exchanged numbers that day and she was like hey I actually just met Christian at the gym like um are y'all down in Baton Rouge would love to see you and I'm like oh yeah like that's so crazy as that we actually um are here but for unfortunate reasons like kids having to have surgery tomorrow so like mention them and she comes back like asking what surgery it was but I didn't respond yet because at this point and I'm normally not this bad of a responder but I had like a hundred text messages because everyone was like checking in on us our friends and family that knew and I just hadn't responded because there was like so much happening and um also people had texted me from the first choking that I hadn't gotten back to because it just been like so much I was just trying to get through it also I didn't even have social media downloaded at this time at all my team was totally covering for me on that end and so it wasn't like I was just clocked out I was just like totally mom mode and so and just reading the bible and like trying to just like get through it and so anyways she text me back and I hadn't responded and now this is the Tuesday when we're going in with the Krupp cough and um I look at my phone and she text me this prayer about going to surgery that when my son has surgery when he was a baby this prayer really helped me and I read the prayer out loud and like it was beautiful and it actually helped me so much it was like a liturgy and um after I read the prayer the doctor comes in and she's like asked like they're ready for surgery like it's like totally she's in the like prep room like to go and I'm like hey uh she had this cough last night and it was kind of creepy and I just wanted to like let y'all know and then the doctor was like oh I don't I'm not feeling good about that if you think it was like creepy I was like well it really was and and I know a Krupp cough like my first like my first born had RSV when she was a baby my second has had Krupp and it was Krupp and I haven't heard her cough like that and then she had this cough that she's never had yeah in her life and she had it Tuesday morning yeah the morning of her surgery and so her first response was like I think we maybe we should maybe push the surgery back to maybe next Monday and at this point I was like I was I was like are you kidding me I'm gonna lose my I'm gonna lose my mind and then she was like well maybe we could do Friday or maybe Thursday or I don't know she suggested Thursday first she maybe said okay well maybe Friday but I was like I don't care as long as kids healthy like I will stay in this hospital however long we need it has to be healthy like we we want to make sure and I don't think she should go in with that cough either and so at that point we're like okay and she's like and I'm admitting you again to the hospital because we need to do breathing treatments and I'm like okay well I'm also like this is insane so I read this prayer and then I decided to sit here and text her back and like tell her the situation this one girl that I met dumb honey eight years ago who also I haven't even texted my friend my family at 5 45 a.m. which I've never in our full marriage seen him go to a five word if I work out and so anyways I text her back and then she sends me this so she's like you're kidding okay let me pause here too and say this whole airbmv situation one of the things I had just said out of my mouth I was like I know we're saying but we're getting out of that airbmv like I really thought that the roof leak might have contributed to like the crook cough because it could have been mold I don't even know but I was just we got to get out of the house and so since we were going to be staying for like a whole another week even though me and Kit were getting me out of the hospital I wanted them to get out and so they were about to figure out the house situation and I read her text and she goes this is unbelievable she said my son the the son who she was texting me we prayed this before surgery she said at nine months old which kids nine months old he was classified with severe learning in Malaysia he had the same surgery at the same hospital and she's like I've walked this road I know this road and then she says and I actually am a speech therapist and I specialize in swallowing and I help kids who have gone through choking incidents so I not only have walked this road with my own son this is what I help people through and then without even knowing about our airbmv situation she goes do y'all need a place to stay while you're down here because my parents have an extra house that no one's in and it's 10 minutes from the hospital it's literally right around the corner from where we were staying and she was like y'all can stay there like it's so peaceful it's like our family thing and I'm like what in the world and again it was like the rainbow moment it was like God say I see you I have you I mean talk about like Jehovah Jairah like he is a provider y'all and that's why I said I was tossed in the water but I never went under and I went through the fire but you were right there beside me you were always on time like it was I can't even testify more to that I mean it was so unbelievable and so just when we wanted to be like so discouraged again it was like the Laura saying I'm in this I'm with you because the one girl I met eight years ago who I know from Baton Rouge I didn't even know she lived in Baton Rouge has gone through the same thing also has like the experience to help kick through it also has a house for us are you kidding me it's unbelievable so then I'm just like telling her you have no idea how much you saying that just like changed everything for me in this moment it just felt like God just said like I see you I love you I'm with you I have kit I have your family and so she ended up coming to the hospital bringing like the most kind gift basket inspired by jet engine silences the Dyson hush jet purify powerfully purifies the entire room quietly capturing pollen allergens and pet dander removing odours and harmful gases such as NO2 day and night so after the you know our sweet doctor asked to push the surgery back to next Monday not asked recommended recommended politely that did not sit well with me I was very frustrated and she recommended maybe Friday and I was just I was on the air say they wanted to be admitted I was on the air of like I didn't want to be in the hospital the next couple days we'll go buy our own nebulizer we'll go to the house which was not the you know best thing to say in this moment the doctors leave I'm super mad super frustrated say he's mad at me I'm not comforting her the way I should be and she hits me with just going to walk you know just I was actually trying to be encouraging because I've gotten that advice on this podcast someone had just recently said whenever they're in a fight like it helps if you go on a walk or take a shower so it's actually trying to be sweet about it and let you have your moment and I was like hey I think you should go on a walk that's all I said I was like I think you should go on a walk it was not that tone but it you don't think it was that actually it was not that tone uh you told me go on a walk you said you said please get out because you kept insisting on saying I was like please leave I'm just saying because that was clear you did not want me in the room with you yeah so I felt like I failed we have this big fight moment I come back in I'm apologetic I'm trying to be apologetic and then we're just we're gonna be admitted we're gonna be here for a couple days uh you asked me to go get coffee and then we kind of have another little little squirmish uh you know some more words or throne and then I failed more words or a throne I failed the words were I think you should go and then you said yeah I think you should go and then I said just text me what you want bro yeah that was rude which was very rude and but I was just struggling and I'm not excusing that but I apologized many times I was out of line for saying that I walked out I walked out and my first word my first thought was like it was an it was an it was an an expletive was that like a my first thought was like poop but the other universe of poop I was like why did I just say that that was truly what I that what I thought um so came back from coffee I felt like I was in a good headspace at this point you know and then meanwhile Sadie's texting her mom like please come switch with christian one thing we realized is going through things in our marriage is like you can have different responses to things and it can sometimes be hard whenever you have two different perspectives of like I felt like protected by the lord that our surgery was moved and christian felt angry about that you know I felt like oh okay good like kids gonna be in a better place and then he doesn't know because he wasn't there at that time like Erin's texting me and she's like all the stuff and it's such a miracle so I'm in the headspace of like oh my gosh like this is so good like we're okay yes we had to be in the hospital for a few more days but I'm like testifying I'm like preaching well I was he's just like mad at that point Erin the friend comes up to the hospital and like I said I haven't seen her in a lot of years and it was just like such a blessing for her to show up she had like the most kind gift basket I mean over the top just again back to like the love of the lord and hospitality um I love in first John it says like no one's ever seen God but we see God through the way that we love one another our God's love is perfected in us and so I just felt like we really were met with that kind of love from the church and those Jen and Erin actually went to the same church but they didn't know how we connected like it was so crazy and um anyway she ended up sitting there with us she brought all these papers for me to read like speech you know path papers about um learning in Malaysia and swallowing and choking and ways to strengthen the airway and ways to strengthen her core and like all this different stuff and then not to mention like was able to share with me just mom to mom and her son going through it at nine months old and his symptoms which were so similar to kids and then how he recovered and what they walked through and while she's up there actually the specialist the doctor that was doing surgery for kit came in the room which if you've been in the hospital you know like those moments with the doctor pretty brief and fast and it was a blessing that she was in there because she was able to ask all these questions that I wouldn't have thought about and then share a little bit about what she does and so the doctor was like oh well she can be you know your speech pathologist after this like she can help you with the whole swallowing stuff because we were going to have to go to that therapy anyways and find a therapist but she like now we have our therapist which is like so crazy because she used to practice for like eight years and then now she's a stay-at-home mom with her boys but she was like I'll just help you all like I'll just I'll just walk through it with as a mom and a friend and any way that I can help it's just like the biggest blessing ever and then she like assessed kit like let her do a whole she like did a little swallow study with her and then did some just moves to kind of help her a little bit and just full assessment and it was just the biggest blessing like I just felt like thank you Jesus and then we ended up getting to push surgery up because Kit was doing really good with her breathing treatment so we were able to do it Thursday and when we did the surgery it was wild because getting to see the pictures of like the before and after were so crazy it was severe I mean her her airway was like so covered even like pictures that had loads at beforehand didn't even do it just as to what Kit's really was and so just like wow thank you Lord that we're in this place thank you Lord that you provided and while we were there we got to meet other families who were going through just like really really really hard things but hearing how God was meeting them was so crazy and got to pray with people and it was just it was wild but we we left the hospital the next day we got discharged and actually even got to go to Aaron and her husband Taylor's house hang out with their family and she was able to assess Kit again and even just from the days before surgery to the day after surgery Kit's dramatic improvement and how she was eating and taking the bottle and her demeanor and now she wasn't noisy breathing her breathing was immediately silent and which was kind of weird for me to get used to I feel like I had gotten so used to her noisy breathing I'm like is she okay I'm like well that's the way we all breathe you know like that's how she's supposed to sound but she was just doing really great and so we like could not be more thankful when we look back at that and we're like wow God like you really did provide in the absolute craziest ways in ways that like you can't make up and you really were always on time and all these worship signs came to my mind like I said the Lord and he heard me answered like there's so many different things and so many different scriptures that I felt like we were just like watching play out and it just reminded us like okay the God we're reading about the Bible is the God that we serve and it has changed the way that I pray it has changed the way that I worship I mean even before we went through the second round in between the first choking the cent chocking remember we spoke at that church in Dallas and I was just bawling right before I was supposed to speak I had to get someone's makeup bag to fix my makeup because we were singing like dead things come alive in the name of Jesus and like I don't know just like it hits different when you're worshiping from a place of like you've seen it and I've said this before and I'll say it again like you know you don't ever really want to have to experience a miracle because when you experience a miracle that means you had to go through a moment of desperation and complete dependency and those moments you're out of control and it's terrifying but then when you experience the miracle you're like God I cannot deny the evidence that you're here that you're faithful and not just in providing breath and kids lungs which was the miraculous thing we're so grateful for but then providing everything along the way from the house to stay at with the friend that he gave the word to from the workout class you running into this one person that literally had the same story and was a speech pathologist and had a home for us to go stay in and be at peace the rest of the week and to assess kit and the and the specialist who was there and then down to our anesthesiologist who literally that was the craziest thing he looked at Christian he was like my sister-in-law is the girl from jujitsu who beat you up in last week's episode of Doug Dynasty like what what are the odds of that and thank you mama I mean what and then both of them were like we have three daughters we're take care I mean it was just like I just felt so held and so I look back and I'm like man god you were with us but it was pretty wild and so we um it's always hard to like step back into reality after you go through something like that and I just felt like like posting on social media to me can feel so disingenuous yeah when you're like y'all I don't even know like I'm just like smiling here but like whoa like this has been insane and not that like you have to share your whole life with the world we don't have to but I do feel like god has allowed us to and I feel like I kind of do that in a different way I'm not like on my stories every day talking about it because to me like personally and mentally that's not good for me like I have to like be where I'm at where my feet are planted and then I like like to come on a podcast and be like okay here's where we've been here's what happened here's like the reality of it and so it's never that I want to like paint a picture that it's not it's just I can't like be present in social media and be present in my life at the same time without that having a toll and so I'm so grateful that I wasn't on social media and was able to just like really be where my feet were and not because I think what happens is like we take on the worries of the world while we have like so many of our own worries and I just felt like I cannot think about anything else right now except for this and god you're gonna like meet me where I'm at and then one day like I'll be able to share and go back and so I'm thankful like month and a half later and we're sharing so I'm really grateful and kids doing great here we are and here we are sharing the story and you're doing great and we're both doing great truly like in our marriage is what freddy said to me last night she said in the past like I've seen a lot of these things and it's been like so hard and shakes your faith and she said the fact that y'all both come out like testifying to the goodness of god and not doubting the goodness of god is a huge change in our life that is true they change they change they change major key major key alert do