{"id":632,"date":"2012-08-15T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=632"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:04:03","slug":"he-knows-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2012\/08\/15\/he-knows-what-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"He knows what we need…."},"content":{"rendered":"

even BEFORE we know we need it!<\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago we were faced with a serious & scary situation.\u00a0 Our oldest son, Ethan, was stung by a blue-winged wasp.\u00a0 When he first approached me & told me he got stung, I didn’t worry.\u00a0 He’d been stung by bees before.\u00a0 No big deal.<\/p>\n

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Ethan's list of allergies: Cashew Trees (when in bloom) & the Blue Winged Wasp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As he neared, I asked if it was on his eye (he already had a mark there).\u00a0 He said no, it was on the top of his head.\u00a0Hmmmm. While he was answering my question, I had looked away (to turn off some music), when I looked back, his WHOLE face had already started to swell….his ears, his eyes, lips, neck, cheeks…everything.\u00a0 So off we run home to get allergy meds.\u00a0 He pops a pill & hops in the shower (by now I know he’s going to need to go to the hospital…it’s down his neck & moving to his arms and chest).\u00a0If you want have an idea of what it was like, check out anaphylactic shock on Google…I didn’t take pictures during this time due to the situation (okay, maybe I was panicking just a little<\/em> bit).<\/p>\n

For any parent, this would be scary.\u00a0 I know it was for us!\u00a0 What made it worse was that we are over an hour away from a hospital.\u00a0 But God knew.\u00a0 He already had it all worked out.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Joel got home (he was working on something on another part of campus…Summer went & got him) to get ready to take Ethan to the hospital, we decided to try calling a missionary friend who is a doctor.\u00a0 She felt that Ethan was in need of meds NOW…there wouldn’t be time to get to the hospital.\u00a0 And wouldn’t you know, our neighbors had just bought the wrong kind of meds for their daughter the DAY BEFORE<\/em> (our missionry docoter friend told us) & it was JUST what we needed for Ethan.<\/p>\n

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His provision!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So even though we didn’t know Ethan is severly allergic to blue-winged wasps, and even though we didn’t have time to go to the hospital, and even though we didn’t have an Epi-pen (we acually used a syringe & a vial of medicine)….GOD knew.\u00a0 And HE had it all worked out for us.\u00a0 Because HE loves us.\u00a0 And HE has a plan for our lives.\u00a0 I’m soooooo thankful this story turned out well- Ethan is fine.\u00a0 I know that sometimes we don’t get what we want….loved ones die, people get hurt, there is suffering in the world.\u00a0 But I also know that my<\/em> SAVIOR loves me & my family far more than I can begin to comprehend! That will be TRUE no matter what the future holds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

even BEFORE we know we need it! A couple weeks ago we were faced with a serious & scary situation.\u00a0 Our oldest son, Ethan, was stung by a blue-winged wasp.\u00a0 When he first approached me & told me he got stung, I didn’t worry.\u00a0 He’d been stung by bees before.\u00a0 No big deal.   As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}