12/03/2025
Many of you have so thoughtfully checked in on our son, so I wanted to share an update. Charlie was admitted to the hospital this past weekend with “staph scalded skin” syndrome, a painful bacterial infection that in more serious cases can require days of IV antibiotics. He is in the midst of making a full recovery and is now doing great at home!
It was a difficult few days to say the least. I was trying to treat him at home with a high dose of oral antibiotics to avoid worsening and needing to go to the hospital. Eventually, his pain and swelling worsened, he was screaming in pain anywhere you touched him, and he was refusing to eat or drink- prompting us to admit him to the hospital.
I am so thankful to the nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and everyone involved who helped him to get better. I am thankful for my wonderful wife who never left his side and who was his “feelings translator” through it all- talking him through every step of what was happening at the hospital to help him- though much of it was incredibly painful for him. We heard from so many friends and family members who were thinking of us and praying for our family, and that meant the world to us. I am thankful to the Lord for modern medicine. It is not lost on me that if we lived in a different country or perhaps a different era in time, my son very well may have died. Despite the vast issues facing our healthcare system today, and the negative rhetoric we hear on a daily basis- I feel nothing but gratefulness right now.
