Roses and Baby Powder

 

"St. Therese, the Little Flower, please pick me a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love; ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore and tell Him I will love Him each day more and more. Amen."

 

Baby powder?

Roses?

Two of my favorite smells.

Too bad sometimes it takes me awhile to recognize that I am smelling them.

 

Our son Cameron is 14 months old.

Back in March, and again in July, he ran a very high fever

with very high wbc.

After 3 or 4 days he would be fine.

No other symptoms.

No results from any tests.

Viral. (?) That was what I was told.

 

And here we go again.

 

Cami was fine Monday night.

I took our 8 children to Family Eucharistic Adoration.

After, there was a dinner downstairs. Tom met up with us there.

Our children had fun running around chasing each other.

(They are very comfortable at church.)

 

Then at 4:00am I woke up and heard Cami whimpering in his sleep.

I touched his little foot and it was hot.

I quickly picked him up and went downstairs to take his temp and get some Tylenol.

I talked to my pediatrician's office when they opened. Since Cami was acting fine we decided I would watch him for 24 hours then bring him in if he still had a fever with no other symptoms.

 

All day the fever stuck around.

When it was down a little from the medicine, Cami would act happy and play with his toys. But it would go right back up after a few hours. Then Cami and I would cuddle.

 

Last night Cami and I slept on the couch together.

We were up every couple hours.

Cami hasn't wanted to eat food so we've been nursing a lot.

His temp was around 105 at the highest.

So today we are going in to see his doctor.

 

But as I have prayed over Cameron I noticed how sweet he smelled at times.

Then I finally realized he smelled like baby powder to me.

The smell would come and go. Seemed to be around when his fever was high.

I started craving the smell.

I'd cradle Cami and smell all around his head trying to find it.

Sounds silly maybe, but it brought me comfort when I could smell it.

 

Today I smelled the sweet smell and then thought of roses.

I adore Mother Mary and I know that the scent of roses is associated with her.

I was looking on my computer about it.

I found a nice Catholic site that had testimonies of smelling roses.

Mary was mentioned and so was St. Therese, "the little flower."

St. Therese promised to release a scent of roses from Heaven.

So then I wondered about the scent of baby powder.

I looked it up and the scent of baby powder is partially made with rose oil.

 

I believe that St. Therese and Mother Mary are sending me comfort

while I care for Cameron.

 

I just really felt the need - and want - to share this :o)