{"id":10604,"date":"2019-02-06T00:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:31:47","slug":"the-hardest-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-hardest-thing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Thing To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest thing is watching someone you love suffering and there is literally nothing you can do to make it better\u2026its especially hard when it\u2019s your little 17 month old grandbaby. As I sit here at the hospital again tonight surrounded by my family as we watch the doctors and nurses working on baby Flynn who is very sick\u2026the hardest thing to do is nothing\u2026not being able to fix it or make it better is absolutely brutal.\u00a0 I\u2019m so used to being able to fix things in business that this feeling of helplessness I feel in this situation is overwhelming. There is nothing I can do but do nothing\u2026And watching them have to hold this little baby down while they put an IV in him yet again when the poor little guy just got out of the hospital a few weeks ago (after having Influenza A) it is just breaking my heart\u2026I hate seeing him suffer and I hate how much he has had to go through these past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it brutal to watch your grandbaby suffer but its doubly brutal knowing your son and daughter-in-law are suffering as they watch their sweet little boy in pain and they are dealing with fear of the unknowns while the doctors work furiously to figure out everything wrong with him. Yet all I can do is sit here and do nothing\u2026except pray for him, and pray for my son and his wife, and pray for the doctors to be guided as they treat him.<\/p>\n<p>Crowded together in a hospital room is not the way we had hoped to celebrate my daughter Ashley\u2019s birthday today, but I am realizing that at least we are all together and I\u2019m recognizing how incredibly blessed we are to be able to say that&#8230;to have all of us are here and alive, even though one of us is very sick\u2026we are here and able to hug one another, and support one another, and pray together for little Flynn to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing matters more than God and family. And I pray he will bless my family by helping little Flynn get better.<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(read Amy&#8217;s new book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What AWESOME Looks Like: How To Excel In Business &amp; Life<\/a>&#8221; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest thing is watching someone you love suffering and there is literally nothing you can do to make it better\u2026its especially hard when it\u2019s your little 17 month old grandbaby. As I sit here at the hospital again tonight surrounded by my family as we watch the doctors and nurses working on baby Flynn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17743,6867,395,101,419,550,6227,179,4562,4298,51,13952,29,20330,1768,1110,20332,407,20331,1665,576,187,264,359,4385,20329],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex","tag-alexis","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-ashley","tag-birthday","tag-blessed","tag-brutal","tag-dalton","tag-disease","tag-families-are-forever","tag-family","tag-flynn","tag-god","tag-helpless","tag-hospital","tag-injury","tag-iv","tag-overwhelmed","tag-power-of-prayer","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-recover","tag-rollin","tag-sick","tag-sickness","tag-speedy-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}