Beads of Courage

Here’s to something really neat that the hospital does for their heart patients!  Beads of Courage is a program that symbolizes all that these heart kids have had to go through.  Every time that Josiah has something done, he gets a bead for it.  There are 27 different categories for beads.  Things like getting lines placed, sleeping over in the hospital, getting echocardiograms or x-rays, tube insertions and removals, cardiac surgery, ventilator support, etc. are all things that Josiah gets beads for.  Josiah has accumulated 10 yellow beads because he has slept over in the hospital for 10 nights.  I know he will have many more yellow beads!  He has gotten over 12 light green beads for getting different scans and tests done—sometimes multiple times a day.

Josiah has only been with us for 9 days and this little fighter has already accumulated over 70 beads for all the things he has had to go through!  I’d say this little man is pretty courageous!  This is such a positive spin to the hard and painful things that our little guy braves each day. Keep on fighting, Josiah!  You are courageous!