In many ways, the Peterson home looks and sounds like the household of any family with

young children.

A blueie toy lies on the floor.

Children play and squeal, but in other ways, the Peterson home isn't like most other

homes.

You can tell that before you even walk through the front door.

Right by the doorbell, a sign says, oxygen in use.

Inside, an oxygen cord snakes through the house, trailing behind a busy toddler as he

crawls around the living room.

The Peterson aren't exactly experts on medical needs.

Silas teaches middle school and high school math.

Micah taught one year of special education before staying home with their kids.

It's not something that we had any medical training in.

There were multiple times that we had kids come to our home and we didn't know how to

use machines or machines or missing parts.

And so we would be looking on YouTube to look up how to use things or going to the ER and

asking the personnel there, hey, show me how to use this or what it is.

The Peterson are licensed as a medical foster home.

That means they're required to complete extra training hours.

But that doesn't always give them the information they need to meet their foster kids' particular

needs.

Sometimes, hospitals teach them the ropes about a child's care before discharging that

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