Our hospital journey + what I’ve learned about hospital ministry - S4, E32

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of our 7-month-old son Radley’s accident—how a spilled cup of hot tea led to second- and third-degree burns, an ambulance ride, and an 8-day stay in the pediatric burn unit. It was one of the hardest weeks of our lives, and yet in the midst of the pain and exhaustion, God met us in powerful ways.

I open up about what those long hospital days taught me—not only about suffering and surrender—but also about the incredible opportunity we have to minister to others in similar places. Whether you’ve walked through your own medical emergency, want to be more equipped to serve hurting families, or are simply curious what it’s really like to live in a hospital room for over a week with a baby, I hope this episode encourages you and gives you a renewed heart for showing up when it matters most.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.
0:12.8	Hey, friends, welcome back after a long break that we did not anticipate happening. Welcome back to the podcast today is going to be
0:23.6	a little bit different than our normal podcast here. Today I'm going to just be sharing a little bit
0:27.9	about our last two and a half weeks. What's been going on with us, some tips and encouragement
0:33.7	that I have learned through these last hard couple of weeks. And yeah, we're going to
0:39.7	just kind of wrap it up talking about trusting in the Lord's timing because that has definitely
0:44.3	been what we've been learning the last two weeks. Okay. So let's start at the beginning.
0:50.3	For those of you who are just podcast listeners, you're not following me on social media or email, then you may not have heard, well, you wouldn't have heard any of this news yet,
0:57.9	but some of you, many of you, already have seen the stories, have seen our updates, have seen
1:02.2	all this stuff happening. But over two weeks ago, our sweet, poor little seven-month-old
1:08.6	Radley used his little ninja skills and pulled a freshly
1:14.5	brewed cup of tea down onto his arm. Like I had just poured it out of the boiling kettle.
1:22.9	What we didn't know at the time was that this is the leading cause of burns in babies and toddlers
1:29.0	pretty much under the age of five.
1:31.2	The burn unit we were at, so they see two to three of them every single week.
1:35.3	It's really, really common, and it's not something I had really ever given a whole lot of thought about before.
1:40.4	Obviously, you're careful around boiling water and babies, but it's a really, really common
1:45.4	injury, which that is sad, but it also made my mama heart feel a little better. Every nurse
1:51.3	that came in, every doctor was like, we see this all the time. This is so common. So he, yeah, he
1:58.3	pulled this giant mug of tea down onto his arm. And, you know, maybe he's at that
2:05.8	age are just so quick. It happened before, I mean, I could even blink. And so he pulled this down
2:11.8	on him. And so we, this was about 9 o'clock on Friday night and we rushed him to the ER because
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