Mood:
hug meOK...LOTS going on, so I'm gonna do this is rapid fire fashion...no time for details, it is 12:56 a.m. and if I play my cards right, I can still get 5 hours of sleep tonight. Jonah JUST fell asleep & I thought for sure this was going to be another VERY late night (he was still awake at 5:30 this morning) OK...
Christmas...good. Daddy home from work...OK. Grandma off of work for a while...OK.... Auntie Boo home...OK (I had a lot of "itchy" and "twitchy" moments with so many people around...but survived) Uh, lets see...no snow on Christmas...that was a bummer, but at least I didn't have to shovel the snow. Two days after Christmas...Sam starts screaming after playing football outside with Daddy, brothers & puppy. (this will become important later) Two days later...Idiot me thinks "gosh...he sure is having a hard time teething"...it must really suck to have a stupid mother sometimes...I had called the doc's office & warned them of low grade fever & generally not doing well & that pesky screaming at me thing... we agreed to wait two days...& bring him in if he still had fever. Two more days pass & he does have fever (still low grade) and we took him in & he's fine & feathered..."nothing" wrong...ears, good, throat fine...OKEY DOKEY...Pick up more teething tablets. and tylenol. and motrin. and benedryl because all these people are making me itch. OK...that night we end up taking Sam to the ER (so this is the Saturday of New Year's weekend... remember, he's one of my children...so this is the norm...we always have to go to the ER when there isn't a doctors office on the planet open) Well, long story short...broken arm (DUH! That's why he's screaming...best we can figure out, puppy jumped on him & he fell back & that's why he was screaming when he came inside...note to everyone...didn't happen on my watch.) OK...so we have to wait until TUESDAY to see an ortho...made me CRAZY...but our ortho is wonderful & they got us in on Tuesday & it was broken in such a way that it couldn't be casted...joy of joys...this kid is like freaking Houdini! Sling & 4 ace wraps can't keep that arm down. OK...so that's healing & oh...fast forward a week & a half or so he starts not acting well... not drinking anything, not eating. On day # 2 of no meds down, I got him into the ped & he started having seizures & so she sent us to the ER, we thought for sure he had pneumonia, but no...RSV... ugh...that was a bummer. RSV should be a cold to a 2 1/2 year old...so that was a setback for me... And a very good reminder that even little things can make my guys very ill. OK, admitted to the hospital, bunch of fluids, THREE rescue doses of meds because of so many seizures (!!!!) and he actually got to go home the next afternoon. That was last week and today is the first day that he really ate anything (with gusto!) and is now drinking well & taking all meds...back to our regularly scheduled life! OK, that was it in a nutshell. Ped appointment tomorrow after developmental therapy. Ortho appt Thursday after speech therapy. Connor & Nolan visiting this week, Daniel & Jonah are VERY excited. That's it... adios, goodnight, I still can get to bed before 1:30!!!