Monday, March 29, 2010

Well Poop

Today my daughter stayed home from school with a case of pink eye which I suspect she picked up over the weekend at a friends birthday party that was held where there were several bounce castle.
Earlier she asked if she could help do the laundry and I said she could...I just had to wash poop out of my washing machine and I am running it empty and then I have to re-wash the clothes that were in there, including the underwear she took off and threw in there while I wasn't looking.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Part two

For a year and a half we lived in a charming two bedroom home with a nice yard and far away from the road. Sure it got a little cold in the winter but we bought a space heater and it worked out just fine.

Well this past summer some critters got up into our roof and tore out the insulation. Many times we asked our land lady to fix the problem and then two days before my son was born, husband once again asked her to fix the hole in the roof and get the critters out and she flipped out on him and told us we were not invited back when our lease was up and that we were making it up.

That was in November, let's skip ahead to the day before we went into the hospital. My husband found our current house and we spent the next month packing and getting everything ready to move. We sent our landlady and letter and pictures of the roof and haven't heard a thing since.

The week we moved it snowed and rained the entire week, our basement flooded but luckily we didn't loose much and now here we are in this beautiful two story, three bedroom home. That is not only warm but larger then the last house.

My son is now awake.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Hey remember me?!

It's been far too long. Since the last time I actually wrote an update more then a few sentences long
  • My son had RSV and we had a horrible hospital experience and believe you me I am going to write about it.
  • We moved from a cramped. cold house to a big warm house
  • My son go sick again.
So I have been pretty busy.

So we'll play a little catch up now.

or later tonight because my kids ALWAYS know when I am about to get into something for a bit and wake up from their naps and I can hear them both stirring and since I can type super fast here is the short version for now.

Son had fever, took him to the dr., she said he had RSV but sent us to the hospital for a high heart rate. They said he didn't have it, bullied us for an hour and a half to let him have a spinal tap. Didn't want to do it but finally caved, he didn't have what they were testing us for and to this day we just feel like the crappiest parents in the world.

Wanted us to let them keep him over night and told us if we didn't we were "taking your baby home to die" yep that's right, a Dr. told us this.

He did end up having RSV, I stayed with my son and didn't let him out of my sight. The first night he slept next to me because if I put him down the monitor said his oxygen levels were down and heart rate went up, when I held him his oxygen levels were at 100% and his heart rate was normal.

I was told this was a fluke though three different monitors said the same thing thank you very much.

Then my son was put into an oxygen tent because they didn't want him to sleep next to me which I was ok with because it gave my arms and back a break.

They wanted me to wake him up every two hours to feed him which just caused him to be mad because he USED to sleep seven hours straight, and he needed his rest.

The last night we were there the monitor kept going off because it was for newborn and he would find a way to get it off his foot. I wanted them to put a new one on so I could sleep because he turns himself side ways when his sleep elevated but the nurse didn't want to change it or listen to the beeping so she SHUT THE DOOR.

I wanted him to be able to sleep so I shut it off and just decided to stay awake, it was around Three in the morning, I remember because I was super tired and it's a good thing I did stay awake because he did in fact turn himself and his face was smooshed against the plastic of his wall tent, if I had gone back to sleep my son would have died.
The nurse finally came back around five in the morning and put a new monitor on him.

The next morning after four days of being in the hospital we finally go to leave.

Ok my kids are awake now so I'll have to finish this tonight, or tomorrow when my daughter is at school and my son will hopefully be sleeping.

Monday, March 22, 2010

I have returned, for the moment

I have not left you I promise. We have recently moved and do I have a lot of things to write about. Before the week is out I promise! ....But not right now because my little one has awakened and needs his mama.