The Give Me a Break Line

Hey! Thanks for all the prayers, thoughts, etc cause it worked! His heart is clear this time (he's had stents in the past)!!! It is probably a gi thing like reflux or a hernia. I am so thankful!

We actually got a pass to the Give Me a Break Line for now! Woohoo!

Enough Already, 2010!-- UPDATE

We are having one bang up of a year so far.

I told you of my illness hat landed me in the hospital for several days. While I was there, my FIL had to have some stents put in his carotid artery cause he suffered a stroke Christmas eve. My BIL needs another surgery on his legs after having a heart bypass & bypasses for both his legs last year. My sister had a seizure out of no where a few weeks ago. The EEG showed seizure activity, so she is being place on meds & needs a 48 hour EEG. This whole school things is out of control. All of MMs appointments are getting to come around again. I have been avoiding scheduling some of them just so I dont have to deal. I have had horrible insmonia & crazy emotions from the steroids. DH & I are going through another rocky patch, not seeing eye to eye on the school stuff, money, etc.

Now, my mom just called me. My dad is in the ER with chest pains & EKG changes. Possible heart attack.

I am so spent. I am really losing my faith here. I know that God doesn't cause this, but how much more can I handle? Could really use some prayers/vibes or whatever you do. Where is the give me a break line? I REALLY need it.


***He will be having a heart cath tomorrow to see what is going on. Thanks for the prayers!***

HO-NO!

That is what I am calling this thing known as H-one N-one. Well, I was joking & laughing about it. It's not so funny any more. Thanks to a certain auto immune disorder, we have one sick little girl here. We are at home, but might need to go in for IV fluids. She is a raging high fever, vomiting, coughing, runny nose, lethargic mess. We went to the doc today & they are almost positive it is HoNo! She definitely has type A flu, which odds are is HoNo. She was placed on Tamiflu, tylenol suppositories. They can't even give her any zofran cause she can't keep it down. Phenergan is out of the realm after this happened last time. We watch, medicate & wait. They are worried she will get pneumonia. I hope not.

I am on meds too in hopes I don't get it. That would be a dangerous mix with my asthma.

And along the lines of HO NO, we have an IEP Wednesday morning. There are so many crappy things going on with school. I do not have time to go into it now. Just wanted to let you all know we are alive.

Viral? Nope.

Been MIA due to MM having another lengthy illness. It involved a high fever- 104.9 in the armpit, vomiting, lethargy, barky coughing, runny nose, a trip to the ER, a trip to the pediatrician office. The ER said it was viral and to wait it out. I didn't really agree with the super high fever. It then continued on for 8 days, finally culminating in a raging UTI. Poor thing. Today is the first day I have seen a glimmer of her in there. She actually ate some food today. I hope this is it & she can kick this thing. It is so hard to guess what is wrong with her, but she actually did finally tell us her butt hurt which lead to the UTI suspicion. Like I said, it it a major UTI. She is on some pretty strong antibiotics for fear of it moving to her kidneys since it went on too long. I am exhausted cause I was up for 4 nights in a row giving meds every 3 hours for her fever. DH has actually let me take a nap the last two days we were off together.

During the illness, the ER doctor gave her phenergan (sp.) for vomiting. It made her severely ataxic, rigid and she kept doing weird things with her mouth. Turns out, it can cause neuro problems for those with neuro issues. I told the ER doc TWICE she had CP & ASD. What part of neuro is that not? I swear, it is getting so scary any more when it comes to dealing with the medical profession & I AM a medical person! My number one rule is listen to your patients or their family. Easy enough? Obviously not for some. Needless to say, we had the crap scared out of us once more. It is only zofran for us from now on & it is listed on her chart to never give her phenergan again.

We keep taking the punches & getting back up.