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It’s amazing to me how fast kids can get sick and recover. Zahkya always gets whatever sickness the worst. She got a cold from Tristyn, got a fever with it, ended up having so much mucus drainage she was throwing up everywhere (including right in my face yesterday morning, yay Motherhood!). Today she’s not congested or anything, fever is gone and she’s acting as if nothing happened. I met with my Gastroenterologist yesterday and they ordered up a bunch of tests and procedures. I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, and “many many many biopsies”. A few weeks after that I go in for my pulmonary testing. The hospital did…
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Mishaps with appointments
I’ve had pretty bad luck this week with doctor’s appointments. I waited a month to see my pulmonary doctor and when I showed up there was no one in the office. The lady sitting outside the office taking people’s temps suggested I walked over to the hospital and see if my appointment was there instead. After I walked through the entire hospital the pulmonary office was exactly on the opposite end of which I entered. When they tried to look me up they said my appointment was a month from that date and to come back in a month. See, I had to get babysitting for this appointment and that…
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War and sickness
War in Ukraine. Russia is invading. This very quickly can turn into WWIII. Putin is cutting off his country making it more similar to North Korea than to any free world. The videos of the innocents get me every time. I can feel their fear and sadness and pain through the TV. It makes my chest so tight and my stomach in knots. I feel helpless watching from this far away. I’m about over the sickness. My family has been getting sick on and off for months now. We get better and it’s not long, maybe a few days, before we’re back sick with something else. Two weeks ago it…