Kids
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No ER trip last night
I got Zahkya to sleep pretty easily and for the first hour and a half of her being deep in slumber, I didn’t hear her cough a single time. Tristyn still had two more assignments of homework to do so I worked with him and got that done and I got him to bed. I told Seth goodnight as I was walking straight to bed myself. About 20 minutes after me being in bed, Zahkya starts coughing. So my anxiety shot up and I sat there and listened to her. I meant to give her a breathing treatment right before bed and I forgot to so I was sitting there…
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I really hate croup
It’s been such a rollercoaster with Zahkya and her croup. The day after she got the IV steroid she was hyper and super emotional and she had meltdowns like a 2-year-old; however, for the most part, she was doing ok, almost like she had just a bad cold. So all the behavioral changes, although hard, it was worth it to have her feeling better. She did have fevers the next two nights after the steroids and she acted more herself yesterday than the previous days. I know she was excited about Halloween and she was a trouper and trick-or-treated almost as long as Tristyn did but she pooped out and…
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Medical Emergency with Zahkya last night
I tell you what, I’m about over all this sickness. Last night was completely uneventful when I put Zahkya to bed last night. She wasn’t sick and didn’t even have the sniffles. But she sure woke up in terrible shape around 2 am with the worse barking croup cough. She was crying and coughing and she couldn’t catch her breath so I turned on the light and her lips were blue/purple and she was screaming, “I need air I need air!!” I checked her oxygen levels and they were at 82% so I got the rescue inhaler and gave her two puffs of that, went and woke Seth up and…
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Another Trip to urgent care
Poor Tristyn. He was up all night last night coughing again with this crud. I kept him home (again) from school today because he got so little sleep and he feels terrible. A few weeks ago I was in urgent care with him and they gave him steroids and an antibiotic. His sickness seemed to go away during those 10 days of taking the antibiotic but the 11th day all this crud came back, but this time, with a vengeance. So they are going to use a stronger antibiotic this time and more steroids. He’s trying to get some rest in his room right now. I feel so bad for…
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Family camping trip
Last weekend, we went camping in one of our favorite areas west of Loveland. We bought our popup camper just a few days before I discovered I’d be having surgery on my hip. Since it took all summer to recover from hip surgery we had to keep delaying taking the camper out for the first time. I feel like we were waiting until the very last second but I didn’t want to wait until next summer. So we packed up the kids and we were off. I overpacked and brought way too much food, so I’ll know better next time. Still, it was an amazing time, and memories were made.…
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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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Tristyn lost his 5th tooth
This is the second tooth he has lost at school. tooth fairy is going to go broke!
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Parent-Teacher Conferences
I’m realizing how unnecessary and draining worry is and I was shown an example of that last night. When I was a kid there were a LOT of worries when I watched my folks walk out that door knowing they would be speaking to my teacher. About me. ALONE. I would be a mess of nerves and anxiety the whole time they were gone. As soon as they pulled into the driveway I would watch them from the window glued to their faces searching for any hint or clue as to how the meeting went. I’m not sure why I was always so worried. I always got the “talks too…
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Well the nightmare has happened
I woke up bright and early, as usual, thank you Zahkya, and I had everything ready for school yesterday. The kids were dressed, Tristyn’s snack was packed, his water bottle was clipped to his bag and ready to go. Then my husband reminded me it was late-start-Monday. Every Monday they start school an hour later to help the teachers get ready for the week. So, that’s awesome. Time to destress about getting to school .. I had an entire hour and everything was ready! Wrong. It wasn’t even 18 minutes later I got a text message from the school: Dear students in Mrs. G’s kindergarten class. We have recieved notification…
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Every day is the best day
We are in our second week of school and our first full week for Tristyn. We are all trying to find a routine and I’m trying to fit all my household responsibilities in between everything. I ended up being a total wreck the whole first day of school. I think all my stress and worry dissipated when I picked Tristyn up and when I asked him how school was he responded “This was the best day of my life!” He had two more “best day of my life” days last week, each day would be better than the last in his opinion. Then he had a rough day. He made…