As you all know, my son, Sam, has been battling headaches, nausea and back and leg pain for over 18 months now. We went back to the doctor yesterday because something in my "mommy gut" told me that there is something VERY wrong with my child. The doctor looked him over, decided that some blood work is in order. He is checking Sam's Vitamin D level, Sed Rate and Red Blood Cell Count. I also need to get some decent food into him as he is starting to lose weight and he should be gaining weight at this point.
I'm scared, worried, overly-concerned about him obviously. If you can, please pray/send good thoughts/ whatever you choose to him. We both could use them. Once I find out the results, I'll post something about it.
Hugs
Kelly
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Things I love about Summer.
If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I do complain a lot about the summer's here in Wisconsin. Sometimes they are incredibly hot and humid and others are fairly cool. As of today, it's really cool temps for June. So much so that my daughter, Nichole is complaining and thinking it's almost time to get ready to go back to school.
These are the things I love about Summer Break:
- sleeping in
- no bag lunches to make
- open windows to let the warm air in
- cats in the windows sleeping
- freshly cut lawn
- grilling
- my roses that are starting to bloom :)
- NO snow to shovel
- taking a walk outside
- listening to kids play
There are more but I cannot remember them for the life of me.
I hope you all have a great summer day!!
Kelly
These are the things I love about Summer Break:
- sleeping in
- no bag lunches to make
- open windows to let the warm air in
- cats in the windows sleeping
- freshly cut lawn
- grilling
- my roses that are starting to bloom :)
- NO snow to shovel
- taking a walk outside
- listening to kids play
There are more but I cannot remember them for the life of me.
I hope you all have a great summer day!!
Kelly
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Things that I'm grateful for..
Sunday (June 12, 2011) was an interesting day. It started out like any other Sunday, for instance:
I wake up before everyone else.
Have a cup of coffee
The boys roll out of bed, looking for food/drink
The daughter finally rolls out of bed around 10 a.m.(texting her friends until god knows when)
Finally the hubs gets out of bed and gets ready to go to work. He had to "catch up" on work.
Hubs reminds me that the front yard needs mowing and to remind middle kid to mow it.
Seems simple enough, right??
Well......Nathan (said middle kid) mows the front yard and puts the lawn mower away. No biggie.
Comes in the house and he looks pale, breathing incredibly hard and almost passes out. He also asked me to take him to Urgent Care. Well, I thought differently. There was NO way I was going to get him to Urgent Care before he passes out, SO I call 911 (have you ever done that?? I never did. It's scary to say the least.) and tell them that Nathan is in the middle of an asthma attack. Then, off in the distance, I hear sirens.
The fire truck, police car and an ambulance came to the house. Neighbors I haven't seen ALL winter long come out of the woodwork. They start to treat Nathan, give him a breathing treatment, load him on the ambulance and off he went to the hospital. I had Nichole call the hubs at work to get him home, get dressed in record time and zoom to the hospital.
I check in with the Emergency Room receptionist and get Nathan all set up in their computers (because you know this isn't going to be cheap by any means) and FINALLY go back and see my kid. He looked much better, he was breathing better but he had the jitters from the medication given during the breathing treatment in the ambulance. After about 4 hours in the ER, we were finally given the OK to go home. He's doing fine now, he needs to been by our family doctor this week and we realize how grateful we are for the help of the North Shore EMT's, St. Mary's Hospital in Mequon. This whole experience could have been SO much worse and I'm grateful it's not.
Kelly
I wake up before everyone else.
Have a cup of coffee
The boys roll out of bed, looking for food/drink
The daughter finally rolls out of bed around 10 a.m.(texting her friends until god knows when)
Finally the hubs gets out of bed and gets ready to go to work. He had to "catch up" on work.
Hubs reminds me that the front yard needs mowing and to remind middle kid to mow it.
Seems simple enough, right??
Well......Nathan (said middle kid) mows the front yard and puts the lawn mower away. No biggie.
Comes in the house and he looks pale, breathing incredibly hard and almost passes out. He also asked me to take him to Urgent Care. Well, I thought differently. There was NO way I was going to get him to Urgent Care before he passes out, SO I call 911 (have you ever done that?? I never did. It's scary to say the least.) and tell them that Nathan is in the middle of an asthma attack. Then, off in the distance, I hear sirens.
The fire truck, police car and an ambulance came to the house. Neighbors I haven't seen ALL winter long come out of the woodwork. They start to treat Nathan, give him a breathing treatment, load him on the ambulance and off he went to the hospital. I had Nichole call the hubs at work to get him home, get dressed in record time and zoom to the hospital.
I check in with the Emergency Room receptionist and get Nathan all set up in their computers (because you know this isn't going to be cheap by any means) and FINALLY go back and see my kid. He looked much better, he was breathing better but he had the jitters from the medication given during the breathing treatment in the ambulance. After about 4 hours in the ER, we were finally given the OK to go home. He's doing fine now, he needs to been by our family doctor this week and we realize how grateful we are for the help of the North Shore EMT's, St. Mary's Hospital in Mequon. This whole experience could have been SO much worse and I'm grateful it's not.
Kelly
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Random Thoughts
I know I haven't posted much as of late, (except the little video of Grace Ashton...check it out!)but I've had some random things floating through my head lately....I really don't know where this post is going so please bear with me.
1. Sending positive thoughts to those in the tornado ravaged south.
2. Why do boys fight all the time? And it's over stupid little things like: who gets the downstairs computer, who gets the TV to actually watch TV rather than playing some insane game on XBox 360. You know, crap like that.
3. Why is it so hard for mywonderful children to load the dishwasher properly?? Really now....We've only been in this house 8 years and you STILL don't know how to load that stupid machine?? Ugh!
4. Why are there more bills than money lately??
5. How many MORE times am I going to visit the stupid Urgent Care by my house?? I'm telling you, if they tell me one. more. time. that I have a skin issue, I'll SCREAM!! I know that you dumb people.
6. Every time I make time for ME, some one needs some thing. WHY WHY WHY????
7. At this point in the debt struggles, I'm not sure who the heck to pay first AFTER necessities. Thank GOD that the stupid car will be paid off in a couple of months.
8. And when in the hell is it going to warm up here?? I mean really, it's the end of May and it's 52 degrees out. I still have the stupid heat on in the house. sigh...........
Alright, that's enough of the brain-dump for now.
Kelly
1. Sending positive thoughts to those in the tornado ravaged south.
2. Why do boys fight all the time? And it's over stupid little things like: who gets the downstairs computer, who gets the TV to actually watch TV rather than playing some insane game on XBox 360. You know, crap like that.
3. Why is it so hard for my
4. Why are there more bills than money lately??
5. How many MORE times am I going to visit the stupid Urgent Care by my house?? I'm telling you, if they tell me one. more. time. that I have a skin issue, I'll SCREAM!! I know that you dumb people.
6. Every time I make time for ME, some one needs some thing. WHY WHY WHY????
7. At this point in the debt struggles, I'm not sure who the heck to pay first AFTER necessities. Thank GOD that the stupid car will be paid off in a couple of months.
8. And when in the hell is it going to warm up here?? I mean really, it's the end of May and it's 52 degrees out. I still have the stupid heat on in the house. sigh...........
Alright, that's enough of the brain-dump for now.
Kelly
Monday, May 23, 2011
Grace Ashton. All The Things You Never Say
Okay, I've been known to go on YouTube and link-hop, no biggie everyone does it when they are bored. So, one day I was looking for something completely different and stumbled across this young lady named Grace Ashton. Her voice is beautiful and the song, while quite simple in it's lyrics, has a message that every young/older teen needs to hear.
It wasn't until I actually viewed this video a couple of bazillion times, that I noticed it was filmed at Abbey Road ( Live in Studio 2). How do I know this?? Besides reading the comments on YouTube, I watched the show called "Live from Abbey Road". It was on a channel (I believe Sundance Channel in my neck of the woods) and it was on for about a year maybe a little longer. It was an idea that a producer/session musician/fantastic drummer in his own right, Peter Van Hooke came up with (I believe, could be wrong here...) It showcased various artists, in the studio, performing their current or upcoming releases. It was a fantastic show. I wish it was still on, but it's not. So sad.
I felt like putting this video up because...well.....I can (it's my blog/journal if you will) and I just LOVE LOVE this song.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Weird turn of events..
So, a lot has been happening with me lately. For instance:
- I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Had an allergic reaction to the RA medication first Rheumy doc put me on
- Did the huge "big peel" AGAIN
- Decided that I needed a 2nd opinion regarding the RA diagnosis
- Had oral thrush 4 times
- countless steroid shots and pills
- A bunch of labs and X-rays
- Gained a BUNCH of weight - that needs to come off NOW!
- My hair started to fall out
So, with that being said. I made the appointment for the 2nd opinion with a new Rheumy doctor at Froedert Hospital. I'm so glad I did. She said that I didn't have RA but I was hyper-sensitive because of what my skin was doing. Recommended seeing the "super-duper" Dermatologist there and once I'm off the steroids, if I have swelling, pain in the joints, etc. I'm to make an appointment with the new Rheumy and she will re-examine me at that time. But she truly thinks that all the swelling and pain I've been in is due to my skin. Lovely....
Did I mention that Prednisone is a EVIL drug? While it's a good drug, it's EVIL!! I totally gained a ton of weight with this stupid drug and now I have to get the weight off. I feel out of sorts with my weight the way it is. Now that I'm totally off the steroids, I feel better, I'm not eating every 2-3 hours, and not waking up every 2 hours all night long. What a relief!! I was getting so frickin' sick of this.
We ( my family) have been through way too much since November 2010 and I'm so glad to see it slowly come to an end. Things are starting to get back to normal (whatever that is) and I'm able to function again like a REAL human being. What a concept!!
I've also noticed that while I'm getting better, Spring has sprung. My tulips are coming up and blooming, the grass is getting green, kids are playing outside, and the sun is out longer at night.
See there is a bright side to things. I wouldn't have believed you several months ago, but I do now!
Hugs
Kelly
- I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Had an allergic reaction to the RA medication first Rheumy doc put me on
- Did the huge "big peel" AGAIN
- Decided that I needed a 2nd opinion regarding the RA diagnosis
- Had oral thrush 4 times
- countless steroid shots and pills
- A bunch of labs and X-rays
- Gained a BUNCH of weight - that needs to come off NOW!
- My hair started to fall out
So, with that being said. I made the appointment for the 2nd opinion with a new Rheumy doctor at Froedert Hospital. I'm so glad I did. She said that I didn't have RA but I was hyper-sensitive because of what my skin was doing. Recommended seeing the "super-duper" Dermatologist there and once I'm off the steroids, if I have swelling, pain in the joints, etc. I'm to make an appointment with the new Rheumy and she will re-examine me at that time. But she truly thinks that all the swelling and pain I've been in is due to my skin. Lovely....
Did I mention that Prednisone is a EVIL drug? While it's a good drug, it's EVIL!! I totally gained a ton of weight with this stupid drug and now I have to get the weight off. I feel out of sorts with my weight the way it is. Now that I'm totally off the steroids, I feel better, I'm not eating every 2-3 hours, and not waking up every 2 hours all night long. What a relief!! I was getting so frickin' sick of this.
We ( my family) have been through way too much since November 2010 and I'm so glad to see it slowly come to an end. Things are starting to get back to normal (whatever that is) and I'm able to function again like a REAL human being. What a concept!!
I've also noticed that while I'm getting better, Spring has sprung. My tulips are coming up and blooming, the grass is getting green, kids are playing outside, and the sun is out longer at night.
See there is a bright side to things. I wouldn't have believed you several months ago, but I do now!
Hugs
Kelly
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