The Medical World

WOW!!!! We have visited the medical world more these last 2 weeks then I care to. On wednesday the 5th Allie was riding a scooter at the babysitters house and fell off and landed on her left arm. I took her to the Drs office because there is a bowed look to her arm...makes me queasy when I look at it. The second the dr walked in he said "oh ya that is broken. I am going to send you to the AF hospital to get x-rays and I will call you with the results tonight. You will then need to come in on Friday to get a cast put on it. Lets put a splint (wrist brace) on it to keep it stable." So off we go to the hospital. She did an excellent job at sitting still and not crying as the x-rays were getting done. Later that night the Drs office calls and says the x-ray results are in and it isn't broken, keep the splint on for the next 3 days, ice her arm, and medicate as needed with tylenol. OK wonderful that it isn't broken we will follow the orders given us... Well the next evening I was helping her take the bracce off so she can get in the tub and her arm looks a little bruised and there is a bump and of course the bend that makes me queasy is still there. She goes to bed and the next day I am at work and that bend and bump in her arm keep popping up in my head. How is that bend going to fix itself with just a wrist brace? So to ease my mind I call a different Dr from a different office to get a second opinion. We go in he looks at her arm and says "oh ya she deffinately has a bowed arm. Lets look at the x-rays that were taken at the hospital. Everything looks good. There is a chance that she has fractured it and some fractures don't show up on an x-ray until it starts to heal and then it will be white on the x-ray. This splint (which in my mind is a wrist brace not a splint. don't splints go down both sides of a limb and then a wrap is applied around it?) is the best thing for her to have on. Keep it on for the next 2-3 weeks and ice her arm and apply meds as needed. Here is a pediactric surgeons number, call him on monday if her arm is still hurting her. He can take more x-rays if needed to see if anything shows up." So off we go home. It has now been over a week the bow in her arm is still there and I don't know if I am dwelling too much on this bow and need to get over it or if there is a reason it won't stop picking at my brain. I guess if 2 different drs aren't all that concerned I shouldn't be.

These pictures were taken when she got out of the tub.

I took Gracelyn to the Dr last night because she has been irritable the last 2 days and didn't sleep good the night before and now has a fever. She had to get on the scale and at 18 months old she is a whopping 20.2 pounds (that is what most kids weigh on their 1st birthday). It turns out she has an Ear infection and Hand, Foot, and Mouth desease. Why they call it a desease when it is a virus, I don't know. She has ulcers in her mouth and a rash on her bottom. There is nothing to give her for the HF&M. It should run its course in a week. Until then she is contagious for the next 5 days to any kid 10 and under. Her temp can get upwards to 105, add diahhrea, throwing up, and loss of appetite on top of that. The poor little thing!! She has a lollipop that she gets to suck on for 30 seconds every hour to numb her mouth from the pain of the ulcers and once the numbness sets in we are to pump her full of fluids. We have to alternate between ibuprofin and tylenol to keep the fever at bay and of course her amoxaxillin for the lovely ear infection. Unfortunately for her today is our work summer party at lagoon and Gracie can't go so my Wonderful mom has agreed to sit with Grace while we take the other 2 kids. Last night my father and mother in law came over and Christopher and Kent were able to give Gracelyn a blessing. How wonderful it is to have a priesthood holder in your home!!! Oh speak of the devil Angel. Gracelyn is crying so time to medicate.

Lost

It seems I have lost it...My patience that is. I don't seem to have much patience when it come to helping Allie with her reading. I know she can figure a word out so I say "Allie what is this word?" She glances at it for a whole 2 seconds and shrugs her shoulders and says "I don't know". "Sound it out" I tell her and she makes a half hearted try and throws her hands in the air, flops her body on the ground and starts crying. Some where in that cry is the words I don't know what it says.  So I help her sound the word out and we move on. Once again there is the 2 second glance and the shrugging shoulders and those three words I am really starting to hate "I don't know". Once again, sound it out. and the small try and the tears. REALLY do we need to cry over every word we sound out? My temper starts to flare and her tears continue to fall. I know that it is more reasonable to stay calm and she will  figure it out, but it drives me crazy that she is so willing to give up that easily. Eventually the tempers calm down on both our sides and once we are finished I pulled her to me and put my arm around her and told her that I know she is a very, very, very, very smart girl and that she needs to try not to give up or she will never learn. I give her a hug and kiss and send her to bed. I just sat there for a few minutes thinking about what had happened and how I could have handled the whole thing better. It makes me wonder if I was as emotional trying to learn new things when I was younger. or maybe she gets it from Chris lol. Next time I chat with my mom I will have to ask her.

Labor Day Weekend= Domestic Work

Usually Labor Day weekend is reserved for camping with family, going on vacation, or just getting out of the house and doing something fun. It seems that every year we end up staying home and I bake, or can, and/or do laundry. Once again we stayed home...Don't get me wrong we had every intention of doing something fun but in the end we postponed/canceled our plans. So this year the kids got to play on a slip n slide in the back yard, watch movies, and play with friends. Gracie loved the slip n slide adventure. She loved it so much, her siblings were yelling at her and pushing her out of the way so they can have a go. Like always running through sprinklers and playing on slip n slides are short lived and Allie was ready to go play with her friends. Trevor always askes if he can go play with allie's friends too because he enjoys riding his bike in the church parking lot but is to scared to ride fast and he is stomping on the brakes every 5 seconds. I give him til next year then he will probably be flying on his bike and I will be yelling at him to slow down. I have done oodles of laundry today and picked 14 onions, 3 tomatoes, and 3 green peppers from my garden and kind of pulled weeds. I have sliced up all the onions and as we speak they are in the dehydrator drying out. I also have 5 mini loafs of pumpkin and cheese spice bread in the oven. I am in love with pintrest and found this recipe and have wanted to make it for a while now. I just hope it tastes as good as it looks. I have also had every intention of working on my next cards for my card group but so far the idea is in my head but nothing down on paper. Maybe I should put the computer down and start on my cards. I hope every one has a wonderful holiday!

Darling 1 year old

I just posted this on facebook and thought oh this needs to go on the family blog so that sometime in the future Gracelyn can look back at laugh at all the torture she has put her dear mother through.....As I was sitting in sacrament  meeting enjoying the wonderful testimonies and basking in the spirit, my beautiful 1 year old decides she wants to sit on my lap. I am feeling very loved until I look down and see a HUGE brown poop mark she just smeared on the front of my crisp WHITE skirt. Oh the Humiliation. I speedily packed up our kids and diaper bag and rushed out of the chapel with a blanket strategically covering the poop so those around me don't gag. As we are making our hasty retreat, I look down and that same beautiful 1 year old has her poopy diaper hanging around one ankle and smearing more poop through the hall way. I, being the smartest mom in the whole world, of course forgot to pack wipes in the diaper bag so I had to use said diaper to try to remove the skid marks in the hall way. How embarrassing!!