Living Healthy

Frankly I wish I was this bird. I'm eating like one for pete's sake. But I'm sticking to it...unlike anything I ever do, and I'm going to be positive. We'll see how this goes.

It Feels like Spring

I love this weather...nothing beats it! Which means I get to plant some of these babies in my yard! Just looking at ranunculas make me happy!

STARK RAVING MAD!

So my sweet little choncho has been really sick. It started off with a cough, then he woke up from his nap and I heard the all to familiar sound of croup strewn in that little cough of his. It was Friday, his doc was booked, it was 3:00. So my mom and I headed to a pediatric urgent care, bless her heart! Anyway we get there and there was one person in the room waiting, I repeat, one. So we are thinking this is awesome we will get right in. Welp 2 hours passed and basically you had a totally enraged baby, mom and grandma. Soon after the two hour mark in waltzes our doctor. She was dumb as rocks. First of all she had a hacking cough which totally bugs, since I'm a total germ-a-phobe. I mean come on people cover your mouth! But a doctor... gallivanting around coughing all over things....bleh. Anyway she asks me what going on with Jack. I tell her that my lil Choncho has been having a croupy cough and stuffy nose and a fever and has been tugging on his ears like crazy(symptomatic of an ear infection, so I thought anyway). She looks at me with glazed eyes. She starts taking notes on a torn piece of scrap paper that looked like a flyer of some sort...my mom pointed this out to me. She then proceeds to check his vitals. She looked into his ears, checked his lungs and everything around those parts and says, well since he has had croup twice before I am sure you know what it sounds like. Let's go ahead and give him the steroid shot to open up his airways. She tells me everything else looks great, he's breathing well he doesn't have an ear infection and so on. So we leave the urgent care, a little leery...but there was not much else we could do. Well Saturday night comes along. I just get a gut feeling that something isn't right. I asked Aaron if he could give Jack a blessing. So Mike Canter comes over...thanks Mike, and they give him a blessing, I immediately calm down, Jack starts to breathe better and eventually falls asleep. Well 1:00 am rolls around and Jack is crying in pain. That is thee worst sound to ever hear as a mother. I get up and Aaron takes his temperature. It was 103.8. How scary! We call my mom to see what we should do...after all she is a mother of five. She gives me the advice. I take it. Jacks fever eventually creeped back down. Well the urgent care sad excuse for a doctor said that the symptoms should go away in about 4 days. As of last night they hadn't, they had just kept getting worse. We gave Jack another blessing...thanks Mike. Then Mike's wife, my good friend Randa who is a nurse came over and listened to him to make sure everything was A-OK. Thanks Randa. Well everything sounded good as far as she could tell, and I got my piece of mind. Well this morning after little sleep I wake up and take Jack into the doctor. Which by the way took about 20 minutes. She told me that Jack may have had croup before and that the steroid shot had helped. But that he still has it as well as RSV which is why the croup wouldn't go away. Not only that he also had double ear infections. I sat there dumb founded. That stupid doctor at the urgent care didn't even see the ear infections...didn't bother to listen up in his bronchials...ugh I am so mad. Well anyway long long long story short. I just am super upset and I want to kick the crap out of that lady. My dad asked me how I would get all the crap out and I said I would ring her colon. I AM LIVID! More important then that, I just wanted to let my friends know and anyone else who may stumble across this, DO NOT GO TO THE PEDIATRIC URGENT CARE ON COOPER AND STAPLEY. It would be in your best interest to go see a real doctor at an adult urgent care or dare I say just go to the hospital. But that lady had crap for brains and obviously had know idea what she was talking about, and my baby had to suffer this whole time through alot of pain. That's my spiel.

Blast from the Past

Hahahahahahahaha. That's all I have to say. I came across this picture on my mom's computer. For some reason I thought this pic occurred before digital cameras. Needless to say this is at some formal...and I have eyebrows for days.



From left to right: Kelsey, Carly, Rachel, Amy, Me, Lisa, Savannah

Our blog is Neglected. I found a solution.

So I decided I should probably start doing shorter smaller posts of the haps here otherwise I never get on and want to blog about something. It just seems like to much to do...so heres whats has been going on.

Jack is awesome...he is 9 months. Crazy. He's pretty close to walking and turning into a little dare devil/hellion. He loves the stairs which scares the crap out of me because it means a fall right onto the tile. Yikes! I guess it's time to invest in a gate.
The economy has really been taking a toll on my hair. I have roots for days. There is more important things to spend money on I suppose. I guess if that's my only problem I shouldn't be complaining. I know plenty of people that have it worse off. I think I'm going to make an appointment anyway. I was never a thrifty person... so why start now?
Aaron is working on his man cave aka garage. He think it's sweet.( Just a fridge and his speed bag) haha I find myself out there alot. It's fun to hit that thing. Anyway he's getting so buff that his sleeves rip when he puts his shirts on. It's awesome!

Well that's all we have to offer.