After Christmas

On Christmas, we opened presents and ate Crepes for Breakfast. We relaxed and played with our new toys, watched our new movies and had a nice relaxing day. On the way down to New Mexico, I had a cold, so we were hoping the boys wouldn't get anything. On Christmas night, before the sun went down and it got too cold, we took the boys to the park. On the way home from the park, Greyson started coughing and we knew that he was getting sick. That night, he woke up wheezing and croupy cough. It was not awesome. After a 30 minute drive to the ER, and an hour wait later, we decided to leave because it was too busy at the ER. Cathy has a friend who has a nebulizer and let us borrow it. We got him a blessing and treatment and made it through the night.

On Saturday, we called our Dr. and he called in a medicine for Greyson to NM. We made it home, but we still gave Greyson treatments for a week after to get him through it.

The night of Christmas in the ER

Nebulizer Treatment

Back to the Hospital

So again, this month has been crazy with sickness.  On the 4th Greyson came home with a fever then it turned into croup.  On the 9th I got the flu.  On the 10th we found out Greyson had RSV (because he just wasn't recovering from Croup very well).  Then Mike got a cold and on the 13th Gavin threw up.  On the 12th Garett's cold started and by the 14th he was struggling to breathe, not eating very well and had a fever.

On the 15th, after he had been wheezing all day, I took him to the ER.  We got there at 8:45 pm after he had thrown up everything he ate for dinner.  I didn't have any clothes for him, so that was nice.  We finally got to a room at 10:15 and about 10:45 they came in to see us.  They suctioned him and tested for RSV.  He was positive for it.  At about midnight they were going to release us but his oxygen levels started to dip below 92%, so they had to give him oxygen and admit us.  That was horrible.  At about 3:30am we got into our hospital room and had a horrible rest of the night.  The plan was he had to be off oxygen and breathing at 92% or better for 6 hours.  So at 9am they took him off the oxygen with the hopes of going home at 3pm!  He did really good, kept hydrated and they released us at 4:30 with a prescription for an ear infection (why he kept fevering).  He threw up again Monday night when we got home and Tuesday night after eating his bottle before bed.

On Monday, Mike also got the flu and since the 14th I have had this wicked cold.  But everyone (except me) is on the mend and doing better.  Garett is a little stuffy and had a cough still but everyone else is getting better! Thank goodness! Now, if I could only get better...

Not feeling good, but being a happy boy

More sick, but happy in the bath

I'm so sick (before taking him to the ER)

Being admitted to the hospital

After being admitted to our room

Croup...Again

We have been Sick, Sick, Sick this month.  It all started on February 4th when Greyson came home from Preschool with a fever.  He said his tummy hurt.  On Thursday he was a little better and Friday he was coughing and wheezing.  Friday night, the 6th, he woke up at 11:30 freaking out because he couldn't breathe and wanted to go to the hospital.  It was 58* outside so that wasn't helping.  He got a breathing treatment and steroids and we were hoping that that would be the end of it.  Stay tuned...

It wouldn't be 5 weeks later without a trip to the ER with Grey

New Years Day

On New Years Day, we had a great day playing with our Christmas Toys, Shopping and exchanging some Christmas stuff we had gotten and playing as a family.  That was bath night and when Greyson got in the bath, I was washing him and he said showing me his left leg, "Mom, this hurt me last night."  It was bright red and swollen and had white in the middle.  It looked like a spider bite that was infected.  He wasn't crying, just saying that it hurt.  So, to be on the safe side, I took him to the ER.  Of course, because we still haven't paid the balance we owe on the Thanksgiving ER trip yet (oops, need to pay that!)  When we got there, it was SO BUSY.  And I looked at his leg, and it didn't look as bad as when we left, so I felt like a loser.  Everyone was sick and miserable and Greyson was running a screaming around everyone.  It was great.  We finally got back about an hour after we got there and left about 3 hours after we first arrived.  The Dr. determined that it was a burn of some sort, like a rug burn.  But I don't know how he would have gotten it randomly on the middle of his leg.  So they asked that we keep it covered because he was scratching it and they didn't want it to get infected.  They gave him an antibiotic as well.  It looks so much better now!

Thanksgiving

Lets talk about Thanksgiving 2014, shall we?  It started off with a bang and didn't get any better.  The day before Thanksgiving, Greyson started getting a raspy voice. Then he started coughing and by 2am Thanksgiving morning, he was wheezing really bad, coughing and not breathing very well.  We tried the cold air outside and the steamy shower air, but nothing was helping or working, so we made our way to the AF Hospital ER. They just opened a new ER, so that was nice, and it wasn't busy, so we got in and started treating him with a Breathing treatment and steroids. We got home about 5:30 and got a little bit more sleep before Thanksgiving was to start.

Greyson and I in the hospital

As we were cleaning the house, getting ready for our Thanksgiving guests to come, Gavin went to the bathroom and came and told us that the toilet was broken.  That is all we need before having people over, a broken toilet.  Luckily it was just the handle that broke and made it so that it wouldn't flush, an easy fix!  We decided to deep fry a turkey this year and had the missionaries over as well as my brother Jason and Mike's mom Mary.  Right before dinner was going to start, Jason came inside to tell us that someone hit our Durango.  We parked it out on the street in front of our house so that Mike could deep fry the turkey without worrying about the car. Well the across the street neighbor didn't see our car or something and backed right into the Durango denting the driver side door, and destroying the side view mirror. We still haven't gotten it fixed (that is a whole nother issue)

Poor sad banged up Durango

After dinner and everyone left, we cleaned up and relaxed because it was a stressful, busy day.  I think we were all in bed by 9 and asleep shortly after.  Jason woke up the next day and left early and we took off to Hill Air Force Base to check out the Black Friday deals.  Even though Greyson was sick and the neighbor hit our car, I am Thankful this year for so much.  I am Thankful for Car insurance and Health insurance.  I am Thankful that we have our health and 3 cute, healthy boys.  I am Thankful that we have jobs that help us afford our house and cars and things that we need and sometimes want.  We have a lot to be Thankful for this year and I am grateful for the Gospel and family!

Our Turkey! (She tasted so good!)

Greyson's Hand

I hope we don't ever have to go through this ever again! On May 12th, I was cooking dinner in the kitchen and Greyson pulled up a chair to "help" me. I has just turned off the stove and moved the rice from the burner and turned around to the counter to shred the chicken for dinner when Greyson started asking me a question. I answered his question and then all of a sudden he was screaming bloody murder and holding his right hand up for me to look at. I immediately knew what happened.  He put his hand on the burner and burnt it.  I ran it under cold water and put Aloe Vera from our plant on it, but he freaked out for about 2 hours after it happened.  We asked our neighbor to come help give him a blessing and then Mike took him to the fire station to see if we needed to go to the hospital, because we were getting different opinions about it.  We finally did decide to take him to the ER and they looked at it and said it would be ok, but we needed to have his Dr. follow it to make sure it healed.  We had weekly appointments for his hand after that through May and we are very glad to say that it is looking and doing so much better.  He does baby it sometimes, but we are happy it is passed us and we are back on the road again.  Warning...Yucky pictures...

The top left is his hand the day after, the top left is day 3, bottom left is 2 weeks after and the last picture is last week so 3 weeks after.

This was the morning after it happened all wrapped up

And after his first Drs. visit, wrapped way better.

Buckle Fracture

It has been a busy weekend.  Yesterday was Mike's drill weekend so I was with myself with the boys.  We were getting ready to go to church and I was finishing the stuff I needed for my lesson in Young Women's.  We went outside, I remembered I needed to get pictures, so we went back inside. I thought I had everything and so I opened the garage door for us to go back outside, and out the boys went.  I remembered there was another picture I wanted in the dining room so I turned back to get it and heard crash, screaming and crying. I thought at first it was Greyson, but then nope, it was Gavin.  We came inside, I got mad at him for rushing down the stairs because that is when people get hurt, gave him some Tylenol and we relaxed on the couch for a minute.  He just kept complaining about it.  I called Mike on my way to Church and asked him if he could come home after telling him what had happened.  We went to Church and he was still sad and saying it hurt.  He told me he just didn't want to feel his hand anymore.  Right before my lesson started, Mike showed up and took the boys home (Thank goodness)!  When I got home from Church Mike said we needed to go get it checked out.  We got the the ER about 5:15ish and went the rounds with them.  They were actually pretty busy.  We got a "room" and Gavin went back for an X-Ray and flirted with the X-Ray tech telling her "You are cute."  Oh my, what a ham!  We got the X-Ray back and he has a Buckle fracture right on his right wrist.  They splinted it and said he has to wear it for 4 weeks, nonstop.  At least it will be off before Preschool starts :)  So he is on lots of Motrin for the pain, the splint and rest for 4 weeks.  Hopefully it heals properly.  And no more running down the Garage stairs.

Croup

The day after Greyson's birthday, he started to get a runny nose and fever.  Sunday night, he woke up at 10pm with this NASTY barking cough.  After taking him outside a couple times and putting him in the bathroom with the shower going, I decided that nothing was helping because he was still gasping for air, so we needed to go to the ER.:(

They gave him an oral steroid and cold air breathing treatment and sent us on our way.  He was still crabby on Monday but after a GREAT nights sleep Monday night woke up Tuesday and he was his normal regular self!  So glad that is over!

Kidney Stones Much?

On Tuesday the 10th, Mike called me about 1 in the afternoon and said he was in pain & it felt like he had Kidney Stones again. He was at work and was going to try to work through the pain. At about 3:30 he called me again & said he was in so much pain he was going to go to the ER at St. Marks. They did some blood work and stuff, and sure enough he had Kidney Stones. They released him, gave him some meds and sent him on his way. When he got home that night he was feeling so much better, he got up Wednesday and went to work because he was feeling good.

On Wednesday he was at work and called me at 2 saying he was in pain again. At about 2:30 he said he couldn't work anymore he needed to go home and see if he could pass the Kidney Stone. He was in pain all evening long. That night, we got him a Priesthood Blessing and went to bed hoping the next day would be better.

Thursday early morning at 3:30, Mike came in and told me he was in so much pain that he was going to drive himself to the ER. I jumped right up out of bed, got the boys ready and we were off the the American Fork ER. They got him all hooked up with meds. did a CT and found a 7mm Kidney Stone right in the middle of his Kidney. They were guessing it was stuck, which is why he was in so much pain and referred us to a Urologist. The stone would have to be broken up if he wanted to pass it. Thursday afternoon we met with the Urologist who did an x-ray to see if they could see the Kidney Stone with their x-ray machine & they could, so they gave Mike the option of Lithotripsy (breaking up the Kidney Stone) or going directly in and removing it. Mike opted for Lithotripsy. We got it scheduled for Friday the 13th... We got Mike another Priesthood Blessing Thursday night as well.

We needed to be at the hospital at 7:45 on Friday but literally just as we left the house they called & said they were pushed back & not to be there until 8:45. So we drove around and hung out and made it to the hospital at about 8:30ish. Got Mike all checked in, he was prepped, had another x-ray. The Dr. doing the surgery came in and talked to us, as well as the Anesthesiologist and Nurses. He was taken back at 10:45 and they call me at 11:26 saying he was done. We were in the hospital until about 3 trying to get Mike's pain under control and to hear from the Dr. on how the surgery went any everything.

By Monday the 16th Mike was feeling better and back to work. He passed most of the broken up Kidney Stones on Monday when he got home from work. He is now back to normal!

I am thankful for Priesthood Blessings, Insurance, Drs. who were not very nice, but at least know what they are doing. I am thankful for my job that let me take 2 days off on a whim to be with Mike and for Mike's work for being so understanding about this whole situation. Wow...It has been a Crazy 2012 so far!

More H1N1

This weekend wasn't the greatest weekend for us. Mike started having "complications" Friday night & we decided that we would hold off on anything until Saturday because we weren't quite sure if it was bad or just the antibotic doing its job. Saturday morning he was still having this problem, so we called the Dr. & he told us to go to either the Instacare or the ER. We had some neighbors come over & give Mike a blessing & then headed to the ER. I had to stay outside because I had Gavin & they wouldn't let him in. We called Mike's Mom & Sister & asked them to come down to get Gavin so I could be with Mike. They ran some tests, some of which turned out to be okay & others we haven't found the results of yet. They put an IV in him & released him about 2 telling him to rest, relax & liquids for 24 hours. He is still not feeling the best, but it seems he is on the upswing. Thankfully still, Gavin & I haven't gotten it & are still out of the clear. I am still sleeping on the air mattress in the Dining room, so hopefully by this weekend everything will be back to normal for our Family Pictures. Thanks again everyone for helping us & thinking of us & being there for us!