lillee33's Journal

ieieieie!!! The process never seems to end....now Chloe is sick too....poor little baby is miserable....luckily though she only has the nasal congestion and not the diarrhea.

We ended up not having to do the stool cultures because since being at the docs office neither boy has had the diarrhea, and Jace has finally started to eat a little better and is drinking a whole lot more.  He just still has some cough and nasal congestion, but it is starting to get better too. 

I did go to walmart on Tuesday night and tried to find something that I could give Chloe to help make her a little more comfortable, but they didn't have anything there that she could have.  Not even a tylenol...they said that they were for infants, but stated not for children under 2yrs old....uhhhh 2yrs old is not an infant!!!   FRUSTRATING.     I did call the docs office yesterday and the nurse said that the doc will not recommend anything over the counter, but she did tell me to ask my pharmacist < that he/she will be able to tell me what she can have...since I have to go there today anyway I will do that so that she may be able to rest better.

This past week has been crazy...have been trying to get Jace in to preschool...he wants to go so bad, he is constantly asking "you take me to school now?"....seems that there has been so many road blocks in the way.....BUT on Friday we found out that he will definitely get to start "school" this week...Wednesday at the latest....>>>HOWEVER<<< since last Tuesday he has had very loose bowels and only seems to be getting worse, he now has a horrible cough and stuffy/runny nose.  I did call his doctor's office on Friday and they had told me not to be too concerned just yet since he was eating, drinking and behaving normal, but if the diarrhea last more than a week that it would need to be further investigated...I will be calling the doctor's office tomorrow morning because he still has the diarrhea, cough, and stuffy/runny nose but is not eating really anything, and we have to basically force him to drink...he is making me very worried~~very concerned about dehydration and what if he ends up in the hospital...ie. How am I going to do that with two other children at home, and one of them being breastfed exclusively and the other with so many problems of his own, and would be anxiously out of control if I am not here....hopefully when I take Jace to the doc tomorrow it will be something that he can treat/fix with him at home...

Today, Chance has had the belly ache and diarrhea too, and even through up during the night Saturday night (but with him I don't know if it is the same thing that Jace has or if his is from Milk overload, since he is severely allergic to milk and doesn't listen and continues to eat things with milk in them...when I got up yesterday morning Nick said "Chance is done with the candy bars, he can't have anymore" come to find out Chance helped himself to almost the entire pack of Kit-Kat's....you know the small bars that come in like a pack of 10...I asked him if he was a gluten for punishment and why would he do something like that??? I asked him if he liked being sick...the diarrhea and vomiting has happened before as a result of "milk overload"  He, too, is having an allergy issue, has the runny nose and dry-like cough and the meds he takes for that doesn't seem to help too much.

Chloe was fussy this evening as well becasue silly me at Chili for supper, so she had a gassy, upset stomach.  She is getting so big!!  She's three and a half months old now and is 22 3/4 inches long and weighs 12 lbs.

I must sing my praises now, I was so proud of Nick on Saturday morning, The house was a complete mess when we all went to bed Friday night, I was just too tired to clean it up...When I got up yesterday morning Nick had cleaned up (all but the kitchen), and washed up almost all of the laundry, all that I had to do was fold it and put it away...I was so thankful and grateful for that, and I DID make sure to thank him  along with a kiss!

This evening we had horribly strong winds..some thing like 50-70 mph...well on Thursday evening the company acrossed the street from us had an accident and all the electric wires needed replaced and/or repaired and to do so they had to cut back the branchs.  Those branches that had been cut down were nevercleaned up...so in the long rough winds it was blosing these branch..and with the wind so strong, those branches were Blowing everywhere...one of the brances flew up against our truck, adn scraped the whole side of the track.

On Friday Chance's therapist came to the house and they painted pictures and she brought him 2 picture frames to decorate and display pictures of his dog...the attempt was aimed at him expressing his feelings about his dog and the tragedy that happened...he did very well with working with her on it, and she is coming again tomorrow and they are going to work on a scrapbook of Stoopy, and make him a headstone as well....

And honestly, since she was here on Friday, he has opened up and has said a couple of times that he misses Stoopy, that he loves him, and then asks if I miss him too, almost like he needs to hear the reassurance that it is ok to miss him and still love him.  And he has been staring at the pictures of Stoopy that are on the computer.

I can see a difference in Chance since he has began the Zoloft along with the Aderall, however, tonight when I was talking with my sister in law, she said that he does in fact still show plenty of anxiety, and I have to trust her on that as he is at her house pretty much everyday for multiple hours (she lives in the same block as we do), so she would see that, she did say that she noticed a bit of improvement in his anxiety, but that he still shows plenty of it.

Jace is very excited about school, he asks everyday if we can take him to school...and he asks daily "Grandma and Pap take me to the derby?"....but the derby is not until Sept. 1...just very excited, and extremely into the derby car thing~~

I LOVE Nick on the 400mg of Lamictal, he too is a different person, a much nicer person to be around, and does so much more with the boys, and talks to Chloe all the time too...he hasn't exactly said anything, but to me it seems that he is a happier person too....He actually did the laundry for me on Saturday while I was at my neice's birthday party....YAY!!!  And I tried to always remember to thank him when he does lend the helping hand around here.

I, myself, am starting to feel worn out, between making bean bags, housework and children....being a mom is definitely a demanding job, and my sleep is what I forteit.