Mama Cant be sick

the boys do not allow Mama to be sick most times....but today I must say they were very good and allowed Liam and I to take a nap and even when they heard me coughing up a lung...Ethan came running to ask me if I was ok and even brought me the throat spray. They are growing up to be such care givers (like their mom Sean says).

I APPRECIATE MY BOYS!!!

Family

Well what a last couple of days. Sunday afternoon we get a call that Seans brother had a heart attack and that it was serious enough that they were transferring him to Nashville. We decided quickly that we needed to be there for him since we were the only "heath family members" able to make it there. Plus its his brother..enough said!

I learned this weekend HOW IMPORTANT AND HOW MUCH I LOVE FAMILY!!!!! Family come together to help each other out in a time of hardship and sadness VERY WELL!!!! My mother abruptly stopped her Sunday plans and came over to watch my kids for a unspecified amount of days (we didnt know if he was goin to have bypass or not)....we had a Family member help us in a way that we could never EVER express how much it meant to us (wink), and we realized that family can be here one day and gone the next so call, write and always say I LOVE YOU, no matter how busy life gets.

I am glad to save his brother is recovering at home and as of right now , no other surgery needed after the cath procedure. St THomas hospital in Nashville was so wonderful , even to family members visiting...they had a hotel attached to the hospital that family members could stay at so that doctors and such could get a hold of you right away. The nurses were very polite and so was the 1 doctor i met :) Even the night we arrived there we were walking the halls @ 430 am trying to find the hotel...when 2 nurses stopped us in the hall and the 1 nurse (who looked like she just got out of surgery) said how can I help you two? I said we are trying to find the INN cuz my husbands brother is here after having a heart attack and we just drove 8 hrs from Ohio. She immediatly put her hand on Sean and said ...are you doing ok? Do you think you can sleep right now ? I know it will be hard because you are worried but if you would like I can show you the family waiting area where there are chairs that turn into beds and I can get you blanket until the front desk lady comes back from lunch at the INN....we told her thank you ! :) :) She kept saying to Sean that they will take care of his brother and that it was great that he was here for him and try not to worry too much (with a sincere smile) It was one of the moments ....you know where someone you DONT KNOW crosses your path and does a sincere thing or says something that effects you greatly...that was that ONE nurse in the HALLWAY @ ST THOMAS @ 430 in the morning....THANK YOU!

Of course on another note I have come to the conclusion that when Mama leaves the 4 boys...and for more than a few hours.....THEY GET STRESSED AND SICK!!!! lol...we came home to 3 sick kids and 1 kid who had 6 seizures in that day :( but as soon as mama and dada was home....kids started feeling better and Ethan had no seizures today...hmmmmm :) I LOVE MY BOYS!!!

Need some suggestions

I have found out in the last year that there is nothing in our COUNTY for Epilepsy: support groups, charities or etc.

Everything is mainly in Toledo which is a drive.

I really want to start something in our county but Im not sure what to start or how to even go about starting something. I just know I would love to be in contact with peeps in our county that deal with this everyday also with a child or themselvse or a spouse or family member what ever......any ideas?? or just some input would be so NICE :)

I wish I knew if I could help

Well today Ian came home from school and broke my heart...he started crying and Ethan came to me and said Why is Ian crying? I said Ian come here, what is wrong? He said my bestfriend may have to leave the area and school because he has to get adopted...He meant that him and his 2 siblings had to go into Foster Care...they have no mom....(she abandon them) and the guy they live with who they treat as a dad got busted for drugs and is goin to jail.

Oh man it just broke my heart!!!! I wish I could take them in....this just makes me more and more want to be a foster parent. How sad is that? Its never really hit so close to home before....I was for a lost of words and just told him to wait and see what happens....but Ian is so sad :(

This boy is so well behaved over here and I just hope whatever foster home he goes to treats him well !

Seriously!!!???

I have 4 boys!! DUH!! Peeps reading my blog know this. My oldest is almost 13...So I have been dealing with children and sickness for 13 years....but the nurse calls me back this morning and tells me that I have to bring in 1 child out of the 3 before they can give me eye drops for pink eye......PINK EYE!!!!! They have had it in the past before!!!! WHY WHY WHY cant they just call the eye drops in...instead of making me drive an hour with 3 kids and ONLY 1 can be seen cuz they are booked she says....for them to tell me YUP PINK EYE...all they do is look at their eye just like I DO...pink,,,crusty,,,,,,and junk coming out of eye.....if you call for the flu they will call you back and BELIEVE YOU and tell you to keep them home and give them fluids and so on cuz they dont want it in the office and they trust with 4 kids you know what you are talking about....BUT SERIOUSLY????!!!!! 3 kids woke up with Pink eye...its going around in the schools in our COUNTY....WHY CANT YOU CALL ME IN EYE DROPS so I dont have to waste 2.90 a gallon gas and get 3 kids ready to go for 1 kid to be seen.....for 2 mins!!!!

Not happy with physicians office right now!

Not the words you want your doctor to say...

Well today I went to see the doc.....he said I had 2 options now.....a different HIGH dose of a hormone he has not ever used but should work....or hysterectomy. YIKES!!!! He than took a look at my up and down incision from my 3 previous csections...and said lets go to my office. That usually does not mean good news.....

He proceeded to tell me I was EXTREME HIGH RISK if I had to have a hysterectomy....that my surgery would not be easy in anyway and the risks are great!!! NOT WORDS YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM YOUR DOCTOR!!!!!!!! There are two reasons....my uterus is small and my WEIGHT!!!!! It finally caught up with me.....he said because of my weight Im EXTREMELY likely to get blod clots in my legs or lungs and other complications .....hmmm SO of course I chose this medicine he was looking up in his texts at high dosages. I get one month on this medicine...and if it does not work.....surgery is my ONLY option. Of course I got home saw Sean and started to cry......its one of my biggest fears.....dying during surgery or in the previous years during c sections. Yea I thought the worse BUT thats me and I make no excuses....

So tomorrow I start the medication which is scarey in itself considering the usage for this medicine is for cancer patients....On the pamphlet but it can help periods too apparently....so prayers are needed and we will see in 30 days :)

I finally asked....

Well I finally asked Grandma if she would type up the stories she always told us grandkids about her growing up and dating stories. I have been thinking about this for awhile now and wasnt sure how to present it to her. I just knew I always enjoyed those stories and wanted to be able to share them accurately with my 4 boys. Hopefully she will do it for me....as I did kinda beg!!!! LOL

Well we had another family get together last night, minus Cory, and it was fun...I had made so much food for my MK party that got cancelled that I didnt know what to do with it all....so I asked mom...hey why dont we have a early Aprils Bday celebration and she was like SURE!!! So that was fun!!! So us girls went shopping for mexican food and than came home and got it all prepared while the guys snoozed and watch tv....LOL!!!! Enjoy these moments alot!!!!

Well tomorrow is my Dr appt and Im a lil worried about what he is going to recommend...but I know he is a good Dr....so he will figure out the right path to take....all I know is I want this to go away!!!! Wish me luck!

Why do I feel anxieties today?

Well this morning at 6am i dropped Ian off at school to go on his Chicago trip. I sat there for a few minutes watching him from the van as he waited to load the buses and than I saw all the other parents pulling away so I decided to leave as not to embarrass him....LOL.

Yet all morning I have been having anxiety about the whole thing because I wanted Ian to have a cell phone in case he needed to call me for any emergency but it didnt happen. I know I know....Mom said last night..."we use to not have cell phones kelly, they are with teachers and chaperones He will be ok."

Its the first time my first born has traveled far away without me...LOL! He has never been to Chicago or even rode a train before. Sure its 6th grade teachers going along with a few helpers BUT I dont even know their first names ...I call them Mr J or Mrs Fry...and so on....oh my head is playing with me because Im tired....he will be fine!! I KNOW !!! LOL I did buy him mini book bag and a disposable camera and some snacks for the trip. Kayden let him use his gameboy too.

btw...YES IM OVERPROTECTIVE OF MY BOYS!!!!!!! lol

well I should get off here so that I can attempt to make my first batch of Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies all by myself :) for MK party today.....wish me good luck!!!!!

A Glimmer of Hope

Well today is 3 days seizure free for Ethan!!!!!

He has stopped puking, sleeping all the time and eating all the time too. I actually told Sean today that he is even acting like the old Ethan....not like the "ADHA version"....so I have a glimmer of hope that this new medication Lamictal is going to work , along with Depakote being removed.

He had a field trip today to COSI in Toledo....he was very excited to tell me all the cool things there. He did mention his lunchable was not the best tho...LOL!!!

Ian has a new girlfriend.....I think this is girlfriend #2......ahhhh hes not even 13 til July!!! HELP ME!!!!!!! (did i mention the phone wont stop ringing)

I did called the doc today again...as the hormones they have put me on are making the condition im dealing with WORSE ...so I go back in on Monday....im getting a feeling surgery AGAIN is in my near future....hey last surgery lasted a year and half....WOOT!!!! :

Kaydens behavior has improved greatly in the last couple of weeks at school. Not sure if its the counseling or they are doing things that are interesting to him. The case manager still wants his IQ tested because she feels he is very bored......we are kinda interested in the results of it too.

Well thats about all today....feel a lil BLAH and gonna start supper.

Oh yea and um.....totally love me some Crystal Bowersox on IDOL....LOVE HER VOICE!!!! lol

My first blog......WOOT WOOT!

Well after reading my Aunt Dona's blog for awhile now and my cousin Nicholes...I decided to take a chance and start my own....who knows where this will go.

I plan on telling you of my daily KRAZIES and anything else that makes my fingers type on here...LOL! Some will be boring, some funny and some serious....but stay with me as I try to find my inner writer.....

Thanks to all who has decided to read this and follow my blog....HUGZ!!!!

Well, today is Monday and we have a few dr appts today. Sean had a dentist appt bright and early this morning and Liam Frank decided he wanted to dress himself so he could go with daddy....so let me try to explain what he put on....a long sleeve shirt, jean shorts, 2 of Kaydens white soxs pulled all the way up to his knees, kaydens old tennis shoes and his winter jacket.....YUP!!! GOT THE IMAGE? for some reason Daddy started laughin when he turned around and heard Liam Frank say..I wanna go with you dada......all I could think was Kayden Jr in the making :) all he needed to be Kayden was a clip on tie :)

xx