What a crazy month......time to update!

The past month has been crazy!!! It all started Thanksgiving day. Tyler woke with a fever and all over just could tell he didn't feel go. With the fact that Michaela had just had a 24hour bug I was sure this is what we were dealing with. We switched Tyler to pedialite via Gtube and let him eat some. He of course didn't want much to eat, spending most of the day on the sofa. Friday morning I called our Ped since Tyler was still running a fever and his blood sugar that morning was 38. We did get his surgars to stablize and since our ped wasn't in the office we chose to wait it out. On Sat monring now going on 3 days of high fevers with little to no help from Motrin or Tylenol we thought it was best he be seen. Yes his blood sugar was low again but not "that" low. He was DX with H1N1 and we started Tamiflu, and a 2lb loss in just under a week. The rest of the weekend was spent snuggled on the sofa with him. On Monday he still wasn't right and now had that croupy cough and we could hear some wheezing. So back to the Dr's we went. We were able to see Dr T despite her not having any appts. Of course she was more then willing to see him knowing he needed to be seen. We added Albuterol via Nebulizer and Oral steriods to his med's. She also wanted to speak to Endo about his low sugars and if we could run the needed tests. Yes we have ended up waiting on the tests and the low sugars to just keep watching and doing what we are doing. I will say its times like these that I am more thankful for having a Gtube. We spent the rest of the week laying low and getting Tyler better.

On Thur, 1 wk after Thanksgiving, I was needing to get out. I took Brycen to get a hair cut. Those of you who understand SID (senssory intergration disorder) will understand when I say he was a willing particatpent, so when that happens we run with it!! After the hair cut we were on our way home with Michaela calls me saying that Kiley broke her arm AGAIN!! Yep same arm as she broke 4.5months earlier....sigh. I got home only to turn back around with Kiley to take her to AHP. This time she did a good job. The oncall resident Ortho tryed to set the bones in her left forarm. He wasn't that happy with the set but it would due till we could get into Ortho early next week. Kiley was sent home with codine and a white, red and green cast, Tis' the Season right!? We saw ortho on Monday and Kiley was set for surgery the next day. We knew that she would have at least 1 rod if not 2 placed. Both of the bones in her left forarm were completly broken. After surgery Kiley spent Wed and part of Thur in the hospital. Kiley was then able to return to school for the last 5 days before winter break. She has been doing well much better pain wise then this summer. She will remain in a cast for about 5wks and then will just have a brace. The rods will come out sometime in the next 3-5months. Sadly she will miss all of the compations for this year. We hope that she can make it back to the ice sometime before summer.

And then of course Christmas was upon us.............but thats another post!