Chad at the Dentist
So, for those of you who have not seen David after the dentist on you tube…you’ll need to see this:
But, when i went on you tube today, I almost peed, as I saw this ‘response’ to chad at the dentist:
I love pancakes
Yup. I really do. I loved them even more tonight when I watched our baby eat them. YAY! He ate!!! He woke us up at 4AM today with a sharp scream that only means one thing in this house…another load of laundry. so yes, he threw up AGAIN. Then one more time. Pretty much at our wits end here. Completely. But, I still took him over to sharon…and he did fine all day. As suspected, getting back in his routine helped him start eating….eating very mild, bland food, yes..but eating nonetheless. Then, he ate 2 pancakes with bananas tonight. HORRAY! So, I’m sure that was super duper important for you to hear…you can more on with your life now.
It’s totally the time of year when I am totally frustrated with my job. not so much the kids or parents, mostly with myself. I feel like things start to spin uncontrolably around me and I can’t stop the progression towards the end of the year. See, with kids that are going into kindergarten, I have to determine what services they will need, how much services, and where they might ‘fail’. unfortunately, that is often what the kindergarten teachers want to know. I have a large group of children transitioning, and I’m already getting completely overwhelmed with the amount of paperwork I’m trying to juggle and keep track of. Beyond that, they just dished me THREE new kids in the morning class…egads. In a matter of 2 weeks we almost doubled in size..talk about throwing off a group of kids, you know? So, the big problem with this time of year is the self esteem – I start to watch the class and think ‘Oh dear Lord, I’m doing NOTHING for these kids’. I don’t see the obvious progress, I feel like people are watching me saying ‘what in the world is wrong with her….she’s just babysitting’..and I feel like I can not make any good programing decisions. Down deep in my psyche, yes, I realize that as I do test scores and see a child’s social scores go from a 19% up to an 85%, that yes..they have made progres…but I guess maybe it’s just the ‘teacher’ thing. Or just me. More than likely, it’s just me. I need to up my meds.
on a lighter, ‘get over your pity party’ note…I pushed my fat butt into TWO pairs of pants I have not been able to even squeeze over my thighs since..oh…i don’t even remember. I mean, THAT long….a long long time. No, I can not YET wear them in public, but i’m close…oh so very very close.
WHAT????? i’m starving him???
So, this morning, our poor baby threw up ALL of his milk. Well, egads…between that and the water from the other end, we made our way into urgent care at 11:00AM. Still barely eating, over a week of diarrhea, and intermittent puking….yeah…. Anyway, went to after hours pediatrics (www.after-hourpediactrics.com) which was a great place to go. they are pediatricians that only serve families in the evenings and weekends. Pretty much just for urgent care. So, it’s great.
Anyway, what she said was that Logan was essentially being ‘over’-treated. (he’s on augmentin still for ear and throat). She said between the augmetin and the pedialyte that they had me doing, he was having what was I think she called hydration starvation. I THINK that’s what she called it. anyway, with the constant pedialyte, it was over-flushing him, which was causing the horrible diarrhea. plus, the augmentin is just tearing his stomach up more…so she said to completely lay off the pedialyte completely…then she said to stop the antibiotic as well…his ears and his throat were completely clear, and his lungs sounded fantastic. My poor, poor baby. The virus that he probably did have was/is causing the appetite to be suppressed. so we are in a horribly cycle..so, here’s $50, doctor. thanks for telling me I’m starving my child, even though we are CONSTANTLY trying to get him to eat. Anyway, mommy guilt was AWFUL….although i should be glad that I took him in so we found to do this instead of continuing all the treatment we were told to give him earlier last week. He’s not contagious, and he just needs to EAT. So, since he’ll be back at Sharon’s tomorrow, hopefully he’ll start really eating again. We’ve gotten much more food in him the past couple of days..but still not back up to his normal chow down. My poor, poor baby. I need to switch to a pediatrician instead of a general practitioner. anybody have suggestions that are close by?
The Sick Baby
Well, I’m home again today. this is from logan:
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Funny that he wrote ‘poop’ in there, b/c that’s why we are home. water. We’ve done a LOT of laundry around here the past couple of days. EGADS. So, we are just watching for dehydration now, since he still won’t eat..and drinks very little. He’s MUCH happier today though, thank goodness. he wants to go outside..that’s a good sign.
So, here’s video of him in his ‘bacta tank’:
And of him in happier times a couple weeks ago:
1 in a 1000 you say???
Yup. that’s what the ENT said when I asked ’so, could Logan get another ear infection?’ Leave it to our kid to defy the statistics. He has an ear infection. sheesh. And strep (again) and he’s skirting the edge of pneumonia. all this is coming after him throwing up randomly over the past week. (once all over CVS – hello linda blair..egads). Anyway, back to the doctor today and back to his own personal bacta tank (star wars reference, people). So, 20 for the office visit, and then $70 for the prescriptions (breathing treatments again!), and we are on our way to health. He’s sleeping again now. That would be about the 3rd time today. Poor lil’ guy. I’m glad I did stay home today. It’s so sad how guilty I feel when I call into work. I constantly feel like I should have just gone in..although Logan did throw up this AM, and obviously needed to stay home. get over yourself, Melissa. The classroom will be FINE. The paras, however, have to work tons harder when I’m not there, b/c there is typically a sub that doesn’t know much of anything about early childhood. I did get a good sub for today though….
i’m also thrilled to announce that Logan finally ate some today. It’s been very slim on the eating lately, so yay!
That’s about all I have today…..I have to write a lecture.
