Christmas 2008

We spent Christmas this year out at my parents house in Argyle. We had fun riding the 4 wheeler and the 6 wheeler. We got to see the cows and even feed them some cubes. Grammy and Pap also came up to eat dinner with us.

Christmas Eve was a little bit different (and sad) for us this year. We always spend it with Aaron's family, but couldn't this year due to Jake's illness. We didn't want to make cousin Troy or Great-Granny sick. So the 4 of us just stayed home.

Morgan and Jake got lots of new toys which they have been enjoying since Christmas. Morgan even got into opening the presents (or at least ripping the wrapping paper off a box) by the afternoon. Morgan's favorite toy has to be her baby doll stroller and her rocking chair, while Jake likes this little machine that plays songs and blows balls out of a whole in the top of the toy by blowing air.

Morgan Update

Morgan has been doing pretty good compared to the rest of the family. She was on a round of antibiotics early in December for a sinus infection and then seemed to be fairly healthy. She has gotten a few new teeth and we are now up to 6 on the top and 6 on the bottom with 2 more coming through on the top. She actually accidentally bit Nana the other night when she was feeding her pizza crust! She started coughing the last few days and we took her back to the Dr also and it turns out she has a double ear infection now. They have her on antibiotics now also. We are a regular pharmacy at the Podlucky house right now.

Jake Update

Jake has also had a rough few weeks. He has been to the pediatrician 5 or 6 times in the last 2-3 weeks. We also got to try out the Pediatrix After Hours clinic on New Years Day due to a fever. It all started close to the beginning of December with the normal upper respiratory stuff. We were told to watch it and that was that. The next trip we were put on antibiotics for what appeared to be an old sinus infection and told that it probably wouldn't help that much because it was probably a virus. The third trip he was diagnosed with a virus that could be RSV (a bad virus that you have to worry about with young kids, especially preemies) and we started a different antibiotic and breathing treatments. Then he started running a fever and went back to the Dr and was diagnosed with a resistant double ear infection and put on a different antibiotic. New Years Day he still had his fever, that could be held at bay for a couple of hours after being given Tylenol, so we took him to the after hours clinic. They told us that one of his ears looked great and that one looked like it was healing so to keep him on the antibiotics and follow up with the regular Pediatrician if he wasn't better. We made it through the weekend, but he was still running a fever so we went back in to see the Dr. They ran some blood work on him and took a chest x-ray. It turns out he has pneumonia. Poor little man! He had to get two courses of antibiotics via injection at the Dr's office over the next two days. These injections were supposedly super painful, so we off set the pain with daddy's chocolate milkshake. He was also started on yet another antibiotic at home and another medicine for the Thrush he also had due to all the antibiotics!

He is definitely getting better now. He is running around and stomping his feet. Still not eating much, but I hope as he feels better he will start to eat again.

Back In The Land Of The Living

Well I am happy to finally say that I feel human again. This is the first time I have wanted to sit in front of the computer since my tonsillectomy on 12/26. It will be 2 weeks tomorrow, and I have to say that it was the worst 2 weeks of my life. I never imagined the pain would be so much, even though the ENT doctor told me I would probably need 2 weeks off work. "It will feel like an extreme case of strep throat" is a gigantic understatement of what you actually feel. Plus the older you are, the worse it is....great, remind me again why I waited until I was 33!

I spent the first few days recovering at my parents house with no babies. Aaron went and spent a few days down at Grammy and Pap's with the kiddos. I have to say that I slept away the first week in a vicodin haze. I can look back now and say that I at least got to catch up on some sleep that I have missed over the last 3 years.

I tried to eat ice cream the first day and got sick, so I am not sure if I will ever be able to eat ice cream again (or at least vanilla ice cream). So there has been a lot of soup and yogurt in my diet. I have been able to eat more solid things (with some pain - but I am tuff, yeah right) over the last few days.

The good things that came out of this is I lost 10# and I am completely off caffeine now since it hurts to drink anything but water.

Would I do this again, HELL NO! but hind sight is 20/20

Jake's Breathing Treatments

We went to the pediatrician yesterday because Jake was coughing a lot. His nose has been running, but he went to the dr 2 weeks ago and was already on antibiotics, so I didn't rush to take him in.

Dr Nail said that his ears looked fine, but his lungs were a little raspy. He prescribed breathing treatments every 4-6 hours. This doesn't go over very well at all. We have a little nebulizer and have to add medicine to it and sit there and let him breath it in until it is gone (about 10-15 minutes). It is difficult enough to get a 16 month old to sit still for 10 minutes without having something up by his face!!

They did give us a little mask we could use, but that was a disaster when my mum and I tried it on Saturday, so Aaron and I have opted for the device without the mask. We go back to the Dr tomorrow to see how he is doing.

The unfortunate side to all of this is he is contagious. This really messes up our plans for Christmas. We were planning on spending Christmas Eve over at our brother-in-law and sister-in-laws house and then going to church. We will have to cancel that because cousin Troy is only 7 months old and we don't want to get him sick. We also won't get to see Great-Granny (Aaron's grandmother) because she also has a compromised immune system.

IN LOVING MEMORY....

September 23, 1998 - December 20, 2008

We lost our beloved Shadow to lymphoma. He went to meet his sister, Remington, at the Rainbow Bridge yesterday morning around 9:20. He had been fighting cancer for the last 5 weeks. Actually probably longer than that, but that was when he was diagnosed. He was 10 years old and lived a full life. This is a picture of him in his "younger days", taken after he had been to the park to play. We love you Sha Sha and we miss you terribly.

Ice In Texas!!

When we woke up this morning, the streets were covered with a sheet of ice. I don't do ice...and pretty much refuse to drive in it. Aaron took the day off work because traffic going to his office was horrible. We let it thaw a little and then he was nice enough to drive me to work. He actually stayed up there all day with me and do his work remotely. I found out something about my husband today that I never knew before now...he talks to himself while he is working. Talk about distracting. Although, he would probably say the same about me and my office staff. Every time he tried to make a phone call for work, he would have to leave the office since we were "too loud". Any way I was very thankful that he drove.

When we got home, Jake and Morgan enjoyed pasta with sauce. They make such a mess, but they both really love it.

Sleeping through the night is going a little better now. They are going down between 7:15 and 7:30 and not waking up until 4:30 - 5:30. I can't wait until we have 7 - 7. That would be great.

I have scheduled my tonsillectomy for December 26th (Boxing Day). This was the only time they could get me in before the end of the year, and since I have met my medical deduction for this year already, I wanted to go ahead and get it done. I guess that is one way to put an end to "holiday eating"!