Decisions

As I have been "getting back on my feet" I am re-accessing my priorities.  My time spent connected is one of my major assessments.  I really didn't have a problem with it when I was sick on the couch either myself or with a little one.  It passed the time and I was ok with that.  But it really is easy to get sucked in.  So I am pretty sure I will keep this blog even though it has been very sporadic during this season of my life.  But writing is good for me.  I enjoy it.  But for the summer I am taking a break from blogging, facebook and the reading of blogs.  I just need some time to disconnect with the computer so that I can reconnect with my family in meaningful ways.  So those of you that have - thanks for checking in and I will be back in a couple months.  Have a great summer!!!!

Update

We are doing well around here.  As most of you probably know by now JK's house burned a couple weeks ago and he is now living with us.  It is a good and healthy situation for both him and us so we are thankful we could help him.  Yesterday, they had a work day at the house cleaning it up and so several days this week I have spent at the property helping him and his brother organize and prepare a place for the things they could salvage from the house.  So it has been a busy week around here.  I have enjoyed it but must confess after spending SO much time the last few months sick and couch ridden I don't seem to have tons of energy.  But hey, we are healthy and moving so PRAISE GOD. 
We have a few items of huge praise:
1. Jake's hearing test this week was perfect.  He has regained all of his hearing and will not need tubes at least for this season.  Thanks for your prayers.
2. John just finished up a project and he is being moved to a project that will require very little travel.  we aren't sure yet on how much but 1 week a month at the most but maybe less.  And this travel will be to Denver which is fun for our family.  John's sister lives there and right now her husband is deployed to Afghanistan.  So John will be able to go stay with her the weeks he travels.  He has this coming week off and then he and Brady will be headed to Denver for a week or so.  Jake and I will stay here since he has school.  Brady is soooo excited.  Jake got to make this trip with Nana by himself when he was Brady's age so Brady is feeling like a big kid to get to go without Jake. 


We have also made a decision about school for the boys next year.  Brady will go to K4 preschool 5 days a week for 4 hours and I am going to home school Jake.  Everyone is very excited.  I am really enjoying my little man who has his own thoughts and ideas about life.  I love beginning to hash these out with him and can't wait to spend more time with him. 

So for now that is our life.  Thanks to all you who have checked in lately.  Hopefully I will be able to write more. 

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Please Pray with Us....

Today Jake went back for his follow up on his ear infections/hearing loss.  He was suppose to go the week I fell but we had to reschedule that appt.  I almost didn't take him today because I assumed he was doing fine.  Well he isn't....  His ears are still full of fluid and non of his hearing has returned.  We have just assumed he was ignoring us.  And to be quite honest we just haven't thought much about it with all the other drama the last few weeks.  So the doc put him on a steroid, nasal spray, antibiotic and a antihistamine to try to clear it up.  He said if it is not clear in a month we will have to do surgery to put tubes back in his ears so they will drain.  He has had the surgery before and did fine.  The catch this time is our insurance won't cover it.  The new insurance we have will not cover tubes, adenoids or tonsils for the first year and we are only 3 months into that first year.  But if the doc can't get the ears to drain it will have to be done or he will sustain long term hearing loss.  So please pray with us that his ears clear up completely in spite of pollen and allergy season and all the drainage that comes with that.  I am very thankful for your faithful prayers for my family the last few months.

Yes It Happened!!!

I had a GREAT week Mon-Thurs of last week!!! I felt good, got out of the house and got lots of stuff done around here.  And then Thursday night happened.....

Brady fell at the bottom of the stairs and hit his head on the banister and gashed his head.  It wasn't too bad - just tragic.  He only needed one staple to close the gaping spot.  So we are thankful.  And then later that night........

When I got home and got Brady in bed I felt literally beat up.  My chest starting hurting and I spent 10-12pm thinking I was dying.  Labor pains did not hurt this bad. I have had about 4 of these "episodes" in the last 2 months.  They are usually gone in 45 minutes tops.  But these didn't stop they only got worse and were accompanied by nasuea (which always happens), chills, and shortness of breath (that haven't happened before).  It was quite scary.  So at midnight I called Kendall - our cousin at Samford to come stay with the kids and I went to the ER.  Luckily, JK had been here taking care of Jake while we were at the ER.  When I started having the chest pains he stuck around.  So once again he came to the rescue while John was in NY.  We are so thankful that he is our family away from family.  This picture he took because he thought it was quite humerous how quickly my face changed with the morphine.  I was in such intense pain I couldn't even write down my meds and address.  And when they gave me the morphine within seconds I felt releif.  He said my face was funny as it relaxed.  Glad he found humor in it.  So after a couple hours of blood work, xrays, EKG, and who knows what else they ruled out my heart and said it seemed quite healthy.  The doctor seems to think it is a GI problem - maybe an ulcer.  I am going to get it checked out as soon as I can get in with a GI doc.  But I also worry that it is just one more way that my body may be absorbing stress.  By the time I got home from the ER with Brady I was covered in hives.  So we shall see.  I will write more about this later. 
I am doing fine now.  Once they pass I am ok.  I was frustrated that I spent money on the ER considering my fall cost us about 2500 out of pocket on top of all the other doc appts we have had lately.  But it hurt THAT bad!!!! 

Fearful

I am feeling better this morning.  John took all the laundry downstairs for me this morning.  I started downstairs and I became very fearful.  If you have ever been in a car wreck it is that feeling you get when you get back in the car/behind the wheel again for the first time.  I was unsure of my footing, afraid of falling again.  The whole time I was down there I was shakey.  Oh well, this will pass.  I am a 32 year old with good balance.  This was a "freak" thing. 
Hope you have a good day :)

Update

Last Tuesday,  I tripped on a rug in our basement and fell face first into the bumper of our truck.  Immediately, I knew I had broken at least one tooth.  I had Jake run upstairs and get my phone and I proceeded to make several phone calls until I got in touch with a neighbor who came and got the boys.   I called John and he called JK (close family friend) who came and got me.  Once I got the bleeding stopped and the boys gone and I could calm down I decided I did not need to go to the ER.  So I went to our sweet doctors office.  He already knew what had happened.  John had called him to see what to do.  (thankfully he is a great friend of ours :))  He looked at me and gave me some pain meds and sent me on to a dentist.  The first assessment from the dentist was 1 tooth is broken off about half way and 4 more are cracked or dislodged.  But because of all the swelling he could not make a clear assessment.
So on Thursday, I went back to the dentist and on to an orthodontist and on to an oral surgeon that said my tooth had to come out the next morning.  I had broken the tooth at the root and fractured my jawbone.  And to top off our day John started having chills and fever while sitting in the waiting room.  So our sweet doc met him at his office at 7pm and gave him 2 shots.  My parents came to get the boys.  I had surgery Friday morning to extract my top front tooth.  This is not the broken tooth.  So for a while I will be wearing a mouth brace with part of my front tooth in it.  (This is until the site heals). 
I have felt better today but tonight the actual hole is really hurting.  It could just be that I haven't had pain meds all day and I actually feel more.  So could you please pray that there will be no infection and that all will heal properly.  Tonight is disheartening because today was a good day. 
My dad brought the boys back Saturday afternoon and this is their spring break.  Thankfully John is home but please pray for patients in the Cook house this week.