Quirky Mom, Quirky Family
Eshiva drank some blue raspberry sugar syrup straight from the bottle. Her front two teeth (which have clear crowns on them) are now purple. Anyone have any suggestions? None of the other teeth are dyed. I am pretty pissed the dentist used such crappy quality crowns now.
Yesterday:
So, today is Eshiva’s third birthday. Instead of fun partying to be done, I have been in bed. All freaking day. Why you ask? Malachai woke up around 4AM to tell me he threw up into his trash can, but missed and some was on his carpet. I ignore the carpet, clean him off and bring him into bed with us. He gets up a couple more times. Around 5AM I got vomit up my dinner that I ate around… 6 PM? All of it. Not a digested piece of rice in the lot. We took turns doing this until around noon, when my dry heaves finally stop. Oh, around 630 I cleaned up the carpet. It wasn’t just a little. It was most of it. Yum.
I feel fluish, my entire body hurts. Michael went to the store and got me gingerale and a cake for Eshiva (I was going to make fairy cakes for her – we moved her party to next weekend, so I’ll do it then) and some other stuff. My dad picke dup Shivies gift from my grandmother & aunt, and brought me vitamin water (I was so dehydrated I was dizzy laying down).
Mal and I have been napping most of the day. I am going to go lie back down, as sitting or laying on one position too long makes my skin and joints hurt.
So yah, happy birthday little girl 
Later yesterday:
Ugh, I felt well enough to keep down some advil, and was mostly passed out and malachai crawled over me to get to the trashcan, missed, and puked on everything. I just got out of the shower (which felt delicious, I took it slightly cold, but wasn’t what I wanted). Michael is getting ready to read them a bedtime story.
Thanks everyone. Cuz I know you all wanted to know about my puketastic day.
They had cake and took pictures. I stayed in bed. I went downstairs once today (at like 4) and didn’t think I could make it back down/up again.
Today:
Still weak. I did make it up and down the stairs a couple of times, but was winded between that and moving some laundry over and whatnot. Drinking some Vitamin Water. I am still dizzy, and my back is achy. We kept Malachai home today. Michael took some cash into the office so D could buy lunch today (no lunch food, didn’t go food shopping yesterday) and they suggested applying for reduced lunch. So I think we’ll do that, b/c if we do it quick we probably qualify.
Michael left a little bit ago to go to the dentist. He has some bone shard or tooth shard coming through his gum, and it hurts. Obviously. His top is healing up well though. He ate some potato salad yesterday, and some pizza too, I think.
We canceled the party and rescheduled for next weekend. Eshiva got some super cute clothes from my grandmother and aunt, and we got her some clothes and some Hello Kitty make up (that I had entirely forgotten about, bought it on clearance a few weeks ago). She has another gift in the closet from my friend Sarah that I am saving for next week so she has something to open at her party. I am hoping my friend can come down with her girls next week. I know she took off of work to come down yesterday
Yah, that’s about it.
I realized this list just keeps getting longer and longer. First I thought it was just a few things. The more time that passes, the longer it gets. I thought it should be getting shorter.
I don’t know. I feel like it’s just gotten worse lately. I bought some books for my dad, grandmother, and zaide to fill out. I am so sad for my kids that they wont get to know my mom. The books are kind of insurance for me. I never expected to have to tell them about her. Hell, my own grandparents are still alive, so why isn’t my mom? It just isn’t fair. So my dad is filling out his book, and I need to get the other two out. I want to give one to my grandmother on my fathers side, and one to my grandparents on my mothers side. That gives me four+ generations of “stories” and records, if they all get filled out.
In slightly less depressing news, some friends of mine are moving back to SoFl, and I am pretty happy about that. I am really sad for her, for what she is leaving, for the things she has to do, but I am selfishly exuberant that she will be within an hours drive, not over six hours away. I haven’t seen her since Malachai was a baby! We’ve both been in each others parts of town numerous times, but our paths just haven’t seen fit to cross for some reason.
Still no word on what we’re doing about school for next year. I need to find out soon. Our life insurance was approved, we’ll get that paperwork next week. More money to spend, but it’s nice to have a measure of protection.
Michael was sick again the other night. He’s worried, as am I. My mom let symptoms go until it was too late. What if we are doing the same? With no health insurance, it’s not like we can have a lot done (which is why we keep letting it slide). Before anyone suggests it, our income is too high to qualify for Medicaid.
Today, 09:17 AM
So for two days I’ve had a sore throat and a bit of an ear ache. I was up for an hour last night, my ear hurt so bad. I took some advil and went back to bed around 5 am.
I woke up and I can barely hear out of one ear, I can’t talk at all, and this cough is killing me. It’s not in my lungs, but it’s winding me when I start coughing.
I am off to the doctor at 10:30. We are taking the boys to school (late) and then to the doc, and I was supposed to go food shopping today.
I just want to crawl back into bed.
Today, Today, 01:20 PM
it’s an ear infection in one ear (the one I can’t hear out of) and fluid in the other (I can hear on that one) No clue about my voice, but it is gone gone gone. I sound like a frog if I try to talk past a whisper (literally croaking).
I spent 85$ on the doc, 89.00 on the script (generic!) and I say I still came out ahead b/c private healthcare cost much more monthly.
May 15 2007, 05:09 PM
The neuro called today, said the EEG & MRI came back normal, and we’ll proceed once the blood work comes in (appt is set for June 18th, pending results)
So yay, that stuff came back within normal range. Michael was concerned, b/c the woman administering the EEG asked if he was prone to staring episodes in the middle of the EEG.
So unless he wasn’t telling me something and is saving it for the end of June, it sounds like at least the top of the list is scratched off 
Today, 01:19 PM
Malachai has been running a fever for a few days now. No big deal, but he started complaining of his ear, so we waited it out overnight just to be sure it wasn’t passing on it’s own, and took him to the doctor today.
While we were waiting, I realized one of his ears was sealed over in ear wax! Unheard of for my kids, b/c I am anal about cleaning out their ears (I had tons of ear infections as a child and for some reason it’s left me neurotic about clean ears).
So we are finally called back (after an hour wait, I swear, I should just show up, sign in, and go down the strip mall to the bagel place for some snacks) and they took his temperature. Now, it went up while we were waiting, but was nowhere near as high as it had been the past few days. I don’t own a thermometer. I know how hot is too hot, and he hadn’t reached it. After fighting him for his good ear (the one he wasn’t complaining about) his temp was 103.1! Not high by my standards (as a child I often ran 104 or 105, no one worried till it got past there) and not high for my kids, but still quite high, and I can only imagine how high it was the past few days. I am glad we bathed it down, b/c we would have been in the ER if I had not.
Then our doc comes in and he has to clean out his ear just to get the otoscope in, so M freaks out. It took Michael and I both to hold him still. Then we had the same fight for the other ear, and his throat.
We briefly addressed his cough (that he’s had forever) and didn’t do anything about it. He is on Omnicef for ten days, and we were told if we can’t get it into him to come back and he’ll get an abx shot. The doc wanted to do it today, but I wanted to try the oral first. I wasn’t sure who was going to get that shot if we tried today. M had one of his fits in the office, and Michael mentioned he does this even when not sick.
I did get the abx into him. Half of it, then he started to refuse, and I just told him it’s the orall abx or a shot. He took the rest. Hopefully he’ll start to feel better soon and will be more willing to take them.
We also got some acetominphen suppositories b/c the boy wont take tylenol or anything either (in any form). So if I can’t get his temp to stay in a helpful but not harmful range, we’ll have some fun (watch out, that’s a big pile of sarcasm you’re about to step in) getting that into him.
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