Dermatologist update

So, I have stress-induced Eczema. She said also probably a bit because of hormones too.

Just freakin' great ... Like I need something else to deal with.


I haven't told you but that Hubby has Severe Eczema. It's very painful and different from my type.

So, I discussed some things with the doctor about some issues with Princess's legs & LittleMan's feet & elbows, and it's quite possible they inherited Eczema from their Daddy. I guess because my case is so mild and his is so severe ? not sure why else she would say it was from Hubby.

Rash

The rash I've had is still here.

The doctor I saw today called it a wandering rash (?) and referred me to a dermatologist.

I go to my heart doctor next week.

And I'll soon look into going to a therapist.



You'd think I like doctors, or something...

Help

What do you do when
you're on your third day of a rash
from an allergic reaction,
and you don't know what's causing it?

I'm so itchy!

Benedryl helps for a few hours,
but then I'm scratching again.

[It's a very light rash
on my arms, legs
and tummy.]

Help!

LittleMan is off to First Grade

First off, he woke up with his second allergic reaction of the week!!! I had to take him to the doctor on Monday because he woke up with a Terrible allergic reaction. I wasn't sure it was an allergic reaction, so I took him to the doctor. [My SIL R said it looked like chicken pox, although I didn't think so, I took him to be sure.] He's been on Zyrtec & Benadryl since Monday. Since he had Benadryl before he went to bed, the reaction this morning wasn't as severe as Monday's. On Monday, his eye was even swollen! Anyway ... Monday I couldn't figure out what in the world he could have gotten into that gave him an allergic reaction. But this morning, it wasn't very long before I realized what it probably is. Both Sunday night and last night, when he took his bath, he used the Johnson's Buddy soap to wash with. That is the only thing I can think of that was the same for both reactions. We're going to hold off on using that soap and see how it goes...




Anyway, Today is LittleMan's 1st day of First Grade!

He was super excited, telling me that he kept opening his eyes in the night to see if it was morning yet! When we got to school, he got shy, but anyone that knows LittleMan, knows that is how he is, shy! He will get over it soon though. We were a lot earlier than the other students. I waited with him until others showed up, so he wouldn't be bored.

The teacher had already given him a "job" before I left. His job for the rest of the morning was to show all the other students where the refrigerator was located, so they could put their juice in there.

Here's some snapshots from this morning...

How was your Mother's Day?

Well, I didn't have the greatest Mother's Day ever, but it could have been worse.

First, we had bad storms come through during the night. Both kids ended up in bed with us. I don't blame them, heck I was scared. So we weren't far into Mother's Day before Hubby's boss calls him up for storm duty. [He is actually finally getting home as I type this! from working all night]

Second, Princess' fever was still around {and is STILL around} and she's had a headache. I think her sinuses are stopped up. I haven't taken her to the doctor because her fever hasn't gotten over 100.8 degrees. But I went to WalMart and got her some medicine to un-stop her.

Third, LittleMan's allergies are acting up. Even with allergy medicine, he's coughing like someone who's smoked for years.

The kids played some, I cleaned Princess' room, which took hours, and that was about it.

At least I got to spend the day with my babies, that was the good part.

Sickness Galore

I know it's been 3 days, it's been crazy around here.

Both the kids have strep throat. LittleMan had it BAD yesterday.

He could barely swallow. =( And his fever had gotten over 103 degrees.

He made it through T-Ball pictures, then we went to the doctor.

Princess had the beginning stages, she wasn't in much pain yet and her temp wasn't over 100 degrees yet, but we caught it early enough that she won't experience what LittleMan had to.

I didn't make LittleMan take the shot because he already had quite a week with the dentists.

They are both on medication now and LittleMan was feeling A Lot better last night. He ate like he hadn't ate in days!

Hubby has been down with his sinuses. Well I say down, but he still went to work and everything. He just has been sleeping a bit more and has been complaining of headaches since about Tuesday.

I had a bit of a sore throat yesterday, but couldn't afford to see the doctor with both kids already seeing him and also the dentist earlier in the week that cost me over $100 dollars. So I just prayed it wasn't strep throat.

Did you know if strep throat goes untreated it can cause kidney damage???

Well I woke up this morning with a head cold. I haven't run a fever either, so at least it's not Strep.

Hope everyone else is having a better week!

Weekend Update

Me & Hubby decided that with our income tax, I would get $1000 to do whatever I wanted, some for the kids and $1200 for him to get a custom saddle built.

Friday, as I was headed to the mall to go shopping with my remaining $700, he called me and told me that he had taken his truck to be serviced and had his brakes checked. {He had a hunch a while that they needed fixed}

Anyway, there was a shit load of problems with his brake system and I had to go home to let him know exactly how much money was in the bank, etc.

Long story short, he spent every $$ of our regular money {including our money to spent at the rodeo in a couple weeks} and took all mine!!!! I understand that he doesn't need to be driving his truck if the brakes are messed up, but listen to the best part....

He kept his $1200!! He said it's because that guy has already started on his saddle. But when I asked him if he knew for sure, he said no. I asked him to call him, he called me back and said he couldn't get ahold of him but left a msg. And as of today, Monday, he still hasn't returned Hubby's call.

U know, he "knew" something was UP with his brakes, but he convienently had his saddle started before having the brakes checked ??? What the hell?

We have since spent some of his, he needed horse feed and other stuff, but for the most part, he is still going to get his $1200 saddle.

It's just not fair.

I know life is not fair.

But still.

Do you feel my pain??

So he got his truck fixed and he's all happy now.

Anyway......

Saturday, I took LittleMan and signed him up for his second year of TBall. All he did was complain that I didn't let him play football last August. So this August I guess he's playing football. His draft is next Saturday. Then the kids had 2 birthday parties to go to. Princess didn't go to the 1st one, and I made Hubby take LittleMan to it by himself. Me & Princess went to WalMart for her to spend her Valentine's $$ from the grandparents. She bought a Diego movie.
My BFF came over later and got both the kids to take them to the 2nd party.

Sunday, we had severe thunderstorms again. So I spent the entire day in the house cleaning. Before the storms hit, the kids were going places with Hubby. The news says Prattville got tore up pretty badly. Last night at 930pm, Hubby's boss called to tell him that he would be on storm duty at 5am this morning. So he will probably be gone til Tuesday night or longer.

And Tuesday is my Daddy's birthday. It's gonna be a rough day. Even though he's been gone for over 2 years, it's not gotten any easier.

This morning around 3am, LittleMan woke me up. He was throwing up in his bed. [my poor baby] and has since been throwing up about every hour. So of course, he missed school. He is just laying here on the loveseat sleeping with a garbage can next to him in the floor. =(

I had to call A. and tell her not to bring Baby Boy over cuz LittleMan is contagious. So I won't have Baby Boy until Thursday..... I hope it doesn't affect my pay.

Hope everyone else had a better weekend then I did.

New Look & Tuesday Blues

I've been trying to find a look for my blog that I love don't hate like enough to stick with for a while.
We'll see how long this one lasts!

Well I've been sick for the past 3 days. Nothing serious, but definitely feeling like I wish I'd stayed in bed under the weather. And to make things better (ha!) I've babysat the past two days. A baby that is sick himself.

He has been unbelievably fussy today and I am sooooo ready to go hide from everyone back to bed! And I still have almost 2 hours left of watching him.

He is finally sleeping, after feeding him every hour for half the day. I don't know where he fit all that milk!

Anyway, he gave me enough time to freshen up the blog & that's more than I expected today!

Grumpy Happy Tuesday Everyone!

Update

Princess is feeling lots better. She threw a fit to eat. She asked for chick-chick. That's either chicken biscuit from Jack's, or chicken nuggets from Wendy's/McDonald's. Since it was 9am, she got the biscuit. And she ate most of the chicken part.
I know now to keep her away from spicy foods. I will keep extras of her favorite foods for when I cook spicy stuff from now on. The kid could live on chicken nuggets & hot dogs. =)

I took a quiz:

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Calling All Mommies

It's 6:15 A.M. and I've been up with Princess for almost an hour, throwing up again. I think I was wrong about her having a stomach virus [it's been less than a week since the last time].... I started putting everything together and visited with WedMD and I think it is Indigestion/Heartburn/Reflux.

I hadn't thought about this in forever but ... Once, when she was a year old, we ended up in the ER because of her terrible stomach pains. I mean she was screaming as loud as I've ever heard her scream, she was rolled up in a ball & her tummy was hard as a rock. They gave her some medicine to mix with Mylanta. She has severe indigestion, because someone had let her try some deer sausage.

Now, sitting here this morning, I remembered that one episode of "stomach virus" or so we thought, the night before she had eaten meatballs in spaghetti sauce. Last weekend when she was up sick, she had eaten some jalapeno cheese dip & chips, and last night we had pizza.

I think I made her sick! Do you know how terrible I feel right now?!?

So I need your help.

Any Moms out there that has any experience with this, please email me and let me know anything & everything you can think of!

I can read the internet all day long, but you know other people with experiences helps so much more!

I have severe GERD, [I was diagnosed with it one week after my congestive heart failure], and I know it hurts, [I thought I was having heart trouble] but vomiting was never a symptom with me. Does that mean hers is more severe than mine?

Please Please Any help you can give I would greatly appreciate it!!

My email address is sweet.heart7@yahoo.com

Thanks Mommies.

The week that changed my life forever

February 19. In less than a month will be my Dad's birthday [who has passed away]. With it being so close, I feel I need to share a piece of my past. I don't believe that I have finished dealing with his death yet, so maybe this will help ... to get it down, seems so ... I don't know, real? final? something.


My husband's cell phone woke me up on the morning of August 10, 2005 around 4am. I was very pregnant, due in just days, so the interruption in sleep was annoying. Andy answered it and long story short, we found out my Dad had been hit the night before in a hit & run accident and died. Most of my family lives about 200 miles away, so there was no visiting with my Mom, who took it the worst, of course; and I knew there would be no way I could travel to be at his funeral. I never had a chance to say good bye.

There is a lot about that day I don't remember, mainly because I think I just thought a lot. I know that I had awesome support from my family [both mine & Hubby's side] We had a houseful all day. And someone was constantly calling us.
I still remember not being able to show emotion in front of anyone. I don't know why, but it was a weird feeling. I was able to let little pieces out with Andy, but not much more.

Andy took me to the hospital maternity ward that night. Just to check and make sure Baby Princess wasn't stressed. Thankfully, she was fine. The next day I had a routine OB visit. My Dr. decided with the circumstances and my due date, it would be best if I was admitted that night.

I didn't sleep that night at the hospital. I was already having light sporadic contractions, but that wasn't it. Every time I closed my eyes, I seen Daddy there. I wasn't ready to face him. I think maybe I was mad at him. I had just talked to him on the phone that morning that he died and he told me, he would be here for me, when I brought his first grand-daughter into the world.

Let's speed things up .... the next morning they induced me and at 343pm on August 12th 2005, there was my Princess. Only 13 minutes of pushing. Beautiful, Healthy, with long toes! The nurses commented about this future little ballerina.

By that night, I wasn't feeling right and I knew it. My back hurt, my ribs & chest hurt, I was in a cold sweat .... the nurses told me it was gas and not to drink any more carbonated drinks. It didn't work, but I thought it might have something to do with the fact that my epidural had wore off 45 minutes before Princess was born.

After we got home from the hospital, there was an instance that I couldn't breathe right. I thought it was my milk coming in. Later that night, I was up feeding Princess. After I got her back down, I couldn't lay down. It hurt so bad. A few hours pass and I am having to bend over to breathe. This new day that was beginning was August 17.

My Mom & Granny were still at my house, helping me adjust to having 2 kids and just being there for me because of my Dad. So my Granny rushes me to the ER. Everyone panics and thinks I'm in labor [that is to show that I have not lost 1 pound since giving birth almost 5 days ago]

Another long story short and countless wrong conclusions, I was in Congestive Heart Failure. They injected me with Lasix and within a couple hours, they had almost 6 liters of fluid that had been inside my body. I had been drowning from the inside.

The condition that caused this is called Dilated Cardiomyopathy. And the cause? Being pregnant didn't agree with my body. They said it started with my first, LittleMan, but being pregnant a second time was too much for my heart.

In 2 days time, I went from weighing 163 pounds to weighing 138 pounds.

I was put on 5 meds, 2 just for my heart. And a low-sodium & low-fluid diet. That diet alone made my life hell for the following few months. [By the end of 7 weeks, I was down to 127 pounds] But then the news that ... if I ever got pregnant again, I wouldn't live to deliver the baby.

After that lots of things happen, my body changed, I had tubal ligation surgery, I went though panic attacks & depression. But most of all, I thrived. I lived. I grew.





That was over 2 years ago. And it still feels like yesterday. I'm still on the meds, but I took myself off the diet once my Ejection Fraction had went back as close to normal as it could get. I still watch my weight though, just to make sure I'm not holding too much fluid.




My Dad would have been turning 47 year old this year.

Princess is sick

She has that stinkin' stomach virus that Little Man had a couple weeks back.

She's been up almost every hour on the hour since 2am this morning.

I don't know how she got it unless it happen at Wally World.

My poor baby =(

Please keep her in your prayers!

Thanks!

A little Update

I thought I'd update everyone. Since my last blog, I started babysitting (app. 3 days a week) my cousin's 2 month old baby "Baby Boy" I watched him M, T & W. No time to blog those days, cuz he isn't picked up until 6pm.

Wednesday afternoon, Little Man comes home from school with a tummy ache. I go through his backpack like usual, and find a note from his teacher. 4 children checked out today with .... the stomach virus. Of course Little Man, not wanting to be left out (lol), came down with it about an hour later. I felt so bad for him! Poor little guy was so sick! So I didn't sleep hardly at all Wednesday night, rushing to his side everytime he got sick. So, he was out of school yesterday. And he still wasn't eating as of last night, so I made the decision to keep him out today too.

Well.... he is better today. {Thank God of course!} But doesn't understand why I won't let him outside to ride his bike, or go horse riding with his Daddy. He actually told me that he was mad at me because I wouldn't let him do anything. =( Ah, the joys of Motherhood.

Tonight my MIL will be coming with her bunch to stay for the weekend. So blogging will be out of the question until at least Sunday evening, if then. But I will get to go to the Thrift store. We always go when she visits. I LOVE me some thift store shopping! Yep that's right!

Plus my MIL seems to LOVE to clean {lol} [or at least it seems that way] so I don't have to clean up after everyone by myself. That's a big Plus +++++

So not much else to blog about, except I found boxes full of horse magazines from the 80's in my attic [from previous owner] which I plan to sell on ebay, if I ever get my courage up to do so. I'm so afraid that I'm gonna get screwed some how. Lose money or come in contact with some weird/stalker person. Keep your fingers crossed for me, k?

Little Man's 6th birthday was on the 2nd and I'm thinking about giving him a small party on the 19th. Some of the family has already given him money, but I think he deserves a party this year. Since his birthday is so close to Christmas, we didn't give him a party last year. But I feel like he shouldn't miss out just because his birthday falls on the day it does...

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Sick again

Well this is the 5th time in a month that I've been sick. Everytime, the sickness is pretty much the same, with some little differences. Little Man had it once for only for a few hours. Princess had it once, worse than Little Man's, but it only lasted til noon. My hubby hasn't had anything, but I've had it 5 times?!?

I'm so tired of being sick and I can't figure out what is causing it. I am feeling much better now, the worse parts ended around 7:15 this morning, lasting about 2 hours.

I wonder if Little Man is bringing something home from school, but only passing it to me? But why wouldn't I get sick on Saturday until waiting til Monday?

Or is it something to do with my meds? I'm on 2 heart meds, 1 blood pressure med, Prilosec OTC everyday. I'm also suppose to take Lasix & potassium, but I kinda don't take it like I'm suppose to. It's probably been over a month since I've taken it. I don't think not taking my Lasix is making me sick, because I haven't been putting on too much fluid weight ... I just don't know what to think.

My MIL says that sometimes after you've been taking a med for so long, it can cause certain things to happen. I don't know about that though. I've been on my meds for over 2 years and never had trouble before.

Anyhoo, I'm feeling pretty crappy today, so my blog kinda sucks, lol. What really sucks is I need to be keeping the house clean and stuff like that since we are leaving out either Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

Well, I hope everyone else is having a better day than me. I'm gonna go lay down and watch tv. =)