Sean's ENT appointment

Ok so Sean had his ENT appt this morning for his allergies and asthma. The ENT says that he needs to have his tonsils removed. Wonderful..... So that's a one to two week recovery time on that one. My doctor as of 2 pm PST had not received my x-rays... shesh taking forever! I really hope that they get it soon I'm about ready to claw my cheek off! I swear now the bone hurts!! Oh well, they'll figure it out. i'll eventually get it taken care of. But this is the update for everyone.

Love to all,

Tiff

Update on our doctor

Ok, most of you guys, my friends, have children of your own. So what I want to know is what the hell I'm doing wrong that they're getting sick all the time. Get this, and it makes no sense to me, Sky is on antibiotics for the bacteria on her skin on her bottom, and she spiked a fever on me this afternoon up to 103.4, and is absolutely screaming that her stomache hurts... called doctors office and they wanted to see her. So we go see the doctor at 4:30 this afternoon, and doctor told me he wanted to do a strep test. If the strep test comes out negative then she'd have to go to TMC for further testing for a condition that happens to kids about this age, where the large intestine kinda slides inside itself in a place, and then goes back out again. Thats why the pain can come and go in it. This is the first time she's been like this about her stomache hurting, even when she was constipated to no end.

So the 5 minutes it takes to get that strep test was horrible. It's the first time I've been praying that my daughter has strep. The test if they had to do it for the other thing would mean they'd have to put her under, and get into her large intestine, and take a look around. The good news to that was 9 outta 10 times the procedure fixed the problem, but I really was not looking forward to the possiblity of that trip!! Good news! The strep came out positive, was a weak positive, but still a positive. So the confusing thing is that she's on Cephelexine, which is a broad spectrum anti-biotic which kills strep. The doctor is as confused as I am of how she's caught it while she's on the anti-biotics. So now she'll also be on penicillin--which btw gave her the yeast infection in the first place....

So every night for the next 5 nights she'll be taking the following medicine, keep up or I might loose you: 14 ml of isoniazid, 1 B6 pill, 5 ml of cephelexine, 5 ml of penicillin, and motrin or tylenol to keep down the fever.... God poor child her liver'll be shot before this thing is over i SWEAR!! And guess what? At 7:00 this evening as Audrey was getting the baby into the bath for me, she noticed she was warm too.... and guess what? She's at 101. *me and the brick wall getting aquainted again* Thank goodness I've already asked the doctor what I'm going to do if the baby starts to run a fever. He said as long as he's not runny nose or coughing then he can give her a script too. Thank god for that, one less doctors appt. Sean's ENT appt for the asthma specialist is tomorrow morning at 10 am, and I have to be there at 9:30 for new patient paperwork. Have to drop the two girls off at Debi's, as I can't take two girls with strep to their office.

It just gets better and better!What I don't get, is I keep my house relatively clean, I wash my dishes a couple times a day, I do my laundry, I don't have bugs, I sanitize when we're sick, I do everything I've always done before with illness, and yet they're sick all the time! This is how I feel at the moment. I take one step forward, I bang my head into a brick wall, I loose my footing, take two steps back, start to regain ground, get one step forward and find the brick wall again, over and over again! But yeah.

Here I go off to get medicine now...

Have a great night all!

And today continued

Ok... so Dr. called me back this evening. Sent Sky's script to Walgreens, told him about Serena and Chris not feeling well either, he sent me in scripts for Serena, and for Chris, I go to Walgreens at 9:40 to have given them time to fill them since I talked to the doc at 9 o'clock. They have my script from the dentist, and they have Chris and Serena's script, but no script for Sky.... **GRRR!!!!** Fine, what ever, I'll give her a dose of Serena's tomorrow as they're on the same thing while I get ahold of the doc to let him know in the morning. Now I've got to get diapers tonight. I forgot to get them last night. I went across the street to Target. The Target brand work for Serena never had a problem. Guess what? They're all out of the target brand in size 1-5.... *mirrors pulling hair out* Fine, I compare prices on the huggies and pampers.... they don't have size 2 or 3 in the regular huggies and pampers... *sighs* and the premium of them, they want an arm and a leg for them. I found Luv's brand for 6.99 for 50 of them. I'll give it a shot until they get diapers in. The off brand is 103 of them for 13.99. Alot better than like 64 of them for 15.00 roughly!! just a night of sighs.... now I go to stop at the Diamond Shamrock to get smokes as I'm all out. And the lady had a sign up "In Bathroom back in 5." *cries horribly* Don't it figure? And they'll be cheaper than the shell across the street! So i wait and I get a deal on my smokes *YEAH SOMETHING!!* and gotten myself a treat of a fountain soda for my troubles.





Now to some, this doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but trust me, that sucked horribly after a nice long day of crap. To top it all off, my bottom teeth are freaking killing me no matter what I do, and I want to claw the left side of my face off since it hurts so bad, and the right side of my sinus is starting to hurt also. God I hope it doesn't move over because I don't think I could handle it. I'm about to loose my sanity today. I've cried at least three times on the phone today, once with the poor doctor on the phone! Pathetic I know, but damn it I deserved the cry, I needed it. I'm going to take half a pill and try to sleep through the pain, but on the other hand I'm afraid to take the half a pill because I have this feeling it's going to be a long night with the girls and their fevers!!


Prayers please for a peaceful sleep and everyone getting well!!


My love to all.


Tiffany and family

Went to the doctor today

So as everyone knows, I'm trying to figure out what in the world is going on with me. I went to see the doctor today, and he couldn't see anything, so he had me go down the hallway and get a few x-rays done on my sinuses (sp?). So I got to look at the x-rays (they facinate me), and got to see what my skull looks like. Was pretty cool! But anyways, your sinus cavities are supposed to be see through so that all the bones in the skull and face are visable. My left one was opake. So that means that there is fluid or something up there. My doctor had said that if he wasn't able to see anything on the x-ray, or wasn't able to get anything conclusive, then he'd run a CAT scan. At least I know that there's something there that is something causing the pain, and that I'm not totally nuts. Hopefully it's nothing serious! And second hopefully, I won't need any root canals!! I really don't want to screw with my mouth again. Hopefully it's that my teeth were almost all healed, and this flared up in my sinus, and then the sinus agrivated the teeth.

The good news is Sky's bottom seems to be improving more and more each day, Sean is being a typical 4 year old and all that implies, and Serena is well... she's clingy today so drove me even more nuts than normal because I was in paid.

Debi came over late today to get her testing done, and it took FOREVER to get done, and she needed ALOT of help to figure out how to do it today. Hopefully since she got it faxed in before midnight tonight that it works for her for credit for doing the class. How much more difficult can it get? Wait, I shouldn't ask that question because the answer is ALOT more difficult.

With that my pain meds that I took about an hour ago are kicking in and my train of thought is scattering. I'm going to go pass out, let the medicine work cause I have my chiropractor appt tomorrow morning at 8:30 so that my back and knees can quit hurting. For the love of god, I am just falling apart!

Update on today

So day got a bit better after I wrote that other post this morning that I just put up.

Got kids finished dressed, and out of the house, got JC in Chris' car and he took JC to school. Took kids to Debi's house, dropped them off, went off to the endodontist and worked myself up to actually go in. Found out root canals' not counting the costs of the crown or cap after their done is like $970.00 before insurance.... My jaw about hit the floor. So the girl explained to me that that was how much they are, the negotiated cost withmy insurance co was 770, and my portion of it is 77.60. Now that was assuming that I needed a root canal on the tooth that I already had a crown on. That being said, after dumping the money on the crown, 77 aint nuthing to finish off that tooth!! So I've now gotten x-rays done on my top teeth. Dentist comes in, shows me that the roots of my tooth that I had capped look good, and they do sit right there on the edge of my sinus cavity. So he can see that I have some hyper-sensitivity going on on that tooth. He took something that he said was just going to be cold, and took it along my teeth, and tapped along them too. Nothing was conclusive. Then we checked the bottom ones to see if those are the ones that are the problem, and OMG Tiffany went fetal position on the dentists chair when he put that stupid thing right between those two teeth I just got filled. I screamed, then I cried. I was so embarrased. I mean, here I am 26 years old, he just touched it, and I'm crying from the paid and all dizzy and stuff. He appologised, he didn't realize just how sensitive those teeth were (even though I did say that they were sensitive). He then had the girl do an x-ray of the bottom teeth, and those also looked like they were having some hyper sensitivity, but the root systems he said were very much alive *insert chuckle by me here followed by a "No Sh**" and a sigh* But he was very nice, and was genually concerned about what is going on in my mouth. He didn't just want to start doing a root canal on a tooth that may not be the problem. He is almost positive it is not an infection as I've been on anti-biotics for like 5 days now I think. He wanted to make sure that it's not a sinus problem (just double check), so he's having me go into the doctors office just to make sure. So tomorrow I get to go to the doctors at 4 in the afternoon.

So i went to pick up the kids, and we hung out there til like 11ish, and then Sean and Sky decided they wanted to stay with Deb, and she was ok with that because she knew my mouth was killing me. So Serena and I got home, and hung out together, played abit, then she went down for a nap at like 1:30, and she stayed down until 3:30 almost! Mommy got a good nap today I was so happy! Then the kids came home 5:30 with Debi, she was going to use the computer.

This afternoon Debi came by to do her online testing thing that she had to do, and it was giving her some hickups so she'll be coming back by tomorrow to finish it up. She'll be here about 10 am.

Sunday I'm having family from out of town come over for dinner, we're just going to hang out and have pizza, it'll be fun.

So that's enough of my rambling, vicodine has kicked in. I had to take it because of the pain *sadness*


Love to all,
Tiffany and Family

Groceries, doctors, and dentists oh my!

Ok... so first I wrote this this morning (as will be evident in a moment), and I hate this stupid computer programing things sometimes. Apparently you can't copy and paste out of microsoft works into the internet... GRRRRRR *stab computer screen repeatedly!!* had to put it in word and then copy and paste the stupid thing!!


So that is the reversal of my day on Wednesday. Went to the grocery store last night, spent $60.44, and saved $59.60! Can’t say I can complain one little bit about that! Doctors office, called them, Serena got into the trash can and was sucking on the blood filled packaging from the chicken…. Said all I can do is watch her and pray she doesn’t get nasty stuff in her system. Took Sky to the doctor, had only been home about 10 minutes when previous thing happened. It’s not a yeast infection like it “was” it’s now a “bacterial” infection, and she gets to start antibiotics 3 times a day for the next 10 days. So now everyday she’s taking 5 ml of antibiotics 3 times a day, taking fiber 2-3 times a day, doing cream on her bottom 4 times a day, AND doing 1 pill of B-6 a night with the Isoniazid at 14 ml! Anyone else got that straight? It’s like OMG. OH and when her allergies are going, 1 tsp of Claritin. But other than the butt/rash issue, she’s doing great. My doctors appt at the end of last week showed that I had a common breast infection, but the antibiotics seem to be clearing it all up. Went to the dentist in the morning, been having some funky pain that is in the soft pallet of the left side of my mouth, goes up into my sinus, ear, and behind my eye. Doctor says no ear infecting, no sinus infection, go see your dentist, can see you’ve had work done. (That was when got put on antibiotics btw). Dentist can’t see anything. Does manual test, find out crown is a bit sensitive…. Yeah, so I’m being sent to an endodontist to get further testing, and possible root canal on the tooth I just got crowned in Feburary-ish. Didn’t have a damn thing wrong with that tooth, until the back inside corner of the tooth just broke off while I was pregnant with Serena. Didn’t even hurt when that happened since fillings were keeping it sealed. Doesn’t it figure I do the thing to fix it, and it screws it up more?! Story of my life sometimes.

And here we are at the next morning:
Baby- 5 am, feeding, try to get back to sleep-NO go.
Children (including JC)-5:30 am whispering from their room. OMG Sky is up HOUR earlier than normal, Sean up 2 hours earlier than normal, and JC half an hour earlier than normal. Told to be quiet go back to sleep. 5:50-whispering starts again from Skylynn. Sean appears asleep. I hope so!
6:00 start writing this blog so that I’m not pissed off at the entire world all day long. Baby so cranky and tired she can barely see straight. I tell her “You wouldn’t be so tired if you went back to sleep!” She just stares at me. Ah well what a life right? Have to now (at 6:15) go get showered, coffee’d, and dressed for my day. Now that the baby is playing instead of screaming right? Bet you 10:1 that as soon as I walk out of the room, the screaming starts again. 6:18 as I finish that sentence the monsters bedroom door opens, and Chris asks me if he should just let them get up on their own… unfortunately we have to because JC has to get up, eat breakfast since he has to go to school, and mine need to get up and get dressed, and fed to get to Debbie’s for me to go to my specialist dental appt this morning.
This is not shaping up to be a good day. I am hoping and praying that it gets better!!

Tiffany

Food for thought

We've all had these days where it doesn't seem to matter whats going on around us, we doubt in what we believe, or don't believe for that matter. We've got so much going on in our heads that sometimes we doubt that God was by oursides when we needed Him. It reminds me of this poem that we all know and love:

Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.

Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.

Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,

other times there were one set of footprints.
This bothered me because I noticedthat during the low periods of my life,

when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat,

I could see only one set of footprints.

So I said to the Lord,“You promised me Lord,

that if I followed you, you would walk with me always.

But I have noticed that during the most trying periods

of my lifethere have only been one set of footprints in the sand.

Why, when I needed you most, you have not been there for me?”

The Lord replied,

“The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand,

is when I carried you.”

When we remember that even though we don't feel like He's there, and we go through bad things that we have no control over, sometimes we don't know the ultimate purpose of why we were there or why it happened, but He was there with us, holding our hands, and giving us encouragement that this too we can live through. I mean, I know it sounds jaded, but there have been times in my life that I've asked the big "Why?!" question. Usually, I don't get an answer right away. Sometimes it's taken a few years to get the answer. Sometimes I have to stop and think, is this that I'm doing with my life right now the reason that I've lived through what I've lived through? I just sometimes get the answers when I do this, or it will just pop into my head: wow, this was the purpose of that... I mean, I know that I havn't gotten all the answers to my big why questions, and I know I never will, but the occasional answer does help to keep it going. Sometimes the answer is sitting right there in front of you, and you just don't see it.
So heres to everyone seeking the answers to the big "Why?!" questions. Keep trucking along, and His wisdom will shine through, and when needed, you'll see His footprints on your path through life.

And remember, He loves all of His children no matter what they've done. He has 100% forgiveness, and un-ending love. Illustrated by John 3:16-18:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son"

Helps to remember these things from time to time.

Thats enough of my night time rambling. I'm going to head to bed.

P.S. Here is a picture of Skylynn from Easter that I LOVE! Hope to get more up soon!

Easter Saturday

So we did a little bit of easter fun with Emma while she was here on Saturday. The following pictures reflect that! Unfortunantly it does go from the end to the begining of the day. Did it backwards by accident. Enjoy! The easter bunny hid the eggs white for the kids to find on Saturday morning that way we could do some easter stuff with emma. They got to color the eggs later that morning. Was a fun day.

Baby in a box...

The kids loved their presents

Sean loves his sister

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Rena likes her bunny

Sky is excited

mmmm chocolates

Sean took some pictures

The following pictures are pictures Sean took today on his camera. I think I've finally gotten him to realize we can get the pictures off of his camera an on the computer so he'll stop deleteing them! Hope you guys enjoy!