Busy Bees

It's been really busy in our house the past couple weeks. Last Sunday (Nov. 8) we all woke up sick. I felt better within a few days, but Kev seemed to get worse and worse each day. We brought him to the doctor on Tuesday where they diagnosed him with the Flu. They didn't test for which type of flu (reg., H1N1, etc.) so they treated him like it was the worse (H1N1-swine). Then to make things worse he woke up Friday throwing up. We called the doc and she said that she thought the vomiting was separate. So now Kev had an ear infection, the flu, and a 24 hour stomach virus. He finally felt better on Saturday (Nov. 14) after over $100 in prescriptions later! Thank goodness because I had to take care of EVERYTHING while he was in quarantine (our bedroom) away from the kids and myself.

To back track to Wednesday (Nov. 11), I noticed Lindon had a little bit of blood in his stool. He stool had been green and mucus for a couple days before that. I called Dr Worley and was scheduled to bring Lindon in the next morning to see Dr Hubbell (Dr Worley was off Thursday). Dr Hubbell looked Lindon over, took a stool sample to send off to the lab, and referred us to a Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Dr Alaswad. Monday we had an appt with Dr Alaswad, who thought it was an allergy and told me not to eat diary, eggs, soy, nuts, beef, and one more thing. (I can't remember the last one.) On Tuesday night (Nov. 17) around 6pm I got a phone call from Dr Hubbell saying that the stool cultures came back and were positive for Salmonella. He called in a prescription of Amoxicillin which I picked up around 10 on Wednesday morning. Not an hour later I got a call from Dr Worley saying that he had talked to the CDC and a doctor with a background in Infectious Diseases, and they all said that since Lindon is under 3 months old (he's 2.5 months) he had to get the antibiotics intravenously.

Before we headed to the hospital he wanted to see Lindon in his office. I called my sis to come get Claire, and I packed some clothes for all of us. We saw Dr Worley around 3:45pm, and he sent us to Baptist Hospital around 4pm with our admit papers. We got there at 4 and weren't even registered until 5:30pm. As soon as we were put into our room they took Lindon to the exam room to get vitals, measurements, and the IV started. (He hated that!) He did good though.

GETTING HIS IV


So we've been here since Wednesday evening and will be here for 7-10 days. He first stool culture they did here at the hospital came back negative, but Dr Ezeki (the infectious disease doc) said it was pretty normal to get a negative with one sample and a positive with another.

If all this wasn't enough they came in around 11pm last night and said that his blood culture tested positive for gram-negative. This either means that the Salmonella has spread to the blood stream or the culture was contaminated. We should know in a day or two when the results come back.


SHOWING OFF HIS OUCHIE!




My poor little man! He's a trooper though. He doesn't even look sick. He's smiling, laughing, and is a happy camper. He's giving all the nurses "baby fever". haha We love our little Lindon so much and are praying that he gets better soon without any complications. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers, and we will try to keep everyone posted!

HAPPY MAN!

A Blog Thing

I was tagged by Heather so... I have to list 10 100% honest things about myself and then pass it on to 7 of my faithful blog readers...if I have that many.

Numero Uno. You know how people say "I would give anything to be a kid again." Well, NOT ME! I love being an adult. When I was a kid I knew about hard times in my family and felt helpless cause I was a kid. Now as an adult, when things get bad, I have the power to do something about it.

Numero Dos. I don't like to read. This sounds bad, but I don't even like to read scriptures. Don't get me wrong I love the scriptures. I just don't like to read them. I will listen to them on tape or being read to me.

Numero Tres. I hate to exercise. I only do it because I have bad genes on both sides, and I don't want to be unhealthy.

Numero Cuatro. My biggest fear is to lose one of my family members, whether it be one of my children or my husband. I drive my INSANE thinking about things that could happen and thinking of ways how I would save them if something were to happen. Like if a fire broke out in our house, or if we drove into water, etc. Crazy, huh?

Numero Cinco. One of my biggest pet peeves is putting empty candy wrappers back in the bag with the other candy. I know, stupid. haha I hate reaching into a bag of candy and pulling out all these empty wrappers!

Numero Seis. I hate to be volunteered for things. If you want me to do something, ask me! Don't ask my husband, my mom, or anyone else!! ASK ME!! And if I tell you no, deal with it...

Numero Siete. I want to be a doctor. I probably won't be one in this life, but that is one of my dreams.

Numero Ocho. I love TV. I've heard it was unhealthy to watch a lot of TV. I guess I'm unhealthy. I have my certain shows that I like to watch though. The CSI's, House, Burn Notice, Amazing Race, Bones, Medium, American Idol(now that Ellen is a judge. I love her! She's so funny.)

Numero Nueve. I hate to fold and put away clothes. It's my most hated chore. I don't mind sorting, washing, and drying if someone else will fold, hang, and put away. :)

Numero Diez. I like to change my hair color a lot. I think my favorite was black though. I might go with black next appt with Tiffany. :)

I'm done. That was harder than I thought! Now I'm suppose to tag 7 people...

Caroline Shillig
Becky Mahana
Betty Odom
Jennifer Hadley
Kari McCallon
Meg Barry

Halloween & Smiles

Halloween



I asked Claire what she wanted to be for Halloween a few weeks ago, and to my suprise she said a ballerina. I didn't know she even knew what a ballerina was. So I was going to buy her a costume one, but I saw real ballet outfits at Target a few months back and decided to buy her those. I have been wanting to put her in ballet classes but it's so expensive. After seeing her in the ballerina outfit though I will spend the money. She looked SO cute and LOVED to dance like a ballerina!




I tried to find a costume for Lindon, but he is too small. All the costumes are 0-6 months and were huge! Kev wanted him to be a vampire, but we had to settle with baseball player. I had the outfit in his closet and thought it looked close enough like a uniform to work.





On Halloween we went to the Williamson Tri-Ward party. It was fun. Claire had fun playing with her cousins Jace and Kenna and trick or treating. I had invited my parents to come and after the party we all went back to our place and chilled.


Smiles

Lindon started smiling on Oct 15 and laughing on Oct 22 and hasn't stopped since! I love after he wakes up for the day. After I feed him he's super happy for about 2 hours before he takes his first nap of the day. He laughs and smiles the whole 2 hours! All a person has to do is look at him, and he loves it!

Claire loves the interaction. She can't wait until he can play with her. He loves his big sister too. All she has to do is talk. Even if she's in another room, and Lindon hears her he will smile! He smiled at Claire before he would smile at Kev and me.




Lindon's just now smiling at Kev. It's so funny. I would have Lindon smiling and laughing and as soon as Kev looked at him he would stop. haha It drove Kev crazy. He would say all the time that Lindon hated him. I just had to tell Kev that Lindon is around Claire and I all day and that he's not. We've paid our dues now he has to! haha