Love,
E
Elizabeth L. Scogins
"Bloom where you're planted..."
www.scogins.com
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Uh oh, Mommy's sick...
I feel awful. I was up all night every hour vomiting with diarrhea. For the past 2 hours I've had a really bad headache. I took 800mg of Advil an hour ago but it's not helped. I just took my bp and it's 151/105. I just talked to the oncall Dr. He said the blood pressure is concerning because he'd expect my bp to be low with the vomiting and diarrhea. He told me to lie on my left side, drink lots of fluids and retake my bp. If it hasn't went down after an hour I'll need to go to the ER. Please say a little prayer for me.
Love,
E
Elizabeth L. Scogins
"Bloom where you're planted..."
www.scogins.com
Love,
E
Elizabeth L. Scogins
"Bloom where you're planted..."
www.scogins.com
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Finally, some laughs for Mommy :)
I finally got some laughs out of Caroline tonite :) She's so darn cute!
It was short lived though as she soon developed the same symptoms that Carter was showing yesterday. She's not running a high fever but has all the congestion and wheezing. The good news is that Daddy is off tomorrow and next Monday then I'm off next Tuesday and Thursday so we should be covered (Mana is here as well and that's ALWAYS a HUGE help!)!
On Tuesday I took Caroline to see Dr. G (the ENT doc) for a referral for tubes. He was very nice and reassuring and the surgery has been scheduled for 1/24. It will be done at the surgery center and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. He said they don't even use general anesthesia they just use a little laughing gas to put them "under" long enough to do the procedure. It sounds like we will be in and out rather quickly.
I got a ton accomplished today! I got Chris' wedding ring resized (after 10 years it was more than a little tight!), picked up some consignment items that didn't sell, did our grocery shopping, got a hair cut and color (Yay!) and picked up some jammies for the babies with some Christmas money they got from Aunt Mary (Mana's sister)! It was a busy day!
It's moments like right now when everyone is asleep but me when I realize how blessed we really are. The house is quiet (except for Chris' snoring! LOL!) and I'm catching the news and finally relaxing on the couch with some raspberry sherbet...
Well, it's time for bed because tomorrow will be a LONG day at work I'm sure!
Love,
E
It was short lived though as she soon developed the same symptoms that Carter was showing yesterday. She's not running a high fever but has all the congestion and wheezing. The good news is that Daddy is off tomorrow and next Monday then I'm off next Tuesday and Thursday so we should be covered (Mana is here as well and that's ALWAYS a HUGE help!)!
On Tuesday I took Caroline to see Dr. G (the ENT doc) for a referral for tubes. He was very nice and reassuring and the surgery has been scheduled for 1/24. It will be done at the surgery center and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. He said they don't even use general anesthesia they just use a little laughing gas to put them "under" long enough to do the procedure. It sounds like we will be in and out rather quickly.
I got a ton accomplished today! I got Chris' wedding ring resized (after 10 years it was more than a little tight!), picked up some consignment items that didn't sell, did our grocery shopping, got a hair cut and color (Yay!) and picked up some jammies for the babies with some Christmas money they got from Aunt Mary (Mana's sister)! It was a busy day!
It's moments like right now when everyone is asleep but me when I realize how blessed we really are. The house is quiet (except for Chris' snoring! LOL!) and I'm catching the news and finally relaxing on the couch with some raspberry sherbet...
Well, it's time for bed because tomorrow will be a LONG day at work I'm sure!
Love,
E
Tonite's adventure...
Well, I ended up taking Carter to Children's Hospital at Vandy tonite. He was pretty much inconsolable and I just had a gut "Mommy" feeling that something wasn't right.
They were WONDERFUL. As soon as we got there they pushed us straight to the front of the line (they have their own emergency room and everything). I guess they treat kids by the severity b/c a Dr. was in the waiting room and immediately took his vitals as I was signing in. He took us back pretty quickly and mentioned to the Dr. in the back that there were 5 ahead of us but he felt we were more "severe" and needed to be seen first.
They weighed him (an even 16lbs!) and hooked him up to a blood pressure cuff and pulse ox meter. His heartrate was elevated and his pulse ox kept dropping (I'm sure b/c he's having trouble breathing. We (Leslie went with me) were there until about midnight.
They stuck a tube down both nostrils and sucked out all the snot (it was awful, the tube went all the way down his nostrils to his throat and it looked like he was choking the whole time. If you've ever seen them swab for RSV it was kinda the same idea). They got a ton of mucus out but he was still wheezing and congested so they offered to do a saline breathing treatment to break up all the congestion so we did that. It helped until about 3am but then he sounded almost as bad as before.
They're officially calling it "bronchiolitis" and it's viral (Dr. Eastham was right) so there's really no treatment just keeping him sucked out until he feels better (typically 7-10 days). It is contagious so we'll be keeping him quarantined as best we can until he's better so hopefully Caroline won't catch it).
We got home around 1am and I finally got everyone down at 115am and the humidifier hooked up in the nursery. Both babies were up screaming at 3am so I fed them and they slept til just now (6am). Carter sounds awful right now (all congested and snotty) but I'm trying to wait til I feed them at 7am to suction him out b/c he's going to freak (and probably wake everyone in the house) when I do it.
Caroline (knock on wood was "cool as a cucumber" when I got home so she'll be going to daycare tomorrow (ugh, today I mean).
All in all, I'm glad we went. They were very thorough and definitely put us at ease. They didn't charge us while we were there (I'm sure I'll get a bill) but even with a $100 copay it was worth it to get the reassurance that he's ok.
Well, that's my update. What a night.
Elizabeth L. Scogins
"Bloom where you're planted..."
www.scogins.com
Sent from my fabulous iPhone!
They were WONDERFUL. As soon as we got there they pushed us straight to the front of the line (they have their own emergency room and everything). I guess they treat kids by the severity b/c a Dr. was in the waiting room and immediately took his vitals as I was signing in. He took us back pretty quickly and mentioned to the Dr. in the back that there were 5 ahead of us but he felt we were more "severe" and needed to be seen first.
They stuck a tube down both nostrils and sucked out all the snot (it was awful, the tube went all the way down his nostrils to his throat and it looked like he was choking the whole time. If you've ever seen them swab for RSV it was kinda the same idea). They got a ton of mucus out but he was still wheezing and congested so they offered to do a saline breathing treatment to break up all the congestion so we did that. It helped until about 3am but then he sounded almost as bad as before.
We got home around 1am and I finally got everyone down at 115am and the humidifier hooked up in the nursery. Both babies were up screaming at 3am so I fed them and they slept til just now (6am). Carter sounds awful right now (all congested and snotty) but I'm trying to wait til I feed them at 7am to suction him out b/c he's going to freak (and probably wake everyone in the house) when I do it.
Caroline (knock on wood was "cool as a cucumber" when I got home so she'll be going to daycare tomorrow (ugh, today I mean).
All in all, I'm glad we went. They were very thorough and definitely put us at ease. They didn't charge us while we were there (I'm sure I'll get a bill) but even with a $100 copay it was worth it to get the reassurance that he's ok.
Well, that's my update. What a night.
Elizabeth L. Scogins
"Bloom where you're planted..."
www.scogins.com
Sent from my fabulous iPhone!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Full on, belly laughs!
So today while I was hard at work, Caroline was showing off her new giggly side :) I am so sad I missed it but SO HAPPY Chris got it on video! It's not the best video but really you just need the audio! Too cute!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Roley Poley...
Ok, so maybe that's not how you spell it but we finally have a little roller on our hands! Caroline has finally mastered rolling back to front and front to back :) Yay! It seems like the past few days have been really productive for our little ones! Caroline has started laughing, Carter found out that he can blow raspberries and Caroline is rolling! What's next???
Love,
E
Love,
E
Saturday, December 25, 2010
It's CHRISTMAS!!!
Merry Christmas! It has been a perfect day! It was the first "white" Christmas Tennessee had seen in 17 years! We had about 2 inches of snow on the ground and lots of flurries :) We started our day with a VERY happy little boy tearing open packages! He made out like a bandit!
Mommy got BIG Christmas hugs from all her babies...
Uncle J.J. got some "twin love" =)
The twins got to dress up in their new outfits from Leslie!
Then it was off to Uncle Robo and Aunt Jen-Jen's house for lunch! But first we had to open gifts of course!
Alex was SO EXCITED to get a really cool Optimus Prime (I think that's the name!) costume and mask (from Robo and Jen-Jen) and Buzz Lightyear wings (from Nana and Pop)!
The twins got lots of fun goodies including rocking chairs from Mana, cool new highchair toys from Nana and Pop, glowworm "Seahorses" and Sophie teething giraffes from Santa!
A good time was had by all and lots of yummy food filled our bellies...
And finally it was time to come home for naps =)
What a wonderful Christmas it was for our family! We hope all our friends and families were as blessed as we were this year!
Love,
A, B, C, C & C
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