Thursday, September 30, 2010

my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

Today was not good. It started off okay, but the middle and end were just no good. It turns out I am a future hoarder. Getting good deals on stuff makes me feel good. I try to limit it to things we need, but still. So this morning I got 4 bottles of shampoo/conditioner, 2 toothbrushes, and 2 bags of M&M's (yes, I need them) for $2.10. Things kind of went down hill after that. I didn't go to the hospital this morning because Jeremiah had a Dr's appointment at Primary Children's at 1:50 to check on his foot (it is doing fine). We waited for an hour and forty five minutes before seeing the Dr. Try keeping an almost 2 year old happy in a waiting room for that long, not good. My mom was going to come with me to the hospital so that she could see Jacob during the appointment and then she could watch Jeremiah so I could see Jacob. Unfortunately she had a sore throat yesterday and we didn't want to risk having her around all of those immunocompromised kids just in case she is sick. There are volunteers in the playroom that can watch Jeremiah, but I can only be gone for 30-45 minutes. By the time I got up to the NICU, scrubbed like I was going into surgery, and got into Jacob's room I only had enough time to change his diaper and hold him for 10 minutes before it was time to go and get Jeremiah.
Jeremiah dropped his elephant (the elephant goes everywhere and is his security blanket) a few minutes into the drive home, so naturally he screamed the whole way. We were going to have taco salad for dinner and didn't have any tortilla chips so I thought I would try to be helpful and broil some corn tortillas to crisp them up and we could put them in the salad. I was checking them every few minutes and one minute they are nowhere near done and the next they are on fire inside of the oven. That's right, on fire. The fire went out pretty quickly, but there is an alarm on the stove that wouldn't shut off. We ended up having to unplug the stove. When we plugged it back in everything worked alright, so hopefully I didn't break it.
I went back to the hospital at 7:30 and Jacob is doing good. He is up to 6mls/hr on his feedings and seems to be tolerating it. When I got back to my parents house my mom told me that Jeremiah had thrown up right before she put him to bed. I am choosing to believe that he is not sick and that it was just a fluke thing. Kids throw up right? hopefully. I am not loving this day, so I am going to go eat some M&M's (like I said, I need them) and be done with today.

3 comments:

  1. Sounds like two bags of M&Ms is just what you need. Sorry you had a rough day.

    Hopefully Jeremiah isn't sick and tomorrow will be much, much better.

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  2. I like your posts...but they make me homesick. We'll keep praying for you guys!

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  3. Glad you got your treat-peanut butter M&Ms are my personal choice for helping me feel better. I hope Jeremiah isn't sick-little babes throwing up is not fun. I'm glad you got to cuddle with Jacob a little!

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