The Puker Strikes Again

Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

In the hallway, I tell Miss Lindy
The doctor we needed to go
In the hallway, the mighty hallway
She starts to puke her lunch

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

Near the laundry room, and the car
and in the waiting room.
Just the mention of the doctor
Sent her over the edge.

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

Hush my darling, don't fear my darling
This doctor won’t hurt you
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling
She needs to check your pee.

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh

That sums up our Friday.  I’ll get there in a second!

After school on Monday I picked Lindy up and Drew picked Will up and took him home.  Lindy and I headed to the hospital to have blood drawn to check her kidney function again.  The blood work from December showed her bicarbonate was low but the doctor was skeptical about it so he ordered more blood work. I told Lindy we were going to see Ms. Martha and she was going to play with her arm and Lindy was completely fine.  We went in and she charmed Ms. Martha’s pants off but never cried and hardly even flinched at getting her blood drawn.  We left there and went to PT with Jill.  She measured the catch in her ankle and her left ankle is at a –10, which means it is making her walk on her toes.  It doesn’t seem to be getting any better SO… we are going to try to cast her and see if that helps.  Jan. 23rd Lindy will get a cast for two weeks to try and reset the position of the catch in her left ankle.  I’m a bit anxious about it.  I hope she takes it in stride, just like everything else in life.  I’m more worried about the logistics (bathing, the playground at school).  I just hope it works! 

Tuesday our nephrologist called with the blood work results and said everything was fine!!  Yippee!!  We don’t have to start any new medicines for Lindy!  So glad to hear her kidneys are working right, even if they didn’t grow last year.  We also had gymnastics on Tuesday and as bad as it sounds, I’ve stopped paying attention as much.  It’s so stressful to watch Lindy and not be able to discipline her.  Or redirect her I should say.  It’s much more peaceful to talk with the other moms and not completely stress over her.

Wednesday I had a March of Dimes meeting at lunch time so Drew picked up the kids from music class for me.  It was our last class of the first session.  We take a week break and start up again at the end of the month.

Friday Drew and I went out to eat breakfast in the morning which was nice.  I decided to call and make Lindy a doctor’s appointment because in the last week and half she has started urinating a lot more frequently.  I have noticed it at home and both her teachers at her schools have mentioned it to me multiple days when I’ve picked her up.  It didn’t seem like she was drinking more but she was definitely going a lot more often.  Lindy had been on an antibiotic her entire life and we were just given the okay to stop it in mid-December (because her testing showed she finally outgrew the kidney reflux).  I was worried she had a UTI. 

The fun part started when after lunch I said, “okay Lindy, we need to get going.  We’re going to see the doctor to check on your pee pee.”  Things went downhill quickly.  She started crying and saying no and started coughing and gagging and threw up twice.  I grabbed an empty box sitting around and she puked in there.  Drew and Will had not planned to go with us but I didn’t know what to do.  I didn’t want to be driving and have her in the back by herself and throwing up.  They ended up grabbing coats and riding with us.  She fell asleep for a few minutes and then woke up when we pulled into the doctor’s office.  She started crying all over again and puked two more times, one being most of her lunch.  We had to get her cleaned up and we finally made it into the doctor’s office.  Drew takes them in the waiting room, where she promptly throws up.  He takes her to the bathroom to get her out of the public eye!  Everyone was looking at her with pity because everyone thought she had the stomach bug.  The receptionist asked how long she’d been throwing up like that.  I had to tell her it’d only been 20 mins ago and it was not a stomach virus, it was that she makes herself sick when we say the word doctor.  The nurse finally calls us back and she thinks she had a stomach virus.  Once we got in the room she was okay.  They checked their oxygen saturations (which we seriously haven’t had done since they took that dreaded oxygen out of our house years ago). I had them do it on Will first and then she was fine.  Lindy ended up being totally happy and in a good mood.  That girl drives me nuts.  We saw a new PA that was super nice and we really like her.  Lindy weighed 30.8 pounds.  Of course they thought it was a UTI so I had the fun job of getting her to pee in a cup.  A first for us.  We tried once and she wouldn’t do it but when we tried again we had success.  M&M’s were a good bribe!  The urine test came back fine though, no UTI.  They pricked her finger, just to check her blood sugar and it was fine.  (I was a little paranoid after having my niece get diagnosed Type 1 diabetic two years ago).  Two hours later, they couldn’t find anything wrong.   Ugggg.  At least we know for sure.

Saturday I had a United Methodist Women’s breakfast at church and then we headed to Charlotte to celebrate the January birthdays in the Southern family.  Drew’s is the 2nd, Anna is the 10th, and I’m the 18th. (3 days till my birthday people!!)  We had a yummy lunch and yummy cupcakes.  Lynn made me cinnamon toast crunch cupcakes and they were so good!  I LOVE cinnamon flavored stuff!  She made Anna red velvet cupcakes and Drew banana pudding cupcakes.

That wraps up our week.  I still don’t have my camera back so I used my cellphone all week.  I played with the Instagram app which makes the pictures look all kinds of funky ways!  I love my phone but it is not fast enough to catch my kids!

It was warm enough one afternoon to play in the garage blowing bubbles and riding bikes.  Lindy wore her helmet and blew bubbles.  She never rode her bike.  Will is getting really good on his bike, in the garage.  Getting him out of the garage will be another issue. More Wii!  Their favorite new activity.It doesn’t always go so well.  Sometimes she doesn’t want help.Lindy has started ‘checking our underwear’ when she wears her gloves.  Her teacher at one school always wears gloves when she changes diapers or helps kids in the bathroom.  Checking Daddy’s underwear.Shell shocked at the doctor’s office.  Post traumatic syndrome maybe?The birthday kids!All the kids!Anna rocking the Ove Glove and Onion goggles!Lindy testing the onion goggles!Bob ‘trying’ to play charades.  Needless to say, no one got this clue!Lindy pretending to be Aunt Jamie.Today’s church outfits.  Cute dress but major big bow.  (Not as big as Ms. Alabama’s bow last night at the Miss America pageant!)  She would not leave it alone!Tonight I made snowman pancakes.  Hoping for a little bit of snow that the kids can play in!  It’s cold, just no moisture in the air!