THINGS CHANGE QUICKLY AROUND HERE

Very interesting last couple of days. Colby had a great 1st day of school. Couldn't have gone better. Then I get a text from his nurse the next day at 5 a.m., which is never good news, that her son is sick and she won't be able to go to school with Colby. So yep, he missed the 2nd day of school. Yesterday he went but had a rough day, oxygen levels a little lower than normal and high heart rate. I had noticed when I got him up yesterday he was more "gunky" than usual but once he had his breathing treatments I thought he would be okay. I thought wrong. He had an "incident" at school and his oxygen dropped to around 40 they said. Isn't that special?! He was exhausted the rest of the day but his numbers were good so I decided to go ahead and go to Wine Night. He seemed to be doing okay, then around 5:30 this morning, beep, beep, beep. His heart rate was 130 while he was wearing his bi-pap, not good! Then his oxygen started dropping and both alarms were going off, really not good! It took a while to get him stable again. He had just the slightest bit of a temperature, really not even enough to treat, but I gave him some ibuprofen anyway. I've decided to do treatments every 3 hours and we'll see what happens.

The next piece of interesting news is...my surgery has been rescheduled. My ENT is just about to piss me off. Luckily I took the initiative because they hadn't called or sent any paperwork concerning my surgery, which was scheduled for next Tuesday the 23rd. I got to thinking whether or not I needed pre-op blood work done again so I called to check. The scheduling chick called back to say yes, I need pre-op work done within 2 weeks of surgery, and oh by the way, the dr. wanted to see if we could move my surgery to September 13. Obviously there's no hurry in getting the other side of my thyroid out, huh? When she called I was right in the middle of a meeting with Colby's principal trying to get transportation issues worked out (another clusterfuck I had to fix yesterday). And also since I've been having some issues getting nurses and sitters, I agreed to it. I'm hoping that by the time Sept 13 rolls around Colby will be in a normal school schedule and the nurses will be readily available so I can get the coverage I need for Colby when I'm recovering from my next slice-n-dice.

Never a dull moment, huh? Gotta run, time for Colby's next batch of cough treatments. Keep your fingers crossed he's just having allergy issues.