MELTDOWN OVER

Wow, what a difference 24 hours can make. The 2nd nurse came for training today, and we like her too! She only stayed for 3 hours and is coming back tomorrow for another 3, so we'll see how it goes. However, the morning got off to a bad start. Mr. Colby was very gunky this morning. Put him on his shaky vest and before you knew it, his oxygen started dropping. By the time I stopped the vest, the bi-pap, the nebulizer and got him ready for a cough treatment, his oxygen was in the 40s. Really, Colby, seriously? Way to impress the new nurse! She didn't panic though. I kept saying, "He usually doesn't do this," along with, "This is the first time he's done this in weeks." Don't know if she believed me or not, but I guess we didn't totally scare her away. She said she'd be back tomorrow. Hopefully she will.

Then I got another call from a nurse who is interested in going to school with Colby. She would be able to do the schedule I want for Colby. Are you kidding me? Did we hit the freakin' lottery or what?! She's coming on Saturday to meet Colby. I'll interview her, see if I think she'll be able to handle it and go through Colby's school routine. I warned her it was going to be very involved and she would have a lot of responsibility. She seemed up to it, but only time will tell. So maybe my life isn't such a horrible tragedy after all? Perhaps.

Colby's teacher came today for home hospital schooling. They used his eye gaze. Not sure what was going on, but he wasn't really focused. Then the eye gaze was messing up, doing really weird stuff. We decided to blame it all on Colby's speech therapist. Way to go Amber, wink wink.

Get my stitches out tomorrow. Then the ENT will refer me to an endocrinologist to get the ball rolling on the radioactive iodine bullshit. So ready to get all this over with.

Had to pay my credit card today. Ouch, that was hurtful. It was $5.00, haha. Guess that's the good thing about being out of town couped up in a hospital, you don't waste much time or money shopping.

So I'm sure there were a few of you worried that I was having a complete meltdown after reading last night's blog entry. Well, you were right, I was pretty darn close. Yesterday was probably the worst day I had mentally in a very long time. Today was much better. And I'm hoping and praying tomorrow will be even better. See, that go-get-'em feistiness you're used to seeing from me is here, just hidden lately by a few minor complications. We'll get through this, one way or another.