You already know what I'm going to say.
Sorry it's been a while since I've blogged, been really busy. Well,
it's true! Going to get in this blog update before hitting the hay.
To use a friend's quote, I am one tired tater!
Sweet Boy: Colby got his Zometa
infusion last week. Luckily we can do it here at home instead of
having to go to Cincinnati Children's. He had 2 side effects from the
infusion, fatigue and low potassium. He actually took some naps last
week, which is very unlike him. The day he got the infusion he took a
3.5-hour nap, wow! Actually his potassium was a bit low to begin
with. The low-end range is 3.5, Colby's was 3.3. Going to have to
figure this out. But then his labs after his infusion showed his
potassium went down to 3.2, then to 3.0. We have him on a potassium
supplement and they will come draw labs again next week. Not liking
this development at all. He acts okay, but I'm a bit freaked out
about it. The kid has enough to deal with, and I want to get this
potassium issue resolved for good.
Colby started back to school yesterday.
He has been on homebound schooling since the first week of January. I
pulled him out of school because of the flu and cold weather. We
started out slowly, just Thursday and Friday this week. He did
awesome! He jabbered, and jabbered, and jabbered yesterday from the
time he got up until the time he went to sleep, so I think he was
super excited to get back to school. Probably super happy to put some
distance between him and me. Can't really blame him. I do have a
tendency to hover around him and kiss on him 1000x daily. Can you
blame me? Have you seen that child's beautiful, cute, sweet, handsome
face?!
Mi Casa: Since the big demo, everyone
has been asking what's new with the house. Lately the weather hasn't
exactly been cooperative. Last week we got a foot of snow and this
week lots of rain. But we have done a few things. Went and picked out
the color for the new roof. Red, by the way. After demo, we noticed
another layer on the kitchen floor. Are you freaking kidding me?
Well, it's gone now. We took off a layer of subflooring stuff, then
there were green and cream colored tiles, then some masonite layer
under that. Then finally we got down to the original hard wood
floors. We did have professionals come in and take out the chimney
from the top down to the roof line. Now it's up to us ordinary,
non-construction type people to get down the rest of it. Hey, guess
what, bricks are heavy! About 5 or 6 of those in a bucket and that's
enough to haul out to the dumpster. We'll work more on that over the
weekend. Still working on finalizing a floor plan. Met with the
contractor this week and feel much better about some things. I've
been working on a grant that will hopefully pay for an overhead
motorized lift system for transferring Colby. This would make a huge
difference for us if we can get this fancy-schmancy lift installed,
both for Colby and for his caregivers. It would make all our lives
easier. So fingers crossed I can schmooze/convince the review
committee to give us this grant, because if not I certainly don't
have an extra $14,000 right now to get one installed!
Little ole me: I had a cold for 2 days
last week. I was smart, not stubborn like the last time I started
feeling ill, and started taking care of it immediately. Went and
spent $34 at Kroger on Zicam, Emergen-C, DayQuil, NiteQuil and cough
drops. Tried to drink extra water and rest the best I could. I was
scared to death of giving it to Colby. I had no choice but to be near
him. Because of the snow, we went a day without nursing. So when I
was in Colby's room I wore gloves and a mask. Went on a sanitizing
frenzy. Luckily he didn't get sick, and I was able to kick it fairly
quickly. I think when Colby's at school it's much harder on me than
it is on him. I miss him terribly when he isn't here. The apartment
is so quiet it's almost scary. No vent running, no jabbers, no
Spongebob on TV, no nurse doing stuff or making chit chat. Just me,
myself and I. Alone with my thoughts. That's never good, haha.
Okay, that's a quick wrap-up of what's
been going on around here. More when I have time. Gotta get those
bricks in the dumpster first!
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