Update

I can't believe I forgot to update in October and November! This update will count for November! So far I have lost 54 lbs!!! The jeans I'm wearing in this pic are my new ones that are 3 sizes smaller than my original size and they are already too big, I love it!

Still fighting

Poor Addy is still fighting this ear infection! She started Zithromax last Friday. Tuesday morning she woke up with an ear full of blood :( so the doc changed her to Omnicef. Her ear was still oozing some yesterday. Today it isn't oozing but she keeps poking it and pushing on it :( Poor thing. I'm hoping she's better soon. I take her back to the doc next week for a recheck anyway, but I'd hate for it to stay infected this whole time! We're going to run a culture for C-Diff, it's bound to happen, we're just praying it stays at bay this time! She wasn't very cooperative, but she's sporting one of her many Christmas shirts today, she is so fun to dress! I dread the day she lets me know that she doesn't like something! She already does that with shoes, but it's shoes in general, not a certain pair!

She's BACK!! Well, Almost Anyway!

Not good news

Poor Addysen. I took her back to the ped this am. She still looks and feels crappy. She's still retching some and just feeling awful, not getting any smiles out of my precious girl. She's lost 8 ounces since Wednesday but not dehydrated thank goodness. We are going to collect three different stool samples today and I'll have to take them back into Springfield later today or tomorrow, depends on her little bowels! We'll see what they show on Sunday. Above all things little love has ruptured her left ear drum in the midst of all of this!! It wasn't even infected on Wednesday! So we are now taking Zithromax for it. We really didn't want to use antibiotics but we really need to now since her ear's so yucky.

My yesterday wasn't too awful once my family got back home. The kids and I watched Toy Story 3, Jarika hadn't seen it yet. Naturally the two of us cried, must be the whole college thing! Pixar/Disney makes the best movies! Didn't sleep much, this gagging stuff is miserable for my girl! I did get Addy's Thanksgiving outfit on her, she wasn't real happy as you can tell. Keep the prayers coming, really hoping to wade this one out at home, I know she'll end up with something else if we get admitted :(

Still Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I would love to say that I have enjoyed a wonderful day with my family but that would be an untruth. Scott and the big kids are headed to the sorta in-laws for Thanksgiving. I am staying home with the sick princess. Poor girl, she threw up all of her feeding last night and spent the entire night coughing, gagging and choking again :( When she got up this morning she had completely soiled her diaper, pajamas and bed :( I got that cleaned up, a new diaper under her booty and she stretched and filled another diaper! Cleaned that one up and we had a repeat performance :( This poor baby. She is just not feeling very well. However, I am still very thankful today. I am thankful that I am able to stay home with my baby and take care of her. I am thankful that we are here, snug at home, instead of in the hospital. I know some of our friends are admitted right now and that just stinks. This time a year ago we wouldn't have been able to head this off without an IV, she is making progress. She is holding down some Pedialyte today, 5 ounces so far, will try a few more in another hour or so and see how she does, this has been a weird illness. She's perky for a little while, then laying in her classic flattened position the next. I may get her dressed and out of her jammies, she has a really cute Thanksgivingy shirt to wear today, I hate for her not to show off her cuteness!

We are cuddled up watching the gorgeous snowflakes (we were under a tornado warning last night, you gotta love the Ozarks!) and Elmo's Countdown to Christmas, definitely something to be thankful for.

Ugh

Addy finished her last feeding with another big ole spew this morning. Scott was up with her the majority of the night because she kept coughing/gagging/choking all night. Went ahead and went into the doc just in case it's something major. Lungs sounded clear, ears ok, stomach nice and gurgly, thoat ok, and nose seemed ok too. The doc went ahead and sent us home with a script in case she starts running a temp of 100 or more, she could have a sinus infection that's making her have drainage which causes the pukes in the am. Who knows. She's definitely not herself, hoping she is perkier tomorrow for Thanksgiving, she hasn't seen her extended family for quite awhile!

I hadn't posted pix of Addy standing the other night because I could never catch her when she was actually upright!!! Here's a little glimpse though!




Her first school picture:


My early Christmas present :)

Recovering

These past couple of weeks have been h&$! on the Heflin gang! Addy has been fighting a respiratory bug that we are successfully been able to avoid antibiotics with. Jake and Cooper have both fought a throat virus. Scott's sinuses have been making him pretty grumpy and feeling crappy. Sunday he was in Kansas City at the Chiefs game and Addy started the day by puking up her first feeding. That was awesome. So into the bath we went and she was not happy all morning. I had no Pedialyte but fortunately thanks to Facebook my neighbor Natalie went and got some for us! Addy didn't keep down her first ounce though :( It was a rough morning. By afternoon she held down a couple of ounces and went down for a nap. After I got her down I realized that I didn't feel very well. I had a temp of 100.0. Not a big deal, just enough to make me not feel well. I lounged on the couch instead of my usual weekend cleaning. Addy got up from her nap and kept down more pedialyte and was happy as long as Sesame Street was on constantly, which was fine by me, my fever kept rising. By 8pm it was 102 and I couldn't stop chilling like crazy, it was awful, Jake thought I was having a seizure. I was so cold and I was under four blankets! Scott got home around 9 and my temp was 103.5. I was taking Tylenol every 4 hours and could not get it to go any lower. I went to bed and got a up a few times. My temp was running 103-104 all night long!! I felt awful! I spent the entire yesterday in bed. Fortunately Addy was better and was only fighting with her coughing a little. She also destroyed her glasses again yesterday, ugh. They are really messed up so we'll have to make a stop at Dr. Pierce's office tomorrow while we are in Springfield for feeding therapy. SIGH. I felt pretty good last night and my temp broke about 11am yesterday and by this morning I was almost my old self. Quite a little bug I had, so glad that it's over, must really hoping and praying that no one else gets it! I'm really looking forward to spending time with our family on Thanksgiving, we haven't all been together since July4th!

I have no new pix to post of my family, I've been a picture slacker! However, I do have a precious new photo of Phoebe!!! Isn't she the cutest thing ever??? She looks so full of personality!!! I hope her family can go save her soon!! Please help by donating to her adoption fund, her click on her photo on my sidebar, it will take you to Reece's Rainbow Angel Tree :)