OK, so I am always thinking how very nice it is that my children are not the sickly type. Doesn't that always come back to bite you somewhere? Just like two years ago, I made the comment that my children have never been to the ER - ever. What a month later Audry, Jake, and Ralphie were in the ER every other weekend. Audry stuck a bead in her ear on a Saturday night. Two weeks later J and I go out with friends and Jake jumps from the couch to the GLASS coffee table and goes thru the glass...stitches in his neck (good thing grandma was the babysitter) and two weeks later Ralphie is climbing in the garage and slices open just under his lip and has to go in for those liquid stitches. CRAZY!
Anyway, so two weeks ago I was counting my blessings out loud and the next day Jake cannot get out of bed - literally! His dad carried him to the couch and about the time that I had to carry him to the bathroom I knew something was wrong. So last Monday (March 31) we went to the DR where they ran a battery of tests including xrays to find out that he has a cold and that they called "Transient Displasia" aka Growing Pains. Then Audry was having some issues which I will not put out on the WWW but lets just say I was worried she had a UTI, anyway, off to the DR on Friday to find out that she did have some issues and a little Milk of Magnesia could take care of and she says "Mom, I don't have a problem going, I just don't go" Hum, I think we found the problem. Oh, and I had her look at Ralphie's ear because he mentioned it was sore - ear ache WITHOUT SYMPTOMS. Lucky me. So the weekend was uneventful then Matilda crashes and burns in PE and twists her wrist (no problem, lets just wrap it). Tuesday, Audry complains about back aches right around her kidneys and she spikes a temp, off to the DR again on Wed (today) and her kidneys are fine but she has pneumonia. Without a cough or anything. Oh, and the DR looks at Matilda's wrist and orders xrays because it is "really, really swollen" We will hear from the radiologist in a few days to know if it is cracked. Phew!
Now for the blessings part...J and I were talking today about how blessed we are that here we have two kids who are really sick - with no symptoms and that we were able to get them diagnosed before the pain and temps for Ralphie and the horrible coughing and temps started for Audry. How many parents can say that? AND I have school tomorrow, my friend who watches the boys has kids who are throwing up and ITS GOING TO RAIN - so J has to stay home and I don't "have" to skip school. What a blessing!
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