Jade FINALLY got TUBES, and her adnoids out. We went in Wednesday morning at 7:45 (we weren't really supposed to be there til 8:30)... They went ahead and took us back. And we waited, and waited, and waited some more. There was a play room there for the kids (thank goodness) and little cars and wagons for them to ride the halls with. Macy picked out a nice little car, and decided the ONLY way to go was backwards.. and in a circle.. well, There are nurses LINING the halls with little rolling trays with computers on them and nurses and drs trying to get in and out of rooms and patients being taken to and back from surgery. So, I am trying to contain Macy and keep her from running someone over.. She would go forward a second and I would think I was ok and all the sudden BAM there goes me toe.. she decided backwards was the only way to go... BUt anyways back to Jade.. they finally took her back to surgery around 10 or so.. about 25 min later the dr comes out and tells us Jade did great and her adnoids were really swollen before he cut them out.. and that Jade would be back to the room in "just a minute". Well, I wait, and I wait, and 20 min later the nurse comes and gets her bed so she can bring jade back. And I wait and I wait and another 25 min goes by and I am getting panicky... Well, they FINALLY bring Jade back and come to find out, when she woke up she had Croup. So they gaver her a breathing treatment before they would let her leave recovery. Really nice of them to let me know huh? They are lucky I didnt' go busting back there to find my baby! Well, once she got back to the room and sipped a little sprite and took about 4 licks of her popcicle, they let her go home. We were back home by 1!! She was a grumpy grumpy girl for quite a while. but she was up and playing a few hours later. She is up and at em. Still complains of sore throat but that will pass I'm sure in the next day or 2.
As far as everything else, I think we are on the way to recovery and something else happens. Macy has started having shuddering spells again along with some really weird symptoms. Exactly a week ago, we had been playing outside, and everything was great! It was nice outside and so I was letting them play in the water.. I start to notice macy's little face and body getting extremely red... so I went and checked her. Her skin was EXTREMELY hot to the touch.. so I call time to go in and we go inside. I stripped her down to her diaper and gave her some juice. I cooked dinner, and she ate, and then it was bathtime(about an hour after we came in). She was STILL hot to the touch. So after her bath, i was trying to dry her off and talking to Jade and all the sudden I hear macy's teeth slam together (almost like chattering teeth but not really) I look at her, and she is not breathing and she is shaking (like shivering but ALOT harder). It lasts about 30 seconds, and it's gone just as quickly as it came. Well, I watch her for a little while, and then I put her to bed thinking it was just another shuddering spell.. Just a worse one.. That night, she had 5 more shuddering spells. Each one woke her up.. and when she woke up she was crying a cry that did not belong to my baby.. it was very weak and sounded very wrong. When I would go to pick her up, she was VERY confused... like she didnt' know where she was and was very hard to calm down. I also noticed that she was having a hard time getting her bottle to her mouth.. She had just learned to put her shoes on about 3 weeks ago. The morning after her spells, she could no longer put her shoes on and had alot of coordination issues. She dropped things and had a hard time with things she was good at. She fell down alot.. thing just were not right. So I called the dr. They told me to call on Monday morning and bring her in. Well, I call monday morning and they tell me the first appt I can get is Wed. Crap. Thats the day of Jade's surgery.. wont' work. So i get an appt for Friday. I make it. Then, Crap. Thats the day of my math final. I can't make it in time. So I called back and switched it. Her appt is this Wed. But, now all her symptoms are going away. She is still VERY sensitive to heat. She doesnt' handle it well, and DOES. NOT. SWEAT. She gets extremely hot to the touch and it takes her forever to cool down. She gets hot like that at times when she shouldn't really be that hot. we played outside in the shade with the wind blowing a couple days ago and it was quite cool outside. We were out about 20 min and when we came back inside, guess what.. hot to the touch... really hot. i check Jade, nothing.. she was still just fine..So, we had popcicles.
Does this EVER end? We have been dealing with sickness since December!! If it's not one thing it's another! We can't get rid of stuff. It's been ears with jade since then, and Macy has had ears and a cough since then. And when we finally changed drs, guess what.. RESULTS! :) We got over the battles we had been fighting for 5 months and now it's on to something new I guess.
Well, thats about it for now. Hopefully we will have good news with mace at the dr on Wed. I will post some new pics soon.. After my camera gets charged and I have time to upload pictures.
OH... I had my math final today... I MADE AN 87.50!!! AND an 86 in the class for the semester!! THAT IS HUGE!! I am math dummy... I worked my butt off for that B!! I have been so excited! it was a hard earned B.. especially since I am SO BAD at math!
OK ok.. I'm really off for the night. I'm beat. Been a long day!!
Until next time...
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