Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
What a week!
Last Sunday started off normal.. getting up heading to church.. then home. Well after church I got a migraine and laid down for a bit. The next thing I know, the phone is ringing and no one is answering it! Then my cell, then Jason's cell.. I answered his. It was the phone call that will never be forgotten.. HI Kristy, this is officer(i forget his name) I am with your mother. Your father has had an apparent heart attack and is in route to the hospital!
WOW! I almost dropped my phone and started panicking! I couldn't get a hold of my brother or my sister to let them know.. Seriously.. my dad is superman to me and he can't die! He did.. he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of the Reebok outlet. He had angels watching over him the whole time.. He could have been driving.. he could been at home.. nope! He was at Reebok and someone there gave him CPR.. someone there saved him.. someone there was able to stay with my mom until we arrived at the E.R! Someone there cared about a stranger.
So once he was "stable" enough to move him, he went up for heart surgery.. .seemed like it took forever. They discovered 2 narrowed arteries. So the doc put 2 stents in. However the problem now wasn't his heart.. it was his brain! It wasn't a question of was there going to be damage. .it was how much! No one knew how long his brain wasn't receiving oxygen before the CPR started. The doctor couldn't give us an estimate when my brother asked, on his survival rate.. He lowered his head and said.. Let's just be "hopeful"!!
We saw him once surgery was over but only briefly.. there were test to be done.. mainly a ct scan which showed no bleeding on the brain.. our 1st positive!!
That night all I could do was pray, pray and pray some more. The next morning I prayed and prayed.. get the theme.. PRAYER and a whole lot of it! I kept hearing it's gonna be okay.. it's gonna be okay! I wasn't sure if this was me or GOD talking to me but I was rolling with it.
Monday dad started hypothermia therapy: his body got cooled down to 92*! The purpose of this is to slow everything down, conserve energy and to decrease swelling in the brain that was caused from lack of oxygen. this day wasn't so bad.. there wasn't a whole lot to do but pray.They slowly started warming his body up,late in the evening. It can't be done too quickly or the body goes into shock. I believe it was warmed a degree every hour or so.. This waiting is starting to get old!
Tuesday. I went in to see him for a lil while the boys were at school. I would stand beside his bed and hold his hand and pray. The nurse told me he is very calm while I am in with him. When it was time for me to leave, I felt numb.. things were starting to catch up to me.. the running around and the stress of everything that was happening. I started praying while I was leaving the hospital that I would get a sign that things were gonna be okay and not only would I see but so would my mom who was still up in his room. Just then my right eye started burning like I had gotten onion juice in it. About 10 min. later I received a phone call that dad had briefly opened his eyes but closed them again! Thank you God!
Wednesday oh Wednesday! still a day of the waiting game.. there were more movements but nothing that was responsive. I wasn't able to go in at all during the day and this really ate at me. I had meltdown after meltdown. I felt like my world was falling apart. There was so much to do and no desire to do it... The house was a mess from running all week.. company was coming(Aunt Debbie & Uncle Glenn) to help with support since they just went through this 5 yrs. ago with their daughter. aaahhhhh!!!
Thursday, I think( most of this past week is turning into a blur) another day of waiting and watching him try to come around but he was coming out to wild!
Friday they tried letting him come out but he became so agitated because he had a breathing tube down his throat and he tried taking it out.. they had to keep sedating him so he wouldn't hurt himself. He had to have his hands cuffed to the bed because of this... he was just so angry at those tubes, turning his head back n forth.. They were planning on taking his tubes out however his lungs weren't ready. He had an underlying condition that he needed to stay on the respirator. He had a lot of phlegm that was being a host to 2 nasty lil germ bugs and his lung doc just felt is was best not to take him off of his meds or his to take out his tubes..
Saturday.. I walked into the hospital to find him SITTING in a chair! He still wasn't fully himself but did if feel good to see him with his eyes open and up out of that bed. When the lung doc done his rounds he took out the breathing tubes and they let dad breathe some on his own. Then he graduated to a mask.. which he didn't like. And then he became irritable again, demanding he was going home! and He was talking hateful to people. His voice wasn't his.. it was all tore up from the tubes. but he was talking!
Sunday.. 6a.m.. the phone rings.. it's dad.. "the old lady there?' yes but she is sleeping, want me to wake her up, Jason asked. " tell her I want my glasses, I can't see a damn thing" and I want them before church!" Jason just says I'll tell her.
we finally got to go in around 3 this afternoon. he was up walking around the ICU area with the aide of a walker.. he even got to see all of his grandchildren. His nurse wheeled him out in his recliner to visit with everyone!! She said that was the 1st time they had ever done that!! He sure does brake the mold!! It was so unbelievable to see him smile, talk, remember almost everything! There seems to be only a short window that he don't remember and that is the 4 hours right before his cardiac arrest! Only time will tell if there is other things that he don't remember but so far so good!
Now if you don't believe in miracles performed by God, go back and read my story again!
God's fingerprints were all over this.. from his 1st nurse that told me & mom that there is some kind of positive energy in that room that I can't explain to my aunt Debbie feeling someones hand push on her back when there was no one behind her at the time!!
*note.. dates may be off a bit.. like I said.. this week was a roller coaster and everything is a blur
WOW! I almost dropped my phone and started panicking! I couldn't get a hold of my brother or my sister to let them know.. Seriously.. my dad is superman to me and he can't die! He did.. he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of the Reebok outlet. He had angels watching over him the whole time.. He could have been driving.. he could been at home.. nope! He was at Reebok and someone there gave him CPR.. someone there saved him.. someone there was able to stay with my mom until we arrived at the E.R! Someone there cared about a stranger.
So once he was "stable" enough to move him, he went up for heart surgery.. .seemed like it took forever. They discovered 2 narrowed arteries. So the doc put 2 stents in. However the problem now wasn't his heart.. it was his brain! It wasn't a question of was there going to be damage. .it was how much! No one knew how long his brain wasn't receiving oxygen before the CPR started. The doctor couldn't give us an estimate when my brother asked, on his survival rate.. He lowered his head and said.. Let's just be "hopeful"!!
We saw him once surgery was over but only briefly.. there were test to be done.. mainly a ct scan which showed no bleeding on the brain.. our 1st positive!!
That night all I could do was pray, pray and pray some more. The next morning I prayed and prayed.. get the theme.. PRAYER and a whole lot of it! I kept hearing it's gonna be okay.. it's gonna be okay! I wasn't sure if this was me or GOD talking to me but I was rolling with it.
Monday dad started hypothermia therapy: his body got cooled down to 92*! The purpose of this is to slow everything down, conserve energy and to decrease swelling in the brain that was caused from lack of oxygen. this day wasn't so bad.. there wasn't a whole lot to do but pray.They slowly started warming his body up,late in the evening. It can't be done too quickly or the body goes into shock. I believe it was warmed a degree every hour or so.. This waiting is starting to get old!
Tuesday. I went in to see him for a lil while the boys were at school. I would stand beside his bed and hold his hand and pray. The nurse told me he is very calm while I am in with him. When it was time for me to leave, I felt numb.. things were starting to catch up to me.. the running around and the stress of everything that was happening. I started praying while I was leaving the hospital that I would get a sign that things were gonna be okay and not only would I see but so would my mom who was still up in his room. Just then my right eye started burning like I had gotten onion juice in it. About 10 min. later I received a phone call that dad had briefly opened his eyes but closed them again! Thank you God!
Wednesday oh Wednesday! still a day of the waiting game.. there were more movements but nothing that was responsive. I wasn't able to go in at all during the day and this really ate at me. I had meltdown after meltdown. I felt like my world was falling apart. There was so much to do and no desire to do it... The house was a mess from running all week.. company was coming(Aunt Debbie & Uncle Glenn) to help with support since they just went through this 5 yrs. ago with their daughter. aaahhhhh!!!
Thursday, I think( most of this past week is turning into a blur) another day of waiting and watching him try to come around but he was coming out to wild!
Friday they tried letting him come out but he became so agitated because he had a breathing tube down his throat and he tried taking it out.. they had to keep sedating him so he wouldn't hurt himself. He had to have his hands cuffed to the bed because of this... he was just so angry at those tubes, turning his head back n forth.. They were planning on taking his tubes out however his lungs weren't ready. He had an underlying condition that he needed to stay on the respirator. He had a lot of phlegm that was being a host to 2 nasty lil germ bugs and his lung doc just felt is was best not to take him off of his meds or his to take out his tubes..
Saturday.. I walked into the hospital to find him SITTING in a chair! He still wasn't fully himself but did if feel good to see him with his eyes open and up out of that bed. When the lung doc done his rounds he took out the breathing tubes and they let dad breathe some on his own. Then he graduated to a mask.. which he didn't like. And then he became irritable again, demanding he was going home! and He was talking hateful to people. His voice wasn't his.. it was all tore up from the tubes. but he was talking!
Sunday.. 6a.m.. the phone rings.. it's dad.. "the old lady there?' yes but she is sleeping, want me to wake her up, Jason asked. " tell her I want my glasses, I can't see a damn thing" and I want them before church!" Jason just says I'll tell her.
we finally got to go in around 3 this afternoon. he was up walking around the ICU area with the aide of a walker.. he even got to see all of his grandchildren. His nurse wheeled him out in his recliner to visit with everyone!! She said that was the 1st time they had ever done that!! He sure does brake the mold!! It was so unbelievable to see him smile, talk, remember almost everything! There seems to be only a short window that he don't remember and that is the 4 hours right before his cardiac arrest! Only time will tell if there is other things that he don't remember but so far so good!
Now if you don't believe in miracles performed by God, go back and read my story again!
God's fingerprints were all over this.. from his 1st nurse that told me & mom that there is some kind of positive energy in that room that I can't explain to my aunt Debbie feeling someones hand push on her back when there was no one behind her at the time!!
*note.. dates may be off a bit.. like I said.. this week was a roller coaster and everything is a blur
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
potty training Callie
I figured it was time to potty train Callie and voiced my opinion many times to her... telling her she was a big girl and it was time to use the potty. After we came home from Disney, I started.. no more diapers(only for nap & bedtime).. just big girl panties!
She took to peeing in her lil potty quick & easy.. pooping was a whole other story. She Callie has problems pooping. She stays constipated most of the time, despite my best efforts to give her more fiber. She would sneak and hide somewhere to poop. If I would catch her mid-way and put her on the potty she still wouldn't finish... she would hold it, which added to her constipation issues.. Never ending cycle, right?
Well I had been wondering if she isn't allergic to milk.. that is her main source of nutrition. So last week after talking to my Sister in law, Mary, I decided to switch her from regular milk to lactaid... Not sure if it is helping since it was only late Saturday that I switched her. Lactaid milk is a lil over 5 bucks a gallon and my lil girl can put away the milk. However, if it helps her poop then I will gladly pay the price.
So this morning as I am making myself breakfast, I noticed Callie has disappeared and is quite.. not a good sign. Frantically I start looking for her. I just knew she was hiding in a corner or closet somewhere pooping! When I yelled her name she answered which isn't normal if she is hiding. I asked where are you? She replys "I'm pooping" I am walking back to find her in her bedroom but NOPE! She was sitting on her potty in the BATHROOM!! I asked "are you really pooping?"
and she didn't need to answer as I heard..plop..plop!! I was beyond ecstatic! I stared getting all misty-eyed that she finally went poo on her lil potty! I hooped and hollered.. gave her a big high five! So if she continues this the rest of the week, chances are you will find us at chuck e. cheese this weekend.. because I promised to take her there once she started pooping in her potty!
She took to peeing in her lil potty quick & easy.. pooping was a whole other story. She Callie has problems pooping. She stays constipated most of the time, despite my best efforts to give her more fiber. She would sneak and hide somewhere to poop. If I would catch her mid-way and put her on the potty she still wouldn't finish... she would hold it, which added to her constipation issues.. Never ending cycle, right?
Well I had been wondering if she isn't allergic to milk.. that is her main source of nutrition. So last week after talking to my Sister in law, Mary, I decided to switch her from regular milk to lactaid... Not sure if it is helping since it was only late Saturday that I switched her. Lactaid milk is a lil over 5 bucks a gallon and my lil girl can put away the milk. However, if it helps her poop then I will gladly pay the price.
So this morning as I am making myself breakfast, I noticed Callie has disappeared and is quite.. not a good sign. Frantically I start looking for her. I just knew she was hiding in a corner or closet somewhere pooping! When I yelled her name she answered which isn't normal if she is hiding. I asked where are you? She replys "I'm pooping" I am walking back to find her in her bedroom but NOPE! She was sitting on her potty in the BATHROOM!! I asked "are you really pooping?"
and she didn't need to answer as I heard..plop..plop!! I was beyond ecstatic! I stared getting all misty-eyed that she finally went poo on her lil potty! I hooped and hollered.. gave her a big high five! So if she continues this the rest of the week, chances are you will find us at chuck e. cheese this weekend.. because I promised to take her there once she started pooping in her potty!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Faves from Disney
Jason & the kids with the sword
In front Mickey's house
Waiting on the boys to ride a coaster
The Castle at dusk
2 wild animals in the park..lol
Fireworks at Magic Kingdom
The family with Mater & McQueen
Jason, Carter & Callie with Mr. Potato head
In front Mickey's house
Waiting on the boys to ride a coaster
The Castle at dusk
2 wild animals in the park..lol
Fireworks at Magic Kingdom
The family with Mater & McQueen
the biggest coke bottle
me & Princess waiting in line for
"toy story mania"
Jason, Carter & Callie with Mr. Potato head
The family with Buzz & Woody
Carter with June & Quincy from Little Einsteins
Jason & Owen in front of the "rock n roll
roller coaster" feat. Areosmith
Owen working the Black n White
Jason and Carter are T.R.O.U.B.L.E...
Owen & Carter with Lilo & Stitch
Waiting in line to do the Safari
Jason and Carter are T.R.O.U.B.L.E...
they put theire elbows on the table .
Shame, Shame , Shame
The boys wearing their dunce hats
The entrance to Animal Kingdom
The kids in front of the tree of life sign..
(Callie is sleeping in her stroller..LOL)
Owen & Carter poising with some random fish..
yes it was raining our last day
Owen & Carter with Lilo & Stitch
Waiting in line to do the Safari
the Africa grasslands
The tree of life
the coaster of Mt. Everst.. I screamed
like a little girl.. haahaha!
The family with Goofy & Pluto in Dinoland
I have more to post but it will have to wait until another day
Monday, February 15, 2010
more details
Owen got sick our 2nd day there(puking) poor dude. because of that we missed our breakfast at chef mickeys which is a character meal. I was very upset by this and tried to reschedule but nothing was available. he was feeling much better around 10ish(we did a lot of praying) and then we went to the majic Kingdom(jason favorite). We were able to ride plenty of rides(11, i think) and everyone had a great time. we walked into the park about the time a parade was going on and I got all misty eyed!! it was awesome! the castle was something else! we had an awesome spot for the fireworks, which were fantastic!
our 3rd day:: Callie was super clingy to jason..figured out she had a fever:: she wouldn't walk or ride in the stroller. We went to hollywood studios. We had fun there but it was super crowded.. more than majic kingdom. We did the toy story mania(waited in line for an hour).. met lightning & mater, buzz & woody! we rode a few big rides. the tower of terror was frightening to me.. the boys loved it! it took you up 13 stories and then dropped you.. OMG!! then brought you back up again to different levels and did the same thing... it also opened up a "window" so you could see across the whole park. i was terrified! when the ride was done carter says that was awesome, let's go again!! we also watched disney playhouse live on stage. callie n carter enjoyed that one.
our last day was spent at animal kingdom.. in the pouring down rain. we rode on the safari.. way cool: owen and i rode a coaster that was a blast.. takes you up then stops.. then you go backwards in the dark... scarey!! then the boys and I rode something called dinosaur. that was cool as well. for dinner we ate at the rainforest cafe.. good food! however I was disappointed that I wasn't told that it wasn't on our dining plan. that was the end of our WDW vacay! We had lots of fun even though it was a lot to take in!
our 3rd day:: Callie was super clingy to jason..figured out she had a fever:: she wouldn't walk or ride in the stroller. We went to hollywood studios. We had fun there but it was super crowded.. more than majic kingdom. We did the toy story mania(waited in line for an hour).. met lightning & mater, buzz & woody! we rode a few big rides. the tower of terror was frightening to me.. the boys loved it! it took you up 13 stories and then dropped you.. OMG!! then brought you back up again to different levels and did the same thing... it also opened up a "window" so you could see across the whole park. i was terrified! when the ride was done carter says that was awesome, let's go again!! we also watched disney playhouse live on stage. callie n carter enjoyed that one.
our last day was spent at animal kingdom.. in the pouring down rain. we rode on the safari.. way cool: owen and i rode a coaster that was a blast.. takes you up then stops.. then you go backwards in the dark... scarey!! then the boys and I rode something called dinosaur. that was cool as well. for dinner we ate at the rainforest cafe.. good food! however I was disappointed that I wasn't told that it wasn't on our dining plan. that was the end of our WDW vacay! We had lots of fun even though it was a lot to take in!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
1st leg of our travels to WDW!
Where o where do I begin?! We started our journey to Florida early Monday morning... we stopped about 2 or 3 hrs. so the kids could stretch their legs. We ended up stopping in Jacksonville, Fl. at a Microtel so we could rest and shower before our last 2 hr. stretch. We arrived around noon.. and OH MY! the place is huge! I really didn't understand by looking at on line maps how big Walt Disney World (WDW) was!! It was overwhelming!
Of course our 1st day we were welcomed by rain.. and it rained most of the day. We just chilled in the hotel room for a while. We had our 1st dinner with Mickey, Chip n Dale & Pluto! the food was good and the resturant rotated.. very cool! Callie was so happy to see Mickey mouse that when she hugged him she told him " I wub you Mickey!" so adorable!! We spent our time at Epcot. We thought we did quite a bit but then we looked at a map and realized that there was a whole back section that we didn't do..LOL! WE were gonna stay to watch the fireworks and laser show but the kids were melting down and we just headed back to our room.
Of course our 1st day we were welcomed by rain.. and it rained most of the day. We just chilled in the hotel room for a while. We had our 1st dinner with Mickey, Chip n Dale & Pluto! the food was good and the resturant rotated.. very cool! Callie was so happy to see Mickey mouse that when she hugged him she told him " I wub you Mickey!" so adorable!! We spent our time at Epcot. We thought we did quite a bit but then we looked at a map and realized that there was a whole back section that we didn't do..LOL! WE were gonna stay to watch the fireworks and laser show but the kids were melting down and we just headed back to our room.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
** Snow... and lots of it ** Blizzard of twenty ten **
It started snowing yesterday around 5ish... it is still snowing as I type and it's 9:15 a.m! I hear the snowblower working overtime out there with Jason behind it.
So far we have gotten around 14-16" with lots of wind so that gives plenty of snow drifts. Before Jason went out to snowblow, I sent him out with my camera.. Here is what he came back in with..
the carport..
the drifts on the shed
The garage side of the house...
the front of the house
I'll have him take more after he is all done so you can see how deep it was in places
♥ Callie update ♥
I called the Doctors on Thursday.. . the Lyme test came back negative!
He still doesn't know what caused the swelling but the antibiotics seemed to have taken care of whatever it was.
Callie is back to her normal rambunctious self
Thanks for all the prayers that everyone lifted up in her name!
He still doesn't know what caused the swelling but the antibiotics seemed to have taken care of whatever it was.
Callie is back to her normal rambunctious self
Thanks for all the prayers that everyone lifted up in her name!
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