Will the sickness ever go away? January 27, 2009

We have had sickness running through our house since Thanksgiving.  First it was Megan puking and fever around Thanksgiving time.  The day after Thanksgiving I developed a terrible sore throat that I wouldn’t realize it was Strep throat until a bit later.  December 5th Ryan came down with a terrible sore throat and fever and quickly realized he had Strep throat.  So on Saturday December 6th he went into Urgent care as soon as we got home from Chicago and he was rightfully diagnosed.  That is when I knew *I* had it and had given it to him.  So I went to Urgent care where I was rightfully diagnosed.  I hadn’t had it ever in my life and had no clue what it was.  I just know I was miserable for too long.  So we were both on antibiotics.   Then December 18th came (the day before my vacation) – Kylie came home puking all night long, fever and sore throat.  We quickly took her in and YEP, you guessed it.  She has Strep throat.  sigh.   December 19th Megan woke up with what I thought might be pink eye and took her to the doctor to find out it was a bacterial infection instead.  December 23rd rolled around and I got terribly sick – stomach cramps, etc.  It was just like what I had a couple of years ago with my stomach.  Ryan took me in and they gave me another antibiotic.  sigh.  January 7th came and Megan started having worse diarrhea than she’s ever had.  The next evening she was puking everywhere.  This was all during our grieving of the loss of my grandma.  The very early morning of January 8th Kylie puked.  Oh joy!  We are having fun now.    Then January 18th rolls around and Kylie wakes up with a terribly sore throat and fever and yep, once again STREP throat.  ARGGGHHHHHH!!!!  Thank goodness I had Monday off.   Now that brings me to today, January 27.  Megan woke up at 1:30 this morning with a fever and had complained last night of a sore throat.  Ryan has her at the doctor this afternoon to see if it’s strep.  Thank goodness my mother kept her today or I might just be out of a job at this point.  Between my vacation December 19 – January 4, funeral January 7 and 8, then being off several times for sickness I’d say I’ve barely worked in the past two months.  sigh.

While all this is going on I’ve had 3 UTI’s and dealing with some other female issue.  So I’ve been at the doctors quite a bit and just feeling terrible in general.  Megan also was diagnosed with allergies to sesame seed, cotton seed, chocolate, and yellow dye so we’ve been dealing with that and more doctors appointments.

WHAT IS IT WITH THIS WINTER????????????????  I’m sick of it as it is, just the cold and bitter temperatures and blah skies, but we have been sicker than we’ve ever been.  I just can’t stand it anymore and sanity?  Well that’s gone now.

Website change January 26, 2009

I, being NOT organized for the past several years, forgot to pay the domain provider for our website so we lost our domain name.  BOO!  So our domain name has changed.  If you visit our site for pictures, etc please click on the Nation family website link in the lower  left hand corner of the blog.  Thanks!

Snow!!! January 26, 2009

It snowed yesterday!!!  We woke up to snow on the ground and  had no real clue we were expecting some.  Especially since we haven’t seen much snow all winter long.  Ryan and I had went out with friends the night before and the girls spent the night with my parents.  We picked them up around 11 am and went to lunch.  Then we came home, got all bundled up and played in the snow.  It was so much fun.  We couldn’t make a snowman, though, because the snow was not packable.

We are supposed to get more snow today and tomorrow.  So maybe we’ll be able to make a snowman soon.

The 4 week elimination January 26, 2009

This morning was a bit hectic as I had to pack snacks for Megan to take to school.  As well as a dinner for her before gymnastics tonight.  Today starts the 4 week elimination for her.  We tried all weekend to put it in her mind that she will not be able to eat a lot of the foods she loves (which is mainly her entire diet, lol) because of her allergies.  It obviously didn’t set in because this morning she asked for chocolate milk at breakfast.  sigh.

We will see how the next 30 days go.  It will be interesting for sure.   Wish us luck!

Allergies and Strep Throat January 19, 2009

Megan had her allergist appointment today.  The skin test was not a pleasant one for any of us, I will tell you that.  Megan screamed when they did it and kept saying it burned.  Poor baby.  The allergy test came back positive for sesame seed, cotton seed, chocolate (poor baby!), and yellow dye.  These things are in everything and will prove to be a challenge for us and Megan.  I feel for her.  She won’t be able to have cupcakes at school birthday parties, nothing.  She’s just so young to really understand this.  We’ve talked to her a bit today about it but I know it’s not really sinking in yet.  The 4 week elimination of these foods will start Monday, January 26 when we’ve coordinated ourselves, the school, and the daycare provider.

Kylie was diagnosed with strep throat AGAIN yesterday (18th).  We had spent the weekend with our friends down south and Sunday morning Kylie woke up with a very sore throat.  When we got home, Ryan took her to Urgent Care and the test came back positive for strep.  ARGHHHH!!!  Can’t we get rid of sickness in this house??!!!

Pictures January 14, 2009

I forgot to say earlier in my LONG post, lol, that I haven’t updated the website with pictures from the holidays.  As soon as I can I will, so look out for them.

Oh and a congrats to my cousin Kenton and his wife.  They had another baby girl earlier this week.  Her name is Grayson Michelle.  That’s three girls for them!  Kenton…….I think you are destined to have girls.  Love you all!

Happy New Year…..a little late! January 14, 2009

Hi everyone.  I know, I dropped off the face of the earth, lol.  Where do I start?

I was to start my vacation with the girls on December 19.  That was their last day of school before break started and it was to last until they go back to school on January 5.  WELL…..Kylie came home from school on December 18 puking.  I took her to the Urgent Care and she had strep throat.  What was the odds after Ryan and I had it earlier in the month.  sigh.  So that was a great start to our vacation.  I obviously kept her home on the 19th, which meant she was going to miss her class party.  The morning of the 19th Megan woke up with her left eye swollen and pink.  Of course I thought I was in the twilight zone at this point and decided to keep her home that day too and get her to see Dr. L to make sure it wasn’t pink eye.  She missed her party, too.  Megan ended up just having a bacterial infection in her eye.  Come to find out there were over a 100 kids sick each day that Thursday and Friday.  sigh.

Fast forward to December 22 when the Langa’s came to stay with us for the holiday.  Everything was going well, enjoying everyone’s company and on December 23 I started to feel very sick.  I felt sick like I did over a year ago with my stomach problems.  sigh.  The weather was very icy and bad that day so we couldn’t do any of the things we had planned doing with our company.  The Langa’s ended up watching our girls so Ryan could take me to see Dr. L.  He thought I had some intestinal virus from all the antibiotics I had been on.  Of course the nurse just laughed when she saw us come in because we’ve seen them so much this past month or so, it really isn’t even funny.  sigh.

Christmas eve was nice.  Our dinner turned out great and I was feeling a bit better.  It was a wonderful evening with family EXCEPT for poor Kirsten who was puking almost the entire time.  The Langa’s spent an extra night with Kirsten sick and left Christmas morning.

Christmas day was very nice.  Oh it was so wondeful seeing the girls open their presents.  I got the most wonderful gifts from my WONDERFUL husband.  He suprised me well.  I loved watching him open all his gifts as well.  It was just a wonderful day for us all.  Afterwards we went over to my parents for Christmas lunch.  It was nice there as well.

Fast forward to December 28 when we got the call that Grandma Yancy went into the hospital.  She had been battling breast/lung cancer for over a year and had fallen ill to pneumonia.  The antibiotics weren’t working and she was getting weaker so Grandpa took her in.  I went up to the hospital alone that night and little did I know that would be the last night anyone saw her coherent.  I feel terrible the girls didn’t get to say and hear “I love yous”, but I am greatful that I got to say and hear I love you from my grandma.  (more on this below).

December 31 was New Year’s eve and we all went over to the Benanti’s for dinner and then to the Ervin’s for festivities.  The girls were awesome at the Ervin’s and we all got to ring in the new year there with family and friends.  The girls had a blast.  I had fun talking with everyone, being with my husband and girls and playing matches of Life Saber (star wars?).  Ha ha.  It was a great start to the new year.

The next few days after that was spent up at the hospital with Grandma who was continually getting worse and basically in a morphine coma.  It was getting unreal to believe she might not make it.  Ryan’s mom took the girls off and on that weekend to spend time with the girls and let Ryan and I rest a bit.

Sunday, January 4 – Grandma passed away at 3:20 p.m.  I got a call from dad around 4 pm that mom said Grandma was not doing well.  The girls were with Karen and so Ryan and I immediately rushed up to the hospital.  We hadn’t been there earlier that day and little did I know I’d regret that the rest of my life.  When we got to her hospital room I saw all the tubes were gone from Grandma’s body and Grandpa was trying to use the phone.  I knew then she was gone.  That day was a blur and I was definitely numb with disbelief.  We called family and consoled each other and then everyone left the hospital.  We went to pick up the girls and try to explain to them that their Grandma Great was gone.  That was so hard and still at that time I didn’t believe it.

Wednesday, January 7 was the visitation.  I was still numb and in such disbelief.  On Thursday, January 8 we layed her to rest.  It hit me that day but I still felt numb with disbelief.  On Friday, January 9 I woke up and realized it was real, but I felt more peaceful because I knew she wasn’t in pain anymore.  We will miss her so very much.   We love you Grandma.

The night of January 7 Megan started having severe diarrhea.  The afternoon of January 8 she was puking several times.  At 3 am January 8, Kylie puked.  I started to wonder if this was all real.  We had been through so much sickness, death, missing of work, etc I just couldn’t believe we were going through this again.  We have never had so much sickness ever.  It was unreal.  So I stayed home from work on Friday and the girls stayed home from school.  We were supposed to go see the Horvath’s for the weekend but had to postpone that as well.

That brings us to today.  Megan still struggles with weight, diarrhea, complaining of her tummy hurting etc and so we went to see Dr. L again.  I’m too tired and exhausted to explain her “issues” once more but we do go see an allergist on Monday to hopefully get some answers.  They took blood, urine, and an abdominal x-ray today.  On top of that I’m still having my stomach issues and after seeing the doc too many times in the past few months they did urine, blood, and ordered ultrasounds for me on Friday.  We need a prayer at this point!  sigh.

Ok, I’ve posted enough today, lol.  I’ll try to keep things updated a bit more, hopefully.

BTW, our website address was canceled because I forgot to pay the bill so we lost our domain name.  Our new domain name is www.seethenations.net (so it went from .com to .net).

((HUGS)) to everyone.