2011. A Year in Review

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great *and safe* New Year’s Eve.

I hope everyone is blessed with health and happiness in this new year!

The Return of the Rash

Well, the story of my kids life continues.  Bless his heart, the medicine has beat him down again.

In case you don’t remember his HORRIBLE allergic reaction to Amoxicillin, you are more than welcome to go here, here, and here to refresh your memory.

A week ago today, he woke up with a 104.2 temperature at mom’s.  Took him to the doc and had strep.  Seeing as how penicillin’s are out, we did Omnicef (which he’s had before).   Anywho, last nite we noticed some hives coming up on his chest.  I figured it was the meds, so I didn’t give it to him and instead gave him Benadryl.

I woke up to this.

I know you can’t tell in the picture, but his little wrist was horribly swollen.

So I called the doc as soon as they opened and told them what was going on and I took him in later on this morning.  We saw the NP and she says “well, it really could be from anything, even allergies”  until she lifted up his shirt and saw this…

“oh, yep, definitely an allergic reaction to his medicine.”

So go ahead and scratch that off the list of meds he can take! Poor kid.  And they are itching him like crazy.  He’s got them in his hair, his ears and on his eyelids (which he won’t let me take a picture of) and his wrists and ankles seem to be taking turns swelling.  I can’t keep shoes on him because he cries and tells me “no, it hurt.”

So we got a script for steriods and a new med and he also gets some more Benadryl.

I’m hoping he’s at least a little better tomorrow cause it’s mine and his Mother’s Day “Tea” at school.  Even though he’s perfectly fine and not contagious in the least bit, I remember with his penicillin rash, everyone we came in contact with treated him like an alien leper.

Can you see the welps?

These last few were from this afternoon, so we’ll see how they look this evening.

So, here I am, asking again for some prayers for the little guy to get to feeling better very soon.  He definitely could use them!

Surgery Day

Yesterday was Landry’s surgery day.  We had to be at the surgical center at 6:30, so it made for a very early morning for all of us except Ansley, who was lucky enough to get to sleep in while Grammy came to stay with her!

Once we finally got situated in our “cubicle” we got to watch Handy Manny and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (this was before the happy juice)

All his bands

After his happy juice kicked in, he got silly.  They thought he’d get sleepy (obviously they were wrong).  He refused to take his ‘Mo pj’s off to put his gown on, so they told me “when he gets sleepy and relaxed, then you can change him.” Yeah, never happened.

Making faces at daddy

We finally got him to take his top off- so daddy asked Landry if he could wear it, but we told him he was too big for it

Playing hide and seek

The anesthesiologist came in and talked to us and explained everything that would be happening and let Landry play with the mask they would be using.  He thought it was really cool!

He wasn’t allowed to walk after the happy juice, but daddy finally rescued him from the bed with me

Making daddy use the mask.  He’d hand it to us and want us to blow into it.

When they finally came and got him it was a little after 8 and the surgery’s only took about 40 minutes.  We met with the doctor while they moved Landry to recovery and then they put us in a room while we waited for him to come in with us from there.

When they finally brought him to us, an understatement would be to say that he was upset.  He literally turned into the Incredible Hulk.  I had no idea how strong he was.  He was furious.  He wanted the pulse/ox monitor off his toe and was even more angry that me, his daddy, and all the nurses were trying to keep it on there.  After it finally registered for a split second, the nurses all but ripped it off to get him to calm down.

It worked, but then he wanted his iv out NOW!  He yanked and pulled and finally got it pulled apart.  Luckily they had the iv catheter taped on very, very good, so it didn’t pull that out.  Finally got that all hooked backed up and he finally settled into my lap in a giant chair.

The nurse brought him a gatorade and a popsicle, so he immediately gulps down some gatorade.  Good, no?  No.  Not when he’s been screaming and hyperventilating for 15 minutes.  The gatorade lasted about 4 minutes before it all came back up. In my lap.  Awesome.  Got us both semi cleaned up.  Not too long after that, I make a comment that I don’t think we cleaned it up good when it registered with me.  Yep, his pull up was catty-whacked and he had peed all over me.  Awesome.  At this point me and big daddy were a little hysterical.  I guess when you or your wife is covered in urine and vomit all you can do is laugh, so we did.

We got to leave there around 10:15 ish and headed home.  Landry was much happier by this time.

See? 

His daddy even treated him to like 15 bottles of Bug Juice, so he wanted one on the way home.  Sure buddy- you just had surgery! Great idea.  No?  Nope.  About 6 blocks from home.  It all came up.  Everywhere.  Awesome.

Finally got everyone and everything cleaned up.  After that he was fine.  I guess he just had to get the anesthesia out of his system. 

Landry got a surprise when we got home!  He loved it!

Then him and daddy took a nap for several hours after we ate lunch (which thankfully stayed down!)

Keevan, Kaleb, and Zia came over with more presents!  He got lots of fun stuff.  A whole bucket full of snacks, books, tools, glasses and more!

Keevan modeling

This might be my new favorite pic.  Love it!

hahaha. 

Isn’t this funny?!

Harli was not impressed.

Overall, for having surgery, I think the little man has done exceptionally well!  Hopefully he never has to have anything done again, but I’m hoping in the long run this one will be well worth it!

Ahhh, Young Love!

Before we get to the cuteness of young love, I thought I'd updat ya on Landry!

I took this pic on Thursday and you can definetely tell how much better he is!  By Friday, his body was almost back to normal and now he just breaks out and turns red when he is hot or hyper. My sis-in-law Monica had got him in with the allergy doctor she works with so he put him on a 24 hour antihistimine on top of the other one he was already on.  So now he takes the 24 hour one in the morning and the other one at nighttime. Hallelujah! And he's almost back to his normal sleeping schedule - can I get an AMEN!

Friday afternoon, Emily brought Kaden and Ella over to play!  Kaden of course went to the basement to play the Wii, so the lovers played upstairs!  Landry tries to be so gentle with Ella and he especially loves to "pet" her (and kiss her!).

See how he just lays beside her while she plays?

Having a conversation about the safety of driving

Isn't she pretty? I just think she's a doll!

I promise he's kissing her hand and not biting her!

More kisses

I'm tellin' y'all, it's meant to be!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous start to their week!