Wednesday

I just sat, staring at my computer for 5 minutes trying to think of a title. Trying to think of which of the 3 things on my mind I was going to blog about so that my blog wouldn't be sooo long. I know I do tend to ramble. I should just blog everyday so it doesn't all build up. sigh. Here I go.

So, last week Kallyn was put on an antibiotic AGAIN for a sinus infection that just won't go away. She went to the Dr on Monday by herself (she IS 18) and he gave her a scrip, which she did not fill, even though our pharmacy is in the same bldg. She woke up Tuesday with her tonsils so swollen they were almost touching. Jake got her scrip filled Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday & Thursday she had a fever and was just miserable, she had white sores & scabs on her tonsils. I looked it up and sounded like tonsilitis, she had antibiotics, so I didn't even call the Dr. Friday she woke up with an itchy rash all over her body. She took Benadryl, which seem to help. She woke up from a nap at the same time I got home from work and it was even worse. Her face was really red and when I looked it up, it really looked like Fifth's disease to me. (if you don't know, it is a childhood disease like Chicken Pox, Mumps, Measles - it's the 5th one and & they couldn't come up with a better name). Satureday I called the Dr's office as soon as it opened and left a message for the nurse. The Dr is open from 9-12 on Saturdays. We waited & waited. They have called me at 1 before. It got to be 1, then 2. damn. sigh. 3:30 they call. The nurse is sure it is an allergic reaction to the antibiotic... even though she's taken it before and been taking it for 3 days. She said that you can take it one dose and have a reaction the next dose. I have never heard of that. So she is on another one and rash is gone. The rash didn't just itch, it made her RND BURN. It was HORRIBLE. 2 1/2 days of pain & horrible itching.

MONDAY: I went to the Neurologist. I am scheduled to have an MRI on Aug 2. I joked that I had a CT Scan to find my brain and they didn't so now I need an MRI to look harder. They don't expect to find anything but just to make sure I have not had TIA's. (why does Blogspot not let me copy & paste info here?) TIA's are mini strokes. He believe's the "episodes" I had in May & June were a form of Migraine but he wan'ts to make sure they weren't TIA's. He gave me a lot of paperwork to read. Some supplements he wants me to take, keep a headache journal AND HE DIDN'T SAY TO STOP CAFFEINE! Yay! He doubled the preventative migraine med (Topomax) I take since it hasn't been working so much anymore. Nothing to help this horrible headache I have had for 2 wks now.

TUESDAY 3:15 AM: Kallyn woke us up because her heart was pounding out of her chest. I could almost hear it going "clunk clunk". She said she was just laying in bed watching TV and everything went black for a second and she got dizzy and then her heart started beating fast. We called 911. For all the medical crap we have gone through in the last 4 years, this is the 1st time we have called 911. The Fire & EMS guys came and hooked her up to a machine and they watched her heart rate go up and off the machine. It was over 200. They called the Medic Unit, they said they would give her a shot of something that would "convert" her heart back to normal rythym. But then her heartrate start coming back down. By the time the Medic Unit got there (he got lost) - it was normal. They said that was unusual. The guy walked in and said "I am great", he was overweight but CUTE - beautiful eyes. (Hey, my daughter was having a problem - but if I am going to have FIREMAN IN MY HOUSE - I AM GOING TO BE CHECKING THEM OUT!!). The Medic said that he wanted her to go to the hospital and he wanted the EMS guys to take her, in case it happened again. I got to sit in the ambulance across from the really cute Fireman and stare at him all the way to the hospital. As soon as we got there Kallyn said "It's not fair! I finally have Fireman working on me and I was in too much pain to even notice them. One was cute, but I didn't really care." Karli slept through the whole thing. 5 men making noise in our living room at 3:30 in the morning, a dog barking like crazy and she never woke up.

She had the "episode" 3 more times at Children's but each time was a little less intense. They took blood & urine, a chest x-ray and an ekg. They said everything looked GREAT. I asked if they knew what was going on. They said their job wasn't to figure out what was going on, it was just to make sure nothing serious was going on - that she didn't have a heartattack or stroke, and wasn't going to and that she was safe to leave the hospital and go see her Dr in a day or two. GREAT. 5 hours later I got to call Jake to come get us.

WHY DOES THIS SHIT HAVE TO KEEP HAPPENING TO HER????? Has she not gone through enough?? She had to miss work last month when she go into the car accident. She left work (closed down the store for an hour) when she went to work with tonsilitis and couldn't handle it. She isn't sure she still has a job because her boss won't respond to her. Her boss is a TWIT. She found out accidently last night, as did another girl she works with that. there is a MANDATORY all store meeting tonight. The other girl called the boss to ask if there was a meeting and the boss said "Oh, didn't I tell you two?" WTF?? She is the District Manager. She just wants to be a normal kid. Life won't let her.

Ok, one more short story and I'm done rambling.

I come home last night from work. As I walk up the stairs my aunt calls to see how Kallyn is doing. Instead of going inside, I sit on the front porch to talk. I often do that. There is usually a cat on the porch. I can sit on the porch and pet a cat and destress before going inside. Put off going inside.... I am sitting there and all of a sudden people are running down the street towards the house across the street, screaming the name of the younget kid. He is 2. The mom is on the phone while yelling his name, the end of the street lady is yelling his name and a bunch of kids are yelling. A next door neighbor comes out to join the search. One yells to go check at a neighbors on the street over. I just shake my head. I tell my aunt that a kid across the street appears to be missing and everyone is searching for him so I better go inside so I don't look like such a horrible person just sitting there.

Then I explain to her that the lady across the street is such a twit. She shouldn't have been allowed to have had that child. They have a gated yard and yet he runs into the street all the time. No one watches him. Her oldest is autistic and about 10 y/o. Then she has twins - a boy & girl about 6-7. The boy is slightly autistic and then they have the 2 y/o. The oldest boy loves to climb on things like their car, or um.. roof and try to fly. Jake has jumped their cars many many times because everyone gets out of the cars and goes into the house and no one shuts their doors. Then their battery is dead when they want to go somewhere. The lady at the end of the street is a sweetheart but she seems sort of um... airheaded too. She has a lot of kids, not sure how many. She has a son around 3-4 that was running around with just a shirt. Just. a. shirt. And she kept losing him. Twit mom found her son IN HER VAN. She opened the van and there he was, in his car seat. She grabbed him and fell to the ground, holding him. HOW IN THE HELL DID HE GET IN THERE??? He could not have opened the door and closed it by himself. I wonder if she left him in there. And you know what? After she was done holding him for a minute, SHE PUT HIM BACK IN THE CAR SEAT AND WALKED AWAY! She must have called 911 because a police officer showed up. By then her oldest son was missing and they were all calling for him. Turns out he was HIDING in the garage. Then I see neighbors coming from all over the place. Everyong single person on our street that was home was out looking for him. Except me and Kallyn. We were just standing there shaking our heads. Kallyn said the van is the 1st place she would have looked. I figured he was someplace in the house or garage. Am I cruel to not joined the search? I just KNEW he was not far and I KNEW he was safe. (no one has a pool or pond) If it was our other neighbor with kids, I would have been out there in a heartbeat. But this lady.... Kallyn has said several times that she wants to call CPS. I try to put myself in her place. She must be tired, it must be hard to care for all of them, ones with special needs. BUT THEN WHY WOULD SHE HAVE HAD A 4th?? I try to not judge others because you never know their "story" but sometimes it is hard.