Back to normal

Blaise is home now! Woo hoo! He has to get lots of rest and stay away from other kids and crowds for a little while so that he doesn't catch anything and has to take antibiotics for a week, but other than that things are getting back to normal! Roy and I aren't feeling so great, but I think that getting some decent rest will be enough for our bodies to heal themselves. We are definitely being careful about not sharing germs around here!

Rae is a little out of sorts....craving attention, not being very mature, not sure how to act. Hopefully she'll get back to normal soon.

Isaac knows we "abandoned" him several times and is holding a grudge. Unfortunately and fortunately, this experience forced him to start sleeping without nursing. It's unfortunate that it had to happen without mommy and daddy there to take time and comfort him when he needed it, but that's what happened, so it's nice to see the silver lining and it's nice that he is sleeping better now.

I think Blaise enjoyed being the "only child" for a couple of days and hanging out with us all day - coloring and watching tv. He liked eating in bed and getting attention from pretty nurses. When it was time to leave today he said he didn't want to go home. But he is also enjoying being home. He's just extremely tired and moody and still doesn't have much of an appetite.

You know when you take your kid to the doctor or the ER and you are sitting there in the waiting room looking at your kid that doesn't seem to be sick at the moment and part of you wants there to be something wrong with him just because you are there and feel dumb if nothing is wrong? And of course more of you wants him to be just fine so you can go home. Blaise kept falling asleep in the ER, so he looked totally peaceful and un-sick. Of course I'd prefer that we had been able to go home that night, but he really was sick, so it is good that I took him. I wish I had caught it earlier though. Bleh.

Things I learned:

*It might be hard to ask for help, but people like to help and you can't do everything alone, so just ask.

*Doctors really don't mind if you call on the weekends. They are "on call" - they expect to get calls and answer questions. And sometimes they can tell you a lot just by hearing the symptoms. Blaise's doctor predicted pneumonia. I mean, she didn't say he had it, she just said it could be that or several other possibilities. She said to try ibuprofen to see if his fever would go down (we had been using acetaminophen) but not to be worried about taking him to the ER and to at least bring him into the office immediately in the morning. Well, before I could even try ibuprofen, his fever hit 105 and I took him to the ER. I tend to try to avoid taking the kids to the doctor for every little fever or cough, but I'm going to be calling the doctor or advice nurse a lot more often now.

*It is okay to lose your patience with your kid even if they are hooked up to an IV. There is only so much coloring and tv that a 3 year old can stand and when they start to act like a bored 3 year old it is a sign that they are getting better.....which means you can get annoyed with them :)

*Hospital food is not nearly as tasty when you haven't just given birth and are starving. And the scrambled eggs are inedible no matter how much salt and pepper you put on them.

*I hope that the next time one of my kids is hospitalized the hospital has a better tv watching system. The remote had one button - you push it to turn it on, change channels going up and then it clicks off when you get to the end of the channels. Lame.

Ummm, I lost whatever train of thought I had. Man, I'm really tired. I'm like zoning out in front of the computer. It's not even 7 yet, but I'm going to bed!