Hopefully this will be the last installment in this series. We went to the dr today and we got the results back from his foot culture. He just has a normal infection and not a super scary one and his foot is no longer red and puffy, soooo we can stop with the oral hive-producing meds and just put some Neosporin on it. Now, that said, if his foot gets red and puffy again we have to try the oral meds again. We also need to keep giving him Benadryl to keep his hives in check until all the medicine is out of his system.
Archive for February 2008
The Rest of Her Life is one of those books that ends so beautifully and wraps things up so nicely. Some books leave you wanting for more. Some books end and make you wonder if the author just ran out of ideas. Again, this is not one of those books. It is well written from beginning to end and is a beautiful story of a family’s love and strength while enduring a horrible tragedy. The Center of Everything (by the same author) is also very good.
Liam’s teacher has been having me work with small groups of students concentrating on fine motor skills, exercising the muscles in their fingers, which will hopefully help them with their writing and pencil grip. We have done some stringing of beads, practicing their site words in sand, picking up beans with a spoon, etc. This week I taught them how to play marbles. They had SO MUCH fun. What I was in awe of while I was watching them play and laugh and have fun with this very simple game was that these kids don’t know what it is like to live without a laptop, Playstation, and DVD player and yet they were having a blast with marbles. Now, I am not delusional. I know that if given the choice, they probably wouldn’t choose marbles over their Playstation, but it was still fun watching them have so much non-electric fun.
Let me start at the beginning. This all started yesterday as we were walking out the door to go to church. Liam could not get his socks on because his foot hurt so bad. He had what we thought was a blister on his foot on Tuesday which his teacher put a band-aid on. I assumed it was a blister because his shoe had broken and it was rubbing on his foot. So, the “blister” is now infected and I took Liam to the dr and Sean took Colm to Sunday School. The dr we saw said it could be a blister or maybe a recluse spider bite. Most of the signs point to a blister though since he has not had a fever and there was no blood in his urine. She gives us a scrip for an antibiotic and sends us on our way with instructions to follow up with our regular dr on Wednesday. This morning Liam wakes up with hives ALL OVER his torso and back. Liam seems to think it is a bug bite. Apparently he is allergic to the antibiotics they gave us, just like Sean is. So, we head back to the drs, but this time we go to the walk-in at our regular drs office, but don’t see our regular dr. This dr is worried that Liam’s “blister” could be a staph infection and now we have to watch him like a hawk. She gave us some different antibiotics, but it doesn’t work on staph infections. The one he is obviously allergic to, however, does work on staph infections. So now we have to wait until Wednesday for the culture they took of his foot to come back to see what kind of infection it is. I really hope it isn’t staph because if it is I don’t know what we are supposed to do since he is allergic to the drugs that treat it. I have had quite a morning.
This is two hours after his first dose of Benadryl. You should have seen it before!
I am getting tired of blank walls and I am also getting tired of not having anywhere to display the boys’ masterpieces. So, today I went to Hobby Lobby and bought these frames (they don’t have any glass in them) that happened to be 50% off. I had the guy in the framing department put the sawtooth hanging things on the back so they can be hung either horizontally or vertically so I can change our little gallery as needed. These little pieces of art can be found in our playroom.
Colm LOVES to vacuum the stairs with the mini-vac and he does a GREAT job-SERIOUSLY!
This is how Liam feels about cleaning. To be fair he had spent the better part of the morning cleaning his room (which was a PIT) and he just couldn’t peel himself off the floor.
Liam had his family birthday party last Sunday. It was fun and another excuse to eat cake. 🙂
He got a lot of knights stuff and of course, Star Wars.
The first time all of the cousins were under the same roof. Tatum, Finnegan, Jessika, Luke Liam, Colm
Sean putting the castle together.
I hate dusting. I told Sean before we got married how much I hate to dust. I will clean toilets, I will do dishes, I will do laundry, but I really don’t like dusting. When was the last time you dusted and/or how often do you dust? Be honest, people.