Have you ever been there? I guess this is a form of worry, but ever since our last Hospital visit with Jackson, I have not been sleeping well. It’s almost like I dread the evenings coming because most of our bad experiences have happened in the late evening/early morning. I find myself watching his every move, feeling to see if he is breathing ok, or checking to see if he has a fever. It typically starts about the time he is wanting to go to sleep. It almost seems as if I sleep with one eye open. If I do by chance wake up, I always check on him. I am hoping that this is a short lived phase that doesn’t linger so I can get some good sleep with confidence that he is ok.
Tag: Family
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It’s Official . . . our house is on the Market!
We just met with the Realtor today to put our house on the market. We are selling so we can move closer to a Children’s Hospital since Jackson likes to visit the Hospital so often. Our last experience was enough for us to say that’s enough. Knowing that this is a temporary situation, meaning that Jackson should grow out of his seizures, we are looking to move closer to the church and the new Children’s Hospital less than 5 minutes away. At first we were skeptical, now we are starting to get excited about the new adventure and believe God is at work in this. My wife shared a great post about this here!
Apartment life will be much different than what we expected. Our first thought was that the apartments would be small, crowded, and if we were lucky, they may have a pool. We have been home owners for almost 8 years. So we are use to larger rooms and privacy, plus our neighborhood has a two nice parks and a pool. Needless to say our expectations were low. However, we were wrong. The place we are looking at has pretty much everything we want minus 2 bed rooms, a second living area, and a partial bathroom. But we gain the use of an indoor basketball court, racquetball court, theater room, workout facility with a children’s play room, heated pool and hot tub, gas grills throughout the facility, and a business meeting room.
It will be different, but we believe that by moving closer, we will be able to provide the care that Jackson needs. If it means giving up a house to have a healthy child, I’ll take the healthy child any day! Please join with us as we pray for our house to sell and begin to transition to this new adventure!
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Another Long Night
Josiah decided to spend the night throwing up almost like clock work every 20 minutes from 11:30-3ish. Jackson did the same thing Monday Night and seems to be fine. I hope it over for Josiah that fast also! On another note, I am feeling sick now and hoping that its not my turn next!
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Invasion
My office has been invaded by my youngest son Jackson. Right now it looks more like a daycare than and office. Jackson spends from 12:30-2:00pm with me Mon-Thurs until Josiah gets out of school. Here is what he is doing right now!
I am not used to the quiet!
Join the conversation – Have you ever had to take your kids to work?
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It’s Finished . . .
The boxes from Ikea are empty and the stuff is put together!!! It only took me until 4:00am to get it all done.
No I haven’t lost my mind. Jackson was throwing up last night (6 times in less than an hour) thanks to Long John Silvers and we were watching his fever to make sure he was ok. Therefore, today I am paying for it!
Here are the pics.
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The New Setup
Well, since we have been home we have been busy taking care of Jackson. We are watching his temporture closely. Josiah and I were busy moving his crib down to our room. We decided to make the switch to a more permanent set up until we get a better control on his health. Jackson has been sleeping in a pack-n-play in our room since April when we took him to the hospital via ambulance.
We joked about selling our house and just getting a one room apartment. In all honesty, that may not be a bad idea given the situation with Jackson. Maybe we could find one down by the new Children’s Medical Center Legacy in Plano.
Josiah has been a big help! Today he helped me put together the crib. He is such a good big brother!
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We got Croup!
Well it’s official, Josiah has gone 4 years without getting it and now he has it! Cant wait to see how he handles the steroid. Now the challenge is to keep him away from his brother Jackson so he doesn’t get it. Of coarse its the weekend so could be an exciting one, in a negative way, if Jackson get a fever! We are praying it doesn’t happen but are preparing ourselves to deal with it if it does. We are praying if Jackson does stat to get it we catch it early enough that it wont bring about a seizure.
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Got a Sick One!
Josiah woke up yesterday (Thursday) with a cough. Though it sounded bad, like I did when I was a kid, he acted fine and was his normal self. Last night however, he sounded horrible! You could hear the congestion now when he talked. After a stint in the bathroom with the shower on, we got him to take some medicine and go back to sleep. He slept fine but mom and dad didn’t. He says he feels fine, but he doesn’t sound fine and today and he woke up with a fever. We have a doctors appointment today at 3:15. Until then, here is what he will be doing!
I hate it when anyone in the family is sick, especially if its either of the boys. I feel so helpless!
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Crazy Good
This week has been crazy busy, but as I write this I can’t help but think how good the week was. Here is a brief shakedown of my week:
Monday – All day leadership training at Grace click here to read more!
Tuesday – Student Staff Meeting, Interview and audition/practice with perspective Student Worship Candidate.
Wednesday – Jackson had a doctor appointment in the AM, this always make for an exciting PM and it did. At about 6:00 pm as we were getting ready to leave for a ball game with students, Jackson starts crying and throwing his head back as if he is in pain. He would calm down for a little while, like a minute, and then start again. Each time he would wear himself out causing him to have to try to catch his breath because he was crying so hard. After about thirty minutes I got him to calm down by talking loudly to him saying, “Daddy’s here, you are going to be ok, Jackson Daddy’s here, you are going to be ok!” It amazes me how a comforting voice can can change how others feel. He started to calm down after that. However, it was really scary.
From this, we went to the ball park. It may sound bad but our thought was if we were going to have to take him to the hospital, the ball park is closer to the hospital than our house is.
The Rough Riders Stadium is nice. For 15.00 dollars, we saw a game, ate all you could eat hot dogs, burgers, chicken sandwiches, and BBQ pork, chips, and drink, AND got a Rough Riders hat. Pretty sweet deal. the home team won, the weather was perfect, and everyone had a good time!
Thursday – Plowed through small group curriculum for the year for each age group. Made training books for Small Group Leader/Coaches and our B2S Retreat curriculum and held band practice with potential Student Worship Coordinator.
Friday – NOTHING – Blogging and then hanging out with the family! Well my wife just asked if we could go shopping for the Cafe’, so . . . I guess its not nothing!
Here are some pic of our Fusion Family Night at the Rough Riders Game!
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