7 Yr Checkup

So, that time of year again where the boy goes to the Dr. He now weighs 45lbs, and 3'10. He has 20/20 vision. Besides being on the light side he is healthy (YAY). He also got his CBC drawn, not too happy when they stuck the needle in but he did great in my opinion, he didn't even cry.

OUCH

When I was homeschooling Andrew on Wednesday I was bending over to reach something and the chair that I was sitting on slipped from under me landing me on the floor right onto my baby finger. I knew right away I messed it up. So off to the clinic we went, x-ray showed that I had 2 dislocated joints and a fracture. My Dr wouldn't touch it, so off to the ER we went. When we arrived they took me in right away. Looked at my x-ray, came in and told me that they were going to have to freeze my hand and relocate the bones, and I have 2 small fractures. For some reason I was VERY calm throughout the whole ordeal even when she came in the room with the 6 - 8 in syringe and NO I'm not kidding, wish i would have taken a picture of that. By the way i am having a really hard time typing this, i have to stop and take a break frequently. Ok where was i? Oh ya, so she froze my hand and then she pulled at my finger, yuck. She took another xray and it still wasn't in its proper place so she had to do it again. That one did the trick, so they splinted it up and sent me home. Now I have to wait until next Wed to see how its healing. Wish me luck.

Stuff

Appointment #2 at the dentist office was today and it went great! Yay, well i won't say that it may be because he only got his teeth cleaned. Nope.

Home schooling is going wonderful. Andrew is learning to read phonically and is doing super amazing. I will sound out words and get him to write how he thinks it's spelled. He's usually right on. Math, he's learning to add still, but now with bigger numbers. Subtract. Greater and lesser. The ones the tenths place. He can count by 10's and 5's. And patterns. He's learning about how to use a map (Geography). Some science. And LOTS of art. I want to get him into swimming lessons and some sort of self defense class but i haven't figured out which one to go with yet. As for music i hope to get him into some local choir soon.

Health wise he's good. Still a fussy eater but were working on that still, sigh.

Don has had a very sore leg for about 2 months now. He went in to see the Dr about it. He ordered an Xray and ultrasound. He had the xray about 2 weeks ago, and the U/S last Fri. The tech girl said that she seen a cyst under both knee caps but the one that is really sore could quite possibly be sore because it looks like it may have erupted. We won't know anything more until our Dr gets back from his mini leave in the beginning of Aug. (his wife had a baby)...

Me.. Well, not so great. But not bad, i hope. I have been having this horrible on and off again pain in my left side for some time now. Dr did blood work and some of the stuff came back not that great. My white blood cell are low and some other crap but i forget. He told me to get it re-checked in 2 mths, if it was still low he would send me to a specialist. I got it re-checked and it was lower then before and i have become anemic. So he has set me up to see a Oncologist/hematologist on Oct 6th at our local hospital. I just hope it's not cancer.

Well that's about it.

Happy Sad

I'm happy that Andrew is all over his Hand, Foot and Mouth disease.

I'm sad that he may still be contagious so i won't be able to visit with my sister Lynn and family that are visiting here from Florida because he might still be contagious... BUMMER. I miss them so much. Last year when they came i had a head cold and was so miserable so i had to go home after only visiting her for 2 days. :(

This Upsets Me

Seriously, you would think in the year 2010 people would have the basics of good hygiene mastered. There should be NO way a child should have to suffer from this stupid virus if they are taught to wash their hands EACH AND EVERY TIME after they have gone to the washroom. This is the responsibility of the parent/caretaker. And pretty gross to think that the bacteria that causes Coxsackie A virus, POOP. Some kid poops, doesn't wash their hands after wards, touches things, my child touches the same thing infected child touched and boom, he's now sick. If said child had parents or caregivers that INSISTED the child to wash up then my child would NOT be sick right now. SIMPLE...

I live in part of the world where we really only get 2 good month of nice weather. We enjoy being out in it everyday because we know it's short lived. Now my poor son has to stay in for a whole week. Nice eh? My sister is arriving here in 2 days with her family from Florida and i might not be able to see them. I'm mad.

PEOPLE, WASH YOUR HANDS AND MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS DO AS WELL.

Little Man is Sick

Andrew started telling me yesterday that his tongue hurts. I didn't think much of it. Last night he wouldn't eat his dinner. He said his throat hurt. Then he started getting hot. I checked his temp and it was 102.5. Gave him some tylonal, repeat, till i was able to get him into the Dr's. As we were in the waiting room i noticed that he was starting to break out in hives all over his feet. Dr checked him over and told me he has strep throat. :( ... Gave him a VERY expensive script and told us to bring him back if he isn't getting better. Poor little guy is so sick. This is the first time he's ever been put on antibiotics. I hope it treats him kindly.

I love you Andrew. Get better fast.. <3

Andrew's First X-Ray

For the past 2 months or so Andrew has been complaining that he has a sore leg. The pain has awoken him in his sleep quite a few times. I give him tylonal and that seems to help. He also gets a sore leg (always the right leg) hours after he's been jumping off of things. I thinks it's just growing pains but thought i should ask the Dr what he thinks. So today he had an appointment and i discussed it with him and he seemed concerned that it is waking him up throughout the night so he had him get an x-ray of it and a complete blood count workup. Let's hope it's nothing serious.

Yearly Checkup

Andrew had his yrly checkup today. He also got a vaccination and didn't cry, cringe or budge. After it was over he said it didn't hurt one bit. What a brave little dude. He weighs 42 Ibs, up 10 Ibs from last year. And is 47 inches tall, up 5 inches from last yr. So all and all things are going good. I mentioned his eating habits and how he won't eat any sort of veggy and few fruits. He said as long as he's taking a vitamin daily everything is good.

Andrew's Sick and Other Little Updates

Yup, my poor little guy has been fevered all day. Not eating. And very clingy. I will take him in to one of the emergency walk in flu clinic tomorrow to see if he's got H1N1. I'm pretty sure i have been fighting with it all week, it started Tuesday morning, all day Wed, most of Thursday, today i have actually been feeling much better. And thank goodness because i don't know how i would have been able to hold him all day if i were sick like i was.

Here are some pictures from last Sunday. Because of me being so sick i couldn't get to it till today. And other random pictures from the week :)Yup, my poor little guy has been fevered all day. Not eating. And very clingy. I will take him in to one of the emergency walk in flu clinic tomorrow to see if he's got H1N1. I'm pretty sure i have been fighting with it all week, it started Tuesday morning, all day Wed, most of Thursday, today i have actually been feeling much better. And thank goodness because i don't know how i would have been able to hold him all day if i were sick like i was.

Royal Canadian Agricultural Show




How are these for size?





Now you must admit this is cute. They didn't even know eachother.

Fever

Andrew has been breaking out with a fever for 2 night in a roll now, it's got me stumped, night time fevers, but during the day he seems fine. No coughing, runny nose, sore throat. Where is Dr House when you need him?

Happy Thanksgiving NOT

We were supposed to go to Andrew's aunt's place for Thanksgiving dinner today but Don, Andrew and I have come down with a nasty virus. Sore throat, nausea, cough and general over all ickiness. So here we are stuck at home :(

On another note, Andrew is still wearing his clown outfit... He actually allowed me to wash it last night...

Speech Therapy

Andrew's been going to speech therapy for several months now. Last week he didn't want to go so i didn't make him. No sense in forcing someone to do something they don't want to do. I took him today and it didn't go well at all. I think he's lost interest and his studdering isn't improving. I feel so sad for him. I fear that many people will judge him because of it. I am heart broken today.

Speech Evaluation

Andrew had his speech evaluation last week. We were there for 2 hrs while the speech therapist had him do a few things while observing his speech. First she had him and i play with some animals and dinosaurs on the floor (about 10mins). Then she had him color pictures while her and i talked and while she wrote down the history of his stuttering. Now this part is hard to explain so I'm going to make a small diagram in hopes it makes it easier. I made it smaller then what she had. The diagram below is a graft representing the syllables in his speech, each box with the dash represents normal talking, the diagonal ones are when he stuttered, and then she tallied each line and gave a percentage mark on how often he stuttered. She said that when we were playing together he stuttered 5%. Then she got him to make up a story from the pictures from a picture book. She said he stuttered about 8% then. She gave us some exercises to do at home, like talking to him slower in 5 min increments, something like Mr Rogers from Mr Rogers neighborhood. Let him be aware of bumpy talk and smooth talk. She wants to see him once a week for how long i don't know. She is unsure if he will have this for the rest of his life or if it will go away in time.

Sister and Doctor

Lisa came to visit us on Sunday for a couple of hours with her friend Gary. Lisa bought the cutest little short outfit with a matching hat for Andrew. It's so adorable. I love it when Lisa buys him clothes, she has the same taste as i do when it come to clothing him... (anytime time Lisa *wink wink*).... Andrew drew a picture of a robot and then wanted Lisa to make a real one from his blueprint. I guess it's time for me to teach him how to draw in 3D because that's what he got when we tried to make it. But he was happy with the outcome so that's all that really matters..... Hopefully now that Lisa is living closer to us she will be able to see us more frequently now.

Yesterday I took Andrew to the Doctors for his 5 yr checkup. She checked him over and asked him some questions. Physically she said that he really healthy. He weighs 38 lbs and is 41 inches tall. He's on the small side but according to his growth chart his growth trend is the same. She said that he appears to be very smart and articulate, i asked her how she was able to know this and she said by the questions she asked him. I questioned her about the stuttering and she said that he will likely grow out of it. I told her that i made an appointment with a speech therapist and she said that's a good idea but really doesn't think he's going to have a long term problem with it. So needless to say i was happy to hear that!

Talking of which, i received a call from the hospital (speech lab) last week and finally got an appointment for him to see someone, i have been waiting 6 mths for this appointment, i thought they had forgotten about us.... Good ole Canada for you. So his appointment is on June 5th.

Pic of him and Lisa



His 2D robot - lol


One showing the whole outfit.


These next pictures were taken after the Doctors appointment on our way home!

I like this photo. He seems so big and independent walking down the sidewalk with his backpack on.


My little pirate... He was quite upset when everyone thought he was cute and smiled at him, he expected them to be scared... Poor little guy...



And another one before we left for the Doctors, just because i like it :)


After the Doctors we went here!


And played with Ethan

CRAP

I guess with spring comes allergies, yuck. Andrew looks like he has a shiner from rubbing at his eye so much and i feel like i have a cold but i know it's not, as soon as i took allergy pills it went away. This sucks. On a good note, Don seems to be escaping it this year!

It's been busy

Well Sir Andrew got sick AGAIN! Just another common cold but sheesh this has got to stop. I'm almost afraid to go out with him anymore.
We've been really sticking around the home front, taking him out for walks, and splashing in puddles but staying clear from all kids. I have some pictures to post but i don't have the time to right now but i will later tonight or tomorrow. I just mainly wanted to let anyone that might read his blog every once in awhile that were still here.

Way too Long

Wow, i didn't realise it's been so long since i have wrote an entry.
I guess it's because there's not too much to write about.
hmmm let me think.
Since i last wrote: Andrew had yet again another virus, this one was a cold virus. He has a fever for 2 days, low grade, and really congested and coughed a lot. That lasted for a week. Don and I were able to escape that one :)

Last weekend we went to Kitchener for my nieces 25th birthday gathering, i have some pics i'll will post of that. So we spent Saturday night at my sister Tammy's place and Sunday night we went to my dads place, my nieces Jessica, Natyya and Melissa stayed with us there. Monday and Tues night we slept at my sister Judy's place. Wednesday she and her girls drove us home and stayed the night until Thursday. Christina came here on Saturday and spent the night. I guess we have been busy.

So here we are, Tues afternoon, Andrew and I did some home learning today. He knows how to write his numbers from 0 to 10, and is learning to do some addition and subtraction. He practices writing his name and did some coloring. After that we made some flowers to decorate the place a bit.

Jimmy Neutron and other Things

Andrew is on a Jimmy Neutron kick now, that's all he wants to watch. Could this be the end of a 2 yr long stretch from Scooby? Stay tuned - lol.
It's been really cold here lately so because of him getting sick and the weather we have been stuck in side for over 2 weeks now. I'm going to take him out for a wee walk today just to get some air.
Here are some recent pics since i'm clearing my memory card!

This was taken when he was sick :( ... Scooby nibbling at his ear ;)


Don's friend came here for 2 days last week, he's got gargantuan feet. Andrew and his together!


Andrew's growing a potato plant.


Little boy genius, here he is reading a Harvard Classic on Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. :P


Flower boy




That's it :)

Not So Happy Birthday for me :(

Well here we are, today is my birthday and Andrew's still getting sick. Not all of the time, just in the evenings. Every.single.evening since Tuesday. Too make matters worse I am still feeling VERY weak still. Tonight I was able to eat a roll for the first time since Thursday night. I called telehealth (reg nurses) about Andrew, i didn't know if i should take him to Emergency or not, and they said as long as he's not showing any signs of dehydration not to even bother. I just wish i could take all this sickness away. Don seems to be getting better a lot faster then all of us. Lucky him. Sooo, if Andrew vomits again tonight i will be taking him to see a Dr tomorrow for sure. My poor baby, i feel so helpless.

Virus's

I HATE THEM... Poor Andrew is sick with yet another damn virus. We're guessing he must have caught it from the Science Center. He started vomiting Wed morning at 6am, about every 20 mins until about 11am. He woke up at 2pm, drank some water, played with his toys for a bit, watched Scooby, ate a bit of chicken noodle soup. All seemed to be ok. He fell asleep in my arms in the livingroom at about 10pm. Don lied him on the couch so that i could get up and do things. We were talking and Andrew woke up vomiting again. I cleaned him up, we went to bed, he had a low grade fever. He drank some water and vomited again. I gave him some liquid gravel and he slept until about 5am, woke up and wanted to nurse, after that i gave him some more gravel and he slept till 11am. Today there has been no vomiting thus far. He had some telly toast (peanut butter) when he woke up, wanted to eat later in the day, Don made him some chicken strips (andrew's request)but only had 2 bites. He didn't look so good at about 7pm, another low grade fever (see the pattern?), i gave him some gravel again, he fell asleep on my lap on the couch at 8pm. I really hope he doesn't get sick again tonight. If so i will take him to the ER, i hope it's not like the last time. Poor baby.... I hate this.