The last week in January.....

You know that everybody has "those kinds of weeks" every once and a while. Well, this last week in January has been one of "those weeks" around here! All in all, it could have been much worse, but there was just a lot of stuff going on this week and then you throw in a couple of unexpected occurences and what you get is what is detailed below!

* Sunday, Emily wakes up with a fever. The kids and I stay home from church on Sunday. We decide it is best for Emily not to go to school on Monday and thankfully, my mom came over to keep Emily for me that day.

* Monday night I had to speak at the school board meeting. Not bad at all, just a little nervewracking! It all went well and I was happy when it was finished.
* Tuesday, Emily went to school and seemed to be feeling better. No problems at all!
* Wednesday, Emily wakes up in the middle of the night with a fever, again! I have a meeting on Wednesday morning that I am in charge of....Ryan stays with Emily until I can get back home and then I take her to the doctor. She was complaining of her ears hurting, so I assumed she had an ear infection. I took her to the doctor Wednesday afternoon and they tell me she has a little fluid in her ear,but it is not infected. No antibiotics, just a bad cold. (Insert lots of sarcasm here......not infected, yet....but fluid means it will be infected and I will have to take another day off work and come back to the dr. and pay more money so they can write me a perscription later in the week.)
* Emily seems to be feeling okay and Alex and Ryan are getting excited because they have plans to go to West Virginia on Thursday afternoon with some good friends! We spend a lot of Wednesday night, getting their stuff packed up and ready to go.
* Thursday, Emily goes back to school and had a great day! My day on Thursday was busy, but good. And then came 1:30......I am holding open the library door for a class to leave and I see Alex coming down the hall with his kindergarten asst. He looked upset and I thought he had gotten sick in the classroom....not quite. She tells me to come look at his head.....he ran into some playground equipment and had a gash in the side of his head. We very quickly walked him down to the nurse's office, where she took one look at his head and said, you need to take him somewhere to have that fixed. Remember....... Alex and Ryan are leaving at 4:30 to go to West Virigina for Alex's first ever SKI TRIP. SKI TRIP and HEAD INJURY don't go well together! I look at my watch and realize I have 3 hours to get his head fixed, most importantly, and then make a decision on this ski trip.

* I call Ryan, and he meets us at Urgent Care to have Alex's head fixed. We left an hour later with 4 staples in his head and a warning that a ski trip is not such a good idea.
* After much talk and deliberation and phone calls to various friends in the medical field, Ryan and I decide that he and Alex should go ahead and go on their trip, with Alex knowing he may not get to do everything as previously planned. Ryan promised to keep me informed and promised to watch Alex closely for signs of a concussion or any other problems related to the bang on the head.

* You would think that would be enough for one week, right. Well, my day/night only got more interesting. Remember Emily and that fluid in her ears....I finally got home after getting the boys off on their trip and finally had begun to settle down from the adrenaline that pumped through my body for about 3-4 hours earlier in the day. Emily was fed, bathed and in bed sleeping and I was vegging on the couch watching TV, and I hear a strange noise from Emily's room. It is 10:30PM at this point, I go upstairs and see my sweet baby rolling in her bed, in pain, grabbing her ear. EAR INFECTION!!!! surprise, surprise (sarcasm again!) She was miserable and I knew I could not keep her comfortable all night long, so at 11:00 PM, I loaded Emily into the car and took her to Urgent Care (a different one than I had been to earlier in the day with Alex) where we waited about an hour until we saw the doctor and they told us both ears were infected and then wrote us a perscription for an antibiotic. At 12:30 AM, I was in the drive-thru lane at the 24 hour CVS and by 1:00 I was home and had Emily sufficiently medicined up and in bed. By then, I was wide awake again, and finally went to bed around 2:15. Then I woke up at 5:15 to get ready for Friday at school. Luckily Emily never had any fever and with a dose of antibiotics in her she was as good as new. We went to school on Friday and ended the week of craziness with a snow and ice storm.

I am very thankful that we do not have these kinds of weeks very often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!