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haha so I'm booked for surgery on March 4th (oh yippee!) not only did I severe the nerve BUT I nicked the tendon but because the doctor at emerg didn't even think of this possibility it was not splinted and I was not told to keep it still. So with my moving it the surgeon said I made the little "nick" into either a complete severe or close enough to it, because of my need to constantly be lifting Nicky he gave me two choices #1 Leave it alone, deal with the loss of feeling and limited mobility/loss of function or #2 have surgery to fix it, be in a brace for 6-8wks and deal with physio until the strength is built back up and not be able to use my hand (lift Nicky or Matthew with that hand) for MONTHS! So I picked surgery, at the very worst if the healing or surgery doesn't go as planned, because surgery is not 100% guarantied to work, I will have the same result as doing nothing so might as while give surgery a shot at least right? My IL's are taking time off work to help me out with the boys during and after surgery since Mike is going to be away on a major EX up north....way way up north lol talk about great timing eh? but with their help I will have the first few weeks of healing covered and hopeful obtain the BEST results from surgery.

Matthew is terribly ill right now, which makes everything so much worse, we have no clue what is wrong with him. He started off Monday with a fever, Tuesday with fever, vomiting/diarrhea, and a nasty rash and very itchy around the mouth, Wednesday Mike booked an appointment with the nurse at the doctors office and we took him in, of course I get there and he has no fever so she though he was turning the corner, she did send away a swab for Strep since she couldn't get a good look at his throat but nothing looked out of the ordinary. Thursday it all went down hill fast, he woke up with a temp ranging between 102.5-103.5 and by the afternoon it was 104 and nothing was bringing it down and he was not wanting to eat or drink and looked really really bad. We ended up taking him to the ER to get checked out and they did not like it either, the did a cath to get urine and blood work, his urine came up with glucose and blood so it scared the crap out of us since Joey is diabetic. Thankfully his blood came back with normal glucose levels BUT it also came back completely normal for everything else too, so they sent it and the urine off to be cultured. They ended up sending us home since we got the fever to break and finally got a wet diaper out of him but were told to go back Saturday if he still had a fever and the results from the cultures would be back so they would know if anything was up there. While Friday morning he seemed to be perking up, he was finally moving about and ate a cookie, not the healthiest thing in the world but at least it was something, his fever was also controllable and lower. While fast forward to 9:30pm, fever is climbing and not dropping with tylenol or advil, and he looks like crap again and is hardly drinking....so we are definitely heading back to the ER in the morning! I have dealt with a ton of sickness before, horrible infections with Nicky, and believe me he looks worse then Nicky ever has, I have NEVER had an illness scare me so much he looks REALLY REALLY BAD! Please say a little pray for him and hope they figure out what it is and that he gets better very fast, he has never been this sick before and it's just breaking our hearts to see him like this. Please also pray that he doesn't end up with whooping cough, he has ended up with the flu really bad all four times he was suppose to get the last shot for it so he's not fully vaccinated and while we were at the ER a lady had all three of her kids in to be checked out, her youngest kept coming over and getting in Matthews face and when the doctor finally came out to see her again she confirmed that they all had whooping cough!!!! They said it would be a "slim chance" he would get it but because he's already sick that slim chance is a bit higher. Whooping cough is the last thing we need in this house!!! Because her kids had their shots up to date (or so she says) the resident didn't put them in the lock down room thinking they most likely had pneumonia so about 15 families were exposed to it while waiting to be seen or discharged. NOT FUN!

On the upside Nicky is doing great, he has never been better, he has learned to climb onto things so he's been perfecting climbing on anything he thinks can be climbed onto lol His school is very happy with him and he has not been sick for the longest stretch yet...so lets hope he doesn't get whatever Matthew has!

While I will let you know how our trip to the ER turns out tomorrow when we get back, that is if they don't admit him, Mike has all next week off lol his B-Day gift to himself so at least someone will be here to get the other two ready for school and watch them until Matthew is feeling better.

-Liz

February 7th

While Mike is in the field this weekend and we have all been bored out of our minds lol No car and since the stroller is still broken (THANKS MIKE!!) we haven't been running around too much, we did go to the mall Friday night and that was horrible! Every time I turned around the wheel was coming off, not to mention all of the boys were in a mood lol basically grabbed milk and tried to run home asap. By the looks of things though my appointment with plastics is not going to be a pleasant one on Monday, my finger is even worse, painful pins and needles and parts of it are still completely numb. There has been no real improvement except for the swelling going down a bit and getting feeling back below the cut (lost feeling there from the swelling not the cut). Everyone is laughing but agreeing that surgery is most likely in my future, the laughing they may try to stifle but come on people....I cut my finger I didn't lose my hearing!!! lmao I know you are laughing at me, heck I'm still laughing at me! All I can say about now is this year is going to be ummm....interesting???!? Just wish I could use it, it's a PITA, it's been doing nothing but getting in my way I'll grab at something and bend it backwards, sure the finger itself doesn't hurt but I can still feel it trying to rip away from my hand and THAT hurts lol It's either that or like when I am typing, I *think* I'm hitting the keys with it because my mind for a second forgets it's not working and I'll look up and every letter my mind thought I hit with it are missing so I have to go back and fix everything. I wont even get into getting the kids dressed, carrying the babies around, or trying to put bottle bags in the bottles HAHAHA lets just say I've been having a ton of fun the past few days....thank goodness Joey is old enough to help out or I would be screwed! Never realized how hard coat zippers are to do up when you can't grab the coat properly. Okay I'm done my *poor me* post lol guess I'll just have to stop whining and learn to deal with it, I sure am the smartest person alive....next time I will at least make sure I do a better job at trying to take my finger off haha

-Liz

Nicky's big milestone

Nicky has been asking since getting home tonight to USE THE POTTY!!!!! First time he sat on it he sat there for 10mins and didn't manage to go but while I was getting dinner ready he said he "had to go" but since I was dumping a pot of hot water I wasn't in a position to run and put him on. Mike finally went over after I called for him, about 2 minutes later, and put him on he actually HELD IT until he put him on the potty and for the first time he went pee-pee on the potty! He is so proud of himself and is really into wanting to use it, I am so happy, I thought for sure he wouldn't be ready for at least another few months to a year since he's had no interest and quite a fear of the potty. His school is doing an awesome job without even knowing it lol he sees all the other big kids using the potty and he wants to be just like them =) Now Nicky has even got Matthew thinking it's cool lol as soon as he seen us making a big deal about Nicky going he started trying to strip his diaper off and wanted to sit on it too lol Looks like we might have an easy time potty training Matthew if he keeps wanting to do exactly like his brother! So far because of wanting to do what they do he uses a spoon/baby fork to eat and drinks from a cup....a CUP....not a sipping cup a big peoples cup! If he's thirsty now and someone has their cup down he'll go over and grab it and take a drink, he's still pretty messy but he will take a cup over the bottle any day. Matthew is progressing so fast because of his brothers and it's amazing to watch him try to grow up faster then we would like lmao He's not going to be our little baby much longer if he keeps this up!

hahaha and of course on the down side I put a knife through my finger today and have to see a plastic surgeon, I've either nicked the nerve or severed it, the doctor at the ER said if it's nicked I will have feeling back in it by the time I see the plastic surgeon next week, if not I will have to have surgery to repair it. BOOO! But OMG I have NEVER seen a finger bleed so bad in my life, it looks like someone was murdered in our place there is blood EVERYWHERE! I felt so ill by the time I got it to stop, every time my blood pulsed through my finger it went shooting two inches high in the air. I lost about as much as I would have if I would have donated blood.....what a waste! But with my hemoglobin extremely low the blood lose has hit me hard, I have the chills and feel faint, the exact same symptoms I had last time I donated blood. This week has really been a horrible one for us, between me knifing myself and our car endlessly breaking down and getting into accidents (City of Toronto snow plow took our mirror off and a guy cut Mike off today and landed him in a snow bank for 45mins lol). I can't wait until some good luck starts rolling our way, if it doesn't soon this is going to be another really really long year!

-Liz