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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