Happy Veterans day....

This is Ella today sleeping in the living room today. I was relaxing in the recliner watching the memorial on tv for Ft. Hood and the girls were relaxing. How dogs sleep like this I will never know. It can't be that comfortable... but then why do dogs eat some of the things they do....

Ashley has bounced back great and the antibiotics are working without any side effects so far... crossing my fingers!!

Tomorrow is Veterans day and hubby took off so we can go see some of the Veteran's Day festivities around DC. I am proud of him and all of those who are serving and have served! It can be a big hardship sometimes being active duty and the selfless sacrifice so many give is truly remarkable! Let's don't forget the spouses too....

I am off to take one of the kids to karate... if you see a veteran or active duty military member tomorrow thank them!

Saturday and football...

It is Gator time here in our house.. .well ok upstairs is Gator time and Jim hides in his man cave downstairs and down there it is Alabama time... but we don't go there! Since I am from Florida I was raised a Gator.. hubby was raised in Alabama so that is where his loyalties lie... fall and football season in our home is pretty interesting! Last year Florida beat Bama in the SEC championship and I have had bragging rights for a year... tonight after Bama's win against LSU we are headed to another showdown... You don't want to be in our home Dec. 5... it will be ugly lol...

Well Ashley was so sick Thursday night and into Friday. I took her into the dr and she sent us to the ER for IV fluids. After lab work it showed she was moderately dehydrated and she had strep again. We are so MAD and lost... she had strep 10 times last school year and we had her tonsils out in June hoping to stop it... well she had strep 3 weeks ago and then again now.

Before tonsils she barely had symptoms with strep... now she gets severely ill. She had the headache, teeth chattering chills, fever, vomiting and sore throat. She vomited so much this time she could not even keep a sip of water down. I just want to scream especially seeing her so lethargic and getting IV fluids.


I want to know why! She is on a strong antibiotic for 14 days and if she gets it one more time we are looking at long term antibiotics. I just pray this is it for her. This last time was so scary.

I am off here to enjoy my game and relax! Tomorrow morning I am working in Infusion Center for a few hours!

Where does the time go....

Where has the time gone?? I looked at my blog and couldn't believe it had been almost a week since I have blogged! This has been another busy week and I am looking forward to life slowing down at some point. I learned this week I am highly allergic to latex and had to get my first ever epi injection. Boy did that make my whole thigh hurt for 2 days. Now I will definitely have to carry my epi pen with me at work. Tuesday I took Ashley to the Miley Cyrus concert. Let's just say this will be the last one we go to. Her heavy metal rocker brother opened and was very inappropriate. She wore very little clothes and did not sing more than a handful of songs the kids new. Above is the entrance into Chinatown in DC. It is right behind the Verizon center where the concert was.


We made a quick detour on the way to the concert to take a few pictures. Here is Ashley and her friend with the Capital Building behind them.





Here they are at the concert with their concert shirts on. They are definitely showing some attitude!
Here is one of Miley. This was one of the decent outfits!


This was pretty neat. She rode this Harley into the audience while singing "I Love rock and roll". While all the mom's loved the song the kids were kind of clueless!

This was the ride home. They crashed shortly after getting on the metro. Miley said she was not feeling well and you could hear it in her voice sometimes. We joked that we were probably at the swine flu convention and used tons of hand sanitizer. Well what do you know... Ashley came down sick last night. It came on suddenly and she has flu symptoms and can not keep a sip of water down. We are off to the dr this morning! Well that is it from my corner....

Happy Halloween!!

Here is our neighborhood gang at the boys high school Thursday. Ashley is the 2nd from right. The high school puts on a great trick or treat party every year. The different clubs take a classroom, decorate it, make up a game of some sort and the kids go around to the classes play and get candy! There is always a great turnout!

This week has been so busy again this week. I had my yearly appointment, dentist appointment, subbed at the high school, worked at the hospital one day and had a foot dr appointment! All was good except the foot dr... after working all last weekend and Tuesday I ended up tearing some tendons in my arch due to my plantar fascitis ..sooooo... long story short I am in an orthopedic boot for 3-6 weeks and being the good nurse/patient I am I have decided to not share it with work so while I work this weekend I am putting on my tennies and working. I am off for 2 weeks after Sunday so I figure that will give me plenty of time to recoup!

Next week is more dr appointments and the BIG event... well as far as Ashley is concerned... the Miley Cyrus concert in DC. Think of me (pray for me) while we are rocking out to Party in the USA lol...

Last I leave you with some beautiful fall pictures I took Monday.

It has come....

Well after almost 5 months of not working the sickness has set in our town and our hospital is full of flu patients and guess what that means.... they remembered my name!! They wanted me to come in today but I couldn't so instead I will be working all weekend and on Tuesday after Ash gets on the bus. I suppose to be on our med/surg floor and the Infusion Center BUT I have this sneaking suspicion they will stick me in the flu clinic like she mentioned!! I surely hope not.

I have ironed my uniforms and can't wait to get elbow deep in hip replacements, iv's and confused patients!! I have missed working! In addition to working I have 3 dr appointments and I am subbing in the high school not to mention Halloween parties, Brownies, karate and baton practice and fall festivals....in other words I am going to be so busy I won't know if I am coming or going!!! I told myself today I am going to carry my camera with me so I can get some pictures of the fall leaves to share... and of course Ash dressed in her Halloween costume!




I already have thick pork ribs in the crock in the fridge already to get started early in the morning! The good part is I will be home before my football game starts so all will be good tomorrow!

Sick, sick and sick!!

What a weekend!! Friday night Ashley started to complain of not feeling good, headache, stomach ache, fever, cough and sore throat. Her little friend, who lives next door, had come home early from school that day with the same symptoms so no surprise. Saturday found out that little girl has flu, possible H1N1, so I take Ashley into urgent care and find out she probably has the flu (even though her test was negative) and strep throat!! I about fell out of the chair.. I wanted to holler "Hello we had the tonsils out because of that and we weren't suppose to get it anymore"!!!


Sunday Matt and I started getting a fever and feeling horrible. Ok here it goes... my bad mom for the year award... Ashley did not have a fever Sunday so I thought it was just strep and the antibiotics were working so I sent her to school with instructions NOT to go to the clinic for her coughing (she loves the clinic).. she gets off the bus with a 101 temp crying... and when I ask her why she didn't go to the clinic... because you told me not to mom!!! I felt like dirt... ok I still feel like dirt! I told her not to go for her coughing but I never meant she couldn't go for headache and feeling totally miserable!! She stayed home with me yesterday and no more fever so I sent her back today but with instructions to GO to the clinic if she feels bad! Been down that road and did not want to go back!! I have since heard that this flu/virus/bug gives you a false day where you feel great and then it comes back.. wish I had known that!
Today I am staying home and trying to get rid of this fever! There are TONS of kids out of school with this right now and I hope the worse has past for our house!! In the mean time we are having our Indian summer so to speak.. after last weeks temps in the 40's we are now in the 70's!! So the agenda today is to try and finish up laundry and enjoy some of the sunshine and warm weather. Those two together should make me feel better!! I hope the sickenss passes over your house!

Homecoming...

Last night was homecoming at the high school. Here is Matt all dressed up and ready to go! He didn't officially have a date but a bunch of friends met at Applebee's and had dinner then went to the dance together. He says he had a great time! The worse part of it all was having to go out at midnight to pick him up in the very cold rain!


Here is Ashley doing her steps for her yellow tip! We have only been working on this for weeks and she always get nervous and messes up but not the other night! We finally got that darn yellow tip!

Had to add a picture of my girls. That is Ella with her little pink Wubba.. for some reason she loves those things and carries them around like a baby. The weather has sure turned cold in our corner. For the past few days we have had cold, gray and rainy weather and I got to break out the sweats. The one good thing about cold weather is snuggling in sweats in your favorite recliner and watching college football!

Ashley's school has had TONS of kids out with flu like symptoms. Ashley only had 8 out of 18 kids in her class Friday. Our neighbor went home sick that day and Ashley started to get sick that night. She had all the classic flu like symptoms and after our neighbor tested positive for the flu I took Ashley into urgent care. She was negative for flu but positive for strep. For once I was so glad she got the flu mist a few weeks ago but I am chapped that she has strep. She had it 10 times last year and we had the tonsils taken out in June. We were so hopeful those days were far behind us but I guess not. As we were waiting to be seen another little girl from Ashley's class came in with the same symptoms.

Ashley is feeling a little better today but she is still all stuffed up and coughing. Seems like everyone is getting sick all around us and it is only October. My kickboxing instructor (whom I was with Tuesday and Wednesday) tested positive for H1N1 Friday and there have been lots in the schools. Makes you want to stay home and use lots of hand sanitizer!

Well that is it from my corner.