freaking sick kids!

This week, for the most part, has sucked.

For starters, Dan's BF from his childhood and one of our best men in our wedding, Quenton, FINALLY got married. He married, Janet, who is although quiet, is super nice and is a good girl. She gets our approval. It was tons of fun, we got to see people we never see, like Que's family, who are cool as hell, and Brian, the other best man at our wedding. Dan was asked to be a groomsman, which is was thrilled and honored to do. The wedding was gorgeous!

We left our kids in the care of my gma, aunt carol, and mom. During the reception, we got a frantic call from my grandma telling me we needed to leave pronto. Caden was not breathing well and had a fever of 103.8 that wouldn't come down. As I had mentioned previously, all the kids have been sick since Sep. 29th and I am soo over it! When we left earlier in the day, Caden was fine... still not feeling 100%, but definitely better than before. So we left barely saying goodbye or giving well wishes to anyone, and drove the 45 miles back to Marion to check on Caden. It's hard to know for sure just how sick he is, because some people have made him out to be on his death bed when he really wasn't. So after talking to my aunt Carol, who seems to be the most level headed about Caden's medical crap, and got her take on the situation, I decided he must really be sick. We ended up not taking him to the E.R. right away. His doc said it was best to let him rest and take him the next day.

He has a pulsox machine at home that measures his oxygen level in the blood. When he's healthy, while sleeping he will sat from 92-98%. That night, he was dropping to 82%. I finally made Dan take him to the local E.R. at 4 am. I followed around 5 am when mom got here to watch the other kids. Caden had pnuemonia on the right side, it was decided that he needed to be transferred to the children's hospital. We only send him to Cincinnati Chilren's since that is where all of his docs are, so the ambulance was on its way to make the 2 1/2 hour trek. We got the news the ambulance was called off. They timed out (they can only work so many hours at a time), so we were then going to be med flighted to Cinci. I am freaked out about flying so I was going to make Dan go with him.... until the canceled the flight due to weather. Another ambulance was on its way. Long story, short- 2 hours later the ambulance gets there and 3 hours after that we are finally in cinci. Caden received steroids and antibiotics and was immediately better. He needed to stay overnight to just be monitored. He was swabbed for the h1n1, and was treated with Tamiflu just as a precaution. We only stayed overnight and we came home yesterday.

Last night, our county was holding a h1n1 vaccine for children and pregnant women. I made the almost last-minute decision to take all 3 kids and get this taken care of. We got in line at 6:30 and finally received the vaccines at 8:50. Logan couldn't get his, they ran out of baby needles. So I get to make another trip with him (yay.) Thanks to Christi, who helped me with all of the kids. If she wasn't there I would have went crazy. There were so many crazy, crying kids there. I don't know how elementary school teachers do it! I wanted to pull my hair out and scoop my ear drums out with a spoon.

This is going to be a long winter.

oh- happy 4th birthday, Mazlyn!!