The Last 24 Hours

Wow has it been a busy and exhausting 24 hours! It started last night at 11:15 with Samuel waking up screaming. Daryl stayed with Samuel (he wanted his Daddy!) until 3am when Samuel finally fell asleep and stayed asleep. I was up a lot with Aliyah giving her a couple of breathing treatments because she was pretty wheezy. We thought Samuel would sleep in from being up during the night but he was up at 7:30! It didn't take him long before he was saying "owie!" At first he wouldn't tell me what hurt but eventually I got out of him that his ears hurt. I was pretty relieved to hear this because at least it meant that maybe something could be done for him! Poor boy . . . no wonder why he was up so much during the night. Aliyah woke up wheezy, snotty, and with her nasty cough still hanging . . . . it's been almost 3 weeks since she first started coughing. I called the Doctor and got them both in for an appointment at 11:20. It took me from 9:00 (when I called the dr) to 10:55 (when I left) to get my kids fed, dressed, bags packed, myself ready, etc. I dropped Hope off at my Mom's house and kept going to the doctor with Samuel and Aliyah. Samuel did so well for the doctor (Michelle Jepsen). We had never seen her before but I was very impressed. He stood up on the scale by himself (42lbs!) and then sat on a little chair while Michelle looked in his ears and listened to his heart. Sure enough - right ear infected and lots of fluid behind the left. Aliyah was the same - right ear infection! I was so relieved!! They have both been sick for weeks and I'm ready to be done with it! Thankfully she put Samuel on Omnicef (he gets horrible diarrhea with Amox). This is Aliyah's first time on antibiotics so she did put her on Amoxicillin. We'll see how that goes! I might be ditching the cloth and buying her some Pampers! Samuel picked out a motorcycle sticker (he also picked out a motorcycle sticker for Aliyah) and we were on our way. I didn't even need to use the fruit snacks and the sucker that I had tucked into the diaper bag. He was such a big boy!

When we got to my Mom's house they were playing outside with Hope. She was super happy to see the van pull up. My Mom said that Hope was a little lost without anyone else around. The kids played outside for a few minutes and then we headed inside for lunch. We were busy feeding the kids when my Mom's cell phone rang. It was a Sheriff telling my Mom that my Dad was riding his bike downtown and he had been hit by a car. We all started freaking out (just a little - ha!) until the Sheriff passed my dad the phone. To know he was okay enough to talk was definitely reassuring! My Mom (and Daryl too since he was just leaving our house to head for work - he was home working on hooking our new freezer up) headed downtown to where he was hit (right in front of the courthouse). The long and the short of it is: Dad doesn't think that he actually hit the car. The car was pulling into a parking spot and cut him off; he hit his brakes, then the pavement. When the sheriff called, she made it sound like the car knocked him over. His helmet, upper lip, and 3 front teeth took the biggest hit. My Mom was in ER with him for about 4 hours. He's on blood thinners so they did a precautionary CT (which I was thankful for!) and then stitched up his lip where his teeth went right through. He's going to be bruised and sore for awhile but we are thankful that it wasn't anything worse. That helmet definitely saved him. A good lesson for all of us - Be an alert driver and always wear a helmet when riding your bike!

Samuel was a little scared of Grandpa when he got back from ER but he was also very concerned and made sure that we prayed for him before we ate supper. He kept asking "Are you going to be okay, Grandpa?" So sweet! Hope was pretty much terrified of Grandpa and would cry whenever he came near her. Poor Grandpa! At least Aliyah didn't mind - she would still play peek-a-boo with him!!

While my parents were at the ER, Aunt Anna watched Samuel, Hope and Aliyah napped, and I went grocery shopping and to pick up the kids' prescriptions. Even though I knew my Dad was okay, I still was shaken up and not really in the right frame of mind to grocery shop. I got a few things that I really didn't need and forgot a couple of things as well. So it goes, I guess!!

What a busy and emotionally/mentally exhausting day! Praying for a better day tomorrow!

**Edited to add: The Bronson ER actually missed that my Dad had a fractured jaw. It was found at the oral surgeon the next day. Now his jaw is wired to some of his stable teeth and he can't bite anything with his front teeth for 6 weeks!