Not that I'm counting down or anything... not all ....
I mentioned before about the Single Parent Summer and here we are again....
The season is well into swing and the first home game is tomorrow, which means the hubby goes back to his fab part time job tomorrow...and just as every year since he's done it, it's in the knick of time, too. Not that he doesn't LOVE being home with the kids, who doesn't?! Right?!?! Right!
I think that it's important for him to have "him" time, so I embrace the next less than five months. As long as it makes him happy.
Last season was not happy making due to employee changes WAY THE FUCK beyond his control... cause he's basically a glorified meat puppet...but a glorified meat puppet that gets to watch baseball all evening... So there's that...
I am already getting special requests of things to do from Thing 1... Fantastical... We are on a tight budget this year with our Seattle trip postponed to summer due to, well... we want to be there when there is a better chance of the sun being out. Wouldn't that be nice? We think so, too! When you have kids' schedules to work around, the possibilities for time off needs to be grabbed.. HARD!
I also just came to the realization that my foot hurts and it's not going away and then my tends-to-be-right and amazing Choni told me to change my shoes... well.... I didn't... no esta bueno... And I realized something else...
I haven't bought new shoes in 7 years... no wait... 7 and a half (don't forget the half!).
When Thing 1 was born it was stunning to me that I gained a shoe size! I had to shit-can SO many pairs of RAD shoes that I LOVED!!!!! And my Choni LOVED them, too... It was heart breaking to see all those shoes given away for donation since for some reason I don't tend to wear them out. All new shoes for my birthday and Christmas later and I still have them all....
I finally did it... I wore my 5 pairs of shoes so far down that my foot hurts. I mean "foot cancer" kind of worry hurts. Ma gave me a pair of her old trainers and by old I mean a pair of shoes she bought 5 years ago or so and NEVER EVER WORE...not once... maybe when she tried them on in the store before the purchase...but NEVER EVER EVER wore... I wore those yesterday and I felt like my feet were being massaged all day. The pain isn't GONE, but it's not as bad and I was able to go on my walk again today! Like I need another reason not to get exercise (rain, wind, cold) I haven't walked since my foot started hurting and what started it was a day where we walked ALL day. Since then, no bueno.... And I even wore a pair of shoes that I thought were the end all be all of my shoes. My foot hurt SO bad... and it's been off and on, but still a consistent pain... well, I think we got it now folks. New shoes! I bought a pair of Airwalks at PayLess...but I don't think that's what I need. I need REAL support... frikkin old lady I am now. I hate this. But hey, if I have to buy walking shoes for an orthopedic purpose, you bet your ass they're gonna rock!!! So I'm already putting my feelers out there for something ON SALE mind you. Good pair of trainers these days run in the high 10's ... not where my price range tends to settle. Plus I feel by going Clearance rack it requires me to go outside the box and get something more FUN :)
I have so many ideas of things that the childrens and I can do together while Daddy is working... I also have to feed them myself sans wrangler... hhhmmm.... that will be trickier than the tricks I've been doing, but I'm sure it won't take much time to get into the swing of things... Thing 1 is back to softball this year and I am excited for that. I know Daddy is too, especially since she promised she would be more into the practicing at home part. Last season, not so much... Of course, it wasn't required in her league, just encouraged. Now it will be more on the requirement side of the pie I'm sure. We'll see... I pretty much just like the Pancake Breakfast and the Opening Day Ceremony... It's so.....ceremonious :)
Showing posts with label This Time Last Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This Time Last Year. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
This Time Last Year...
Wow, you know what? I really should start a series called ,"This Time Last Year..." I did the birthday story for Marysu...and now I get to do the pneumonia story with HarleyQ...
More like March 5th of last year, but still...This time last year HQ was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. I can't believe she got it. It was just a little cough...cough syrup wasn't helping and my home remedies were getting kicked in the ass so to the dr. she went and she had bronchitis. Antibiotics and a plastic bubble later, she slowly recovered. Always having this phantom cough and sniffling ALL the time. If you don't like nails on a chalk board then I don't recommend listening to a 6 and a half year old sniffle for months... makes me shudder...truly.
Then there was the maternity leave which was awesome family time at it's greatest. Went by like a flash. On the EVE of my returning to work HQ's cough was coupling a fever that had gone on for 48 hours and was getting higher and less compromising by the hour...at 5:30pm I decided to take action and to the ER we go where we find out after 6 hours that it was walking pneumonia. Shots and antibiotics later she was a new HQ after 24 hours. She had weezing in her chest and I couldn't handle listening to that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. My poor Harleymunser was so sick... We took her to the dr for a follow up. I am not a fan of that dr.s office. And we don't go there anymore and we have been happy since we changed back to her old dr. Insurance. Sucks. Anyway, I started to feel a sinus infection coming on and I told MY dr. about her being sick so much and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be asthmatic like I was and my husband REALLY was... But he said it didn't sound like that to HIM...so GUESS what he said?
Just GUESS???
After all the problem and the sick and the holy shit... He told me to give her Benadryl... Just one dose of old school Benadryl, even generic CVS, Equate, UP and UP, whatever is fine... Just one dose before bed... see what happens...
AND DON'T THAT BEAT ALL?!?! IT FUCKIN WORKED!!!
Yep, it was THAT exciting. After one week, her cough was gone...
And, not to forget to mention. He was telling me that I should be doing the same thing!?!?!
Love. My. PA.
Not even a Dr. A PA... Love him... I tried it on my and I will tell you what... I have taken them ALL! Everything that ends in D... all of it. I have taken shit I can't even PRONOUNCE! I can feel the sinus infections come on and they come on like a bastard. The only time I haven't had any sinus flux is when I'm pregnant (so not a reason to do it again on purpose and not possible anymore anyways hehehe).
Harley was doing SO well in fact that I was down to honing in on the symptoms so early I would give her a Benadryl the night I would notice SOMETHING and then POW!!! Muhfucker's HISTORY!!
It's horrible when something is so simple and so wrong with your kids and when someone gives you a simple answer for what you feel is a simple question it's exciting! Especially when I used the same advice for me and I am able to knock out my symptoms now with a simple pink and white pill that I can get OTC for 4.99 a bottle for the generic shit,... Harley started to get a cough and I thought "Oh, that doens't sound allergy related"... silly me. Cough syrup didn't work for shit and when I gave her the Benadryl what the hell do you think happened? I got so used to her being ok over the past few months.. MONTHS!! that I forgot about the Benadryl...
Lesson learned: This Time Last Year I was learning how awesome old school Benadryl can really be !!!
Harley has surely escaped more horribly sicknesses due to her allergies NOT getting out of hand and I am so loving my Dr for it!!!
Which reminds me, I need to add Benadryl to my shopping list!
More like March 5th of last year, but still...This time last year HQ was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. I can't believe she got it. It was just a little cough...cough syrup wasn't helping and my home remedies were getting kicked in the ass so to the dr. she went and she had bronchitis. Antibiotics and a plastic bubble later, she slowly recovered. Always having this phantom cough and sniffling ALL the time. If you don't like nails on a chalk board then I don't recommend listening to a 6 and a half year old sniffle for months... makes me shudder...truly.
Then there was the maternity leave which was awesome family time at it's greatest. Went by like a flash. On the EVE of my returning to work HQ's cough was coupling a fever that had gone on for 48 hours and was getting higher and less compromising by the hour...at 5:30pm I decided to take action and to the ER we go where we find out after 6 hours that it was walking pneumonia. Shots and antibiotics later she was a new HQ after 24 hours. She had weezing in her chest and I couldn't handle listening to that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. My poor Harleymunser was so sick... We took her to the dr for a follow up. I am not a fan of that dr.s office. And we don't go there anymore and we have been happy since we changed back to her old dr. Insurance. Sucks. Anyway, I started to feel a sinus infection coming on and I told MY dr. about her being sick so much and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be asthmatic like I was and my husband REALLY was... But he said it didn't sound like that to HIM...so GUESS what he said?
Just GUESS???
After all the problem and the sick and the holy shit... He told me to give her Benadryl... Just one dose of old school Benadryl, even generic CVS, Equate, UP and UP, whatever is fine... Just one dose before bed... see what happens...
AND DON'T THAT BEAT ALL?!?! IT FUCKIN WORKED!!!
Yep, it was THAT exciting. After one week, her cough was gone...
And, not to forget to mention. He was telling me that I should be doing the same thing!?!?!
Love. My. PA.
Not even a Dr. A PA... Love him... I tried it on my and I will tell you what... I have taken them ALL! Everything that ends in D... all of it. I have taken shit I can't even PRONOUNCE! I can feel the sinus infections come on and they come on like a bastard. The only time I haven't had any sinus flux is when I'm pregnant (so not a reason to do it again on purpose and not possible anymore anyways hehehe).
Harley was doing SO well in fact that I was down to honing in on the symptoms so early I would give her a Benadryl the night I would notice SOMETHING and then POW!!! Muhfucker's HISTORY!!
It's horrible when something is so simple and so wrong with your kids and when someone gives you a simple answer for what you feel is a simple question it's exciting! Especially when I used the same advice for me and I am able to knock out my symptoms now with a simple pink and white pill that I can get OTC for 4.99 a bottle for the generic shit,... Harley started to get a cough and I thought "Oh, that doens't sound allergy related"... silly me. Cough syrup didn't work for shit and when I gave her the Benadryl what the hell do you think happened? I got so used to her being ok over the past few months.. MONTHS!! that I forgot about the Benadryl...
Lesson learned: This Time Last Year I was learning how awesome old school Benadryl can really be !!!
Harley has surely escaped more horribly sicknesses due to her allergies NOT getting out of hand and I am so loving my Dr for it!!!
Which reminds me, I need to add Benadryl to my shopping list!
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