Thanks to my Fibro/CFS... stupid head ... whatever, I have horrid sleeping schedule right now. So I have been only been getting a couple hours of sleep at a time, I'm talking 2 hours, 3 hours at a time. So last night I fell asleep around 2am, I think. I didn't wake up until noon.
DB came home from school, and I asked him.... I said, "Did you not try to wake me up this morning? Or did I just not wake up?" ... he goes, "You just didn't wake up." LOL...
Figures. It was my day of ..... if there was an Earthquake, a Tornado and a Hurricane, I'll sleep through it ...... Thank you!
:: sigh :: But good news is - I actually FELT like I got some sleep!! SCORE!
Alrighty .... and when I woke up, it's when this day turned bad.
Problem #1: The phone (our house phone, yes we still have one! We need something that we can count on - and not something that can die, go out, stop working, whatever.) ... anyway - the phone had no dial tone. But fixed it.
Problem #2: Shila ended up getting really mad, and then I got really mad ... so I did the dishes and re-washed all the bottles... then yelled at them about how the kitten keeps eating the nipples of the bottles and they really don't seem to care.
Problem #3: DB comes in - while I'm in my mad, washing stuff - with my headphones in and music blasting in my hears because that's how I calm down when I am mad (or I blog it) ...and I was just PISSED, so I snapped at him. Poor guy. And then he says "Hey, the nurse cornered me as soon as I got in the school and was all like "I was just going to call you," and he said "well my ears were ringing" and she said that Nathan has spots on his belly and that she feels it's chicken pox." I said "Doc said he thought they were bug bites way back when they started popping up." Because we've actually already TAKEN him in for these spots thinking maybe they were a break through Chicken Pox thing - but they weren't and aren't. He said "She didn't think they were bug bites, she thinks they are Chicken Pox."
Oye, SIGH... rolling my eyes.
It's funny because been there done that - but I know if we bring Nathan back to school - they are going to tell us to take him home until he has a DRs note saying he can return to school.
So - fine. I called and left a message for the nurse to call me back. The nurse I already called once today about Noah's labs. They were supposed to call me and tell me that everything got insurance approved and the labs were sent to the lab place to check his protein and blood and other stuff. His kidneys are getting sicker ... anyway ...... they NEVER called me to tell me, so I finally remembered to call today - and they were all acting like they've been there forever - yeah well - should have told me.
So I am looking at Nate's belly, decided to check his back and .... my heart sank. Like totally sank.
A month ago I was doing a monthly check of Nathan and I found a weird rash on his arm, so I took a pic of the rash, and I found this spot on his back that struck me as weird and odd and I didn't get a real good feeling about it, but it was just a flatter spot, with this little white spot in the middle, and I brushed it off as a pimple. But I took a couple pictures.
So when I saw it this afternoon, I about ... died. It's redder, it's extremely raised compared to last month ... I'm just freaked out. Yeah.
So the nurse called back and I told her that the school nurse thinks Nathan has the Chicken Pox, and she asked what they look like... I said they are reddish/pinkish spots - some are flat, some are raised - and she says "any blistered" I went "nope, no fever either," and she goes "Why does she think he has Chicken Pox then?" I said "I don't know," and told her about my theory about how they won't let him back in unless he has a note saying "you stupid" ... <--- gonna eat my words if it turns out to be aren't I?
Calahan had Chicken Pox when he was 3. I've been through it. He got 3 spots and I didn't know what they were, they kept rising up though - and so we ended up taking him into the ER and as we were doing this - the house down the street started on fire - I ran back into the house to call 911. When we got home from the ER - Cal and I went and sat on a curb and watched the Firemen. ANYWAY - Cal got these 3 spots (and those three were the only ones that scarred) ... and then he had a low grade fever, but never a high grade that you get to break out, he took THREE WEEKS to break out - and - yeah - it was a cluster F*** ...
So his DID start out looking the same way. However, he has a lot of these spots - they come and go. We have no clue what they are. They aren't bug bites, I'm pretty sure. We have cats, the cats don't sleep with him, they don't sleep on his bed.... I am highly allergic to flea bites - which, if you have animals, you always run the possibility of fleas... but I have a cat who sleeps with us, and I haven't gotten any flea bites. He doesn't have bed bugs. I don't know what else they could be. He had 2 or 3 spots two days ago, and now there is at least 10 on him. So I don't know... but I *STILL* don't think they are Chicken Pox.
So I told the nurse about the spot on his back too - and so he has an appt tomorrow in the afternoon. I'm trying not to worry about that spot on his back until then.
So ... Kale and I went to a lumber yard while DB was taking a nap, and we were just looking around. I found this table top frog fountain ...... OMGosh soooooo cute.
We also stopped at the nearby Greenhouse and I took some pictures. There was a cat there, sunning herself - and I picked her up and was petting her, and she kept taking her paw and pushing my hand away so she could get away ... geez cat, I get the hint.
Seahawk Pride! I showed this to DB and he says "Should be Vikings" ..... @@ <== eyes rolling
The BUDDHAS! The Frog and the Turtle are amazzzing!
These OWLS ...... OMG .... I looooove them......
They had penguins too!!!!! So cute!!!
I love this angel!
So they had a fairy garden outside, and I was like - OMG I soooooo want to make one of these. BADLY - it's been something I've been wanting to do. For awhile. I thought - oh they might have some fairy garden stuff inside the shop - so that's what initially got me to go in there ...
And they DID!!!!
My neighbor girl (she's 10) ... her name is Abby, and she made this in Girlscouts and she brought it over to me. Awwwwwwwww... she's super shy and her mom and brother Andrew came with her. It was sweet. We told them the names of our cats. Apologized for their rude behavior... lol... we find them sleeping on their van all the time. She just laughed and told us it wasn't a problem, they like cats.
Then I cut my hand, and as I was walking into my room - I felt a POP in my foot and suddenly I couldn't walk. I didn't twist it, didn't roll it..... just POP while I was walking.
So .... my feet are at <---- that end.... my leg is going ---> way ... but it swelled up really bad right away ..... so DB made me go in.
Notice .... it says FOOT not ankle. LOL. The nurse (OMGosh made me a bit mad) ... so I'm signing the forms they wanted me to sign and as I'm doing that the nurse comes out (and mind you - we were the ONLY ones there, they sent the lady with shortness of breath to the ER who came in) ... and she improperly says my name (I'm used to it) ... and I said "yep" and she goes "you need to stop doing that and come on back, you can finish back here." I was just signing the last spot and needed to date it. It's not like I was sitting there and continuing to fill it out or what not - I was just finishing signing my name. Geez. Then I said "That's fine, but I'm gonna be a bit slow" and she's all like .... exhaling .... I am handing DB the stuff, and I get up and start limping. She totally doesn't even OFFER to get me a wheelchair. She just keeps walking ahead of us and stopping and looking back like I'm wrecking her day.
So we get in the room and she goes "you hurt your ankle or foot?" I said "one or the other, in that general area..." and she says "how did you hurt it?" I said "walking" ....... (a bit of a pause where she was expecting me to elaborate) .... "did you fall?" I said "Nope, I was just walking. Didn't twist it or roll it - just pop and couldn't walk."
I don't think she was impressed with me.
The doctor came in and it was the same DR who I saw when I started to break out in red spots and he told me he was pretty certain that I had Chicken Pox. I asked if it could be my psoriasis, I was pretty sure it was. He was like "this is definitely a viral rash" ....... nope, it wasn't. Went back to see him again when it was getting worse. He STILL insisted it was Chicken Pox or the like even after I told him I think it's Psoriasis Guttate and he was all - nope. I was right. I should be a doctor.
He was like "Do you know the philosophy of RICE?" I'm thinking - ya know - rice packs you can cool or heat up.... I said "Nope..." and he says ... "It stands for Wrap, Ice, Compress & Elevate" ... and I'm thinking .. so you mean WICE not RICE ... it sounded like rice.
Kaedyn made me this when I got home and hobbled into the house. LOL.
The worst part of all this - was I was FINALLY starting to feel better and spending time outside of the bedroom and more among the people with in my village (living room) ... so I'm kinda really mad about it.
I am NOT missing Nate's appt though - however, I have no clue how I'm gonna walk because they didn't give me crutches. (crying)
So ..... after he went to sleep and woke up again... DB and I had a conversation .....
Dennis ... my ever loving, amazing husband ... was telling me about his English discussion today in class. How Henry the VIII got brought up.. who is an ancestor on my side. He asked me if I knew anything about the religious aspects of his reign and the Catholic and Protestant ties. I told him I did remember something about it. So I was looking at my blog about him on my genealogy blog (because I wanted to make sure I had the three wives I was related to right) and I told him, I'm related to wives #2, #3, & #5 (Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Catherine Howard) ... Anne and Catherine were 1st cousins. They were the only two who were executed by Henry VIII ... both beheaded. Dennis - my ever loving precious husband who loves me soooooo much - piped up and said "Well clearly they acted just like you..." ... yeah... he wants to behead me. Thanks.
Jane Seymour = 14th great grand aunt and Henry, Anne, and Catherine are my 2nd cousin 16x removed.
Yep. Still stuck on how he clearly thinks they were beheaded for being sassy women who didn't put up with their husband's crap. Ha!
