Saturday, January 15, 2011

Maybe I should do this more often. It just seems like with working 40 hours, my husband working part time, and having 2 boys, there isn't much time to think, let alone keep up with a blog. I will try though, because its nice to look back and see your own thoughts and pictures from the past. The boys are getting big. Brayden just started basketball today. I would have taken pictures, but we can't find the camera charger. We'll find it someday. Anyways. It seems like when I want that kid to run, he doesn't (like during his basketball game) and when I don't want him to run (like at home) he's running all over the place. /sigh Oh well. He was too worried about standing on his X than he was actually playing. Hopefully this will get better and he'll actually play. I need him to release some energy. Lol. He's a ball of it.
Camden scared us not too long ago. My dad had laid out my brothers medicine on the kitchen counter and my brother had forgotten to take it. Well, it was still out when my boys went over and Camden got a hold of it and it wasn't noticed. I was at work during this time and was told that he was screaming and crying and asking for mommy and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. So I made him an appointment at the pediatrician and had my dad take him. I texted my dad to see how he was, and he told me that he was climbing the walls and extremely hyper. That's when my dad realized what had happened and the doctor sent him to Kosair by ambulance and I went straight to the hospital after work.
The 2 medicines that he had taken are zoloft and vyvanse. Most people know what zoloft is, but not what vyvanse is. Vyvanse is an ADHD stimulant. And btw, it had the opposite effect on my child, since he's not ADHD.
Well, when I got there, I apparently beat the ambulance there. I only had to wait a few minutes though. He was sitting in his car seat on the stretcher just talking away. Of course I burst into tears from the whole ordeal. He's heart rate was about 200 when we got there and stayed pretty high most of the night. They gave him ativan, which slows down the movement of chemicals in the brain and calmed him down quite a bit. They ended up giving him a room overnight because his heart rate was still high. We slept a little that night, but he did not. He played in his bed with the toys the nurses brought to him while mommy and daddy got some rest. The next day, the nutritionist brought him breakfast and he wouldn't touch it. PJ went to McDonalds to get me and him breakfast, came back and Camden looked at PJ's breakfast burrito and said, mine? So he ate a breakfast burrito and FINALLY fell asleep at 10:30 am. Thus, it was nap time for us. The doctor had to wake all of us up at 3 so that he could be released to go home. We were so glad to finally leave (and a little cranky from no sleep). When we saw his pediatrician the next day, she gave us some things to watch for but said that he should be fine now.
If you remember, about this time last year is when his brother broke his femur, so hopefully this is the one big incident of the year, and we're done... Momma can't take much more. lol. Here's to my 2 boys getting older, and momma getting grey hair.