Wow, I think this last week was one of the longest and one most tiring of my life.
Monday around noon Skye decided she couldn’t handle the pain she has been in for the few days prior and goes to the hospital. After work I picked up our 5 year old and went up to see her in the ER. Still in lots of pain, and a cat scan and some other stuff later, they decide to admit her. Skye’s Mom was nice enough to take our 5 year old and feed her and get her ready for bed so i could stay with Skye as long as I could. I left the ER at about 8:30 and pick up our 5 year old and return home to get her in bed and get myself in bed.
Tuesday 6am, I wake up early because I have to get the 5 year old to daycare and go up to spirit lake to sign a consent form for the surgeons to put a scope down into Skye’s stomach to see what was causing the pain. After wards I head to work. After work I picked up all 3 kids and took them up to see Skye. They were all happy to see her and very concerned about her. Since it was about 6:30 and i needed to get the kids fed, i ran through McDonalds and got them all some chicken nuggets since they were very good at the hospital. Got home, got the kids fed and got them up to bed. Talked to Skye a little bit before going to bed myself.
Wednesday am, I wake up early again since i have to get myself and all 3 kids ready to head out the door. So about 7 i start getting the kids up only to have our oldest saying her tummy hurts. i feel her forehead, she’s a little warm, but I take them all to daycare any ways. Upon dropping the off to daycare, i check to make sure they have my phone number in case she is still sick after she gets something to eat. 8:36 am, i get a phone call from daycare, she’s running a fever and I have to go pick her up. So I go pick her up and have Skye’s Mom pick me up some children’s Tylenol so i could try and get her fever down. So i am at home working all day. 5:35ish, Skye is discharged and home, not sure why cause she was still in lots of pain. Skye’s Mom had picked up our youngest and our middle had a home visit until 6:30, so i got our little one fed and went and picked up our 3 year old. Our oldest had gone though temp going down and then going back up all day. About 7:45 pm we check her temp and its over 102, so skye and i decided that she needed to go to the ER. So i head up with her to the ER. She had to have an IV put in, which she was really scared, and it hurt a lot. Then the doctor ordered a cat scan for her to see why her tummy was hurting. She had enlarged lymph nodes in her intestines which is usually an indication of a virral infection. So they pumped some IV fluid and an antibiotic through her, and also gave her an cortical steriod to try and reduce the fever. 2:35 am, her iv fluids are done and we leave the er and return home.
Thursday 6 am, hit the snooze 2x times and eventually got up at 6:45, got the 2 non sick kids up and got them ready to go to daycare, took them to daycare and went to work to get a little work done before going home to tend to my sick kid and wife. 10:25 i head home only to find our oldest, appearing to be fine, and my wife still in lots of pain. I let them be, insisting that our 5 year old still needed to rest and i went into my office to work. 5:00 pm, i go pick up the other 2 kids from daycare and get supper ready for them all to eat. So i get them all fed, get them showered and get them all ready and in bed. So i headed to bed around 10:30 to try and get some sleep. 12:20ish, my wife send me a text saying she needs to go back to the ER. Big problem, since we have 3 kids home, I cant take her, so we decided that we did not want to wake up her Mom to take her so she called the emergency line and the local rescue unit arrived very quickly to check on her and get all the info, about 5 min later the ambulance shows and picks her up and takes her to the ER. 3 am: Skye calls me from the er saying they are sending her home and needs to be picked up. She wanted me to call her mom to come over and be in the house for the kids and me pick her up, well that wasn’t going to happen since i had taken some ny-quil to try and get some sleep since i have been trying to get over a nasty cold for a while now. So instead, i called her mom and told her what was going on and asked her if she would go pick her up, she said yes, and i went and unlocked the door to our house so they could get in and went to bed.
6 am Friday, i get up and get myself ready for work, and our oldest is spiking a fever again, so I get the other 2 ready for daycare and take them and go to work. Call for a dr apt and get her in at 1:30, so i left work at 1 to pick her up and take her up to her dr apt. The dr sees her and said her fever spiking is normal and to continue with the children’s Tylenol to keep the fever under control and let her infection run its course. So i bring her back home and get to work from home in my office. Now this is where it gets real interesting, the other 2 kids were at a home visit until 7:15, my boss calls me up at 5 and says we have a client with 2 machines that were having problems, and im trying to get supper on the table for Skye and our oldest. 6:39, i get almost finished up with work besides our client testing to ensure the fix worked, and get supper rolling. 7:00, i got supper done, had a chance to eat myself, and verified that the fix worked and signed off from that project and headed off to pick up the other 2 kids. Got the kids home, got them ready for bed and got them all to bed. Saturday, i relaxed quite a bit with my family and did the bare essentials.
If you get down to this part, great, if you didn’t, that’s ok too. I just have a little bit left to say. While this week was a very busy, stressful, and tiring week, it was also a personal discovery week for me. While I did have help at times from Skye’s Mom(thank god, i don’t know how i would have done it all without her) I for the most part stepped up to the plate in a big way and did what needed to be done for my family, as well as trying to keep my boss as happy as possible trying to get some work done as well.
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