by Sarah | Nov 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Judas Priest reference…yeah. Good way to start your day *lol*
I’m not…technically…breaking the law. I’m taking Molly to preschool today!
No, it hasn’t been 24 hours since that nasty little 102.5 temp she had last night…BUT…she has nothing today. She’s still a little stuffy…but nowhere near as bad as she has been for the past week. She’s a little crabby…but…
Honestly, not sure if I’m doing it for her, or me…but I think she really needs to go today. She missed one day last week and I don’t want her to get out of the habit of being comfortable at school.
Plus…it gives me a couple hours. Is that a bad reason?
by Sarah | Nov 13, 2007 | SID, Terminology
For the first TT, we’re going to cover SID – Sensory Integration Dysfunction (also commonly called Sensory Processing Disorder).
Definition of SID:
A neurological disorder causing difficulties with processing information from the five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular system), and/or the positional sense (proprioception).
The layman’s definition: Difficulty processing sensory input.
SID can be a standalone disorder, or it can be symptomatic of other disorders (such as forms of PDD, Tourettes, or even dyslexia).
SID is usually diagnosed by an Occupational Therapist.
by Sarah | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Molly has a fever. When I first took it, it was 102 by ear. I gave her motrin and it went UP to 102.5. I’m monitering it, knowing that fevers always peak at night, but if she’s still high tomorrow we’re goign to the peds. She did just get a flu shot on Friday. *sigh* Looks like we’re missing another day of preschool.
So, of course, by default we have to monitor K closely too…because if she develops a fever we have to have to call the pulm. Oy.
by Sarah | Nov 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
This occured yesterday…
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DH: *taking mitt out of trash* Why is this here?
Me: It was on the plunger.
DH: We can clean it up, sani-
Me: It was on the PLUNGER. You know, the poop-sucker?
DH: You have cleaned up poop and vomit and all sorts of things…can’t we..
Me: It’s an exfoliating mitt…it’s been on poop-encrusted rubber poop sucker….No, it stays in the trash.
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I’m sorry. I’ll clean poopy diapers. I’ll clean vomit. But I will not exfoliate my skin with something that has been sitting on a plunger. I must draw the line somewhere…right?
by Sarah | Nov 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
In case you couldn’t tell (from my posts on all 3 blogs), I was pretty miserable and peeved off yesterday. Among other things it was time to change my estrogen patch…and it’s my last week (yup, Jess…that time)…and I was just in a cruddy mood . I thought my cold was going away, but I’m still running. I shouldn’t be surprised by that, Molly is still running, too. Onto kiddo stuffs…
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K is about to drive us completely batty! She had a sleep study done way back in April, and was found to have “minor” sleep apnea. They told DH that her disturbances were about once an hour and not enough to mean much.
The child doesn’t sleep. She acts tired ALL the time, but I put her down for a nap and she sleeps for, at most, 45 minutes. Heaven forbid I change the laundry during nap time (in our teeny house, the laundry is right outside the bedrooms), she wakes up immediately and starts shrieking, whether her sister is done napping or not!
At night we have a little better luck. She stays up playing forever (so does her sis) before finally falling asleep, but then she wakes up. It could be 11PM, it could be 1AM, or even 3AM…but she gets up…and shakes.her.bed. Now, admittedly, she’s still in a pack and play…but in our defense we thought Molly could be managably put into a big girl bed at 18 mos (Denver was!)…but then we realized that would never happen…so K is still in a toddler bed.
Soooo…K shakes her crib. And shakes. And shakes. And with every rock of the bed comes a THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMPTHUMPTHUMP.
We’re losing our heads…she’s NOT sleeping! I’m going to bring it up to the pulmonologist…but I don’t know what to do! Well, besides getting her out of the pack and play…but that also involves the monstrous task of getting her sis into a big girl bed!!!
