Where does the time go! Here it is December 31, 2012 and I'm still behind. This past year has been a busy year, but an amazing year for our family and James. The most recent development, that most of you probably know, is that James has been in the hospital since December 27. James hadn't been feeling well since a couple of days before Christmas. The Sunday before Christmas James was extremely constipated. We tried all the usual things and even progressed to suppositories but we had limited success. Monday, Chistmas Eve, he started a cough and by the time we were getting ready for midnight mass James was absolutely miserable. We took him to the ER and they gave him an enema and milk of magnesia to help with the constipation. A couple hours later he was successful but the next day he was still feeling pretty crappy. He wasn't too interested in opening presents and started running a fever about 99F. By the time Thursday came around and Tylenol wasn't helping I decided to take him in. His lungs sounded kinda crappy, but the x-ray didn't look too terrible. However, his oxygen saturation levels were in the 80s. They should be close to 100. So he was admitted to the Peds unit at Sanford Children's Hospital here in Fargo. They've mostly just been supporting him with oxygen but they also decided to give him some IV antibiotics. They think it's viral (the flu test was negative) but they like to cover all their bases. He's steadily been doing better. At this point the fever is gone and he's been on oxygen since midnight 12/31/12. They usually want them off oxgen for 24 hours before they discharge them, so hopefully tomorrow James can come home!! Let's keep our fingers crossed.
With the month of December has come lots of traveling and busyness. Because of this, we've been slacking on our work with ABR. That takes me to my first New Year's Resolution (yes I'm doing them!). I want to get in more and more time with ABR and get the most out of this therapy that has been awesome for us and James so far. We'll be heading back to Montreal at the end of February for another session. January is a little busy for us too, but I'm determined to get in lots of hours.
Of course I'm going to be cliche and another one of my resolutions is to lose weight. Since we moved to Fargo in April 2011 I've definately been putting on some weight and this coming fall I'm standing up in one of my best friend's wedding and now I've got the incentive-now I just need to get the get up and go.
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| Boys with mom and Santa gifts |
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| Opening Presents |
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Grandma has the magic touch |
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| Auntie Julie got married 12/21/12 |
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| Daddy and James napping on Christmas Eve |
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| Elliot likes to help James open his presents... |
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| Especially when it's stuff he wants! |
I think overall in 2013 our whole family is hoping to come together more and learn better how to help each other and not just get through every day, but enjoy it, and enjoy it as a family. Sometimes I think we get so wrapped in every day life of working, school, therapy, house chores etc that we forget we're a part of a family and we're supposed to be enjoying life ando ur ultimate goal is to help each other get to heaven. This next year I'd like to focus more on our family and God. We have lots of hopes and dreams for the future and I like to think that if we trust in God and if it's meant to be, that he'll help see these hopes and dreams come true for our family.
