What a couple of Weeks!

Around my house, when it rains it does more than just pours....it floods. This past weekend was no exception.

Naruto still doesn't want to go to school. Today, I'm going to get him and take him to lunch. He just needs an afternoon to chill out. He wanted to do it yesterday, which would really have been better but that would have had both kids hom. No one would have chilled. So, today we are going to do the afternoon together. First lunch at his choice of places to eat. Then maybe do Walmart for milk and a few things. Then home for an afternoon of what Naruto wants to do.

I missed meeting Knits A Lot, FireRat, FireFairy, and Hitman3872 in Tulsa on Tuesday. I really wanted to go, but it was literally impossible. Now I have two Staples jobs to do and a special trip to Tulsa to do them. I really hate that but it is a chance to get out of the house (and out of my bed) for something to do.

Sat morning, Elmo swallowed five days of my medication, probably thinking it was candy. So, we went to ER. Let's just say that I bought a lot of Yui Gi Oh cards for Aharon for being so well behaved during this time. By the time they got the
charcoal crap in him, they decided that he had to be put in overnight for observation because one of the meds could easily cause seizures. It wasn't the meds in the child proof bottles but rather the weekly med container which I started using to make sure that I took ALL of my meds when I needed to take them.

Sunday morning, I was as sick as a dog, vomiting really badly. Needless to say, I was dehydrated. Since one of the signs of dehydration was a dry mouth, which I had, I decided to go to ER. I literally signed myself into ER and then signed Elmo out of the hospital. Again, after I had been able to run home and get meds, they both were fine again. The ER doc decided that my blood sugar was so high and not going down that I was a candidate for ketone acidosis, which can be fatal. He put me into ICU so I could get the nurse as I needed her for blood sugars. Now, remember that I do not have any insurance. I spent Sun through this morning there. I was released around 11. I was constantly fighting off vampires and dealing with people (read nurses and the low income doc) who did not know much about the pump and insisted that I take Regular insulin which is not as fast acting as the Humalog that I had with me. I was so rude this morning at 4am to the vampire from the lab and the nurse. Finally I told the nurse that I smelled horrible. I hadn't had a shower since Friday morning. My linen hadn't been changed since I got there. Same ol' gown. I felt better after that happened. They disconnected me from my IV so that the vampire du jour could get some blood. They could not get any blood from my left arm since it had been poked so much over the past two days. Finally everyone was happier: the vampire got her
blood, I got a "bath", and the doc said I could go home (this was around 10).

I've been in a depressed state at the state of the house. Spending the majority of my morning in bed and the afternoon on the computer. My typical day. But Podiatrist kicked my butt into gear and I'm taking a short break from laundry and house to let you know that I'm still here. She told me that the boys were well behaved for her and that I was doing a better job than I had thought I had with them. That made me feel so much better. She's helping me some with "Compliance". I've been nice on some topics. She had to spend 2 hours with Elmo before he took the first bite of dinner. That is one area I have to get tougher on. If they do not want to eat, I do not force them. This is leading to bad eating habits. So far, since I've been home, we'd eaten what they really like to eat so this has not been a problem. But it is a problem and I'm really going to have to end this.

I got the kids their promised rewards. Naruto took his Yui Gi Oh cards to school and almost immediately had them collected. Now he has no special cards because he keeps breaking the rules of the house ("Cards stay home") and school ("No cards allowed at school. It doesn't matter which type they are.") He was doing well to pick them up but he's had them collected on three different occasions. He wants to show them off but there is only so much that Ms Payne can do to allow him to break the school, classroom, and home rules.

This has been open for over 24 hours. I'm back...I hope.