| Finally. |
[Mar. 29th, 2009|05:27 pm] |
Justin came home from the hospital yesterday. He smiled a LOT when he first came into the house... then he slept a lot... and then he laughed a lot at my mom and me when we tried to figure out how to feed him with his tube last night. He's not supposed to be that with it and aware, but he even laughed at my dad's corny joke about bolus feeding being a bowl-less feeding.
I'm glad he's home. |
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| There's a tube... |
[Mar. 26th, 2009|09:40 pm] |
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They surgery went well today... Justin's tube is a lot higher up on his abdomen than most that I've seen. That's probably why they couldn't find his stomach through the normal scope method that they tried yesterday. He doesn't do so great when he gets a general anesthesia... his blood pressure dropped and stayed too low for them to really give him any pain meds after his surgery. So he spent most of the morning/afternoon crying until he fell asleep. But at least it's over and done with.. I think they'll try to feed him through the tube a couple of times tomorrow and as long as that goes well, then *maybe* he'll get to go home tomorrow afternoon or Saturday morning. |
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| Ugh. |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|10:50 pm] |
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So Justin was supposed to have a feeding tube inserted today. But, things didn't work out so well and the doctor wasn't able to do the procedure (insert lighted scope through the mouth, down the esophagus, into the stomach, see the light come through the stomach and insert need through the abdominal wall toward the light, then insert feeding tube). Apparently, the doctor was never able to see the light shine through Justin's skin... could mean that his stomach just isn't in the expected place because he doesn't walk or move around much and/or he's got a curved spine that's pushing things around a bit. At any rate, Justin had to endure a lot of needle pokes into his abdomen for no good reason today. This made for a very not happy Justin. He cried most of the time that I visited him today in between classes. Tomorrow, a surgeon will come and do a bit of laproscopic surgery, look around inside of his abdomen, find his stomach, push it up toward the abdominal wall, and then the doctor who tried today will hopefully find his stomach and insert the feeding tube. That means full, general anesthesia for Justin tomorrow... it's a bit scary. Last time he had surgery it took a long time for him to recovery from the anesthesia because they couldn't raise his body temperature back up to normal levels.. Hopefully, things will go well tomorrow and he'll be home for the weekend. |
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| It's been a hectic week. |
[Mar. 21st, 2009|11:31 pm] |
My cat was in the kitty hospital for 3 days for some mysterious coulda-been-an-injury-but-we're-not-really-sure illness. He's finally back home, but has lost a lot of weight, gotten saggy skin, and has weird shaven parts and still doesn't look quite like himself yet.
I was sick for a month. I'm mostly better now, but everyone else who's gotten sick since me is blaming me for passing along the plague to them. My mom, Frankie, and Frank have all been in various stages of the sick, but it at least seems as if they all got better much more quickly than I did.
But Justin's been admitted to the hospital for pneumonia. I'm sure it's probably all related to the sick the rest of us have had... He woke up sick on Thursday, went to the doctor's Thursday morning. He doesn't like to drink or eat when he's sick, so it's nearly impossible to get any sort of medication in him that will make him feel better. That means no antibiotics, no pain-relievers, and no keep-the-seizures-away meds. By Friday night he was horribly miserable, and so were we since we couldn't figure out how to make him feel better. He was also having seizures since the fever and lack of meds were screwing with his brain chemistry. My parents took him to the emergency room Friday night. He was admitted to the hospital a few hours later. My parents stayed with him and after I got the foster boys to my nanny's for the day, I went to the hospital to spend the day there with him. Jeannine's spending the night so that we can all come home and get some good sleep.
Hopefully he'll be home soon. |
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| Happy Birthday to me.... |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|11:34 pm] |
Today's my birthday and I fully intended to go out tonight and have a free party while watching the Orpheus parade down near the French Quarter. But then I got sick and lost my voice and officially just wanted to sleep sleep sleep. So that's what I've done for most of the afternoon and evening. I fully intend to get back to the sleeping as soon as I post this.
Yesterday, my aunt and uncle invited us all over to their house and cooked us up some barbeque to celebrate all of the February birthdays in our family. That was a loooong day. Today, I was going to go get my free birthday steak at the restaurant near here... even went so far as to go to the restaurant before I found out that they don't open until 3pm. Apparently that only happens M-Th... I went there a couple of weeks ago with my dad for lunch so I didn't even think about checking their hours. So... no free birthday steak for me 'cause all of our babysitting services were set up to end at 2pm.
My make-me-feel-better-meds are kicking in now, which means I'll be completely knocked out in about ten minutees. Happy happy sleep time. :) |
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| Someday... |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|10:28 pm] |
I'll have enough time to post here and actually talk to the people that I like.
Last night I dreamt about getting hugged. Is it sad that one of the nicest dreams I've had a looong time just involved me getting a hug? I am so starved for attention... or maybe it's just some comforting that I want. The last time I dreamed about getting hugs I was in the middle of a month long Hurricane Katrina evacuation and had no idea what life would be like.. every night for weeks I dreamt about getting these wonderfully comforting hugs that didn't ever seem to end.
I laughed a lot this week about Wong Workers and Affle Ho's.
And, I missed Marc Broussard in concert.
And, I'm so far behind in my work I wonder if I'll ever catch up. |
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| Ouch. |
[Jan. 31st, 2009|12:28 am] |
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Figuring out tax stuff makes my head hurt. A lot. |
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| There's not enough sleep. |
[Jan. 13th, 2009|11:23 pm] |
I want more sleep. Lots more sleep. It's only the second day of the semester... I shouldn't be this tired yet. But Josh's car isn't working, so we're having to wait around for each other to finish classes. That means lots of early mornings and late evenings. I really just want about eight hours of sleep though. That seems like a really nice amount of sleep.
Went to my math methods class today. I really liked the teacher, but there's an insane amount of work to get done for that class I actually passed on going to eat dinner with Tiff and Aaron tonight 'cause I already had too much work to do. Looks like there are people in my group for the class who will actually be nice to work with, so that's always a plus.
I'm going to bed now. |
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| Blah. |
[Jan. 11th, 2009|09:40 pm] |
Classes for the Spring semester start in the morning. I'm feeling cheated out of my holiday... I honestly thought I had another week to go before classes started. I need more rest! I've had a horrible migraine today... it's no wonder that all I've felt like doing today is sleeping. I'm scheduled for 18 hours this spring, but I do believe I'll be dropping that down to 15. 5 classes seems like more than enough, no?
I've got a new laptop sitting on the floor next to me. It was punishment to myself that I couldn't play with my new toy until I had officially cleaned and organized my horrible mess of a room. It's all done (except for the closet, which can wait until next weekend), but I'm so tired now that it seems like entirely too much effort to go about properly appreciating my new toy. I reckon it'll have to wait until tomorrow when I get home from my classes. |
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| Quick Quick Quick |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|10:44 pm] |
Seems like I haven't posted since before we left for Florida... so here's a quick update.
Epcot was lots of fun with surprisingly yummy food.
Jake qualified for Nationals.
Josh qualified for Nationals *and* Worlds! Woot!
Finished all my finals. Got all A's.
Watched snow.. that's right SNOW... fall in New Orleans.
Took lots of pictures.
Watched the temperatures climb back to 79.
Baked lots of cookies.
Spent lots of money.
Wrapped lots of presents.
Unwrapped lots of presents.
Justin got sick.
Parents and Justin in Emergency Room for most of Christmas Day.
Nothing horribly wrong but still a sick Justin.
Rough Christmas Day.
Better Christmas Night.
Barbara and Tiff and Aaron visited and stole presents.
That's all for now. |
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| So... |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|03:16 pm] |
We're supposed to leave tomorrow to go to Florida. Justin woke up sick this morning.. it's really horrible when he's sick 'cause he has no idea why he feels like crap and can't breathe and therefore chokes and vomits everytime he tries to eat. Also, as of 10 this morning, my mom still had no confirmation on whether or not there's someone willing to do respite for the foster boys. We can't afford to pay for the extra hotel room it would take to sleep 7 of us instead of having the five of us in one room as planned... and my mom's program is supposed to pay other ppl in the program to take care of the kids when we need a bit of a break. So all last night and all this morning my mom kept saying, "See? I don't know why I plan to do anything! I never get to go!" I suppose I'll know by tonight what's really going to happen.
I had four final projects due yesterday. I had a math test this morning. I have a final in a couple of hours. Next week (hopefully after I get back from Florida) I have a math final on Monday, two final projects due Tuesday, an English final to take before Friday, and a final English paper to write before Friday, too. Then, it's drinking at Tiff's house.
It's always good to have a plan, no? ;) |
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| Just because... |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|09:34 pm] |
I decided to post here, just because I have fifty thousand other things to do that are more important than this. I am nothing if not a procrastinator.
This has been a very busy semester. I've done over sixty hours of field experience that haven't been part of my regular class schedule. Let me just say that takes up a HUGE chunk of time. For the most part, I've really liked the students and classes I've worked with this go 'round. That's not always the case.
Josh and Jake are dancing at the Oireachtas in Orlando this weekend. I'm stealing away with everyone 'cause Ms. Chris is going to take care of Justin for us for four whole days. She is the bestest ever.
I'm going to Epcot on Friday. I'm hoping this will be fun.
I'm going to be in a gigantic hotel ballroom on Saturday. I'm hoping this means I'll be in Philadelphia at Easter-time 'cause at least one of my brothers will have qualified to dance at World's.
I'm going to go take a shower now. I'm hoping this means I will have calmed down from my slightly panicked how-the-hell-will-i-get-everything-done-before-next-friday mode so that I can actually get some work done. |
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| For any of you paying attention... |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|02:11 am] |
It will come as no great surprise that I"m about to run (or more accurately: drive) as far away from Gustav as I can get in the next few hours. Hopefully, it'll all be for nothing. The all-for-nothings are, of course, the best sort of evacuations. Today has been an extremely stressful day. I was in the car driving around town in loads of traffic trying to get things done... and most of it wasn't even for me. Big surprise, eh?
Classes started for me this week. I've already been told by all my teachers that just because the university is shut down until next Thursday doesn't mean I don't have any work due before then. Apparently, having survived Katrina means we're never again going to be given any free hurricane days. But at least they closed campus... I won't actually be counted as absent just cause I had sense enough to get out of the way of torrential rains and 100mph winds.
I suspect tomorrow will be quite a long day. Let's hope I'm wrong. |
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| Who Knew? |
[Aug. 10th, 2008|12:27 am] |
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I am in need of adult entertainment. |
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| Wasting Time. |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|08:39 am] |
I don't feel as if I got anything accomplished this weekend. I was quite sick for most of it, though, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Tiff got to take care of me for most of Saturday... We had planned to go to the movies and Sam's and then do some organizing of all her school papers. I had already started feeling really icky, though, so we skipped the movies. Then we went to her house and she made some really good chicken soup for me and then she let me sit around on her sofa all afternoon and evening doing absolutely nothing! I must have been running a fever, cause I was absolutely freezing (which is totally unlike me). I'm still all stuffy and sound funny and can't really breathe well, but I feel about a thousand times better than I did on Saturday. If I'm ever sick again, I'm going back to Tiff's! I never get to rest around my house if I'm sick. Who knew that resting while you're sick actually makes you feel better faster? ;)
Last week I had some really horrendous tests to take on Wednesday. I knew there were a few questions on my astronomy test that I wasn't sure about.. and I also worried I did badly on that test 'cause while I was taking it, I was already worrying about the Children's Lit test I had to take later in the day. I got the results for the astro test back. I made a 98, which is just freakin' awesome. I'm stilly worrying about the Children's Lit test, though. It was all essay and short answer. There were 7 questions on the test. After an hour (and we had an extended class period of an hour and a half to finish the test), I had only fully answered one question and was halfway through the second. In the last twenty minutes or so, I answered the last five questions that were still worth half of the points on the test. Honestly, I wrote 8 pages (back and front) in that hour and a half, but the last three or four pages just look like a stack of notes I would have taken during lecture. I completely ran out of time to answer things with complete sentences so I was just dropping phrases onto the paper. I don't have high hopes that I made an A on that test even though everyone else I talked to said they had the same problems trying to finish the test. I'm hoping we get those papers back today, too. I'm ready to stop worrying about it. |
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