Sunday, February 15, 2009

(Psst - Allie! This is a new post!)

SO. . .

Christmas in Utah was AWESOME! Lots of family, lots of snow, and lots of fun! Maybe, just maybe I'll add a link to this post taking you to the Utah Pictures for your own perusal/downloading preferences.

SICK SICK SICK: At the end of our trip in Utah Sabrina became sick, resulting in a trip to prompt care and serious breathing treatments. Samantha became sick afterwards, but not as seriously. However upon returning home and attending a well-child visit, the Dr. sent us home w/a new nebulizer because Samantha still had a wheeze. Three days later Samantha was better, but Sabrina became sick again requiring intense breathing treatments. However, it wasn't enough for Brie had to go to the ER because of severe breathing restrictions (Mind you this was at 3am and Paul was out of town . . .)

Two days after this Brie was feeling better and Sammie started feeling sick. A couple days later what seemed to be a little sick was now a big sick - Samantha was fighting fevers of 103-104 under the influence of Tylenol. After seeing the doctor we discovered Samantha had both strains of the flu. Her sickness remained several days and recovery was slow.

Following this, Samantha had about 3-4 okay days, then started getting sick again - wheezing, coughing, fever. . . . Another trip to the doctor found Samantha on steroids, antibiotics and a breathing-treatment regimen. Thankfully it wasn't pneumonia :-). FINALLY, yesterday afternoon (Saturday February 14th 2009), Samantha stopped wheezing for 2 hours and showed marked improvement. Yea! Still sick but getting better .......................

That pretty much sums up January and half of February - SICK SICK SICK! Aaaaaaaa!

On a HAPPY NOTE, Paul did get to go snowboarding and had a blast (minus the black-eye), Anastasia is registered for kindergarten (eek!) and had a blast rolling out dough (see pics), Samantha is pulling up to standing positions A LOT, and even better TODAY IS SABRINA'S BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SABRINA!

p.s. One happy thing for me, is that I got a cute pedicure 4 weeks ago, and it's still cute!

4 comments:

Aleena said...

Yay! Welcome back to the blogging world. Sorry you guys have been so sick! What an awful way to spend your last 6 weeks. Glad to hear your feeling better. And Happy Birthday Sabrina! Oh yeah, I'm about to register Lea for kindergarten too! Crazy!

Ted and Allie said...

Awesome Lex! Kudos to you for getting the blog updated. I want you to know I found out about your update on the family blog! That means I checked! TA DUHHH!
Any, I wish I had cute toe nails... here I am, a future podiatrist wife and have not cute at all toe nails. Lots of love!

Heather said...

Yay for a new post! So sorry you guys have been soooo sick!!! I really feel for you. Those days are never fun, especially that many in a row. Keep hanging on, gradually life will get back to normal (whatever that is). ;-D
How did Paul manage the black eye? I'm dying to hear "another" of his stories. :)

Mary Bennett said...

Wow a new post. Love it!!! We check often. Glad to hear your starting to move to the up and up!! What a fun couple of months at your house=(. Looking forward to seeing your little girls again soon.