Hospital Stay :(

Well today was a challenging day to say the least. I dropped kaysen off at school at 9am and he was perfectly fine. He had been running around with the dog in the morning. He didn't eat much that is normal. Well I got a call at 10am that Kaysen was sick and had already thrown up twice. So I figured it was just a normal episode of cyclic vomitting. I went to get him and found him completley pale hugging the mini toliet at day care vomitting into it. I gave him a zophran which usually stops his attacks.
For the next two hours he was completley pale. I could not get him to respond to me either. He wouldn't wake up and he was completley limp. The only time he would move is when he would throw up every 15 minutes. So I knew this wasn't a "normal" episode so I decided to take him to the dr. Unfortuantley I couldn't get him into his normal dr. so I took him to urgent care.
When I got there it was bad!!!!!! I had to carry him and couldn't get him to even sit up on his own. By the time the dr. saw him, his eyes were rolled back in his head and his mouth was open. He was completley flushed and unresponsive. The dr. decided that he needed to be taken to the hospital by ambulance and then admitted. They started an iv at the urgent care and luckily when they poked him he responded and cried some.
After the iv he started to look a lot better. The ambulance took him to the hospital and the dr. at the hospital came to us right away. They did all sorts of blood tests and switched some different fluid into his iv and gave him more zophran through iv. Luckily he stopped vomitting. After being on iv for several hours they did another dehyradtion test. He wasn't where they wanted him to be but since he was no longer throwing up things were looking better. They were fifty fifty if he should be stay over night. I wanted to wait longer and let him eat some crackers and drink something to see if he could keep it down and see how he improved. He still was super weak and sleepy. So that was our compromise. After another two hours he kept down 3 crackers and some sprite (heavy eater I know).
So after two hours I felt he was well enough that I could take care of him at home. So we left in the evening after a extremley long day. He fell asleep the whole car ride home. Since he didn't eat all day and was throwing up and all I had all day was a donut I sent john to get kfc. He was excited to eat and I made him a plate. He stood up to eat and grabbed his head and collapsed crying his head hurt and he no longer wanted to eat anything. We finally managed to get him to eat a popsicle laying down. After that he decided he was tired and ready for bed. We gave him another zophran and his regular medicine and put him to bed.
So they wanted to do a CT while we were at the hospital but I oppted out. The dr.s at the hospital were in contact with kaysens pediatric neurologist and he wants to see him asap and most likely he'll be getting a MRI soon so I decided why put him through more than he needs.
Well thats where we are at right now. He is sleeping and seemed a million times better than this morning but is still really sick. Lucikly hes keeping liquids down and that is huge.
So I'll let you all know how he is tomorrow and how the neurologist goes. What a day! I'm ready for bed!

Bad Decisions :(

Well as a lot of you know kaysen has a condition called cylic vomitting syndrome. The jist of it is that he throws up A LOT and OFTEN. Since he throws up so much he has a really bad gag reflex. He can't not look at poop with out throwing up even his own poop. Even if he sees mud and thinks its poop for a minute he'll throw up. Well I don't know what I was thinking. Oh wait yes I do,... I wasn't thinking! I (as many slaters do) have gas from time to time. Ok I have it a lot and yesterday it was particuarly bad. Growing up with many brothers and sisters it got farted on a lot. It was all in good fun though. I was thinking about these found memories and felt bad because kaysen doesn't have any brothers and sisters to tease him properly. Well at this point is when the bad decision took place. I decided to do what any good mother would do and fart on her child. As I began to laugh kaysen said "Oh mama you really stink" and then started gagging. At that moment I knew what I had done but couldn't stop laughing. So... John began to chastise me as kaysen began to vomit. Oh man it was really really funny. I know most proper moms wouldn't do such things but thank heavens I'm not a proper mom. Wheres the fun in that? Plus John is more the proper one so I just even things out. Well everything is back to normal and kaysen has no hard feelings against me. I went to bed laughing last night and I still break up laughing thinking about it. But I think next time I will try to think my actions through a little bit, but just a little.

Tylenol Recall

Hey everyone I just wanted to let everyone know that there has been a recall on all liquid childrens and infants tylenol produced from april 08 to june 08. I guess there was a unused portion of one ingredient that did not meet all quality standards so there are recalling the rest as a precautionary measure. Although I'm sure me and everyone else probably already used it since it was made over a year ago. Any ways to find out if your bottle is being recalled you can look at the lot # and then go to tylenol.com or call 1-800-962-5357 8-8 monday-friday. Also i have a list of all the recalled products lot #'s that kaysens school gave me. So if you are worried just drop me a comment on what the lot # is and I'll let you know. All of the recalled products lot #s start with SB, SC, SD, SE, or SF. None of them start with SJ (which is what I have at home). Hopefully this is helpful.

Need a new look?

Hey everyone I just wanted to let you know that I am running an offer at my new salon. The deal is you get 15$ off any color service on a tuesday for a first time client. So anyone who hasn't seen me in my new salon would be a first time client. Just call 314-997-5355 to book an appointment and make sure to mention that you are a first time client and saw the deal for 15$ off a color service online. Also make sure you book it with me. Here are some prices of the different services:
Haircut- 35
Haircut w/ blowdry- 55
All over color- 45
Full Foil- 85
(if you want more than one color foiled in add 10$ for each additional color)
Partial Foil- 65-75
And other services can be priced when you call in or contact me.
I look forward to seeing you guys.
The address of the salon is 10411 Clayton Road in frontenanc. We are in the La Chateau Village just west of the Hilton.

Life is GOOOOODDDD!

*Inside the talking cavern cave at silver dollar city in Branson

*At the dixie stampede at branson

*Our Hotel room in Branson

*Even our long drive to colorado can't get me down. I told you I was happy.

*My hot husband driving the car to colorado. Don't worry he put it on auto piolt.

We'll fall is on its way in the STL and we are loving life. John is off and running in his third year of school. He is really excited because this year he is doing half clinical work and half book work. He gets to pick his rotations for his 4th year this next week so he is pretty excited about that too.

Kaysen is loving school of coarse. He is in the "Pink" room now which for those of you who are unlearned in the ways of preschool, he is the big man on campus. He also started soccer two weeks ago and it is so cute. He is really good and loves it. That makes me excited because I used to play soccer (although I wasn't ever really good). He told me he wants to play scoccer and do swimming lessons. It was like music to my ears. My boy is taking after me. I always thought he would be a swimmer because when I was pregnant with him he was always swimming and I'm pretty sure he mastered the butterfly stroke while still in the womb.

I am loving my new job. It is wonderful to be able to go to work and not feel stressed and to have a different agenda each day. I am very happy right now in life and things seem to be going our way.

We've have a had a really busy summer and what seems like a busy year too. I have missed seeing my friends as much as I used to but hopefully I can get back into the swing of things and attend more outings and blog reguarly. I entered a contest called mommy madness stl. They pick 6 busy moms to drive around either a chevy traverse or a chevy equinox for 4 weeks and blog about it and they also give you gas money. I am really excited. I hope I win. How awesome would that be. We could do so much with a vehicle that big even if it is for a short time.

I am going to post some photos of our summer too. Hopefully within the week I'll get up some video of kaysen's soccer.

August 09

Well I lost part of my wedding ring today. It has always been really lose and especially this past year. Today it just slipped off and I didn't even notice. At least it was the band and not the engagement part. Oh well crap happens and for some reason it likes to happen to me a lot.
On a good note my job is going great! I really enjoy the people I work with and the clients I work on.
We went to colorado with johns family in july and it was so beautiful.
John is going to start school next week and kaysen has moved into the pink room at preschool which is the big kid room. He is so excited.
So funny thing just happened as I'm writing this. I must be completley crazy because I always wear both rings, always. I even "remember" putting it on this morning. Well john just found my lost ring in my jewlery box. Man I am now officially crazy. I remember putting it on. Which makes me wonder what other things do I "remember" doing that never ever happened. Hmmm this could be bad.

July 09

Well its been a long time since I've updated the blog. I usually just do facebook cause its so much easier. I graduated June 24th. I got a job yesterday at the Frontenac salon and spa. I'll start the 22nd of July. We went to Branson to celebrate me graduating, fathers day, and our family vacation for the year. It was just a weekend trip but we had so much fun. We'll for sure do it again next year.
John is in clinic every thursday this summer and loves it. He starts his third year in the fall and is really excited to be working on patients and not doing as much book work. Kaysen loves school and is so smart. He amazes us everyday by how smart he is. He can count over 100 all by himself. He also is learning to spell. He can spell all his friends names, his name, our names, and is always saying letters together and asking us what they spell. For example "Mom what does KQSTRQB spell?" Usually he doesn't ever make a word but at least he is learning. He does always through a Q in there though. I tried to let him know that q doesn't really show up that much but he sure likes q.
We got a puppy in may. It was a suprise mothers day present for me. His name is pokey and he is a bichon friese-shih tzu mix. They call it a teddy bear puppy because it looks just like a teddy bear. He is super cute and fun. Although he is having a hard time with potty training. He was doing really well but we boarded him when we went to branson and he kind of forgot. He should learn just in time for us to go to colorado with johns family and then we'll have to start all over again.
We are going to Colorado mid july with johns family for a week. It should be really really fun.
I take my written test next week and then my practical test july 20th then start my job the 22nd.
Well thats it for now. I'll probably post again in another 3 months. If you want to hear more you can check me or john out on facebook.