Awful headache last night. Sore throat today.

Good stuff:
More movement than usual from baby last night and I actually felt a little movement on both sides (indicating that baby is moving both arms and legs as the distance apart was too great for little arms to span ( Read more... )

Not a nice comfortable hobbit hole, nor a sandy, dirty hole with a bad smell and nothing to eat, but a midtown hole. Yes, that is how I've been describing our new house to people. How is it? Well, it's a hole!

( the kitchen sink and other frightening tales )

Well, Abinadi's actual surgery seems to have gone well. He ended up having a follow-up CT scan and the new shunt seems to be working ok.

Our stay at the hospital, was of course, hellish. Patrick said in the course of comforting me, midway through our stay "You know you haven't been to the hospital until you've been threatened with a judge and had ( Read more... )

I am now caught up with lotusmama, lawn_mama and jpallan and it will have to be enough for now. Time to change a poopy diaper and contemplate the idea of eating. (And now done with latitude_mama and the diaper. Must consider food. After all it's better to puke something than dry heave, and the water with soda is staying down...)

...what I wouldn't give for the other half of one of those right now.

( sickness )

I'm sick. I've been sick since Thursday night, when I noticed my ear was a little full. My ear is draining now after chiropractic and a blessing, but it is trying to go into my breasts. First one side, I massaged and got it under control. Then the other side, I massaged and wore a heat pad overnight and got it feeling better but still sore. Now, ( Read more... )

Well the day started off sidetracked, and I was running late to take the kids to my friend's home for her to babysit them while I went for my special "counseling" session. But I went! Part of the reason I needed to go was I was muscle checking that I did not want to change or get better, that I was afraid of change, afraid/unable to let go of some ( Read more... )

Abinadi (my youngest, age 2) has spina bifida clinic this week.
( Rant on Abinadi's condition, the medical establishment, and his latest illness )

For kartusch

Here are a few excerpts from "How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor" by Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn. At the time the edition I have was published he'd been a
practicing pediatrician for almost 30 years. His other
books include "Confessions of a Medical Heretic" and
"Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women."

( What every parent should know about fevers )

Definitely a sinus infection ( Read more... )