Morning....I SLEPT!!  Yeah....I fell asleep around 11:00 and was able to sleep.  What a good thing.  Of Course for some reason Tommy woke up in the middle of the night and came to bed with us.  I slept and held him for part of he night.   I am not sure what was wrong.  But he went back to his bed in a while.  But boy did I havea hard time getting up to get him.

This morning I slept in a bit late as I don't have to be to work until 10:00.   Daycare just called and this week they are doing the letter T.  Today they are having a Teddy Bear Tea Party so Tommy needs to dress up and bring a Teddy friend.  I LOVE his daycare it is so great.  Plus it is his auntie.....she is just so great with the kids.  Tommy LOVES going there and cried when you come to get him. 

Well I am off for a mad dash to get ready and out the door in time.  Have a great day.  

BTW, I think I am finally improving.  I worked almost 7 hours yesterday and I felt pretty good.  I only had to neb once at work and twice at home.  SO the nebs are finally starting to spread out a bit.  I am sure that after a nice relaxing weekend I will be back to myself on Monday!  YEAH!!  Maybe I will be able to finally get my house in order.....it has been weeks!

Morning.....not a great sleeping night again.  I thought I had this figured out, but I guess not.  I thought it was the bedtime neb that was keeping me awake for hours, so last night I nebbed at 8:00 early enough for the effects to wear off I thought, plus I took the cough syrup with codiene.   So I should sleep.....I did fall asleep fine at about 11:00, but I was wide awake at 4:00am.  I got up and ate a bit and had a glass of milk.   I layed back down and tried to sleep.  At 5:00 I decided to turn on the lights and work on my New Mom's Committe stuff for church.  I turn the lights off again and try to sleep, I finally gave up at 6:00am and got up for the day.  ARGH!!!  

So my plan for today is to go into work early actually I guess.   I wasn't goig to go in until my 9:00 am meeting, but I guess I will go to the office, then my two meetings and return home after that.   I am only planning on working a part day again today, maybe 6 hours or so.   So hopefully I will be able to take an afternoon nap.   I am sure this is a side effect of one of the many meds I am currently taking, but I have no idea which one.  Wouldn't matter anyways as I can't not take any of them until I start to improve.  So there you have my whiny little ...I can't sleep problem!!  Can't sleep, can't stop coughing, can't breathe....I am so demanding and whiny *smirk! 

Let's see...what else...since I have some time here before needing to shower for work.  Hmmmm....yesterday at work went pretty good.  I have taken my extra nebulizer to the office and was able to work longer by nebbing once.  I hope it won't disturb my co-workers, but I really should only have to ever neb once a day at work.  I checked in with my boss today.  She is such a wonderful, supportive person.  Everyone at my work is very accomodating to my being ill, which is such a relief.   But generally I am a very hard worker, so they know I will pull my wieght again once I am better. 

After I got home from work we went to Joshua's choir concert at school.   I only stayed to watch his songs as I cough so much and didn't want to disturb everyone else.  I was pretty tired anyways.  My SIL was watching Tommy for us at home, so the rest of the evening I just spent playing with Tommy, my neice and nephew and visiting with SIL. 

TOMMY UPDATE:

Tommy is feeling better now, finally.  He is doing so many new cute things that i haven't been able to share with you all.  He is just learning so many new things.   He has about 5 songs that he sings a line of or so.  It is really cute.   He does ITsy Bitsy Spider, ABC (says random letters), Barney Song, EIEI (Old MacDonald).  It is so funny.   He is finding out that climbing is great fun.  He fell off the recliner onto his head a couple of days ago.  He isn't signing much anymore, though yesterday he used the sign for Book for the first time.  He is really focusing on talking now.  He says a ton of stuff, though I can't figure out half of it.  He has a 4 piece wooden knob puzzle and he has fingured out how to put it together now.  He love puzzles and stuff like that.  And of course he has a VERY STRONG love for books.   We spend most of our evenings reading stories over and over and over again.    He will bring you a book about every 5 minutes.  We have a row of them on a table in the lving room and he will go over to it and grab one book, look at the cover and decide if that is the one he wants or not.  If not, he whips it onto the floor and looks for the one he wants!   He is a lot of fun right now.  We are all enjoying him so much.  He is just getting this fantastic little personality, very easy goin and loving like his Daddy.  I ordered him a Bible Rhyme book so maybe he will like that and it will be something new for us to read.  He also LVOES ELMO's WORLD.  We check the videos out at the library and will watch one of the litle 15 minute segements every other day or so.  He is always so excited to watch them.   This weekend I am goign to try to tape the segments of Elmo's World off of the TV as he doesn't need to watch the entire show, it really is just Elmo's World that he is into.   We found hime two Elmo World flap books at 1/2 books, so those are a new favorite!  He loves big flap books!!

Well, Josh just woke up to head to school, so I think it is time for me to get ready for work and head out.   I should make it to the office before 8:00 at this rate.  LOL!!   Just means I can come home earlier, probably a good plan. 

TO DO WEDNESDAY:

• Dollar Tree - New Mom Stuff & Albums for Julie


• Sale Items from Cub


• Pop From Target

No Families First this week, so relax at home in the evening. 
 

OK, Ok...Ok.....Don't worry everyone I barely did anything on my list today!   I am still not myself at all.   I was exhausted by the time I got Tommy dropped off to work and got to my office.  ARGH!!  

I think Mrs_Ann_A identified me the best in her comments.  I truly am a person who has a hard time just sitting still.  So not being able to do the things I need drives me insane.  But I am taking it easy as the Intensive Care Unit junk was way too scary!  

So today I went to work, I was there for about 3 hours maybe.  I forgot to bring my nebulizer so I had to head home.  I was exhausting jsut getting there anyways.  I did stop in at the Dollar Tree (my new fav store) before going into my office.  I found some great things for the little education program we are starting with Tommy.  I will discuss when I have more of an idea what I am going to do, but I found these little photo albums for $1.00 that I can put in index cards and make our own books.  Tommy LOVES books, so we make to make some special ones for him of like the things he likes, ELMO, Pics of Family, Pics of animals, etc.  Not sure hubby is so happy with more books..LOL!!   Tommy will bring you a book to read to him about every 5 mintues.  He loves to be read to, so we spend most of our eveings on the floor with a pile of books.  Luckily we went to the library and found a few new ones today.  Mommy and Daddy are going tired of the same books.  He loves Maisy Lift the Flap books and anything Elmo. I also picked up all my Easter Supplies.  I did forget a couple of things, which I will pick up tomorrow. 

I left work around 1:00 and high tailed it home to Neb.  Then we ran to the bank and library, just in time to get to my Dr appointment at 3:00.  Argh...what a Dr appoint!!   The Dr was running late, she saw us at about 3:30.  She actually was quite surprised that I haven't "turned around".  SHe thought I would be much better by now.  So wait to have blood work to recheck my potassium and then X-ray to see if maybe i have pneumonia now.  Both were fine.  My Dr, who is wonderful and takes such time explaining things to me.  Decided that I should go on an antibiotic jsut in case as I should be getting better.  Also she restarted me on the Predisone pack, back to the original dose and try tapering about.  She gave me more cough syrup with codiene and refilled my nebs.  I still had enough of the other meds.  So she called in the scripts to the clinic pharmacy while I got lab and x-ray done. 

I go to pick up the scripts and one of the nebs, they don'e carry so they have to order it.  I can't wait as I am totally out of this med.   So Dr says to ask the pharmacy to call the hopsital to see if they have more as that is where I got my first script at discharge.  Well the pharmacy tell me we don't know the number....end of story.  Argh...I go back to the Dr and her nurse calls the hospital and gets my med refilled and says I can pick it up on the way home.  It is now 5:00 and we have to pick up Tommy at daycare and get to the hospital by 6:00 to pick up the meds before they close.  ARGH!!!

We get Tommy race to the hospital to find they have two different pharmacies there.  Of course i didn't go to the correct one first!  ARGH!!   Needless to say, I got my meds, but what a run around.   We stop at the grocery store to get a deli chicken for supper and get home around 6:30.   What a long Dr ordeal day!!!!

So I am exhausted and am going in late to work tomorrow and will only work 5 hours or so.  After supper I spent the eveing reading books to Tommy (as always).  Right before bed he was digging in the library bag to get a book and found a Video I had checked out for him.  Elmo's World!!  So he and I curled up in my bed and watch the first little episode before calling it a night.  

He is now fast asleep and I am heading right to bed now!!   Thanks everyone for stopping by and thinking of me during this difficult time in my life.   I hope to be healthy and myself soon!  

Monday morning and back to my regularly scheduled life.....I am returning to work this morning for at least 1/2 a day.  I do have a Dr. Appointment at 3:00 to go to. 

I didn't sleep very well last night, I think it is all the meds.  I need to neb, take meds and shower and I will be ready to head out.   Takes a while with this meb to get ready as it takes 15 minutes to do each time.   I think I will take my extra Neb machine to work with me, jsut in case today.  I haven't gone more than about 5 hours without nebing. 

MONDAY TO DO:

•  Clean Out Fridge (things growing in there from when I was in hospital)


• Make Menu


• Photos in Book


• Change Sheets


• Take out all Trash
  
• Dust
  
• Sweep - Kitchen, bathrooms, and entryway
  
• Vacuum - living Room
  
• Mop
  
• Mirrors and Doors

ERRANDS