Bonni's

 

Here we go again....

 

Just as things are beginning to perk up - got the basement liveable, and both kids' rooms organized, decluttered, furniture set-up and cleaned, dog is not going to die from the KFC, I'm starting to sleep - Rai is crashing again.

 

Looks like he's had a week to rid his body of the antibiotics and the pain and fever is back with a vengance. The dr's office jsut got in touch with CHEO today who would like us to have some evaluation done locally before heading to Ottawa. Called the dr. at home (bad me, I know...it was either that or Emerg for the night) who called in a stronger, longer prescription and we caught Rai's fever before it went past 104F. Guess who will be the first call to the drs on Monday morning...have to book him in for something at the first of the week to hopefully get an ultrasound for his tummy by the end of the week.

 

Thanks for your kind wishes...

 

Hi all...

 

Sorry to neglect you. During the day, I feel like crawling into bed; during the night I can't get to sleep...I swear, my head hits the pillow at 11pm and I suddenly have enough energy to do laundry, plan lessons and plug away at the basement.

 

So, the short story...waiting for Raiden's referral. I meant to call the office today at 3:50 (a really great time to call our office...really...I'll explain another time). But I didn't. I was driving to get Brian.

 

Basement progress is being made...although slowly...I can get into the laundry room now. Well, sort of, I washed all the delicates so flimsy bits are strewn about drying. I re-cleaned the basement hallway today and moved the crib out of the back room. It's going to moms...I'm having issues with that. Kori's new bed is set up..her room is still a disorganized mess. Big bed set up downstairs...I like having the 'stiff bed' option sometimes. Although, I'm a big suck now and sleep better with another body next to me rather than without. Even on the waterbed.

 

Kids seem ok...Rai's not sleeping through the night...although, it is rare when he does. Of course everything he does now set me to thinking nasty thoughts. Their activities are going well...Rai would really like to do Indoor soccer...however it is on Tuesday nights at 6 one week, 7 the next. So he would only go to alternate Beaver meetings. Conundrum. Also  waiting for the hockey schedule to be finalized.

 

I made a Blog over at HomeschoolingBlogger. I haven't blogged anyhting...but I put a site counter on it and apparently people are stopping by even though it is blank...odd. Although, it is neat to sit and look over a blog and then hit the "Random Blog" key...so maybe people are just ramdomly happening upon my page. Curious either way. www.homeschoolblogger.com/Bonni I'll probably keep this one going for pics and such, until I figure it out over there...but I'm feeling pretty blah about everything...so I don't know.

 

Since it's 11:30pm and I"ve been fighting a headache all day...I'll give the short and sweet version.

 

We've done next to no school work except to keep up with our reading and outside activities. We've been in the basement, cleaning & organizing and feeding Raiden all week. Basement is coming along. Should be able to make some more progress tomorrow. Perhaps I should set a goal to finish it completely this weekend...but that would be ambitious.

 

Dr. Ashe called tonight. I was sort of hoping we wouldn't hear from him. Rai is feeling better. He finished the antibiotics last night. He probably overdid it a little today as we had a busy day with little to no downtime for him. He went to bed with a bad stomach ache. Anyway, Dr. says his culture showed a penicillan resistant bacteria that can show up as a urine infection (among other wonderful things). It is not very common. It shows up in primarily immunocompromised people. The bacteria is naturally present in the gut. But it wreaks a bit of havok when it escapes into your system. And the big question is: why is it escaping the gut? Which, it seems, Dr. Ashe is wanting to find the answer to. He needs to read up on whether the antibiotic Rai was on actually knocks this infection down or not...it apparently is a very picky bacteria that is not easy to be rid of. We need to go in for more testing on Monday morning to have another set of cultures for comparison. Brian is not a happy camper, so I will take the 'git-er-done guy' part on this one, I guess. Googling the bacterial infection is just about as good as when I was Googling 'Limping Toddler' and we ended up in CHEO. Poor little guy...it seems he's always got the short end. This week I came across a picture of him in his little cast from the summer he dislocated his elbow and they messed around with it so much at Emerg that Dr. Swanson put him in a cast for a month. Anyway...we'll see what happens on next week. Hopefully he doesn't go downhill over the weekend...I've got him all geared up to start back to school work and hockey.

 

Nanny Elane is visiting this weekend. We're due to celebrate her birthday out at the farm this weekend. And my new Stampin Up stamps are all ready to go with my new scrapbooking supplies...unfortunately, I neglected to get cleaner to get the ink off the stamps..at least I remembered before I used them. I'll have to get Jennifer to give me her Cheap Version Recipe. Oh well, I have the basement to finish anyway.

 

Raiden is somewhat improved. His tests revealed an increased white count, but with the antibiotics started before the urinalysis completed, it's hard to tell exaxtly what he was fighting. The fevers have stopped and today he was motivated to play with some of his toys. After a huge nap, he thought he might make an appearance at Beavers tonight. He stayed for the whole hour...but only because there was lots of sit down stuff, he said. He also was not impressed with the noise. My poor, sheltered children. They're not used to 9 screaming boys in a small enclosed space...Is that pleasant for anyone...really?? He has also found some appitite, so that is encouraging.

 

Kori started Guides last night. There were fewer people there that she knew and more of them in uniform than she expected. So I was treated to the 'old' Kori who put on the brakes and nearly refused to attend. She did stay and by the time we picked her up, she was happy and had collected the names and numbers of a few girls. It hink we'll go up to Ktown this weekend and get her uniform. Today my mom came by and collected Kori for an afternoon of errands. She was supposed to take her out to the house to sew, however, that plan turned in to 'errands in town until 4'. She should be home by bedtime.

 

The leadership of the kids' activities seems to be much improved compared to last year. I hope swimming follows suit.

 

I am off to bath His Majesty and remind him that the servitude is not a new fangled parenting plan...it was just a temporary measure to keep him alive during his illness. I think a 2-day wean is in order. We started today with eating at the table and will continue tomorrow with less tv and more getting dressed.

 

Imagine the possibilities....