Just to let you know what's going on...

Eli's reflux hadn't improved. So Monday we made an appointment to take him back into the doctor - only I woke up with a fever and feeling like crap, so I stayed home with Cayden and Jeremy went. Good news is, they switched Eli's medicine and he's a whole new baby. Bad news is, I got hit with some crap that I'm pretty sure was out to kill me (and I'm pretty sure it was the flu.) Tuesday night I woke up with a fever of 107 (Jeremy didn't believe me when I told him, so he retook my temp, and my thermometer wouldn't even give him a reading, it just said "high".) I really don't think I've ever been this sick in my life - I've been sick for longer with mono and some sort of weird stomach bug, but I don't think my sickness was ever this extreme.

Obviously I lived, ha ha. However, you know what happens when one person in the house gets sick... Jeremy is now sick, Eli started running a low grade fever but seems to be fine today, but Cayden... My poor Cayden who has only been sick with one ear infection in his whole life got it. And he got hit hard. At first I didn't think it was going to hit him - he had a fever and a slight cough but it didn't stop the tornado and he was still running around like mad. However, I knew when he fell asleep ON me (something he hasn't done in probably a year - or longer) that we were in trouble. Last night was a very rough and scary night where I got very little sleep but didn't even really feel all that tired because I think I was just running on fear. I know that may sound dramatic but if you could have heard Cayden's breathing... We called the pedi, and she said that we could take him into the ER or wait until the offices was open - but she suggested if we could get him back to sleep we just wait. By this time it was 2 AM and when we took Eli to the ER we were there for 6 hours, and in 6 hours the doctor's office would be open. So we waited.

Cayden has croup and an ear infection. He's much better already - they gave him a steroid injection at the doctor's office and it seems to be helping. Eli still seems like he's not getting whatever we got (knock on wood - breastmilk PLEASE do your job!) but that's where I've been.

Promises promises, eh?

First off, again, I am so so sorry. I know you all say I don't have to apologize or give an explanation, and I appreciate that, but I want you all to know that I do appreciate your understanding and let you guys know what's going on.

It's been a rough couple of days. Cayden sort of came down with something... He's only been actually sick once, but every once in awhile he gets hit with... I dunno, just not feeling good? Sometimes he has a fever, this time he didn't, but he was coughing a little and you could tell by how he talked that he throat was raw and probably hurt - and he wasn't eating much. He also wasn't sleeping too hot and for a second we worried that he had an ear infection but I think it was just some random thing. Last night he seemed better and even slept through the night.

Eli, however, did horrible last night. He just had his one month check up today (2 weeks late because of the holidays) and he was diagnosed with reflux. Not a huge deal, lots of babies have it and lots of babies grow out of it. But lately he hasn't been sleeping well (it either seems to take him forever to go down, or he wakes up early. Last night was a combination of both - I couldn't get him to go down till 1:30, then Jeremy was up with him twice, and then I got up with him at 5:30 and stayed up with him till 8.) He was given a prescription today and I'm hoping it makes things easier for him. While the lack of sleep for me sucks, I can deal with it, I'm just really upset because he does this cry and you can tell he's in pain and it breaks my heart because there's nothing I can do about it.

So, basically, Jeremy hasn't had time to fix my word yet (which still isn't working.) and even if he had, I don't think I'd have time to post. I'm not going to promise when another post will go up, just keep checking back. Hopefully this prescription works, Eli goes back to sleeping decently, and then Jeremy can fix my word and I can post.

Expect a post later tonight or tomorrow. I know I've said that before - it would have been up now, only for some reason my word where everything is saved, is locking me out, not letting me edit or copy and paste anything.

I swear, this blog is cursed, things keep popping up that keep me from posting. Jeremy said he'll just re-install it tonight, which should fix the issue... So maybe I shouldn't say expect a post today or tomorrow... If he fixes it, then expect a post today or tomorrow. If not... Well, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I guess re-write it?

I know I keep saying this, and I know it's got to be getting annoying, but really, thanks for hanging in there. I really keep telling myself that soon we'll get into the hang of things, and I'm really hoping it happens sooner rather than later.