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Daily O's Tuesday Dec 1st

hondachicc

hondachicc

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Hi Ladies!!!

Starting this off with GREAT news today!!!!

As of last night around 9 pm Savannah was going to have surgery at 10:30 this morning!! But they just came to assess her again, and they say that the anitbiotics are finally doing their job and she improved about 35% overnight...so NO surgery!!!! What a super relief!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you all for praying for, and sending postivie thoughts for our little one here!!! If she keeps improving at this rate, she will probably come home tomorrow evening.

I have been so nervous all morning....I didn't sleep hardly any last night, didn't go to bed until 2 and was back up at 5:30....I got Cameran to school and then I have been cleaning up a storm (nervous energy!!)...It's not even 9:00 and I have vacuumed my whole house, done 2 loads of laundry, changed the sheets on the beds...and getting ready to mop the kitchen floor (again...I am a little OCD about the kitchen floor!!) Clean the bathrooms and dust....I have done a weeks worth of chores all in 3 hours!! Maybe I can scrap today...I am seeing fabulous new challenges already!!!!!!!!

I hope everyone had a fabulous day today!!!:D
 
Linda that is AWESOME news!!!!! I'm so glad that things are turning around for Savannah! :)

I'm hoping today goes a little more smoothly as I get readjusted to being back in the office after a nice long break. I'm having trouble concentrating on anything though as I got a call a few minutes ago that one of my neighbors had to call an ambulance for her husband who had suddenly started having severe pain and throwing up and then couldn't move. I'm hopeful that it is not too serious as the paramedics helped her to put him in her car so she could drive him to the ER. Now I'm trying to keep myself occupied while I wait to hear of any updates.
 
LindaW - I was thinking of Savannah early this morning hoping she wouldn't need surgery - so glad to hear she's getting better without surgery.

Jaime - Sounds like the paramedics don't think it's too serious otherwise they would have taken him themselves. It could be whole host of things that may need ER but aren't life-threatening if taken care of relatively quickly (kidney stones, ruptured appendix, spider bite are all possibilities, depending on the pain location). I wouldn't worry too much, though.

Hope everyone else is having a happy start to December!
 
Whoohoo for Savanna! I am so thankful to hear that she is improving. That is awesome. The thought of surgery on such a little girl had to be so overwhelming for you guys. I'm glad she is getting better. Do you guys know how she got the infection? Did it just show up or was it a bite or cut or something? Infections are so weird. Sometimes they have a reason for showing up and sometimes they don't. I'm glad you are able to be productive instead of biting your fingers down to nothing, although I am sorry you were unable to sleep. Maybe you can get a nap later or something.

Jaime - that is crazy about your neighbor. Too bad they didn't just take the ambulance in. Then they would go right into a room instead of having to wait in the lobby. I hope he is okay.

So, I got a bunch of sleep last night. I went to bed super early. It was really nice. I woke up for a minute at 2 and started wondering if I was going to wake up and not fall back asleep but before I finished the thought I fell back asleep. I think everyone slept well last night in my house. Yay!! But then this morning as we were about to head out the door to the bus stop Ethan ran in to the bathroom and said his tummy hurt and from the sounds he was making in there I had to agree. So, he's at my neighbor's house. I couldn't bring him to work with me today, unfortunately.

So, my neighbor with the 4 grandkids living with her and the bi-polar daughter is having to go to court again this Friday. The daughter keeps having these big plans of how she thinks things should go. My neighbor is very easily manipulated by her and it is very sad. The daughter, I don't think, should ever get the kids back. It is just not a safe environment. While she is going through all of this with the courts, she put an ambien in her husbands beer, which resulted in him getting in his car and almost causing an accident and she thought it was funny. So much counseling needs to be going on there, along with some marriage counseling between the grandparents to work on getting them on the same page but I don't know if it will ever happen. My neighbor just shuts down. We'll see how it all goes on Friday. The judge is no way sending the kids home with the parents. She had to call the bailiff on the dad at one point and she reamed them at the last court date. But the daughter seems to have some big plan to keep two of the kids. I just don't get how some people think, but how do you understand the thinking of people who are mentally ill. If it made sense they would be normal.

Well, I have to take some silly online classes for work so I'd better get off of here. I'll coma back and chat more later. Ciao.
 
Hooray, Linda! Great stuff! OOh, I'm going to have to go check out the challenges. I've been challenge/challenged lately. LOL

Jaime, I hope your neighbor is okay! Yikes!

I hardly slept last night either, but it was just because of Genny. She has bouts of not sleeping and we are in one right now. I thought she'd do great last night because she didn't nap all day, having been in school during her regular nap time, but she fell asleep at 9:30, woke up at midnight, and tossed and turned till 5:30. I'm a super light sleeper, so having her in my bed while she's tossing and turning keeps me awake. And she won't stay in her bed when she's like that. Grrr... Hopefully our appointment with the developmental pediatrician will help with that. I've been doing lots of internet searching, and I'm going to ask them to do some genetic testing on her. We never had any genetic screening done, even though it's pretty routine for an "advanced maternal age" pregnancy (I was 38 when she was born), because we were moving back to the states from Germany during the time when those tests are usually done. She doesn't fit the profile for autism or really anything else.

ANYWAY, right now I need to get my shower and some coffee and then get these girls to school. After that I'm off to the post office, and then I.. ahem, get ready for it..

I think I will go to Starbuck's and sit down with a cup of coffee and a book. By myself.

The very idea makes me giddy.
 
Wow, so I wrote my post this morning before I left home, and when I got home it was still trying to post. Weird.
 
Oh Linda! I'm so happy for your little Savanah! Keep praying and sending positive thoughts!!! Just wanted to came here and tell you that! :)
 
oh yes Linda!!! what fantastic news about Savannah!! so relieved that she doesn't have to have surgery!! the waiting is just terrible I know!!!

when my daughter was 20 months she caught a staph infection, she fine in the afternoon playing and what not, had an afternoon nap and when she woke up she was feverish and had white pimples on her lips and tongue.............20 minutes later they were all inside her mouth.

took her to emergency where they admitted her straightway. 3 hours later the doctors were trying to work out just what the bacterial infection was, by now her mouth was just covered in ulcers and her fever so sky high. by midnight the doctors were still frantically tryin to identify the germ, and now the ulcers had reached her throat.

they were worried that the infection would reach her lungs which would have proved fatal. at 1.00am they came into the room and started her on a particular family of anitbiotics that would work on the particular strain of staph which they finally were able to identify...........

at 3.00am she was still a very sick little girl, the doctors at that point warned me that the antibiotics may not work in time! I was at the hopital alone, my husband was home with our eldest boy, there were no mobile phones back then and we didn't have the phone on at home so I couldn't even ring to talk to him. I felt so alone and scared, really was the worst night of my life!

at 6.00am she finally started to show some improvement, by 10.00am she was 'out of the woods' and at 1.00pm she was moved out of the intensive care unit into an ordinary bed! I was like a zombie as I had not slept one wink, holding my little one's whole time and the doctors and nurses in and out!

she was there for nearly a week and it was just terrible to see, every morning they had to bathe her ulcerated lips open and the smell! ugh! but they finally let her come home and it was such a wonderful feeling carrying her out of that hospital! so yes, I know what you and your family must have gone through and just how thankful and happy you are now!!

so you need to give that little girl a great big squeeze from this gradma over the miles and whisper "welcome back darling" . xo
 
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Oh ladies Thank You so much!!!! You are all such a blessing!!!

Ona...how horrible for you!!! I can't imagine...what a horrible and fast moving infection!! I am so glad things worked out okay in the end....but can only imagine being alone and scared that way! (((HUGS))) to you my friend!! and I will give my little princess an Ona hug!!!

Clara...it started just as one of those little red bumps that babies get on their bottom...that was Friday night, and then Saturday morning she woke up it was infected...Dr says that it JUST HAPPENS...and their is nothing you can do to prevent it. He said that they did not do anything wrong, and there was not anything that could have been done to stop it from happening.

Okay...so I will get more personal with you guys in the morning....(((HUGS))
Love each and every one of you girls!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Yay for little Savannah. Sounds like she just might be as tough as her Nana...and I know she's just as sweet!

Soco, how is your little one?
 
Wow Ona!! What a story! I am so glad that it had a happy ending too. Those staph infections are so scary and they go like that to. Start as something little that seems like nothing and then BAM they are scary and out of control. Linda, same thing with poor little Savanna! Sometimes there isn't even a little bumb. My FIL had cellulitis and had no idea what started it and it is supposed to be caused in a similar fashion. I am so glad that she is healing and is receptive to the antibiotics. It is so crazy how that stuff starts.
 
so it's super late and i just wanted to pop in and say a quick hi and yay again for savannah...

i've been there in the hospital with a baby wondering if... and i just THANK GOD that the if never happened!! so HUGS to both of you, Linda and Ona!!
 
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