A Long Time....

It has been quite a while since I have posted any updates. It has been super busy!

We had Cole baptized in March....about time, poor kid! It went well and Cole played in the holy water. :) Later that week Jay's mom had gotten sick. She had fallen at home and long story short was septic (blood infection) and was put ICU. She was in acute renal failure and was new onset diabetic. She was septic because a hernia she had for more than 30 years became incarcerated (part of the bowel gets tied off and dies). She ended up going to surgery which they did the day after she was hospitalized because she was so unstable that first night (she was in septic shock). Even the second day the doctor's did not think that she would be able to come off the ventilator post-op. Luckily she did. She has made an amazing recovery. She went to rehab for a few weeks and then was able to go home. Home was pretty rough at first, but luckily she is back to herself now.

Nathan is doing well. He was potty trained for almost a month prior to Jay's mom getting sick (with exception of nap time and bed time). However, once Jay's mom was sick, he has had zero interest. I think it was just getting off of our routine. He continues speech therapy twice a week and has made some more progress. He still has a long way to go...a definitive delay remains. He's just such a little boy now. I love him to pieces....even when he is having a moment!

Cole has been our little trouble maker in more ways than one. He just gets into things and does things that Nathan even thought of. His health still has been an on going issue. With the exception of a few weeks, he just can not seem to come off of the nebulizer treatments. Every time he does something triggers his "asthma"......a cold, the weather, etc. The past few weeks have been particularly challenging. On top of his chronic wheezing, he has also had this chest congestion/secretions that makes him sound like he is drowning. He has no other symptoms of a cold. He got put back on top of the oral steroid-Prednisone along with the 3-5 nebulizer treatments.....not fun! He normally responds well with the Prednisone, this time he was not. After a trip to the ER and his pediatrician's office (again), he ended up having a chest x-ray. No pneumonia thankfully. However, the pediatrician's put him on an antibiotic (Augmentin) anyway and he has responded well to that. Since the antibiotic he sounds so much better....something bacterial was going on. He still has his chronic wheezing, so they have referred him to a pediatric pulmonologist. He will go in June. They also wanted him to have an upper GI series (Barium Swallow test) to rule out reflux. He had that yesterday at Albany Med and they told me unofficially that it looked fine....no reflux. I think I was secretly hoping it would be reflux so that he could be medicated and be better. This asthma diagnosis is just so much more complicated and he just seems to be a very sensitive asthmatic. We will see if the specialist can get it under control better! Good news is he started walking last month and is booking around now pretty fast. He also has his first birthday fast approaching!

As for Jay and I. We are both doing fine. Nothing really to report. We just have been so busy between our work schedules, the kids and Jay's mom. We are trying to plan a vacation right now (with the kids) and can't wait to just get away for a while. We did have three large trees taken out in the backyard thanks to the December ice storm and JJ's Tree Service. We have been busy working on cleaning up the backyard in time for Cole's first birthday party in a few weeks.

Hope all is well with everyone!