Saturday, April 16, 2011
The Evolution of Nijas

The Boy Says "MOM! Did you see that awesome commercial with ninjas who have lightsabers?"
Me "No."
He replies "Well, that's probably the natural evolution of ninja's don't you agree? Lightsabers? They'll probably all become Jedi."
Ummmm, yes?
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Lil' Satchmo
The Evolution of Nijas

The Boy Says "MOM! Did you see that awesome commercial with ninjas who have lightsabers?"
Me "No."
He replies "Well, that's probably the natural evolution of ninja's don't you agree? Lightsabers? They'll probably all become Jedi."
Ummmm, yes?
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Lil' Satchmo
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sidelined

About 2pm on Monday, my stomach started to hurt. Nothing epic, more of a "man I have a tummy ache" sort of hurt. It progressed as I went through my day into a "If I could just throw up I am sure I'd feel better" sort of discomfort, gradually moving into pain.
By 7pm it had ratcheted up into some major sort of pain. The sort that might actually be gas and make you feel quite stupid about kicking up a terrible fuss over. But, it got steadily worse. I took some of the baby's gas drops, no lie I did. I drank some hot tea which two drinks of set me on fire.
And then I started throwing up.
At which point the husband drove me to the ER.
After getting admitted to the ER and hooked up with an I.V they immediately pushed in some painkillers and some anti nausea something or other as I'd also barfed in their waiting room and during triage. (I was feeling MIGHTY pretty). It was an amazing feeling, whatever they gave me went WHOOOSH up the back of my skull and immediately I was feeling floaty and fine.
This lasted about 20 minutes or so.
Then, suddenly, the pain went like this HELLO I AM BACK NAO!
And I was dying again.
They gave me something to drink, something with lidocaine in it and it lasted about 10 minutes before the pain came screaming back as well.
So - more went into the I.V.
I was fairly loopy by that time. I slept some. They came in and did Ultrasound and Xray - which I also mostly slept through and then the pain came back and I got MORE drugs. By then, I was full fledged zombie.
It's fun to text people when you're completely whacked on meds. I don't have most of my contacts in my new phone yet, so don't be sad if I didn't text ya.
I spent yesterday in an drug induced haze but today I feel good enough to be hungry. But NOT great.
Friday I go to the gastro doctor to talk to him and to most likely set up an appointment to get a scope down my throat. I hope I can keep the pics. I'll TOTALLY BLOG THEM.
Gross, eh?
Can't help it.
Till then, bland diet. No caffeine, no CHOCOLATE (bastards), nothing GOOD to eat at all.
I had a dream my husband made me appetizers of saltines with mashed potatoes on top.
That's a sign of things to come.......isn't it.
OH - and our money is on ULCER.
Feel free to leave your best in the comments.
Sidelined

About 2pm on Monday, my stomach started to hurt. Nothing epic, more of a "man I have a tummy ache" sort of hurt. It progressed as I went through my day into a "If I could just throw up I am sure I'd feel better" sort of discomfort, gradually moving into pain.
By 7pm it had ratcheted up into some major sort of pain. The sort that might actually be gas and make you feel quite stupid about kicking up a terrible fuss over. But, it got steadily worse. I took some of the baby's gas drops, no lie I did. I drank some hot tea which two drinks of set me on fire.
And then I started throwing up.
At which point the husband drove me to the ER.
After getting admitted to the ER and hooked up with an I.V they immediately pushed in some painkillers and some anti nausea something or other as I'd also barfed in their waiting room and during triage. (I was feeling MIGHTY pretty). It was an amazing feeling, whatever they gave me went WHOOOSH up the back of my skull and immediately I was feeling floaty and fine.
This lasted about 20 minutes or so.
Then, suddenly, the pain went like this HELLO I AM BACK NAO!
And I was dying again.
They gave me something to drink, something with lidocaine in it and it lasted about 10 minutes before the pain came screaming back as well.
So - more went into the I.V.
I was fairly loopy by that time. I slept some. They came in and did Ultrasound and Xray - which I also mostly slept through and then the pain came back and I got MORE drugs. By then, I was full fledged zombie.
It's fun to text people when you're completely whacked on meds. I don't have most of my contacts in my new phone yet, so don't be sad if I didn't text ya.
I spent yesterday in an drug induced haze but today I feel good enough to be hungry. But NOT great.
Friday I go to the gastro doctor to talk to him and to most likely set up an appointment to get a scope down my throat. I hope I can keep the pics. I'll TOTALLY BLOG THEM.
Gross, eh?
Can't help it.
Till then, bland diet. No caffeine, no CHOCOLATE (bastards), nothing GOOD to eat at all.
I had a dream my husband made me appetizers of saltines with mashed potatoes on top.
That's a sign of things to come.......isn't it.
OH - and our money is on ULCER.
Feel free to leave your best in the comments.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A Place To Just Be Us
On Saturday the local Autism Support group held a family cookout event and we packed up the troops and went over.
Here is what is great about it.
We're not THOSE people. The ones you are staring at because you can't quite figure out what is going on at our table. Why are those big kids in diapers? Why are they drinking from sippee cups?
What is going ON?
Well, we've got two autistic kids yeah two baby. They were buy one get one free in the delivery room. What can I say?
It's such a wonderful organization. There was fishing provided and we even got to touch yucky fish and you know how great THAT was?
And there were horses to ride which surprisingly was a BIG hit.
And it was just NICE. Nice not to be the crazy people in a room. Rather, we're just like everyone else, a bit off. But it was really nice.
It's hard to explain to other people, because when they aren't your kids, you don't really FEEL the eyeballs.
For a few hours on Saturday, we were just like everyone else.
It was awesome.
A Place To Just Be Us
On Saturday the local Autism Support group held a family cookout event and we packed up the troops and went over.
Here is what is great about it.
We're not THOSE people. The ones you are staring at because you can't quite figure out what is going on at our table. Why are those big kids in diapers? Why are they drinking from sippee cups?
What is going ON?
Well, we've got two autistic kids yeah two baby. They were buy one get one free in the delivery room. What can I say?
It's such a wonderful organization. There was fishing provided and we even got to touch yucky fish and you know how great THAT was?
And there were horses to ride which surprisingly was a BIG hit.
And it was just NICE. Nice not to be the crazy people in a room. Rather, we're just like everyone else, a bit off. But it was really nice.
It's hard to explain to other people, because when they aren't your kids, you don't really FEEL the eyeballs.
For a few hours on Saturday, we were just like everyone else.
It was awesome.








