Kawaskai Ninja

Really who knew a little over two years ago I would be giving birth to a modern day ninja! And let me tell you the intiation is enough to kill you. Well as most of my 5 followers know last monday Rocky was admitted to UNMH for what is called kawasaki's disease. I was freaked out when Dr. Gallegos told me that I'm like disease! everyone in a 500 mile radius then googled it we probably raised its google factor up 100%. So before I get a head of myself I will start from the beginning.

This is rocky when we first entered the hospital looking back I had no idea he looked this sick.

This was after he was examined and we were awaiting the treaded IV it took 5 times. My big boy did so good though.

Continuation from the hive story. So rocky broke out in bad hives but through change of meds and lots of showers I had felt that he was getting better. He originally had bloodshot eyes and that seemed to go down to a pink color and his chapped lips beck and I felt were getting better with constant supervision. Well monday came and I was trying to decided if I felt it was right to have rocky go back to the doctor so I decided to call of course I left a message antispating that I would be here from a nurse and then Dr. Gallegos called personally we discussed this weekends events and he decided to have me come in and kinda said that he thought it was kawasaki's. I called beckett and he was working in the library on campus and had no signal so I was getting CRAZY! so I called his boss and then started to cry on the phone and then 1 minute later beck was on the phone and headed our way.
When we got there we were seen right away and Dr. Gallegos examined rocky and showed us some pictures of other kids in a medical journal that had kawasaki's and we all decided that was what he had. He called UNMH to get us a bed so we did have to wait in ER for all night and by the end of monday We were in the hospital for a 4 day 3 night stay.

In short Kawasaki's is a disease that only effects kids under 5 and is not contagous or heritary and they don't exactly know how you get it. one dr said they think its like a viral infection. It's where your anitbodies start attacking everything. We are treated with IVIG (cousin to a blood transfusion) that takes 8-12 hours to take through an IV. Antibiotics and High Doses of asprin. It takes 6-7weeks for them to truly be cured. only 2% of childs with the disease are effected by it again and it can cause some heart problems so we will be make in july for a cardiograph to see if there was any.


just after the IV watching some tv and loving melmo

It was really hard to go through not being able to console your child. me holding his arms and head beckett his feet and proceeding to give him his meds or the IV. Him just sitting in his bed for a good 20 hours out of the day because he was so sick. I am grateful for Rocky he is so good. As you all know he has been potty training since the week before his birthday May one. And while we were there in the middle of the night he would say momma poo poo pee pee and then go to the bathroom. What an awesome little boy I made.


I asked our nurse if he could be off the IV for like 10 minutes so he could walk around on day 2

The nurse thought he was hilarious because just at the sight of them he would start growling at them or he would say NO HI when they came in. But over all I think they all thought he was super cute. Child life is a place where the hospitals kids can play with toys and go outside so on our last day rock and I spent alot of time there.

Day 4 this is at petes playground at the childs life at UNM we spent lots of time there.

He is not 100% yet but I would say he probably 89% and increasing everyday. It was rough and hard at times but now I have a true ninja! hiya! Enjoy the montage...

In the end I'm super thankful for all the hospital staff that treated rock and that he turned out healthly and they knew how to treat him. But I am super duper thankful for or ped's dr Dr. Gallegos he knew what it was right away and took care of us and even called me the day after he were admitted to see how Rockwell was doing. Post in the future will be of a hilarious health happy Rocky!

P.S. on day three he went a little insane and I had a mental breakdown I had not left the hospital til he left and we were both stressed so when my mom came to help I told her he had jungle fever. What can I say I was going insane.

Always.

Lami

Small things that make all the difference

I love being rocks mother, it is very exciting and I get back more love then I put out. Unfortunately I must say that turns out to be a double edge sword...how you ask.

This past few days have been rough last march rock got a small ear infection and was treated with antibiotics no biggy, went back to normal rock terrorizing anything and all and then wanting to mamy some where along the way. However two/three days ago him and I were running errands and he would say "hold this" and stop me in my tracks and I would say "hold me?" And he would respond "hold me" which at the time I thought nothing I works hold him and walk to our designation.

However, shortly after that day he started to have a fever over night it spiked to 103 I thought another ear infection but didn't want it to be true. So we waited a day and tried to being his fever down with children's Walmart brand tylenol. And then the worse thing happened he was getting a rash we first thought maybe it was a heat rash but then over time you could see they were hives. My baby boy was covered in hives the worse part was probably under his neck. Ouch! So then we realized he needed to be seen by our wonderful awesome Dr gallegos! What was the verdict double ear infection and he was probably allergic to the dye in the tylenol. Weird!?! My kind loving husband took him to the doctor and has been nursing him back to health since. I sometimes think man it would be so hard to do this alone. I am so thankful to have beck with me for eternity even if sometimes we want to run away. Sometimes he does but just to the bedroom.

The hardest part for me with rock being sick is I do sometimes cry because he is so sick and he is so hot with his fever and all of that, and then I struggle because from the moment I return from work or when he wakes up at night he just wants to be held by "momma" and then we continue in his favorite conversation that goes something like this:

"Hi Momma".... "Hi Rock"
a few seconds go by.
"Hi Momma"... "Hi Rock"

and we do this for what seems like eternity. and we have this conversations multiple times a day. its one of our favorite subjects. He is a genius ;). I love that he wants me to cuddle and hold but its rough. He won't even let beck hold him. Double edge sword!

{ also just as a side bar another one of my favorite intellectual conversations we have goes like this.

"rock do you want some milk"
"no milk"
"ok"
"NO milk"
"got it"
"NO MILK MOMMA"
"I'M NOT GETTING ANY MILK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRINK MILK"

I'm telling you genius (both of us) but I'm back to the original subject. }

I'm blessed that we have such an amazing family support system to help us when in need. We often think about moving away when beck is done with school but its nerve racking knowing we will go somewhere we won't have that support of immediate family.

WARNING THE NEXT PHOTO IS GRAPHIC IT IS OF ROCKS RASH.....also it's come to my attention that his pose is a little provocative I'm sorry...laugh out loud

this was the early stages of the rash it got 100x worse!

Mothers Day

Somethings I remember from my childhood with my mom.

1. on our way to church she use to pull out her little make up bottle that was in the cd holder in the front of our car (that was also used as a cup holder) and put it on while drying down the road.

2. you could scare her with this fake little lizard that was always in the dirt outside? why i'm not sure.

3. she would always sneak off some where with out telling you. (later you'd find out she went grocery shopping or when went out to eat)

4. she never answered the house phone, you always had to call grandmas house number to get a hold of her. (we were trying to get to go home from school "sick.") she would always suggest you try to push through it.

5. that she really had no idea what the 5 of us did in the background. (playing on the stacks of cement, the rebar, in the boat, playing with firer? you name it no clue.)

6. we would jump out of the car and look for change so "we" could have a drink from sonic..etc

7. dancing around the living room singing at the top of our lungs while "cleaning" before dad got home.

8. her yard is her 6th child

9. that mom always got what she wanted from dad...ALWAYS!

10. Lastly... that her and dad took us on the most awesome family vacations even though we vaguely remember some of the less exciting ones and that it cost them 100,000.00 that they are still paying for ... jk not really that much ;)

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As kids the only thing that I can remember really celebrating was birthdays and Christmas so mothers days doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me, not even now that I am a mother I would say mostly because I know next month is fathers day and ill have to return the gesture which will be exhausting. (that I know I get that from my mom.)
But...I digress looking back at the two years I've been granted with being a mom I can not be more blessed even though it is exhausting, stressful, and hard. I don't know if I've become a better person or even if I could be mother of the year. But when my child runs to the door when I return from work and wants to immediately play with me a show me all his toys I know I must be doing something right. I love beck for always helping me through out it all and for rock for giving me something to laugh at.

Get ready for a montage!

Rocky Playing with his "birthday truck" this was moments before be peed by the trash can...(unplanned)

Rocky kissing his reflection on the stove...remind you of anyone?

Rocky playing in his uncle bens boots!

Rocky Playing with dave outside. I use playing loosely

Rocky posing taking this picture himself. emo anyone?

I should of never introduced him to this cart. He eagle eyes it at smiths in the parking lot, or we run to where they keep the carts when we walk into the store.

Partying partying Yeah!

Well I officially have a toddler, and what a wonderful birthday it was. Despite the fact that I worked on his birthday (Sunday) and it took beck and I about 4 hours to get him to sleep WE (AS IN AMERICA F-YEAH) killed osama! I was filled with so much pride and excitement I could not believe that something that was so impersonal and how big our nation is can fill so intimate and gratifying. It's probably what the British felt during the royal wedding except ours is better because it involves us being bad a's and killing someone.

Well anyway.....today was rocks birthday and we had it at the ledbetters which was so nice of them abstract we had such a great time. They got rock and awesome push car and colene made rock an awesome home made cake. It was perfect and I made my signature pasta salad. It was a hit!!

Here are some pictures. I post from my phone so I'm sorry the pictures aren't enter laced in the blog but hey there are pictures! Oh Yeah and rock has been singing happy birthday to himself all night. It's not tut exact words but I think its better :)