February
This month was the beginning of sickness invading the Cleveland home. Mills ended up having what we think was the flu and I subsequently got it, but didn’t go to the doctor like my dear husband begged me to do. I have TOTALLY learned my lesson because I ended up the ER after a very long weekend of traveling, missing David’s grandmother’s funeral (thanks mom and dad for coming and getting me and supporting David when I could not), feeling like I was going to vomit whenever I was anything other than horizontal, and my hands going numb. I was told in the ER that I was having a tension headache. I was supposed to take a couple of days off and follow up with my doctor in a couple of days. Thank you Dr. Patton for saving the day, two days later, at my appointment when he informed me that I had a severe double ear infection, one ear drum was bulging extremely, and was causing vertigo, hence the nausea. David and my mom had to drive me to and from work for a while, including my birthday when I drove to work and had to be picked up by my mom after work…seemed like I was in high school again. Fortunately I got rid of the vertigo within a couple of weeks.
March
Enough about me, you’re reading to find out about the kids anyway…So, Mills has had lot of issue with spitting up and what we thought was reflux. He had been on Zantac and Prevacid with no real improvement and had dropped in his weight percentages from 95% at 2 moths to around 50% at 6, too much of a drop, so Dr. Miller encouraged us to get an upper GI for Mills. On March 16th, we took him to Egleston. I was a bit nervous, but the whole thing was so quick that I didn’t have much time to let my nerves get the best of me. The radiologist told me that it appeared that he was normal structurally, meaning reflux was not much of an issue, but that he had a lot of food in his stomach from breakfast, he hadn’t eaten in the last 3 ½ hours, and that he was having trouble digesting his food quickly enough. Dr. Miller put him on Reglan three times a day and this has made a tremendous difference. We are now, in June, beginning the process of weaning him off of the medicine one week, or so, at a time. We dropped the dinner dose first and he is doing well so far. Please pray that he will continue to do well as the others are dropped!
On March 12th we had a surprise party for Mrs. Sarah (David's mom). It was really fun and very special that so many people came to share in this special time with her. She especially loved the fact that all of her 7 grandchildren posed for pictures for her.
Mary Kate had her own set of struggles in March. She has always had eczema and is prone to scratch, but it got bad when she clawed her face so bad that it looked as if a cat scratched her from above her eye all the way down one cheek. So, we took her to the doctor to figure out what to do about this and in their checking they found white spots on her throat and she ended up testing positive for step. We were in and out of the doctors’ office in early March after she vomited all over one her teachers Mrs. Deanna, which was when we realized that the strep had not responded to the first round of antibiotics and that she needed to be another one. It seems that she is one of those people to who is a carrier of strep, or at least creates false positives on the quick tests, so from now on she has to have a culture taken any time she is tested for strep.
On a happy note, Mills began crawling on March 1st and has not stopped since. He crawls faster than any baby I have ever seen! He loves getting to Mary Kate and any of her toys, cups, etc. that he can grab. We now call him Bam Bam because he loves to grab things and bang them together, or on something, very loudly. I can tell that many things we own will be destroyed before he gets out of toddlerhood. On March 24, Mills began clapping. It is so sweet to see him clap! He claps at many things, particularly when he sees something he likes. Two days later, on the 26th, Mills pulled up for the first time, on the dishwasher nonetheless. He crawled two months sooner that Mary Kate and pulled up three months sooner than she did. He is growing up way too fast!!!
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