Its August

I cannot believe that it is August and we only have a little bit before school and work starts back up. I am not ready at all and its just not cool. This week happened to be the longest and fastest; I am beat and just plain tired. I am getting rest at night, but my tiredness is an exhaustion that sleep cannot help. I will be okay and I will keep waking up and trying.

So Monday morning I took Teddy to his speed class and then I went to play pickleball; there were a few ladies from work that were getting together and it was great. Well, I did go after a ball and fall over and my side hurts like hades but I still had a nice time. While I was playing my husband texted and asked if I would be able to take him to the baseball fields; I told him I wouldn’t be able to and asked if he could find a ride. He did and then told me he would tell me when he was done.

Teddy went home with a friend from his class and then Macy went to lunch at the school and then to a friends house. Around 11:30, Sally asked if she could have a friend over and the mom said yes. She was planning on coming over at 1:00. So Sally and I start to clean her room; we really needed to go through some things and get it better organized. Well we got a little bit done but Sam called from the high school and said he was done. We left to go get him. We picked him up and halfway home he told me that he wasn’t feeling well; he said he was not anle to breath and was dying, and I needed to call 911. I got home and reassessed what was going on; he can be a wuss and overexaggerate things when he is sick, so I really did not want to call for help. He insisted, so I called 911. I told the operator what was going on and she said that she would send some help.

Sally was in the car with us and was a little freaked out but her friend showed up and I asked if she could go to their house instead of her friend coming to ours. They left and a cop showed up; asked some questions and I went and got his medication to tell them what he was on. The EMT’s showed up and took some vitals. Rigby doesn’t have an ambulance but we do have a central fire department that has some EMT’s; so that is who came out to our house. By this time, he still was not feeling good but his vitals seemed to be okay. So they said it was probably heat exhaustion and dehydration and he would need some fluids. They gave him so oxygen and asked if I wanted the ambulance to come or if I wanted to take him in. I did not want to pay for an ambulance ride, so I told them to cancel it and I would drive him down to the ER.

They let him keep the oxygen and I drove down to the Idaho Falls Community Hospital; I had to pick between two that were close to each other. I went in and got a wheelchair and went out and got him. We didn’t have to wait too long and they brought him into the triage room. They took more vitals and his blood pressure was really low, 60/20…normal range is 120/80. They ran a line to draw blood and give fluid and then we waited. We got moved to an exam room and they ran some more tests. He tested positive for a respiratory virus called the adenovirus, and I researched it online while he tried to sleep. A lot of the symptoms of the virus were what he had been feeling the last 4 days so it was nice to have a diagnosis. His labs came back okay, but his kidneys and thyroid were off. His oxygen also dipped while he was sleeping and they put him on a nose cannula. The doctor came in and talked with me about his sleep apnea; he told me about an ENT doctor in Idaho Falls that he was going to refer us to. They gave him another bag of fluids and then we busted out.

We got home around 8:30; we picked up the girls on the way home. I am grateful for the friends who kept them all day.  Teddy had practice and got home a little after we got home. He was sent home on oxygen; so we had to call the home health company when we got home to bring out an oxygen concentrator; but they did not answer when we called. So we just thought we would call in the morning when they were open. I got the kids to bed and hopped in the bath, my side was hurting so bad from my fall that morning. A little while after I got in, Sam came up and told me that a guy was going to come over and bring the oxygen stuff; he didn’t get there until 11:45 and stayed well past midnight. I was so tired.

Tuesday morning we had to get up early for a follow-up appointment with our primary care doctor. We got there at 8:30 and waited for a little while and then went back. Sam was still on the oxygen at this time but they determined that he would not need it during the day, only at night with his CPAP machine. They did some labs and said they would call back when they got them in. We stopped at Albertsons for me to grab a prescription.  

I also was able to get a glucose monitor; my sister in law’s brother who has been helping me with the wegovy shot told me about a book about glucose that I ordered and wanted me to get a monitor to see where my blood sugar was at. Right now, I will try anything to get my health under control. I am so off right now that it just sucks. I need to loose weight but it is really hard. I find myself wanting to go back to bad behaviors or starving but I know I cant do it. But this medication is curving my hunger, so I am trying to figure out what is going on. I hope this book and understanding the glucose and blood sugar will help me.

The glucose monitor kept me up a lot of the night; it kept sending my phone messages that my levels were too low. Then it stopped working all together. I called the next morning to see what was wrong and they said if there is a lot of friction and heat on the monitor it will give a false low reading. They got some information from me and said they were going to send another one. I got two of them at the pharmacy so I put the other one on my arm and it worked good for a few days and then while I was changing on Friday, it detached from my arm a little bit and stopped working as well. So well see what happens. I wont get the new one till next week. But the readings that I got on the monitor on Wednesday and Thursday were actually pretty good. So I hope that I can get the new one and read the book and figure it all out.

Wednesday morning; I had an appointment with the periodontist and he confirmed what I already know that I need a gingiva of gum graft for the front two teeth and possibly some side teeth on the bottom. I am game to do what I need to do, but I know it might cost some money. Which is such a sore topic right now, we are drowning, and I am having such a hard time. I am trying my best to keep us afloat and I know that we will be okay, but its just hard. I know the medical bills are going to be piling in and it makes me just so scared. But there is nothing else to do, then to keep putting my feet in front of me and pressing on.

Thursday morning I had to get up early and help my husband out at the baseball field at the high school. He was putting on a camp and needed someone to sign the kids in. He could have done it by himself, but I did it because he asked. He didn’t get the turn out that he wanted but he made the best of it and the weather was overcast, so he felt okay to be outside.

The rest of the week I do not even remember what happened, I went through things at the house, tried to keep up with the housework and wrangled the kids and friends. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights there were some people at church who brought dinner to our family and it was so nice of them. Dinners and providing for my family is the hardest thing for me, so I was grateful for their help. We made it through and now its Sunday evening. I am going to relish in the weeks before everything starts. Its going to be a busy fall and I guess I like it with things going on, so I don’t have to think about things, I just go go go!!! Till next week then!!!