This is not my life....

This is not my life. No, this isn't. I have four boys, my life is supposed to be filled with boogers, basketball, video games and strange cartoons (I swear the creators of Adventure Time are totally sniffing something). Instead I have a life filled with hospitals, doctors appointments and specialists. This week didn't disappoint.

Kris is a very sick boy. On Friday he had a cough, it sucked but he was fine other than that. He's always.sick. Always. I told him that if he felt bad on Saturday we'd go to his doctor. Saturday morning he said he was fine, but around noon (of course when the doctors office is closing) he said he thought he needed to go. But...later that night he was fine again. Sunday I decided I wasn't going to give him a choice about going to the doctor, I'd just take him into the Urgent Care Clinic for kids. Sunday came and went, we had breakfast, ran to Costco and Target...all the while he was fine, except for that cough. We got into the clinic, got seen. Pneumonia in the left lung, asthma in the right. Shock! He went home with an inhaler and antibiotics. Later that night he started coughing up blood. Blood!! That was the single most scary thing.ever. So I called his doctor. And we made a morning appointment.

By morning, his inhaler wasn't doing anything at all for him. He was puking every two minutes and was scaring me half to death. That's Karsons job...not his :o( We went to the doctor and he had oxygen saturation around 90-91! What.the.heck. His doctor took a listen to him and declared him one very, very, very sick boy. She said she'd do a double nebulizer treatment, a dose of steroids and if he wasn't satting better than that he was going by ambulance to the hospital for a nice long stay. The treatment went well...he was back around 96 after that. He is on nebulizer treatments every three hours and another appointment in the morning and a chest xray. She then asked about his nose. What about his nose?? Apparently he has quite a bit of damage in the left nostril. We never knew. So he's earned a specialist, too. Referral to an ENT.

Does this ever end? This week alone I had an Urgent Care trip on Sunday, Kris' follow up on Monday, Mini's speech in the afternoon, Wednesday we have a GI appointment, Thursday a follow up xray for Kris and who knows what Friday will bring.