Monday, November 19, 2012

AWESOME!!!!

Nikole started swimming on the Jr. Panthers swim team the beginning of October.  She practiced Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  The first week of practice she had a meet that Saturday and did AWESOME!!!  It was her first swim meet and I was so happy that she did her best!!!

 
This was right after a great race!


Gavin is taking swimming lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  He is trying to beat Nikole so he is working extra hard at swimming so that he can get on the swim team.  Ha ha ha!!  Too bad boys and girls don't actually compete against each other.  They are going to kick some butt when they get better!  I cannot wait to see how they do, and how amazing they will be  together on a team with each other.

Rhett had his surgery on the 18th of October.  Then we had a pleasant surprise and Rhett was released from the hospital on the 20th!  Holy cow!!!  Seriously this was a VEPTR revision meaning they broke ribs on the left side and expanded it out all at the same time.  When he had the same surgery in March/April he wasn't released from the hospital until the Monday following the surgery.  But for every revision he has always been released the Monday following the surgery.  I was so happy that he was doing so well.  He also told me that he wanted to go to school on Monday after surgery to see the faces of everyone.  HA HA HA HA HA!!!!  I bet some of their faces looked shocked that he was at school.  I know I was sure surprised to see him go to school so soon after surgery.  I know that his name was in a few temples and there was family and friends all praying for him.  So he had a few hundred thousand people praying for him the week of his surgery and especially on the day of surgery.  To see his recovery was amazing!!  We went to a Halloween party since the other kids really wanted to go and Rhett was a great sport and went along too.  He did stay in his wheelchair which was fine by me I was just amazed to see him up and out of the hospital.  He went back to school the following Monday with a doctors note and medicine.  He has done great!

The kids picked out costumes that we already had at the house since we didn't have the money of the time to do anything else.    Dylan picked out a dog, Gavin was Darth Vader (again), Nikole picked out a costume that I got for myself a long time ago(was a witch), and Rhett decided to be Phantom from Phantom of the Opera.  Wow was a lucky to get out of this holiday so easy at least that is what I thought until Halloween.  Ha ha ha!!!

Aren't they cute!!

This is less than 2 weeks after surgery.  I am just glad that we had everything at home and we even made Rhett's mask.  So on Halloween this is what I get when Rhett comes home.


Do I looked like I was burned by acid?
Does it cover my make-up?

It was funny to see him really worried about his make-up. LOL!! He went with Nikole, Gavin, and Dylan with daddy out trick or treating.  When he came back he starting peeling off the make-up and when I saw his face it was swollen and itchy.  It was like his whole half of his face was covered in hives.  Found out that the make-up was latex.  I guess that latex precaution that he has had at the hospital is now an actual allergy. :(  How frustrating!  I called the nurse the very next day and let her know so know they know at the school.

By the beginning of November we were on a roll.  All the kids were back in school and things were back to normal, except the kids were playing with the on off cold thing that keeps going around.  Grr... those nasty cold bugs.

I have actually needed to put everything that I do in my calendar so I can see what I do and where all my time disappears too.  Ha ha ha!!  I honestly didn't realize how busy I really was until I did do that and now I am amazed that I have time for anything.

On November 9th I noticed there was some infection in Rhett's incision from this surgery he just had.  I called the doctors office Monday sent some pictures to them and they called out medicine for Rhett hoping that would help.  When we went to go get it from the pharmacy it wasn't there!  Holy cow so the next day when I called the doctor's office we played phone tag all day.  I did find out where they called it in at.  I called the doctors office to see if they could call it in to the pharmacy closer that I asked them to the first time.  After that they did, I called the pharmacy to find out if they got it and find out how much it was going to cost that way I could be prepared.  That is when I was told that the insurance wasn't going to cover the costs until Saturday.  I was really frustrated and found out that it had been filled out at the other pharmacy.  It was a MESS!  But we got it worked out and got it but it wasn't until Wednesday morning when he got his first dose.  By then it was half way up his back and for a few days he was in quite a bit of pain.  I felt horrible for him but there was nothing that I could do other than give him his medicine and hope for the best.  But even by today it was still gooey and yucky red and inflamed.  At least he isn't in pain that I know of but he hardly tells me unless it is really bad.  So I am just not sure if this infection is going to go away on it's own or if he is going to have to go back into the OR to be cleaned out.  Just his luck...  I guess I will find out this week.

Look at my cutie! He was helping daddy clean out his work car. 

I will do a follow up post after I find out what is going on with Rhett and after I get some great shots of the Festival of Trees.
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