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Ok, Im polling all you moms out there that might be still awake.

KC swallowed 2 tablespoons or more of dilluted shower gel, should I run to the ER?

This happened after 9pm and hes never thrown up but has been gagging & acting like he wants to puke. Hes been drooling and has snot coming out of his nose. I feel horrible, and the Hubby keeps saying stick my finger down his throat to make him throw it up.

Why do these things always happen at night time?

Yours truly~
The Irresponsible Mom

Boo boo's, allergies, and scrapes...oh my!

In the last week KC has gotten enough bumps, bruises, and scrapes to last him for awhile. Last week we dealt with a stupid mosquito bite that left his left eye swollen shut. This week we have skinned knees, a shin , and a nose. He took a nose dive literally in our carport on Saturday and come up with half of his nose filleted open. Next he was pushing his dumptruck around and got going to fast and his knees ate it on the same patch of carport. We then went to visit our neighbors down the road where he fell on his knees again, followed by his right shin. He also got another nice mosquito bite in the middle of his forehead. Poor guy has had a bad week, Im thinking in investing in Neosporin after this weekend.

The Hubby got rid of his catheter finally, he feels so much better. He isnt passing blood or clots either which is great news. We go back to the Dr. on May 5th for a recheck and to find out the lab results. A long time to wait and worry in my opinion.

We didnt do a whole lot this weekend, just hung around the house. I put away all the Easter decorations and cleaned out the garage some. My goal is to convert half of the garage into my craft/scrapbooking room and slowly but surely I think my idea is taking hold. Im in the process of searching craigslist for some desks and storage ideas since I have everything cleaned out. The Hubby has his own manly garage for all his tools and toys, but I have nowhere to call "my" place and the kitchen doesnt count! Im really looking forward to having a area to call my own so I can get back to doing things that I enjoy by myself. Everyone needs "me" time and I have been missing out on that for sometime now. Well enough boring you all, have a great week!

Finally....some Easter photos & a update on Hubby

I still dont have my laptop, and with everything going on its not been high on my priority list. I have been posting my pictures from this dinosaur but I am not able to resize or edit them because I have none of my programs, or favorites, or anything on this stupid thing! The Hubby is finally home, he was able to come home Thursday afternoon. After spending 4 days in there he was ready to come home, even though the food was great! That place is just the greatest place, people are there from all around the world for one common cause....cancer. I brought my camera Wednesday when I took KC to visit him in the hospital, but Hubby said if I took a picture as soon as he got out of there he would smash my camera into a million tiny pieces, so it never came out of the bag. Guess you could say he did not want any memories of this huh? Im playing nurse until Monday when I get to remove his catheter. Wait...what did I just say?? You read it right, they taught me how to remove a catheter from my husbands penis before we left the hospital and I will tell you I am about as pleased at that as my Hubby is. I also learned how to properly flush a bladder through a catheter with a giant syringe & some saline. Fun huh? On a lighter note, he did tell me that hes had more women touching his pecker (his exact words) in the last 4 days than he has in his whole life. I laughed so hard in the car on the way home I cried. I had to add the fact that a few men had done the deed also, since he has male Drs., he didnt find that to funny though.

I wanted to share some Easter photos because if I dont I know I never will. On Easter KC, KAS, & I went to church, then after church we went to my familys to eat lunch. KC got to hunt eggs for the first time, even though he was by himself. He still had a blast! KAS & I colored eggs on Saturday while KC was napping because its just to messy for him still. We did tie dyed eggs, camo eggs, and some other cool ones too.

Enjoy!


KC in his Easter outfit complete with paci.
Our eggs

KC with his Easter basket

KAS and her Easter basket

From my phone to you

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****Why yes it does****

Trying out the new blogging from your phone thingy and by george it works! Very cool!

Wordless Wednesday

Yesterdays News

Well, a last minute change happened yesterday and the Hubby did not come home as planned. His surgery was supposed to last right around 1 hour and 2 1/2 hours later I knew it could not be good news and I was right. The surgery was to remove 2-3 tumors that were seen during a cystoscopy in November. At that time Hubby had no insurance and the bills at Moffitt totalled right around the $20,000.00 mark from previous surgeries and procedures so we applied for financial aid through Moffitt. During the holidays our paperwork was somehow"misplaced" and we didnt find out until February. We re-applied then and it was just approved at 100% payment 2 weeks ago, so his surgery was pushed to the front since it had been so long. When his Dr. went in his bladder he said the entire inside of his bladder was covered in tumors and in all he lasered out tumors that added up to the size of a grapefruit. He said Hubbys CT scan did not show any tumors or growths on the outside of the bladder which he was pleased about, and he said the tumors that were removed we not deep in the muscle which he was also pleased about. He was really concerned at the amount of the time it took these tumors to take over, and in the 7 or 8 years we have been with this Dr. I have never heard him use the word concerned which really made me uneasy. He also used the actual word cancer which scared the shit out of me. This decade of dealing I have always told myself it wasnt real cancer, so it would be ok. I always rationalized it in my mind that the kind of cancer that kills is the malignant kind, which my Hubby didnt have so its all good. In 1998 when this all started Hubbys tumors were actually malignant cancerous tumors in his bladder, and from then until just today all tumors that were removed in other surgeries were benign, superficial growth tumors, and that is a HUGE difference! The tumors today were sent off to the pathologist to determine if they are the superficial growth tumors we are used to, or the the other cancer kind that we really really dont want. The results should be back in 3 - 10 days, but the nurse said usually they are back within 3-5 days. The Dr. also did say some news I was glad to hear, but then followed by some more news I didnt want to hear. The good news, after this surgery the Dr. said he is leaning more towards NOT doing a bladder replacement, after the last 2 surgeries he had said he was only going to do this a few more times before he wanted to just replace his whole bladder. Right after this, he said that if the pathology reports come back as cancer we would discuss our options further, but that he would more than likely want to start some rounds of chemo and radiation since that path has never been taken and see what happened. Hubby has been lucky that he has never had to do any of these treatments, and I hope he stays that way. So, with all the cutting inside his bladder he was still bleeding pretty bad so they decided to keep him over night. His catheter got clogged with blood clots 4 times over the evening because he was bleeding so much. Just the thought makes me cringe! I didnt tell the Hubby all the details because he was still to out of it to really comprehend it all, and I knew it would just scare him. I didnt leave the hospital until 9pm, and he didnt want me to leave him but I just couldnt do it. Hubby said this morning that the Dr. came in to check on him and there was still way to much blood so he may be able to come home tonight at the earliest. I dont recall many people checking out at night so Im assuming he will more than likely stay again tonight. I hope these results come back quickly and they hold positive news for us!

Blahhhh!

Hubby came through surgery ok, but we didnt get good news. He actually had to stay overnight because of nausea and he was still bleeding quite a bit but he should be home tomorrow hopefully.

I have started compiling the details to post tomorrow because I wanted to read it again when Im not so out of it. I dont think I have been this tired since I came home from the hospital with a newborn baby KC!

Im off to dream that this all is just a dream.

Thank you for caring!