Once again....

Oh, dear, dear readers! Once again I have left you hanging for over a month without any updates to my exciting life as a stay at home mom!!

Let's see, what have I missed updating you with? Well, for starters, Mookie was sick again! That durn preschool has as many germs as that nasty Monica Lewinsky dress. I mean, really, he only is there three times a week for 3 hours at a time. I really must get on all of the little ones about the importance of handwashing. However, his sickness did not develop into the crisis it was in September(see here for the full story. Anyway, I only had to hit him a couple of times with the Xopenex, but I took him to the doctor just to be sure. Not that I'm a big worrywart, but the Goddess will NEVER let her little Mookie get to that crisis stage again, not if she can help it!

So, after Mookie got sick, so did the Diva and Squeaky. Nothing is as heavenly as wiping three runny noses at once and running back and forth in the middle of the night because the Diva woke up and her nose is stuffed up. What a drama QUEEN! "Oh, my dose, my dose my DOSE" I wanted to tell her, look honey, stop all that screaming, concentrate on breathing and you won't have a problem. But, how do you reason with a three year old? Answer: you don't!

Now, the business. I've been workign on the website, making products,taking pictures and on top of that all, trying to keep the house in some sort of working order. My husband is a saint, because he doesn't balk when I call after a particularly difficult day and say "can you stop and pick up...." He will be rewarded greatly when my business takes off!

Anyway, dear reader, that's my sorry excuse for not keeping you thoroughly entertained for the last month. I promise to be much more diligent in the future!

What Happened?

First of all, dear readers, I am so sorry to have left you in the lurch for so long. I'm sure many of you have been checking back often, looking for a new post - wondering, 'what has become of the goddess?'....'where is the goddess I need an update'. Well, readers, let me tell you that it is has not been easy for the goddess in the past two weeks.

Deep breath......

The goddess was.......wrong! Yes, please do not allow this earth shattering admission to throw any of you for a loop. I understand that many of you come to me for guidance, for laughs, for what have you, and to hear that the goddess was wrong, just might drive some of you over the edge. Let me explain.

Little Mookie has been coughing, which I noted in a previous post. Took him to the doctor, as a good mother would do, and the doctor listened to my explanation, listened to Mookie's chest, proclaimed it clear, then prescribed Xoponex, which the goddess refused to give her little Mookie, seeing as there were no real tests given.

Well, little Mookie started coughing one night and just could not stop, even with steam and everything else. Mookie went to the ER!!! He had to be nebulized and came back with albuterol in pump, diagnosed with an astham attack! What? My little Mookie, who has always been healthy and never shown signs of any type of respiratory distress, ASTHMA? How did the goddess fail??

Don't fear, there's more. Poor little Mookie was stable, but didn't find true relief, even with the albuterol. Back to the drs later that day. Well, well, the doctoer (not the same one from before) diagnosed the croup, the coughing from with irritated little Mookie's bronchial tubes, which in turn caused them to "seize up" so to speak, thus causing the tightness. What happened? The goddess had to stand by while her little Mookie was nebulized FOUR TIMES until his oxygen level was sufficiently high enough to be released home. We were in the drs office three hours and came home with a nebululizer, Pulimcort, Xoponex and Prednisolone. (Yes, now I'm a pharmicist, one of many hats that I wear). Yes, the goddess was against the drugs before, but with a competent diagnosis, a thorough examination by the doctor, a thorough explantion by the nurse practitioner and phone support by the drs, the goddess was willing to administer....well, let's just say we're lucky cocaine wasn't the end cure for Mookie for the goddess would have been trying to 'score'.

Now, a week after the crisis, Mookie has a wonderfully loose cough, mucous is plentiful and the tight continous cough is no more! Mookie is being weaned off his steriod regimin ans is still doing well. He is running, jumping and yelling with no ill effects....and no coughing.

So there's your fix, dear readers, rest assured the goddess is back and will have more tales to tell in the future.

Sick, Sick, Sick

This is one of the times that I start to seriously consider home schooling. My oldest lovely son brought home a cold from nursery school that has plagued us the entire month of May. Now I've got it and it's a doozy. Stuffy sinus, dizziness and a hacking cough - you know those kinds of coughs that make your chest tubes hurt. It's terrible.

I'm not the type of person to take a lot of medication, but let me tell you, honey, I was swigging that cough syrup. I could not sleep Monday night and ended up watching some special about the Star Wars legacy on the History Channel that was pretty interesting. Maybe I'll be able to catch it later when my head and chest are not swimming with mucous!!

At least the weather is nice. There is nothing worse than having a bad summer cold with that gross, sticky rainy humid days hanging over your head.

Hope you all had a great Memorial day weekend - it was really nice here in good ol' NJ!