This has been a crazy week. Last Saturday the kids went over to my brother & sister-in-laws house to play in the morning so John & I could go look for a new refrigerator. The kids had a great time and everything was good, well that afternoon around 2:00 Charlie said his tummy started hurting, well to make a long story short it was soon coming out of both ends of him and he was crying he didn't feel good. About 6:00 that night John had taken Annie out on a daddy-daughter date & I was sitting in the bathroom with him when his head fell back against the tank of the toilet and his eyes starting rolling back in his head. I picked him up and took him to the emergency room. The doctor gave him some anti-nausea medicine and he was on an IV for a few hours. The doctor thought the stomach cramping may have just been so painful he passed out. John had come to switch kids with me so I could put the girls to bed and he & Charlie didn't get home until after 1:00 am. The next morning Charlie woke up late but he was fine, you would never have known he was sick the day before.
Monday was fine, the kids had summer rec and I assumed what Charlie had was fluke. Well Tuesday afternoon Annie who had been fine all morning, came up to me about 2:00 and said I don't feel good then proceeded to get sick! She would lay on the couch crying my stomach hurts, when will it stop. It is so hard to see your little ones sick like that. She finally fell asleep early and when she woke up the next morning she was fine. As you can imagine Audrey & John came down with it Wednesday but theirs was very short - luckily for all of us it seems to be about an 8 hour illness.
So by Thursday morning everyone was fine. Well that night we went out to get some dinner and then John took us all to the driving range. I was chasing Audrey around trying to keep her out of every one's way. At one point she started to dart up to Charlie & I ran to get her and WHACK!!! Charlie caught me in the jaw with his nine iron! After a moment where pain simply exploded in my head we realized he had split open my chin but the worst pain was the other side of my face from where he hit - my jaw up by my ear.
So again we spent another lovely evening in the ER. My sister-in-law came and took the kids home and put them to bed for us which we really appreciated, the ER was packed (there were 5 or 6 little leaguers in there with broken arms)! I had x-rays & a ct scan done and my jaw luckily wasn't broken, the Doctor figured what happened was the impact of the hit dislocated my jaw for a second then it popped back into place. So basically it is like whip-lash of the jaw. My muscles are sore and stiff and I can't open my mouth very far or chew. By the time they finally got to looking at the cut on my chin, it had started to close and they couldn't get it to re-open so they put glue all over it to keep it sealed, but I will have a little scar to remember this day by. The Doctor gave me vicoden, motrin and Flexeral so between those three drugs I am pretty much out of it and loopy! The Doctor said it may take 5 or 6 days for my jaw to stop hurting so I am very glad it happened on a long weekend. John spent the night trying to make me laugh, he kept joking that everyone was giving him funny looks. Who wouldn't when he checked me in and said, she got hit in the jaw and it might be broken. At one point a new nurse came to discharge me and John went to get my medicine at the pharmacy and the nurse asked if I had spoken to the police yet and filed a report. I looked at him like he was crazy and said "I have to file a report because my six year old clipped me with a golf club" He looked shocked and said he assumed when I said he hit me in the jaw it must have been an adult.
John has been wonderful and he made sure the kids got to do all sorts of fun things on the 4th. Yesterday the kids rode their scooters in the parade out here in RM. All the kids at summer rec decorated their scooters & bikes and families decorated old cars and golf carts and drove down the main parkway. At lunch time John took all 3 kids to the carnival hosted by the Optimist club out her & the loved it, there were hot dogs & snow cones and then there were bounce houses and games for the kids to play.
Last night we went down the street for fire works and then sat on golf course to see the show over the lake. The kids all had a great time and slept in late this morning.
Well, I am now seeing double and can't focus so I think it is time to lay back down.
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