No umbrella...just a raincoat.

I think I can put my umbrella away, but I'm gonna go ahead and keep my raincoat on for a few more days...
We started our week out at the asthma doc Monday morning. Gabriella had been puking in her bed the last couple nights from not being able to stop coughing (don't worry - no stomach flu). I should sooo get mom of the year (or callie should... ha!). We just lay towels down under Gab when her asthma gets bad because we know she's going to puke and poor little Ashlyn just sleeps thru the whole ordeal. We have the lights on changing the beds, cleaning up puke and she just lays there sleeping with a bit of a scowl on her face (with good reason). Lucas's asthma was pretty bad over the weekend so after I took the kids to school Monday morning I just went straight to the asthma building. They are both being treated for asthma right now which means lots of breathing treatments and steroids - which make Gabriella a very fussy and hungry little girl. I will say Gab has stopped puking in her bed at night - woo hoo!! I'm sure no one is as happy as Ashlyn about that one. And Lucas is still trying to get over the coughing and wheezing. He's been on steroids since the peanut mess, but is still having to take them since he's wheezing so much. ugh. Luckily he doesn't puke every time he coughs - I couldn't handle two kids like that. As far as the peanuts go, we haven't had another outbreak (although not from lack of trying). Yesterday Ashlyn gave Lucas a fruit snack which I had told the kids he can't have because the package says it was packaged in a plant that has peanuts. Well, needless to say she gave him one which caused me to go into a frantic state and do A LOT of deep breathing so I would not throw Ashlyn out the window. I cleaned his mouth out best I could and then just watched him like a hawk to see what would happen. Luckily nothing happened so that was good. Right now we don't know how strong the allergy is or what exactly can make him go into shock so we are kind of playing the waiting game for now. He gets a blood test in a couple weeks to see about the peanut allergy and we'll go from there. I will say having the epi pen here yesterday when I didn't know if he was going to have a reaction made me feel a bit better. I knew giving that to him would allow me time to get him to the hospital if need be. Ok, so no more talk of that mess. Now we can talk about me. I went and had my shoulder checked today and ended up getting a cortizone shot in hopes that it will allow me to do some physical therapy and get it healed up on it's own. If my arm physically won't do the exercises then we know that it is not just a partial tear and I will have to have surgery. For now though, we are hoping for a partial tear and that I can get it back in working order without spending more money on it! Thanks to Dr. Punswick for listening to me and helping me find alternative ways to fix it rather than just sending me straight to MRI's and surgery. Hard to find good docs these days who really want to help you and not just do a quick fix. Dr. Punswick happens to be the husband of one of my girlfriends and he rocks (as does she). So if you need a good family doc I highly recommend him! We'll see how my arm does tonight - to me, that's the real test. I haven't slept in weeks because the pain constantly wakes me up so I am hoping this shot will get me some rest - here's to healing!!
Good news - Lucas is walking everywhere now! No more crawling unless absolutely necessary to get somewhere extra fast (or to get away from a sibling).
Today Gab hasn't coughed all day, Lucas is taking a nice long nap, Austin has a friend over to play and Ashlyn went over to a friends house to play. Sounds like a good day to me! Maybe I'll throw that raincoat away afterall.......