Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Baffled!

I'm starting to get a much better sense of humor about this whole "child rearing" thing!! Can I just start off saying that Chad and I had one of the toughest nights EVER with our Cole man! He hasn't been feeling well so we started bedtime at 8 pm.....he finally went to bed at 3 am. From 8- about 2:30 Chad and I held, sang, prayed over, rocked and paced a child that would not be comforted or consoled. He only screamed and writhed, almost right out of our arms, several times during all those hours. Listening to crying for that long when your tired and don't feel well yourself, will either bring you to tears or insanity (don't think I was far off from either). Bless his little heart, by 2:30 am, Chad and I just had to let him cry himself to sleep because obviously what we were doing, wasn't working or helpful. Talk about the WORSE 30 min. ever and just pleading with God to step in and do what our arms were unable to do! Well, of course this morning I made a Dr.'s appointment for Cole ( who at that point was now a happy Cheerio eating dude)! Abbey had her last swim lesson this morning and did SO awesome and made unbelievable progress during this 3 week intensive; YEA Abbey!! On our way home she said her ear hurt and I told her we would have the Dr. check it out when we went in later. Would you like to hear the results from the Dr.'s appointment?? O.K., well you get to hear anyway...Cole fine...Abbey, double ear infection!! WHAT?? You mean out of all the pain and suffering last night, Cole's fine and my healthy girl is the one sick?! So confused!! Needless to say, I've cleared our schedule for the next few days. :) It's funny or kinda sad how God really has to get my attention and SLOW me down, me or my kids have to get sick; that way I'm forced to slow down and be more reflective! When will I learn?!! Does anyone else have this problem?? Last thing, but certainly NOT least of importance is for my continuing breast pain. I spoke with the breast surgeon's nurse today and she wants me to come in again and this time do an ultrasound. She feels this will be a good next step based on my symptoms that aren't going away; I really need peace of mind about what is going on there. She said a possibility is a cyst or some kind of infection that's not clearing up. Please pray for God's healing hands to be upon me and to give my Dr. wisdom in diagnosis and not to overlook anything; thank you, thank you!!!