A Walk on the MKT Trail

A couple weeks ago we went to my friend Kerri's couples' bridal shower in Columbia, and while there visited the MKT trail. That's one place Don and I miss a lot from living in Columbia. We would walk and ride bikes on the trail a lot. These pics were taken in the afternoon, and that night Jordon got really sick with the RSV and high temp. You can tell he's not himself here as he looks a little gorked out. I got them the backpack for Christmas and Jordon seems to enjoy it (as long as he's not sick)!

Yeah, no surgery!

We took Jordon into CMH today, planning for grafting of his hand but the surgeon said it had healed enough that it wasn't necessary! Anesthesia was not excited about doing surgery anyway with his RSV last week--they apparently like for babies to be 4 wks post RSV and any symptoms to avoid respiratory complications (ie ending up on the vent for a week). Needless to say, we are very glad with the news. PT will be the big thing now, and there is still a chance for surgery later if he doesn't regain functioning of his finger with the PT. But the surgeon also thought that he will probably only need a few more days of dressing changes, and then we should be able to stop that as well! Good-bye chew toy! He had been getting into the habit of pulling the dressings off anyway-- sometimes 2 or 3 times a day... redressing the hand of a 10 month old solo is not exactly easy, but he always seemed to do it when only I was around...

Oh yeah, he also fell at daycare yesterday and busted his lip; apparently he bled everywhere. Within the past week or so he fell and hit his cheek on some furniture and was left with a big purple bruise. I've been afraid someone would turn us into DFS with all the stuff that's been happening to this kid. We are happy about today's news, so maybe we are turning a corner. We still go into the burn clinic tomorrow to talk with PT about the splint, and a possible pressure glove.

Rough last few weeks

It has been pretty rough on Jordon (and Mom and Dad) around here lately. On January 24th, Jordon got a hand on the glass covering our fireplace and burned his hand. We immediately took him to the ER (longest car ride of my life). They did a whole lot of nothing and transferred us to Children's Mercy downtown. He did get some decent pain meds and everyone there so far has been great. We've been going back at least weekly for f/u in the burn unit or clinic. Everything seemed to be healing well, except for one spot along the index finger and thumb area. Since it's been over 3 weeks and it's not yet healed, they think they will have to do grafting, and it's scheduled for Wed. 2/18. I felt pretty bad about everything until I went to work and listened to other parents' "worst parent ever" stories. It is just amazing how fast things can happen.

Anyway, on top of that, on the night back after our trip to Columbia on 2/7, Jordon developed a fever and was inconsolable most of the night. The following day we took him to urgent care (hell on earth). We spent 5 and 1/2 hrs. there, and they told us he had a fever of 104.2 and RSV. I took most of the week off to take care of him, and during this time he was coughing, congested, and often puked after eating. He has become extremely needy, and has not been eating well. Between Jordon and the cats, I have become "the vomit master" as all I seem to do is clean it up.

Jordon has managed to do a day and 1/2 of daycare and done ok-- I'm sure they are thrilled to see him coming (about as excited as welcoming a fungus). He wails like crazy and continues to do so much of the time unless he is being held.

On top of that, despite loading him up with whatever meds he can have, he continues to sleep very little and has been up at least 5 or 6 times / night. I thought babies liked to sleep. Not ours. He'll sleep if you rock him and hold him... then when you put him down in the crib he wakes up and starts wailing again. It's been unbelievable.

One thing he has managed to do in this time since his burn-- he is walking all over the place now. Since he couldn't crawl for a while, there was no way he was just going to sit around and be immobile, so he has been working on his walking skills and now is getting around very well-- to the point of almost running.

Hopefully things will settle down soon and we will all get some sleep. Jordon is trying really hard to be an only child.

Hangin' with Mom and Uncle Scary

Game Night with Coach Ferrell

Jordon and I made it to one of Don's games this year-- it's his first year coaching 9th grade girls basketball. Can't believe how crazy it's been with the early am practices and game nights. Jordon and I have had a lot of time together with Dad being busy with coaching season. Grandma and Grandpa were able to attend the game we did, and we went out to eat afterwards. Jordon was very well behaved at the game-- lots of activity to keep his attention.