First up...
Ellashay.
Friday while finishing up some stuff at the office Semanee was spinning Ellashay in the office chair.. (never ends well) told her to make a good choice and then I hear.. Thud!! (the sound of skull on concrete--if you've heard it you know what I mean). Scooop her up and holding her.. by the time I turn her around to see her head, her forehead over her left eye.. is Stuck out over and inch and growing.. the blood looking like it sgoing to burst outta her little pores. She seemed a little outta it.. slow to answer and dazed.. shock i'm sure. We were in Christines E.R... which is always fun with three little girls... by the time we got checked in and were sitting there waiting .. ella was back to normal.. signing Hannah Montana with Semanee and dancing, putting on a show for everyone there.. anyhoo.. after being saved by my wife from the insanity of trying to contain 3 little ones in an emergency room.. they said she was free to go.. that the best place to have a head trauma is in the front due to the sinus cavity "cushioning" immediately behind it.. :)
Granpa..(my dad)
wednesday
So we're sitting in the office.. all of us my parents included.. Granpa was packin up to head out to a swim activity for the young adults.. we were all out in the lobby trying to decide where to go to celebrate my going career with Farmers (hopefully.. won't know till count comes in the 1st) and Semanee and Ella are running around the office then Sem comes out and says Granpas sleeping in his chair. Grandma jumps up and heads back.. at first i thought.. maybe he's teasing Sem.. Then Grandma yelled for us to get in there that something was wrong with Dad.. When I got in the room he whole body was completely lax and slid down in the chair barely on it.. he was breathing and his eyes were open but completely unresponsive . wouldnt squeeze hands or speak or even look at me. thank goodness we had a nurse on site.. had us call 911 told me to upll him up in his chair and lean him back, and keep his airway open.. by the time the fireman got there he had started trying to move a little, they swarmed into the office.. we had a whole firetruck and ambulance full.. they were asking Dad questions with no response.. they got an Iv on him and one of the firefighters was telling him to squeeze his hands and he did.. and from there hs started cognitively coming back around. They got him up and walked him to the gurney, to the ambulance and we rode to the hospital.. there they ran their tests on him, he seemed to pass with flying colors. we were thinking dehydration, stroke, seizure.. .. but he passed all his tests from blood work to heart panel to Ct scan.. we got him a blessing and by this point.. he seemed his normal self.. the only thing he recalled from the whole experience was sitting at his desk and then Firefighters swarming around him and him squeezing their hands.
Crazy.. They could find nothing wrong so they released him the next day (has to wear a heart monitor). But he sure gave us all a scare. The doctors now thing it may have been medication related. we have yet to find out.. but he seems to be doing just fine..
Semanee
Thursday..
While I wasnt there for the entire ER experience I can give some background to the situation.. and later Semanee will hate me for sharing this.. as people don't like you talking about their heinies to their friends.. So Semanee had these little skin tag bump things on the bottom of her left little cheek (heinie). Pediatrician said.. no worrys.. they'll go away on their own.. don't pick at em.. just leave em.. yadda yadda.. well few weeks have passed and one turned pussy.. then after her bath it was red around it.. then the next day it was raised bright red and about the circumference of a softball and there was another smaller one down below it. as well as multiple little tiney light spots on her upper torso.. Anyhow for fear of MRSA we took her to the E.R..(mendys place).. (if any of you know Semanees fear of needles you can begin to empathize now.. we're talking about a girl we had to hog tie and sit on to pull a sliver out of her foot all while she screamed bloody murder at the top of her lunds) I missed the beginning but from what i gathered they put some kind of numbing agent on the sore to get a sample from it.. when I got there Semanee was jumping all over the place laughing.. .. then the doc came in.. Semanee stopped instantly.. they told us they were going to get a sample and told Semanee that afterward she could pick a toy outta the closet.. Sem started crying instantly.. and then started pleading to see the toys first.. lol.. and the Nurse asked her if she wanted to make sure there was something in the closet to make the needle stick worthwhile. Sem nodded.. i was laughing. anyway after pinning her down with her butt sticking out they proceeded to cut a small opening into her wound and squoze on it.. but never took a sample just wanted to open it to make sure it could drain and that there were no puss pockets under it.. ( from Wifees explan) but no samples taken.. doc figured strep or staff.. thought staff by the spread of it.. they then covered it up with a big bandaid and prescribed antibiotics.. and said shes not contagious and she'll be fine after a bit.. the funny thing for me was the explanation of how it spread from her heinie to her chest and back.. the doc said she must have scratched it and then touched the other areas... ok.. i can almost buy that if it didn't look systemic.. like a low grade chicken pox.. but if she spread it by touching it and touching somewhere else, why would she not be contagious..? If she touches it and it spreads on her body.. why not someone elses.. oh.. well Semanee acts fine and as long as the sore goes away I'm happy..
anyway that was our week.. it was fun.. aside from the stress of number crunching with my parents and writing all the business we could to get on the career program by wednesday it was a wee stressful.. (wont find out if I made it till Sept 1st.. )
Everyone seems great now.. Ellashays head looks almost normal.. till her next mishap..
pops has no recollection of his incident and no one seems to be able to find any problems.. (he did get a blessing but would still be nice to have an explanation)
Semanee is herself as always dancing and singing E*V*E*R*Y*W*H*E*R*E LOL..
I'm sure the wife will add her two bits to all these situations.. and I hope she does.. cause I know i missed alot.
