Long time, no blog!

The last few weeks have been tiring!!!

Starting in early January, Kade began not sleeping very well.  He used to stir every now and again, but would put himself back to sleep with no crying at all.   He started waking up multiple times, and he would seem almost breathless.  He was never wheezing or snotty nosed, just seemed to be working hard to breathe.  We started by having him sleep inclined.  That helped a bit.  He progressively got worse.  As soon as he was upright, he would breathe easier, settle down, and fall right back asleep.  It finally got bad enough that he would only sleep in his car seat.  If we left him in his bed, he was up every 45 minutes or so.  We visited the doctor and she thought it could be one of three things.

1.  He had silent reflux that was causing him problems when he was laying flat.  Decided to start reflux meds as she said it wouldn't hurt him.  I really doubted this was what was causing it, because he is such a great eater, and had no other symptoms, but was willing to try anything. 

2.  Since Marleigh had a VSD, he was at an increased risk of a heart defect.  She didn't hear a heart murmur, but said, sometimes you can't diagnose it without an echocardiogram.  Just to be safe, they wanted us to get him checked out by Dr. Allen, who was Marleigh's pediatric cardiologist.  IF it was something cardiovascular, leaving it untreated could cause permanent damage. 

3.  His asthma wasn't under control or he had allergies.  (This was my guess.)  Although, he really wasn't snotty nosed or anything, she said it could possibly be allergies.  The doctor suggested the ruling out the first two, first. 

Well, that was Monday of last week.  By Thursday night, Kade wasn't sleeping in his car seat, either.  He was up every 30-45 minutes.  It was obvious something wasn't right.  My gut just kept telling me it was allergies, so we made another trip back to the pediatrician on Friday.  She decided to put Kade on Zyrtec and some nasal spray.  He slept a glorious 12 hours in his bed Friday night!  We had repeat performances Saturday and Sunday night.

Once we figured out what was wrong, we cancelled the cardiologist appointment.  We decided that since she never heard a heart murmur and there were no longer any symptoms, it didn't make sense to take him clear to Wichita. 

I am so glad we got the little guy figured out!  He is well rested again, and so is his mama!  I'm not going to lie, I was getting a little cranky from lack of sleep! 

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Work for me has been crazy! January we rush around trying to get all the 1099's and W2's completed for all of our clients. It takes some late nights, but we always manage to get them done. After the kids would go to sleep, I'd head back down to the office and work a few more hours. I felt bad for the other two women I work with. They averaged 10-12 hours a day! I was lucky enough to be able to take a break, play with my kids, get them fed, bathed, and to bed.

The last week of January, Marc had to be gone to Denver all week for work.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate it when he is home.  He makes the evenings so much easier! 

Hopefully things will start returning to "normal"  whatever that is!  :)