Tough Week

It's been a tough week here in the Plastow house. Monday and Tuesday I was feeling nauseated, so we didn't get much done, just hung around the house. Tuesday night while Dustin and Logan were coming up the stairs (messing around/rough housing) they knocked each other over and rolled all the way down landing in a crying pile at the bottom. I calmed them both down and put them to bed for the night.

The next morning Dustin was complaining that his neck hurt, especially when he moved it or tried to get up on something. So I ended up taking him into the Dr, expecting it was a sprain. But it turns out he has a broken collar bone. We were in and out of doctor offices all day Wednesday getting x-rays and seeing a fracture specialist. They originally scheduled the specialist for next week Wednesday, but when I explained I am due next Monday, they squeezed him in immediately.

The Doctor told me this is the best bone to break because if the angle of the bone is less than 90 degrees, the body will pretty much fix itself without intervention. Dustin's bone is less than 10 degrees off so the Doctor is confident that it will heal itself in the next 3 weeks. We have a follow up appointment then to make sure his body did it's job. So now we have to try to keep Dustin in a sling and not play rough for 3 weeks. It's going to be quite the challenge with this active little boy.

Wednesday night the boys also both came down with fevers and stomach aches. Fortunately no throwing up, but still you could tell from looking at them there were miserable. So we watched a movie, drank a ton of water, and just snuggled. Dave gave them both blessings, and they were in bed before 8:00.

Somehow I was able to get the rest of the pre-baby baking done this week (we now have frozen breakfast cookies, frozen muffins, granola, frozen pancakes, frozen hot pockets, and frozen PB&J sandwiches). So on top of all the freezer dinners, now we'll have a few weeks of easier breakfasts and lunches too without going crazy eating cereal or oatmeal every day. I was considering doing more, but with the way things went, I decided to be done.

Thursday and Friday were spent catching up on everything I missed doing during the remainder of the week, and Saturday we didn't do much. Just hung around the house and got a little work done. Sunday more of the same. We went to church, headed to Murray park for some playing and a walk to visit the ducks, then we had a casual dinner and more play time before dinner.

Sunday was my due date, so we're hoping for a baby this week. I'm rooting for Tuesday. But we'll see what happens.