I'm Weak

Who would have thought that having a kid in a full body cast (pretty much) would take up so much time. I'm telling you all, this will try my patients to the very fiber of my being. Not only is there never ANY alone time, or quiet, she's always needing something, wanting something, or dropping something. As soon as I sit down to do something I WANT, it's "mommy.. i dropped my pencil, mommy.. i have to go pee" We've had some interesting hurdles to over come. The most painful would be a case of diarrhea. I'll tell you, as a parent you must love your child to do some of the gross stuff we do for our kids, and as awful as it is for me I KNOW it must honestly be 100 times more awful for her. She's such a smart, independent little girl, that needing help to do EVERYTHING must be extremely difficult. Really, can you imagine having an upset stomach and not being able to take your self to the bathroom? or wipe your own butt? Terrible.

We've also been having a tough time with Presley and her BG, because lets not forget, diabetes doesn't take a brake. It's always there and always looming over my head. We've had probably about 5 days of TERRIBLE numbers, like 200,300, 400 kind of bad numbers. Sometimes I can't win for not with stupid diabetes. I had to contact her DR for advice. Super mom was out of ideas or explanations for the high numbers, I needed an EXPERTS advice. We did a Basel challenge that of COURSE went BEAUTIFULLY her numbers were excellent. So besides me being tired, it didn't help me a whole lot, or explain why she was running high several nights before. It's like Diabetes was laughing in my face. Oh well... such is life, moving on.

Grace's first appointment with the Ortho was great, he seemed pleased with how the xray looked. I saw the xray right after they took it and was MORTIFIED, I thought it looked terrible, i thought my nightmare had come true. I thought "they are going to have to operate to correct this and re-brake it entirely, so when he walked in saying "things look great" I looked at him with doubt in my face "are you sure... did you see her xray" of course he had, and of course I still question if he saw the RIGHT Xray. oh he must think I'm such a pain in the ass. On December 19th they will change the cast HOPEFULLY to a full leg cast, depending on how great the xray looks. If it's AWESOME, he'll just cast her from her thigh down, if it's just good, we're back to the full body cast. Praying for awesomeness...