So you got 3 kids, the first 2 are 13 months apart, and #2 and #3 are 11 months apart. You just move to a new town far from your family/help and familiarity... and your son is sick, so you take him to the Dr. right?? Right.
Get to the Dr. office at 1:45... which also just so happens to be NAP TIME! The waiting room is packed full and the kind people sitting next to you tell you good luck with the wait cuz they had already been there an hour and a half. And you very quietly think to yourself that you have pretty much just signed up for a death sentence... oh, and that I did! Like I've said before, going out with all 3 kids is a chore in itself.. and on top of that, not having my double stroller was the cherry on top. After about 10 minutes of playing with the 1 toy in the waiting room, the girls were done with being content. Payton's walking around "love tapping" other children... which could possibly come across as a slap, but I as her mother know that thats just her way to show love. Madelynn's taking the chair from a (very big bully of a kid) little boy who wanted to, and just might have beat her up for it had his mom not stopped him. Payton falls and busts her lip and screams her head off while bleeding everywhere. The whole entire waiting room is staring at me like I'm a nut case (have I ever told you how much I HATE when people sit and stare???) Several people say to me "wow, you got your hands full" I just grin and say "yes ma'am" but inside I think with desperation "won't you please just offer me some HELP. Can I trust you to watch my son as I chase my daughter out the front door???? PLEASE!!!" ....Oh yes she did take off out the front door, LAUGHING, my little 2 year old put on a show like no other. I have never in my life been so embarrassed! She ran up and down the waiting room area screaming "LEE ME LONE MOMMA" I was in awe of how she behaved. At one point, she went back into the back, ya know, where the patients go to wait on the Dr... ya she opened the door and went back there and WENT INTO THE PATIENT ROOMS. Oh my gosh I was so embarrassed and mad. Meanwhile, remember the other 2 kids, ya, there all the way at the OTHER end of the waiting room as I am chasing Madelynn down the halls and whooping her little butt... hoping and praying there are good people in this world that are seeing my situation and kinda sorta looking out for my other 2. I very kindly appologize to the dear soul sitting next to us and she was ok with it so that made the whole ordeal a little bearable, knowing that my kids weren't driving this poor lady up the wall. Who knows, maybe she went home and soaked in the tub cuz she needed to relax after the whole ordeal. Lord knows thats what I needed to do.
TWO HOURS later, we finally go back to a room and I'm just about ready to bust out and cry. I am willing to do anything to keep them quite and content in this little room so I let Madelynn have the paci and lay in the stroller. There was no helping Payton at this point in the game so she literally just screamed all the way through Stetson's appointment. Half the time I couldn't even hear the Dr.
I heard her enough to hear that Stetson will more than likely have asthma like his daddy. I kinda sorta pretty much knew thats what she was gonna say just cuz I've seen Nat struggle with asthma, and knew that's what Stetson was doing. We got the mister all hooked up with some good meds so hopefully we can nip this in the bud. She said that they'll wanna see him have 2 more wheezing episodes like this to diagnose him with asthma. He's on breathing treatments every 4 hours for 10 days. She also told me something that I did not know. Eczema is related to asthma (which he has spots on his forehead, and his head.) so that kinda answered my question about all the severe scratching he is doing to his forehead. It itches him, so therefore he is scratching the ever lovin daylights outta it! She gave us some cream and shampoo for his head and already today it looks soooo much better and he has not scratched himself once. So I am sad that we possibly have a long road ahead of us with asthma, but I am so grateful 1.) that I have a husband and mother in law that can answer any questions, and help me with him at any time and that I'm not doing it blindly. I am also thankful for Doctors and medicine to help him to breath better.
my little man does so good with his treatments.
Just like his daddy. :) I love my 2 boys.
At the end of the day, we were home and Nat talked to Madelynn about her behavior while we were out and she came up to me and apologized as her daddy had told her too, but what he didn't tell her was what to apologize for, so when she came up to me and said "I sowy momma for scweamin" I kinda sorta melted my heart and made the previous happenings go away.
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