Thursday Roll Call

Good morning IL family.

I'm up a bit later so I decided to check in here.

Two more days and then I will be home. I hope that everyone who is sick will feel better soon.

Not much to report. Staying at home (Mom's****il I go home, as I had to return the car at the airport today. Spent sometime at the pool today, although it was a bit cool and windy.

Anxiously waiting to come home, even though it will be cold.

Have a good day.

Hugs,
Lucy

TIRED ON THURSDAY

I haven't posted in awhile, mostly because of all the craziness going on here.

We spent alot of the weekend in the ER with Noah, mostly to see if we could get an emergency placement for him in an inpatient kids psych unit. While we were there on SUnday, we also found out he has a condition called thrombocytopenia, low platelets, and they did not know what caused it. Low platelets can lead to bleeding and excessive bruising. THey decided that it was due to one of his meds, but one we can not just stop. He has bruises all over now, so we had to do something about it. After 11 1/2 hours in the ER, they had no placement for us, and the extra added diagnosis. We took him home.

Monday night I took him to another ER cause he was complaining of L sided pain where there was a big bruise and the pediatrician wanted us to go to the ER to make sure he wasnt bleeding into his hip cause of the low platelets. After another 8 hrs in the ER, IV's, cat scans, etc... he was clear to go home at 2:30am.

Tues he went to school and of course started his nonsense at bedtime and put holes in his walls and threw everything he could get his hands on, plus alot more and I made the decision to do whatever it took to get him admitted. So I called AGAIN to the worker who makes the decision, and told her of all the weekend nonsense, and that we could not do this anymore. She was able to get him placed and asked if we wanted to come at night or in the morning. He had finally passed out in his bed, so i chose to take him this morning. I woke him up and he went willingly. I think he knows when he needs to go. He seemed ok with it, although I was so sad that I had to leave him there. I kept it together until I got into the car, and then lost it.

So he is admitted and they have to set up a plan but it looks like he will be there at that facility for a few weeks which gives me time to get him into the facility I want him to go to in Wisconsin. I sure hope I can pull it off.

Please pray that I can make some magic happen in the next few days and get him into the Wisconsin place. It has such an awesome reputation and he really needs some long term treatment. I just want to do what is best for him, even though it is SOOOO hard for me. Oh God, I sure hope it made the right decision.

I really need some rest, and some sleep and some peace. I will be a better mom and wife if I can recharge my batteries and get caught up on things.

I have lost a few more pounds becasue of all the stress and drinking alot of water and not eating much. Plus my stomach is upset most of the time, and what goes in, comes out really fast.

Health wise, we should be able to make better choices now that we have some time to get our act together. I am hoping that they work on Noah's eating while he is in there. So many problems so little time.

I am looking forward to going to DIsney in May, just Jeff and I, we really need it bad, We really need some time alone.

Thank to all who have been supporting me and sending prayers. It means so much to have such great friends!

Have a great day everyone!

 ((((((Eileen)))))

You and Jeff are in my thoughts and prayers.  I am so sorry that Noah is having such problems right now.  I am sure this is extremely heart wrenching to deal with.  You are an angel in this situation.    As difficult as it is, you are doing what is best for Noah.  I do pray that you are able to get him into the Wisconsin facility so that the help that he needs can be addressed.  Noah is very lucky to have found you and Jeff for his parents and the patience and love that you shower on him are exceptional.  Hang in there.  It will get better!  

(((((Eileen)))))  You are doing the right thing sweetie.  You are getting Noah the help that he needs and what more could a loving and caring mother do?  Do they have a plan in place for this low platelets? that's weird, but I pray that he will do great and that he gets into the place in Wisconsin where he can get the help he needs and become the great person I know he is down inside.
I am so sorry you are going through this sweetie and if you ever want to talk, just let me know!
Love you!!

Good morning Eileen. I pray that your son gets the help he needs as well as getting into the facility in Wisconsin. Wow, 2 days in a row at an ER! That's so stressful and straining on you.

Hopefully you will get some "mental rest" as well as physical in the next few weeks.

It's great that you have something to look forward to, like your trip to Disney and you're continued transformation.

Take care and get some rest!

Hugs,
Lucy

Eileen, This is hard, but think of it as a boost in the right direction. My cousins adopted son was/is the same way. He spent 10 years in a childs phych hospital. He is home now, but they still have problems. You and Jeff are great parents, and even with the problems you are having, Noah knows you are helping him.

Lisa

Hi Eileen,   I can only imagine how difficult this is for you.  My heart goes out to you.  it is so hard to see our children hurt and sometimes the right thing to do is the hardest.  You are making the best decisions you can in doing what is best for Noah and your family. 

Hugs, Paulette

Sounds like a rough road.  My prayers are with you.

Hi Eileen,
I'm sure as the mother of Noah you are trying to make the right decisions. When you are sleep deprived and anxious it seems that you feel your world is topsy turvy. Things will get better. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.

Wow, everyone's up early.

Pray for me today. I have a test. Its a rough class. Every time I go to the class I ask myself....... self, (I call myself self) what in what world am I ever going to use this doing? And I can't figure it out.

And the kicker is I don't have time to study. I have been kicking around the idea of taking off work today. But I think I will go. I will just have to study during my History class. I can always look that stuff up somewhere. It hasn't changed much in the last couple years.

I have a stupid safety meeting at work today so I can't really take off, or I have to make that thing up again. I don;t have time to worry about doing that.

I did good standing all day yesterday, so I decided to do it today too.

I am wearing my Hawaiian shirt today. Kinda trying to motivate the weather to come around to the upper 60's or 70's again.  It usually doesn't work. I think it is because I put a winter coat on over it.

Anyway, I hope all have a good day.



God Bless.

Dave