Weight Milestone

If anyone knows me, they know that I've been trying to loose weight.  I was 215 lbs (BMI stated obese) back in September, but started the HCG diet at that time and lost 30 pounds.  I just finished another round (another 15 pounds) (this time a cheated a lot though) and my BMI yesterday stated that I was in the normal range!  I'm pretty happy about it all!

Continued Sleepless Nights

So, the inevitable happened.  Our Special Needs daughter got sick. She actually threw up.  She has never done that since she was 1 and she's now 4 years old.  She is on the Ketogenic Diet, a special diet to help control seizures, so trying to get her better was harder than the other kids.  If we hold off on her feeds, she may loose the effectiveness of her diet and start having seizures, plus there aren't a lot of medicines we could give her to get her by.

We finally came up with a solution (the doctors were no help).  We found a PowerAide that has very few carbs which we could give her, and we found a doctor who told us that Zofran is okay to give her as well.  We got her through it.  The first night we were debating whether or not to take her to the ER, but decided to sleep in her room close to her.  We took turns sleeping on an air mattress, and didn't sleep well during it. (My back still hurts).  She is doing better today and even went to school.

Fully Charged!

One piece of equipment that is essential for our special needs daughter is an Oximeter.  It's a device that constantly measures her oxygen saturation in her blood.  We have a little portable one that we've been using, but the battery on it has only been lasting about 1 hour before it shuts off.  Yesterday we finally got the company to give us a new one.  The funny thing is, they didn't just replace the battery, they replaced the whole unit!  These things cost about $1000!

Title of this Blog

I guess I should explain the title of this blog "My Rights in a Row".  My wife and I don't argue very often, but when we do it's usually over silly things.  We keep track of how many "rights in a row" I have.  It's fun way to keep it light and also to keep me humble.  My record is having 3 rights in a row.  Meaning I was right three times in a row.

We have unofficial rules as to what qualifies a right a row.  There has to be discussion about the topic, and a right in a row has to be bet.  My goal is to get four in a row, but where am I right now?
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Oh yes, ZERO

Sleepless Nights

Our 6 year old daughter has been starting a trend, coming into our room in the middle of the night every night the last few weeks.  It's a pain for my wife who has to wake up, turn a closet light on, adjust a sleeping bag for her.  We've tried different things to get her to stay in her room, like taking away her daily movie if she comes down, putting a switch on her lamp that if she presses a button, it stays on for 1 hour. We thought last night we finally had the right combination to get her to stay up in her room, but at 12:30am, sure enough she comes down saying that she is sick, grabs a bucket and proceeds to throw up.  Consequently, my wife still didn't get a full nights sleep.  On top of that our special needs child was up last night crying and screaming.

Along those lines, we've had a run of sickness in the house.  First our little boy yesterday was throwing up (or "getting sick" as one of my daughter's favorite books described) all over the house.  There was a lot of cleaning to do, now last night our daughter is doing the same.  We only hope that our special needs daughter doesn't get sick!

Eventful Sunday

I thought my wife would post about this, but she didn't.

So on Sunday at church, my wife and I get our special needs daughter out of her wheelchair just to hold her and give her a break.  As I was grabbing her, her feeding tube got caught on her wheelchair and popped out of her stomach.  She has a hole into her stomach to help her eat. The tube has a balloon on the end of it so it doesn't come out of her stomach, well it did.  Another problem we have is that the hole could close off in 20 minutes if a new tube isn't put in, then we would have no way to feed her or give her medications without surgical intervention

My wife grabbed our daughter and ran home as fast as she could.  When she got home, she tried to get a new tube placed in her stomach, but it had partially closed off, so she was unsuccessful.  She drove our daughter to the local hospital where we knew they really wouldn't be able to help as they are a small hospital.

My wife got there told them she needed transport to the Children's Hospital which could help her.  She was told that if they made our daughter a patient, they have to observe her for 1 hour, so what did my wife due?  She grabbed a phone at the hospital and called 911.  Imagine, "What's your location?"  "I'm at the hospital and I need an ambulance to the hospital"

In the meantime, I was able to get to the hospital they were at thanks to a friend, and I asked if I could try getting the tube in.  I tend to be more forceful than my wife.  The ambulance showed up, and I had not gotten the tube in.  The men pulled the gurney out and into the room. I threw my hands in the air and stated.."It's In!" We got it in without many complications.  We thanked the EMTs for showing up and being willing to transport us, but because the tube was in, we didn't need their help anymore.

So, luckily we saved ourselves a trip to the hospital and a trip in the ambulance.

Lack in Parenting

I saw another patient today that made me sad.  Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) in children is something that can be treated if caught early on and followed up with regularly.  Today, again, I saw an 11 year old boy who had Amblyopia in both eyes.  The best we could get his vision was 20/50.  The legal limit to drive is 20/40.  I had to tell the parents, because he hasn't been seen regularly and hasn't been wearing his glasses, he may never be able to drive.

Guess what... I bet he still won't be seen regularly or wear his glasses.

Peas in a Can

Have a new recipe for you to try.  It's a little complex, but should be fun to try:

The Recipe is for Authentic English Peas

Check out the Ratings and Reviews section for another good laugh

The First...

My wife created a blog and I'm proud of her for doing it, but there are many times I tell her, "You should blog about that."  Well, instead of telling her what to blog about, I decided that I would create a blog of my own.  

It will just be my thoughts, and I don't care if anyone reads it.  I'm not even going to advertise it.  How long did it take you to find it?  How long did it take my wife to find it?  Hm.. an experiment..

I'm an optometrist in Utah and I'm kind of a techno geek, as such, I have a second blog with my thoughts on technology, links to great free software and a little about the tech side of me.

We'll see how well this goes..