Pnemonia, Surgery and 5 weeks to go!

(I wrote this post last week sometime but never posted it...oops!) Well we've had more sickness here in the Murphy household this last week. Last Tuesday Phoebe's teacher called from mother's day out and said she was running a low fever and just didn't feel good and I should come pick her up. By the time I got there to pick her up their thermometer was reading her temp to be 106.7, she was burning up and starting to shake. It totally freaked me out so I drove straight home since we are pretty close and the peditrician's office is closed for lunch from 12:30 to 1:30, gave her a dose of tylenol and our thermometer read 105. By that time is was 1:30 and I started calling the ped's office. They said they could see her at 2:10 so I changed Eliott's diaper and changed Phoebe's clothes to something much cooler and started for the door. Thankfully the phone rang and it was Eliott's teacher, Christina, from mother's day out offering to watch him while I took Phoebe to the doc. Oh WOW-what a blessing! He would have totally worn me out if I had to bring him too. Luckily she lives in our neighborhood and so I loaded them in the car, dropped him off and Phoebe felt so bad she was screaming and crying about everything. I don't even remember what it was on the way to Christina's house but then all the way to the doctor she just screamed and cried that she wanted Bubba..."I want Bubba...go back and get Bubba...pick Bubba up right now!" Poor girl! So after a strep test and x-rays the doc said she had pnemonia. Gave us a prescription for antibiotics and sent us on our way. Of course she hates the way the antibiotics taste so I'm having to hide them in yogurt, pudding, ice cream but hey whatever works, right? She had a 105 temp on Wed and Thursday too but finally went away on Friday. Friday morning she woke up and was a totally different person, she felt a whole lot better!


On Friday morning our little man had tubes put in his ears and his adnoids out. Surgery went well but going back there and seeing him in recovery was the hardest!! He was just screaming and crying and didn't want to be held, he kept arching his back and finally pulled his iv out and blood went squirting all over me. We sat there in recovery for probably 45-55 minutes and he screamed and cried the whole time. He refused to take a drink, eat a popsicle or calm down. There were other parents in there with their kids and they weren't screaming like this so of course they were looking at me and who knows what they were thinking. But when we were walking out of recovery, which finally calmed him down, I noticed that their kids were a little older and their parents could explain stuff and they could talk to their parents and say what hurt, etc. They put us in a room and I was able to rock him to sleep, thankfully!! They took his vitals two more times and then we were released. He was awake the whole time on the way home and drank his Pedilyte almost the whole way. When we got home he acted totally fine. He got down and started playing with his blocks that Phoebe & Dad had gotten out to play with while we were gone. He only took an hour nap that afternoon and seemed fine all the way up until Monday. He started being cranky and waking up at 3 in the morning and I guess it was the adnoids healing. Two days he woke up from his nap just screaming and crying and pointing in his mouth and at his throat. Poor dude!

Well I will be 33 weeks on Tuesday, the 8th so that means only 4 weeks until I'm full term and 5 weeks until I'm 38 weeks, which is when I had both Phoebe & Eliott. I really want to have this baby so my back pain will go away, I will feel back to normal and not have a huge belly but then again I'm kind of afraid of what I will do with 3-YEAHHHH!!

Well I've got to get to my bible study--