Simply Mel

Of Boots, Heart Monitors and Floods

If you follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook you know that last Friday and Saturday were not my best days.I promised a post on everything that happened so lets get started, shall we?

Thursday night, right  before bed, Madelyn tripped over one of her toys and hurt her foot. Since it was bed time we comforted her and put her to bed. Friday morning she got out of bed and started crying because her foot still hurt and started limping. So I made her an appointment at the pediatrician’s office and the first available appointment wasn’t until 3:00pm.  Which was fine because I also had appointments that day for myself. Friday was originally supposed to be a day for me to tackle packing and cleaning to get our house “show worthy” for when we put it on the market. My inlaws were going to watch the girls. Well, that was not meant to be. Let’s get back to Thursday again….

Thursday I had an appointment with my Nurse Practitioner for a physical and to talk about the dizziness I have been experiencing for over a week now and it having been a while now that we’ve been trying to conceive. So, they listened to my heart and said that I have an irregular heart beat so they have put me on a Holter heart monitor for 24 hours. I just got that put on today. My NP isn’t sure if maybe that has something to do with my dizziness. She looked in my ears and saw that I have a hole in my eardrum so wanted me to see an Ear, Nose And Throat doctor. She wasn’t sure if maybe that had something to do with my dizziness. She also scheduled an ultrasound for this Wednesday to check things out “in there”. She wanted me to have lots of bloodwork done.

Now let’s get back to Friday…

I went to have my blood work drawn at 8:30 am, had an oil change appointment at 9:30, then had my ear appointment at 2:15 followed by Madelyn’s pediatrician appointment at 3:00. Well, I had to wait over an hour for my turn in the lab so I had to cancel my oil change appointment. I didn’t get in to have my blood drawn until almost 10:00 am.  I then went home got some of the kitchen cleaned and headed out again at 12:45 to meet my inlaws at their house and watch the girls so they could go pick up their van. Then  I left for my ear appointment and my mother in law met me at the pediatrician’s office at 3:00 with Madelyn. The ear specialist said he didn’t think that my ears were the cause of my dizziness.

Once at the pediatrician’s office(after waiting 40 minutes to see the doctor) Madelyn’s doctor felt that Madelyn had, indeed, most likely  broken something in her foot. I say “most likely”  because the x-rays she had taken later on didn’t show anything but her doctor said at this age they have so many tiny bones and muscles in their still growing feet that x-rays don’t always pick up everything. So, off we went to the cast room at our hospital. After another long wait the orthopedist  looked at her foot and decided she should have a boot. By this time it was around 6:00 pm. He finds out they have no more small boots to fit Madelyn so he sends us to another local hospital to get one from their cast room. When we get there we have to register(again) and fill out all sorts of paperwork etc before we can go the boot. Finally the boot is put on and we can go home. Thankfully, Mike was able to get out of work and come to the hospital for some of this.

Saturday morning, we get up and Mike takes a shower only to find that it won’t heat up. So he checks the hot water heater in the basement and finds that our basement is flooded and the hot water heater is broken. He stays home  to get the basement cleaned up and get a new hot water heater.  I take the girls to Katelyn’s dance class and go check out two more houses. Thankfully everything was taken care of and our basement is back to normal again.

As I type this I’m wearing my monitor and having to write every single thing I do that makes my heart pound, cause shortness of breath, dizziness or any other kind of symptom. The little booklet  also indicates that I should write any bowel movements that cause any of those things! I thought that was funny. I have already had to write that “yelling at my kids” caused my heart to pound. I’m afraid that’s going to happen a lot within the next 24 hours….

I’ve included some pictures of Madelyn in her Wee Walker. It actually looks really cute on her! She has to wear it for a week and then we’ll follow up with the orthopedist. She’s been doing fine with it and has come close to running in it. Nothing stops her!!

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