The weekend is almost here and everyone in this house couldn't be happier after a very hectic weekend last weekend and busy Monday this week. Tj's game last Sunday night went great and they won again! Now we think he is officially done with football games until next season. He is now getting ready for the conditioning to get started after Thanksgiving. After all of us being out in the cold at Tj's game last Saturday the girls didn't really feel that great the rest of the weekend and we struggled all day Sunday with Keely's breathing. We gave her the breathing treatments every few hours and finally Sunday night after they were not helping I decided I would take her into the ER. By that time she had also come down with a fever. I always hate doing that since it takes so long to get anything done but I was afraid things would just get worse throughout the night. Haley stayed home with Tate and Scott was at Tj's game so I had to take her in by myself. They did a chest x-ray and it showed that she had the start of pneumonia coming on and it was a good thing we got her in when we did. I know that the cold air on Saturday was what made her get so much worse so fast. They started her on a new antibiotic and finally today she does seem to be feeling a bit better. After getting home about midnight we all had to get up early Monday so we could head to Omaha for Tatum and Tj's appointments. For the most part every one's appointments went very well. Tatum first had to get the ultrasound done on her head then to have blood drawn. At her appointment later that morning with the doctor he said that her ultrasound looked great! That was a huge relief since she has been having such bad headaches so often. Her blood work was also pretty good for her being sick with some kind of virus. Her spleen is enlarged but he didn't seem to concerned about it right now. That is something that we have to check often and keep an eye on. IF it ever gets too swollen and quites working they would remove it which isn't something that is terribly uncommon with sickle cell patients. The hematologist said that we will need to do a scan of Tate's head if her headaches continue but we are also suppose to look for things that aren't normal for her. He said to watch for her losing her balance or being out of it sometimes like she doesn't know what is going on. She hasn't had any of that at all so I'm hoping the headaches go away. The only thing that has really changed is that she is getting up tons during the night. She fist doesn't want to go to bed then after getting to sleep she is up sometimes as many as five times a night! That has been over a month now and it is really getting old. I guess we will just wait and see what happens over the next few weeks and if she isn't better we will have her head scanned. We have still been going to the YMCA in the evenings. Tate is loving the daycare so much, she looks forward to it everyday! I wish I could say the same for Keely. She did great the first few days and played but now she has decided that she just wants to cry the whole time. They hold her and she still crys so they come and get me. I haven't got too great of workouts this week because of it either. Then last night we took her and she ran off and played until we left the room. Not even five minutes after I got on the treadmill they came and got me because Keely got so upset she threw up on one of the workers there. They didn't want to keep her after that so Scott stayed in there with her and tried to get her to play. She is so full of energy and usually the one who likes people. I guess I have had her home with me too long and now she doesn't know how to go and play with other kids. I'm not sure what we will do with her but hopefully she will start doing better if we keep taking her there. Haley and Tj have now been sick all week and I have to take both of them to the doctor today to see if we can get them some antibiotics. I think we are just spreading germs around our house from one person to another. Tj has been so healthy the whole winter so far but really is feeling crappy this week. Tj still has plans to go skating tonight. He also got invited to watch the Husker game from Tom Osborne's suite again! So hopefully between times he can get some rest and get to feeling better. Haley was planning on going to a winter wonderland dance at school tomorrow night but after finding out there weren't many people going she decided not to go. She must really like hanging out at home with us I guess! Scott, the girls, and I have plans to go out for supper and then to Chuck E. Cheese for the girls to get out and play for a while.
I also want to share some excitement that we had this week. When we met Keely for the first time we also got the chance to meet her birth mother. I will call her K. Since meeting her that day we have received one very nice letter from her and then we never heard anything and neither had the worker at the agency. We have continued to send letters and pictures once in a while even though we never knew if K would ever let anyone know where she was so they could give her the letters and pictures. We always think about her and also Keely's two siblings that K is raising alone. I had just sent new pictures of Keely and a letter for her about a month ago. I got a email back from the worker that she would keep them on file and that she hadn't heard from her birth mother still. Then this week I got another email that her birth mother had contacted the agency and is doing good! After giving birth to Keely the agency helped her get an apartment. Well she had a fire at her apartment and lost all the pictures she had of Keely from when she was a baby. So we are going to make her a new album for Christmas of Keely from the time we got her until now. I decided to write to the agency again the other day to see if there was any items that we could send that would help her get back on her feet and into another apartment. She wrote back and said that K called the agency again and said she had a letter and new pictures of the kids for us so we are very excited about getting those. She also stated that she had ran into Keely's birth father's mom and she is still upset about the adoption. We knew in the beginning she was upset about it and she had even talked with the agency but nobody had heard from her since then. I guess she did call the agency again this week but the worker hadn't had a chance to talk to her yet. The worker asked if we would be open to sending birth grandmother pics and letters too to hopefully make her feel more at ease about the adoption of her granddaughter. We are fine with that and glad they want to know about her. We also hope to get some information about Keely's birth father since we know nothing about him at all. The worker at the agency is going to be meeting with K sometime and hopefully that we will be able to stay in contact with her now more frequently through the agency. This is such a huge relief for us to know that she is doing OK and the kids are too. We hope everyone has a great weekend and Thanks so much for reading our blog! It finally made 1000 hits!
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