Sick Girl

So last week I went away for a week of training and when I got home, Ken said, Jen I'm so sick.  You might not stay in here with me tonight unless you want to get it.  That's all he had to say.  I'm not interested in getting sick at all so I snuggled on the comfy couch downstairs and quickly fell asleep.

Days went by and sometime during the day on Monday my throat started to get scratchy.  I called Ken and asked him what his symptoms were.  Sure enough, scratchy throat was 1st on his list.  GREAT!  I had hope but it was quickly dashed as the day went on.  I could feel my body starting to go in to an exhaustion mode.  Very lethargic.

Fast forward to the morning and I was wiped out completely.  I took Cody to school and it took every ounce right out of me.  Then things got weird.  I drove Cody up to the drop off zone and watched him walk in to the school.  Once I saw him disappear into the doorway a tear ran down my cheek.  He's so grown up now.  Almost done with Kindergarten and on his was to 1st grade.  He just looked so old to me.  Then I thought, oh geez, I would have never had seen this if I didn't survive.  How did that pop in my head?  Why does cancer always randomly pop in my head.  As I was driving, I had deja vu where I remember when I was going through chemo that there were times when I couldn't remember driving to work.  I remember going through the motion but often wondered how I got there.  It was the weirdest feeling.  And now as I'm driving I'm thinking about it.  Once I got home, I feel into the bed and completely zoned out.  It felt so weird.  Like chemo all over again.  I use to sleep the days away to avoid the sickening feeling that I use to get and although I had some nasty bug in my system, it was so odd that it kept making me feel like how I felt 2 1/2 years ago.  I don't like how I was feeling and I could feel myself getting into a funk.  But it didn't take long till I drifted off to sleep.

5 hours later I was awoken by Ken's phone call.  Did I actually sleep that long?  WOW!  Of course the rest of the day I spent in bed just resting.  I wanted to go back asleep but couldn't seem to get back to it. 

I grabbed Cody from class and it was an early night for us all.  Unfortunately, my cold is still with me.  It's going to be a long night.

Mother's Day

Mother's day was fabulous!  And what a wonderful little son I have!

Cody woke up at 6:30am to give me these presents

Lovely hat wouldn't you say?

A special necklace with his finger print on it.

Say CHEESE!!!

The SUN!!!

Oh my goodness, can it be true?  Did the sun finally come out today.  And is it actually 80 degrees?  Can someone pitch me please.  I'm in heaven!!!  I actually wore a dress today but didn't sport the open toed shoes yet.  These toes aren't ready to make their debut quite yet.  Give me the weekend to get them all dolled up.  Oh and I could use a little self tanner to give these white legs a little color.  No need to completely blend in with my summer wardrobe colors. 

Poor Cody

I don't know what happened to him but as we were driving my mom home on Saturday evening, Cody began throwing up in the car.  We were slightly freaking out cause this is the only the 2nd time he's ever thrown up in his 6 1/2 years of life.  Ken immediately pulled over off to the side of the road and I was trying to unbuckle him as he was throwing up all over me, the seat and the Ipad.  Gasp you think.  I know me too.  My poor little Cody.  Luckily we were only 7 miles from our house.  So we turned around and quickly took him home.

We took off all his clothes and gave him a shower.  Poor little guy was so upset with himself.  We reassured him that it was okay and that we were here to help him.  He just has to tell us how he feels, and the biggest question is what in the world did you eat?

After throwing up and hives all over, we gave him benadryl and his body started looking so much better and Cody even said he felt better too.  Then he quickly fell asleep.

I went to the neighbors house to see if she had any idea of what might have happened.
We went though all the things he ate.  And he's eaten all of that stuff at their house before.  It was just so weird.  He was outside playing all day, rolling around in the grass, running hard with his little buddies.  He started itching non-stop so we figured it was the grass or his seasonal allergies.  Little did we expect it to be food allergies.  At last Nichole said, could it be the buns?  I thought to myself....can't be.  But turns out the buns had sesame on them.  So I did a little searching and sure enough, sesame is in the peanut family.  Go figure.

So, the mystery behind Cody's allergic reaction today may have been sesame seeds.  I'll be calling his allergist tomorrow to find out.  What's unfortunate is, Ken and I were really hoping that his food allergies were going away.  We truly didn't want him to gain a new allergy.  But the good news is, if he truly is allergic we can avoid this food and hopefully he wont' have a reaction like this again.