NEW DIET! Lose 6 pounds in 3 days!!!

I'm sure you're all just on the edge of your seats waiting to hear about my new found diet and weight loss....well, here you go....be warned it's not pretty, but it was easy. :)

Tuesday: Lucas woke up not feeling well. He spent the better part of the morning (5 am-ish) throwing up, dry-heaving and then had diarrhea. He finally finished and was able to sleep most of the day. Great...that's over.

Wednesday gone, here comes Thursday: I was under with only half of what Lucas had and it wasn't the throwing up part although I felt like I should have several hundred times... Erin was sweet enough to take my kids for me Thursday morning, returned them for nap time, then picked them up again in the afternoon when she brought me a pregnancy test...yes a pregnancy test. I had to explore all the possibilities as to why I was at 5 minute intervals doubled over in pain for 2-3 seconds and it would go away....if this was the beginning of 9 months of pregnancy, this was the last time and it was going to be a long haul. I took the test and it was negative, means nothing to me so I'm still uncertain about that option.

Friday: I called Erin that morning to see if she would take my kids again and she wasn't feeling well so she couldn't (keep reading erin...), Jeff finally came home early - I think that was about 3:30 to help out. Later that night (I'm still miserable, no cramping, and the bathroom runs are less frequent - yeah!) I called Erin to see how she was doing. Turns out I never called her, she wasn't on her way to take her boys to school because they don't go to school on Friday and I need a nap.... :) She was fine other than I called during the "getting kids to bed routine".
Bedtime: Jeff flips on the light and hands me Abbey and says "I need help." Breathing heavily, high fever and runny nose....yuck - that's Abbey, not Jeff. :) Jeff spent a good part of the night giving her an ice bath with towels to bring her 103.7 fever down to 100. She finally sleeps and is up later with me. A little more sleep and the other kids are up at 6:30.....why oh why do my kids get up that early!!!!?!?!?!? I think we've watched more TV/movies than ever recommended by anyone....

Saturday: Jeff takes Lea and Lucas to Lea's soccer game - after missing the first 2 practices, she's starting soccer again...YEAH! I love it, but didn't go - under strict orders from Jeff to stay in bed....right because Abbey loves to just lay still and not move around. Saturday afternoon, finally found someone (thank you Palmers!) home to watch our kids while we went to urgent care (after a somewhat sad email to my nurse friend Kehau in Portland I was convinced I should go). Of course the clinic was closed and Good Night Peds didn't open for another hour. We drove out to a different office - much cleaner one, but there was already a line at 5 pm and it just kept getting longer and longer by the minute. Very sad to see so many sick little ones and tired parents - we were all in the same boat: miserable and lost. We meet with a very nice doctor, they test Abbey and she almost kung-fu'ed the nurse in the head while she swabbed Abbey's nose. Quite entertaining actually. She's a fighter! :) Doctor comes back and oink, oink we have the Type A/Swine flu - whew, now what. Take this and should be okay - will lessen the symptoms and off you go.

Of course all 24 hour pharmacies are anywhere but close to us in Laveen. Jeff drops me off with the kids at home and drives for another half our to the pharmacy, spends a couple hours there, and returns home....4 pm to 10 pm was a long day for everyone.

It's finally Sunday, Jeff took Lea to church, Abbey and Lucas are napping and I'm finally eating - oh yeah back to my weight loss diet. I am down 6 lbs in 3 days from 3 days of diarrhea and not eating or drinking (some water here/there and couple of freeze pops). It's not recommended by any doctor, but it sure does work. Abbey is still recovering, but is doing better and well my house looks like we've been hermits for about a month.

Attitude of Gratitude:
*my friends near and far who were there to help
*Jeff has a job now where he can leave without others condemning him for having a "Family first" attitude
*health insurance - we went 3 months without it this year....scary - we are family who uses the insurance to the fullest!
*knowledgeable doctors and nurses
*my sisters and mother-in-law who would show up in a heartbeat if I asked
*I still need my mom even though I'm 30 and have my own children. I now understand why my oldest sister would call home when I was younger and ask for her mommy....I thought she was insane..... she might still be, but she never reads my blog so she won't know any of this. :)
*I have goodly parents whom I miss very much!
*the priesthood is a beautiful power to have and my husband is pretty amazing! A pest yes, but still the right one for me!
*Lea is not sick and hopefully she will not get sick - she's been a very big help!