Can I get a "Thank You Jesus!?"

Whoooo Hoooo! As you can tell.. I am so happy! Elijah's MRI came back completely normal! WHOOOO HOOOO! I have been so ill and snappy.. just ask my poor kids and husband..and..mom..and friends *cough anyway! I can breathe now. It has been a week and I am just so releived! I am so happy to call Dr. Maley our pediatrician that is so careful and thorough and Anne his nurse that is as wonderful as well! She has really helped me this week. Thank you all for caring so much for my precious Eli Bear!

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Don't give up on me guys! I have called and called Vanderbilt and the same woman answers at the desk and says "I will send a message back for the nurse to call you". soooo, I had to get a bit ugly. I DEMANDED that she get up and walk herself over to Dr. Kilroy's nurse who I know is about 30 feet away from her and tell them to call me. She said.. get this.. "I will send another message back.. but I'll mark it urgent". hmmmmm, no call today...how urgent did they think it was? AHHHHHHHHHH! I got nothing accomplished today because I sat and bit my nails and waited by the phone allllll daaaaaaay! I cannot take another day of waiting. I think I will just wake up in the morning and drive 2 hours just to see that lazy woman at the ped neuro desk named CECE and tell her what I think about her! Can you tell I have had a stessful day!?!? huh huh?

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

Eli's MRI went well on Tuesday. He was the sweetest little thing in that blue hospital gown that was just his size. About the time they put it on him I reached for my camera. no camera. "WHAT?! " "I ALWAYS TAKE MY CAMERA"!!! Well, I was so worried about getting Eli Bear out of this house happy from him not getting to eat or drink I forgot my camera! He couldn't eat anything past midnight. He couldn't drink milk passed 4:30am. He could have Gatorade, water and apple juice from 4:30am until 8:30 am. It was no problem. He drank about 12 ounces of Gatorade in the car until cut off time. He was happy! I just knew how much he liked his milk first thing upon waking and I was really quite surprised how well he did. He arrived at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and I was supposed to make sure in the order it said a MRI of the brain AND full spine. WEEEELLLLL, no such luck. Everyone in that whole place was beyond sweet, loved children, respected what the parents could be going through,etc. Except the one girl at the Diagnostic Imaging counter. Rude Rude Rude. I explained the reason we came was for the birthmark on his spine and poor muscle tone. Dr. Maley said last week at Eli's well check he would send a fax to Dr. Kilroy stating he wanted a MRI of spine as well to clear up anything about the spine since we will be driving 2 hours with a NPO child that is a year old and will be put to sleep. hmmmmm. She didn't care. The spine MRI takes 3 hours and they didn't have that kind of extra time to work him in. Well, I called Dr. Maley and he said it would be fine to wait and see if his muscle tone improves. So, we went back and after changing him into the precious little gown and taking vitals they have him a drug called Profovol up his nose to calm him enough to get an IV in. (come to think of it I need some Profovol daily) They tried his little foot and before the nurse tried I knew she wasn't going to get a thing. They called in the IV team and they got it on his scalp. There are less nerve endings on your scalp so it doesn't hurt as bad. But, it sure looks brutal. So, after the IV was ready we took him to the MRI room. We layed him on the big table and watched them put him to sleep. Not fun At All. He went right off but that was the problem. It just happens sooooooo fast. Anyway, they gave us a pager and told us it would be 45 minutes. We ran to the cafeteria and ate some taco bell and enjoyed our selves for a few minutes. OK, well, we TRIED to enjoy ourselves..all we could think about was that little booger asleep! After lunch we took a short walk around the hospital. Wow, what a hospital Everything is geared for children. Its amazing! Everything is chill decorated but so tasteful! We got a beep on our pager and rushed back there. Eli was in recovery sound asleep and so sweet! I took advantage of him being so still. I just stared and kissed..stared and kissed. awesome. So, after a long talk with his nurse about the Bible, Memphis, St Jude, etc (such a great lady that lives in Germantown and worked at St Jude for 22 years) she discharged us. Eli awoke to a bottle of pedialyte and apple juice and teddy grams we were on the road home! He was quite fussy the next day but he is doing great now. we are still waiting on results but I will post them when I get them (probably today)!

giveaway

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She is giving away the tea cup set, mary engelbreight note cards and the BEEEEE-UTIFUL birdcage!

You don't have to have a blog to win. Just leave her a comment with your email address. Get on over to FOREVER VINTAGE .. it is a great blog!

DEFINITELY

Sooooo, my Mom brought it to my attention that I misspell "definAtely" a lot. Ok, on almost every post. Sorry Mom.. DEFINITELY... is that better? I will learn from my mistakes.

FINALLY FOUND THE ONES! WHOOOO HOOOO!!!

OK, so I have been looking for inexpensive chandelier shades for my chandy in the dining room. I have looked endlessly for, let's see, hmmmmmmm about 4 years! wow. So, we had to make a run to Lowe's the other night and low and behold were the perfect ones I was looking for! OK, so they weren't perrrrfect..but close..and they would be perfect after I was finished with them. Out came the "frugalness" and creativity burning inside of me. these were the perfect color and shape..BUT, they had the outdated beading trim on them. Soooooo.. I just took the beads off.

These were a measley 3.00 a piece. I needed 10 so anything above 3.00 I was not willing to pay! Here is an after pic when all the beads were ripped off and all the shades are on. I just love my chandelier on now at night..it is beautiful. Makes the room so much more warm ...

Is it me or do you smell vitamins?!?!?!

This is so funny I had to share with all the world. The other day I asked Justin "Is it me or does Ezra smell like vitamins"? I rushed to the medicine cabinet. Medicine cabinet locked? check. Medicine sealed with child proof seals? check. hmmmmmmm.. Ok, guess I am just smelling things. 3 days go by. I am laying on the couch with one arm around Ezra and one arm around Anna Claire. I looked over at Anna Claire during the movie..she was so sweet and enjoying the movie. A curl had fell down on her face and it was just a beautiful moment. I glanced at Ezra next. hmmmmmm black goop running out his ear kind of ruined to "moment". WHAT IN THE WORLD EZRA BRYANT!" "JUSTIN, GET OVER HERE I THINK EZRA'S EARS ARE DYING" I yelled...which is hilarious to think about now. What had happened is when we gave him his daily flinstone vitamin before bedtime (only a half) he apparently stuck it in his EAR! It was a nice grape flavored one that eventually came out as black. It was really nasty. We layed him down and flushed it out. He layed there perfectly and did not move one time. It was definately a memory to say the least!