The Dark Cloud That Is My Life

So I have been MIA for what feels like months now. 

Things were fine and dandy until Lil' Miss B started acting under the weather about 10 days ago.

I trusted my gut and called the pediatrician's office to see if I could squeeze her in after my doctor's appointment. I was having crazy sinus pain ever since I flew home from MI and finally decided to suck it up and go get some medicine.

Let's just say going to the doctor is not my cup of tea and going with both of my kids is even less appealing. This appointment in particular, turned out to be one of the most difficult ones I have ever had to endure.

I stroll in with the kiddos in their beast of a stroller and get called right away, which was nice.

We are walked down the hall to our room all while Misa Misa is whining about how he doesn't want to get a shot. I kept trying to tell him that we were at my doctor and not his and that he was perfectly safe.

We get to our room and I have to keep apologizing to the nurse who couldn't keep from laughing the whole time Misa Misa is interrupting our every breath. 

At this time, Barrett starts to whimper as if she wants to get in on the action too. I let her out of the stroller to cruise a bit and suddenly the doctor walks in and startles her. She trips and falls on the floor. She always falls so I thought it was no big deal until I picked her up to find a pool of blood.

Awesome.

She cut the inside of her top lip on who knows what and proceeds to bleed continuously for what felt like forever. My poor doctor was all frazzled and never even looked in my nose! He was too concerned with making sure her teeth were still intact. He wrote me a script and tried to get the bleeding to stop. 

Misa Misa was in the stroller, white as a ghost and started to wail once he saw the blood.

There I was, sinus pain, blood all over me, two screaming kids and a poor panicked looking doctor. I told him to just let me get her to her pediatrician's appointment and made my way out of their office with what dignity I had left. I rushed out while all the nurses looked at me like I was a crazy person.

I made it to her pediatrician's appointment and seriously shocked all the people when I walked in. They gasped when they saw me and asked where the blood was coming from. I told them that we were just there for a cough and that the blood was just a long story.

Argh!

Once we were there, we found out that poor Lil' Miss B had a double ear infection and now a busted lip. We got her some medicine and went on our way until the next morning when Misa Misa woke up like this...

He spiked a fever and started hacking away like an 80 year old smoker. I called the pediatrician's office and asked to sneak in AGAIN. This time we found that he had an ear infection in one ear and...


Pneumonia.


Awesome.


What's even more awesome than that, is the fact that this is the SECOND time he has had pneumonia. The first time he had it was a year and half ago and he ended up in the hospital.


Awesome.


So...my week and our weekend thus far has looked like this...

I wish I could say that my sinus pain is gone, the house is back to normal and the kids are well, but that is not the case. We are not there yet, and I stress yet. 

The kids are still on antibiotics, not sleeping very well and Misa Misa need his breathing treatments and steroids every couple of hours. 

Sleep is for the weak right? Or is it, you can sleep when you are dead? Either way, sleep is not something we are getting around here...yet.

Sorry to have dropped off the face of the planet and here too, but this dark cloud has been lingering much too long and has been raining much to hard on my poor family.

Thanks for not giving up on me and not deleting me from your readers!