January catch up

Sitting here realizing Feb is almost over and I don't believe I ever wrote in January. I cannot recall. It was a slow month activity-wise but blew by with work overload, chasing away germs and dr visits. Overall Grayson's counts have been on the great side. There was a week early in Jan ( believe the week of Jan 8th)  that he woke complaining his ear hurt. I knew it had to be something bc my kids never complain about their ears EVEN when they actually have an ear infection. He had a rough night of sleep and we decided to get him into clinic for a look see (Jan 9). He did not have an ear infection but it did seem irritated. We agreed to treat as an ear infection to play it safe. We went home with amoxicillin and he was vastly better within 2 doses of it. Obviously he was fighting something. 

On his regularly scheduled clinic visit (Jan 23) for counts and vincristine his platelets, Hgb and WBC were great but his AMC was 680. We were given the option to come back in one or two Mondays to have it checked again. I chose the following week. I wanted to keep a close eye on it if possible so 7 days seemed to make sense to me. We went in on Jan 30 and it was well over 3, 000. All was well.

January was really just full of cabin fever and tons of stressful homework for me. The kids have been feeling pretty well overall and eating and playing well. 

And so far, the first few weeks of February are full of colds. We all have had something brewing in us one way or another. Caden has had a cold and cough for over a week now. Post-nasal with no mucus but I am still taking him in Monday to be sure it is not a sinus infection. My awesome sleeper has been causing hell the past week or more with too many interrupted nights. It has worn on me to the bone. By today I am feeling as if my brain game of convincing myself I am not getting sick is useless. I feel like crap. Last week T missed a day of school bc he clearly looked drained and was not his usual tackle the world self when he came home from school. So, to sum it up-the bubble life continues and so does cabin fever right along with it. I cannot recall at the moment anything too exciting occurring in the recent past but we are having fun embracing Vday messages each morning. More on that to come.

Hope everyone out there is doing well and chat again soon.