Momma4alex’s adventures in surprising my man….

Will be thinking of all of you on March 11th. Everything will go well and you guys can settle back to your life.
happy to hear that the little guy is growing big!!

Take care
hajni
 
Well after talking to Cerella again last night I think I'm going to try to get some exercise in while stuck in this hospital trying to get my son healthy so that I can stay healthy too. No since in really waiting around. I mean i can walk around these halls and then i'm downloading a few exercise videos to my laptop since cerella gave me a link to a thing that i can do that.. haha I did 30 squats yesterday and during doing it i realized how weak my legs have gotten since i haven't really exercised since march of last year when i found out i was preggo with little man. I am really looking forward to getting back into losing weight and eating healthy as can be. I haven't been drinking soda but drinking gatorade and water all day long and sometimes treating myself with a small amount of soda. lol

anyways any thoughts on videos i can do in the small hospital room without exercise equipment would be great. Ok going to go now.
 
wooohooo.. i asked the nurse about a gym near the hospital that i could go to for maybe an hour a day too and she said there is one across from the hospital that i should be able to use.. i am going to ask about it from the social worker in the morning. i can't wait... i really hope i can use it and it will give me something that i can do without having to worry about paying for most likely.. ok well better not get to excited but if i can start using it then i'll be super happy. i'll update later. oh yeah and i d/l the ten minute trainer videos but haven't been able to try them out yet. so i have those now too. lol i can't believe how much just talking and thinking about exercise again has gotten into me again.. i hope it helps me feel better and not be as tired while stuck in the hospital. ok gotta go to bed its 1am bye.
 
Well I got the passes to the gym so now i just gotta find out what times the gym is open from and then work it out so i can go exercise while someone is here to watch alex but yet not leaving my mom with both the kids for an hr each day. I think it would do my body good to get some exercise as well as allow me to clear my head during the hour alone each day if i can make it work. ok well its 1:38 am or for those east coast people times already changed which would make it 2:38am once we spring forward so ahh.. gotta go to bed. talk to you all later.
 
That is awesome abt the gym Heather:hug2:I think it would do you an abundance of good to get to the gym for a hr a day or w/e!!!

I think we have been struggling more without having any consistantt communication....Im so glad you got your lap top and are able to use it, i have missed you alot.

We talked abt everything all the time...I still have alot to fill ya in on...

Im gonna try to link some vids here for ya...

Im prob not gonna be on to much today...My parents are here for the day and this evening im hoping to get out grocery shopping.
 
Heather there is no way for me to post them here or to email them too you.I think it is cuz it isnt really a file that saves on your comp ya know it is all through utorrent which doesnt save onto hard drive only saves in utorrent.

Anyway Im running late...If Im not around today or this evneing, i will def be Monday Morning and through Monday so I can try walking ya through it or look into it more as to how to get you those vids...
 
HI Heather!!

Great news about the gym so close to the hospital!!
I am sure it will help you positively to find the time to exercise. Not just for weight-loss purposes but for your mental balance. I know after losing the baby, I had to force myself to start going back to the gym but I am glad I did. It helped me take my mind off for the time being and it helped me to be positive about other things in my life. Work-out helps me greatly in controlling my moods, be more positive and even to have more energy!!

I am thinking of you all, and I can't wait until this is all behind you and Alex can return to being a kid with no worries.

Hajni
 
Thanks Cerella for trying to get me those videos. I still haven't tried them out persay but thats cause TOM finally came to visit for the first time since having Cameron and the whole pregnancy thing. Omg it hurts like hell the cramping is worse then what i had to deal with after having Alex.. ouch

Thanks Hajni, also. I can't wait till Alex can be free of having to worry about having seizures and be a normal little boy again too.

I am not sure when I'm going to get to go to the gym as I've been extremely tired and now with tom kicking my ass i'm so damn sore and tired. Ugh I hate being a woman sometimes just cause we have to deal with so much more hormone shit then men do. anyways.. Alex has been keeping us all busy with how many seizures he's having and how long. He ended up having a ton yesterday.. not sure how many exactly since i haven't looked at the log yet this morning. But he's had 5 already so far today and i'm sure it will be even more as the day goes on.

Ugh when will this stop.. I need my baby to be healthy and I hope and pray like hell that neither of my kids ever has to go through this shit again.

Ok well alex's breakfast is here gotta go.
 
Update on Alex's Surgery

It went very Well!!!! The docs said that they were very surprised that they were done in 12 and a half hours instead of the possible 12-18 hrs that they said it could have taken. He was on the ventalitor for 2 days and is now off of that and on 40% oxygen and 60% room air. He can't move the left side of his body but can feel us. The doctors did say that he should regain use of his left leg and possibly his arm but they aren't saying for sure either way on his arm but he will most likely be able to walk after some very intensive rehab. Currently he is the Picu and will be till he can be awake more often and start eating normally again. Right now he's on a feeding tube and will be on that for at least another week. Then at that point they will do a swallow test to see if he can tolerate things such as water. His left lung was not working well so they are having a respiratory therapist come in every 4 hours and do breathing treatments with a cpap to get his lung opening up more. No telling on how long that will be done since he's not functioning very much on that side. He can't talk but did say last night that he was okay so thats a start. First time I have heard him talk and be able to understand it since his surgery was done on March 11th. He usually gives us a thumbs up if he's in pain or needs his diaper changed at first he had a foley in they took that out yesterday. he has a drain in the back of his head to reduce the pressure in his brain and get any blood out. He's on 2 seizure meds still and on morphine and a steriod, antibiotic and now miralax to help him go poop since its been at least 5 days. He was running a fever but so far today there hasn't been a fever. The docs said that he will be on the 2 seizure meds for a little while longer till we know for sure that there isn't any seizure activity going on still. He originally had 2 drains place but they removed one of them yesterday morning so now he only has one placed still and they will probably be taking that out sometime at the end of this week. Depending on how his pressures look and how the stuff draining looks. Other then that he's doing well.

I'm doing well too other then the fact that i still besides walking around this huge hospital haven't been able to get much exercise but i have been watching what and how much i eat so hopefully that will help with the weightloss. I'm not sure what i weigh yet for this week since i haven't weighed in yet. I'm going to see about doing that before eating or drinking anything this am. Cameron my little one is doing well too. He has his 4 month check up tomorrow morning @ 9:45am so my mom is taking him to that so once i know his stats for that i will update. Other then that if you have any questions let me know i'll try to answer them.

till then see you all later.. i'll try to stop in your diaries. and thanks for the support.
 
Cameron had his 4 month appt today and is 15 lbs 7 oz and 25 1/2 inches long. He was 11 lbs 15.5 oz 23 inches at his 2 month appt. My little man is getting big.. :( he was only 6 lbs 3 oz 20 inches at birth so in 4 months he's grown 5 1/2 inches and gained 9 lbs 4 oz. wow that seems like so much for a baby to gain.
 
Just a dream.. song from Carrie Underwood

This song kinda somes up a lot of how i felt while my husband was in the Army and some of the things we went through. I was just thinking about this after i heard the song and was thinking about how lucky i am that my husband made it home to me after going into the war in Afghanistan and how many of the soliders don't get to come home.

Just a dream

It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
All dressed in white
Going to the church that night
She had his box of letters in the passenger seat
Sixpence in a shoe, something barrowed, something blue
And when the church doors opened up wide
She put her veil down

Trying to hide the tears
Oh she just couldn't believe it
She heard trumpets from the military band
And the flowers that I never had

Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

The preacher man said let us bow our heads and pray
Lord please lift his soul, and heal this hurt
Then the congregation all stood up and sang the saddest song that she ever heard
Then they handed her a folded up flag
And she held on to all she had left of him
Oh, and what could have been
And then the guards rang one last shot
And it felt like a bullet in her heart

Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

Oh,
Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
Oh, now I'll never know
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

Oh, this is just a dream
Just a dream
Yeah, Yeah
 
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HI Heather,

I am so glad Alex's surgery went well. Poor little guy so young and gone through so much already. I hope soon this is going to seem like a bad dream and will be behind you.
Kudos to you on trying to fit exercise and healthy eating in when there is so much going on in your life. Sounds like your little guy is growing fast!!

Anyway just a quick hello, I read your posts all the time and followed everything just hard to find the time to write. I don't even sign onto the IM anymore, just don't have the time and opportunity. Miss talking to you.

Hajni
 
Ok well here's the latest update. WE are home finally after 4 months of being in a hospital of some sort. I am currently at 237.8 lbs and planning on continuing weight loss although not sure how easy its going to be besides all the weight lifting i'm getting in since alex my 4 1/2 year old(63 lbs) can't walk and i have to carry him from the bedroom to the living room well pretty much any place he needs to go in the house cause he can't be left alone. then carrying the baby is a task too as he's almost 17 lbs.

I plan on also either using my dvd workouts or my ddr game that i had to replace as it got stolen when we were in the hospital. so now i have to input all the data again. no biggie there. plus i started school on monday so i'm taking a 6 unit online class. so between the boys and alex's pt/ot schedule i've been super busy. plus i couldn't get into the forum while we were in the rehab clinic for 3 weeks so this is my first chance to update.

the boys are doing good. Alex is slowly starting to stand more and walk a tiny bit with help. Cameron is trying to roll over which means more work for me soon to come. lol

well thats the update so far. Alex has pt/ot twice a week for 8 weeks then 1 time a week for another 4weeks for pt and another 8wks for ot. so its going to be crazy. but well worth it if he can learn how to walk and stuff again.
 
It was so nice to meet ya today!

:hug2:

Wow.....
I'm sooooooo sorry to learn of all the things you have been going through sweet-heart.

Your family is and will be in my prayers!

<3 Stacy
 
Heather I know it is lot of work but I honestly think Alex will return to walking agian. He is still young and Im sure he wants to go back to being a regular little boy:)

I think it is awesome that he is back in school as well and I think it will motivate him to get moving agian. Look at all he has already been throu and gotten through im sure he will get through this as well.

After the dust settles and Alex is well on his way to recovery or is recovered then we will plan on meeting.

Im excited to meet you in person and for our families to meet:)Who knows maybe you will get to meet Corey as well.
 
Ok things are kinda crazy here at home with alex having 4 appts a week not including school now. lol plus i'm taking a online class and having a 6 month old. I feel like i'm kinda free-falling sometimes.. but its gotta be done. The boys are great as well as my hubby who's lost 50 lbs in the last 6 months. Its so annoying sometimes since it seems like its just falling off him but yet it takes me forever to lose weight. I'm like why can't it be that easy for me.. I mean i'm taking care of 2 boys pretty much by myself unless my mom isn't at work. Since hubby isn't here except 3 days a month.. but yeah whatever.. just means that it will take me longer but in the end it will feel just as good to know i've worked towards it. I guess. We will see when i hit the magic goal number for my goals. I got like 7 lbs left to go to my mini goal of 225 by alex's 5th bday. I'm weighing in at 232 lbs. I need to set up a link but right now i'm working on a challenge on sparkpeople.com that is running from may 3rd to may 30th. Ok well thats my update.

heading to bed now as its 1am and the boys will be up by 9am if not earlier
 
The human brain is an amazing thing and its wonderful to see how it adapts to all kinds of diferent situations. Alex will be up and walking. There will come a time, many years from now when all of this is just going to be a memory.
 
I sure hope that happens

reluctantcabbie said:
The human brain is an amazing thing and its wonderful to see how it adapts to all kinds of diferent situations. Alex will be up and walking. There will come a time, many years from now when all of this is just going to be a memory.
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I really hope that this will all just be memories in years to come. I want my little boy back to being able to run. being able to walk on his own would be a miracle to me. I can't totally wait for that day to come.

anyways.. my lossing weight is my focus besides getting him back to being healthy cause once he is able to walk and run again i'm going to need all my energy to chase him and his little brother.
 
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