Friday, January 18, 2008

My daughter

Yeah, I have two comments...I'm so glad people read my blog!!

Uugh, something happend tonight that I've been expecting for some time now. I'm trying to catch up Mt Rushmore laundry at my house tonight. Chloe is in shower, I'm in laundry room, and I hear this horrible sound like someone fell, followed by Chloe crying loudly!! I kept her up late to make sure her pupils were equal and they were reactive to light and that she didn't get sick at her stomach but she's cried on and off ever since. She was sitting in my lap and ever once in awhile I could feel her whole body tighten up! She was hurting so bad!! The medical evidence you look for seemed to be okay...but her head really hurts. She had a hard time even laying down when I took her to bed! So needless to say, Chloe can no longer take showers, she's banned to the bathtub alone! You know, she can be doing so good sometimes, then something happens that just takes you back three steps. I felt like this was one of those things that was a step back. I know that anyone could fall in the shower but she's been wobbly due to her md lately. I've been surprised that she hasn't fallen before now to be honest. I just didn't want to change it for her if I didn't have to. But I think it'll be a long time, if ever, for her to want to take a shower again!!

Really weird, it used to be that the only symptoms we saw consistently was fatigue. Well, her fatigue issue is so much better right now and she's seemed so much stronger due to lack of fatigue. But I've been noticing that she's crawling on the floor a lot, that sometimes when she walks she bounces kinda and I've also noticed her falling fairly frequent. And it seems that when she's in the floor, it's getting harder for her to get up. Sometimes she bounces right up then other times you can visibly see it's hard for her. I've offered to help her a few times and I noticed the other night my husband noticed that she was struggling and he walked over and put his hand out to help her up. So that told me it wasn't just me that noticed.

I thought about my friend Casey tonight, who left me such a wonderful comment last night on my blog. My sweet child was pretty easy to take care of, compared to what her sweet children would have been if they had fallen and hit their head in the shower. At least it did not necessitate an immediate trip to the ER!! I have that to be thankful for!!

2 comments:

Hewy Nosleep said...

Woo-Hoo! I'm the 3rd comment! I hope your child is ok and gets better.

angela said...

So scarey for any parent but even more when you have a disability. I'm enjoying your blog and keeping up with what's going on. I'll try to comment cause I know I love to get the comments too. (angela)