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Happy Holidays - All of them - to you too. I'm hoping 2011 will be better for you then 2010 - at least health wise. Knowing the problem is half the battle.
Glad to hear everyone had a wonderful holiday Becki. Sending many pixues for Skyler's MRI and that more answers will be found so that Skyler can get all the help he needs.
Happy New Year everyone. As things should calm down a little bit for me between now and April before my trip to Chicago, I can hopefully get back to updating my TR on the Trip!
Thank you to all of you for all of the pixies and hugs for yesterday and Skyler's MRI. I was trying to update on here as well as FB(could only get on there unfortunately). Things weren't off to a good start once we got to the Children's Hospital's Registration Desk and them not informing me well in advance after calling our Health Insurance Company how much Skyler's MRI was going to cost OOP. Had they calle and let Erick & I know with advance notice I probably would not have had a huge Mom-zilla moment on them. I was already overtired from not sleeping well the night before with the mom nervousness I was experiencing. All was well in the world of Skyler however with them having Playhouse Disney on in the Pediatric Waiting Room, so he was super content watching Special Agent OSO & Handy Manny until they brought us back to the private waiting room I was in while Skyler was having his MRI.
You could tell he didn't like the mask they put on his face to give him the anesthesia, but 2 minutes later he was sleeping, they let me give him a kiss on the cheek and the waiting begin. I was ever so thankful they let him keep his well loved Pooh Bear with him so when he came out of the MRI and they came to get me to go to the Recovery Room, he had a familliar object with him. We weren't in the Recovery Room for very long before letting me vein home a still very out of it Skyler(and this is the one reason I still love having a stroller for him as I knew he wasn't going to be able to walk out of the Hospital yesterday). Skyler wanted to try walking around at home too and was so wabbly, he didn't want Erick or I getting anything for him.
Thank goodness Erick has a very understand Boss at work when I calle him panicked about the amount they were charging us for Skyler's MRI and letting
him call our insurance company while at work to talk to them to figure things out. Also I had to inform him to call his other Boss at his other job that he wasn't coming in(Erick wasn't on the schedule last night but was asked to work) since I really needed his help with Skyler.
I hope Skyler doesn't try finding where I will be hiding a few of his new Christmas Presents to bring with for our trip to Chicago as entertainment for our train ride. Although it will take us 17 hours to get out there and he is loving trains more and more now, it will be a lot easier to get out there with him than trying to drive. He got a lot of great story Books and activity/coloring/sticker books, and matchbox cars, so those will all work well for keeping him busy, as well as a set of Cars and a set of Toy Story War & Go Fish Card Games. I also found extremely reasonable round trip from DC's Union Station to Chicago's Union Station for $260 Round Trip for the both of us. Not bad at all if you ask me for 2 travelers.
Hopefully within the next few days I should have another update to our trip up with pictures.
Oh and we only had one Baby Shower for DSil while she was home. The Girls Night Out never happened. She had a great Baby Shower and we were having a lot of fun covering up a lot of her gifts at home so DFil wouldn't pick up any hints he's having a Granddaughter (which he hopes it's a Girl and it is). Thank goddness my gifts for her he wouldn't be able to guess the sex of te baby as I gave her all neutral clothing and she loved her Eeyore Skyler got baby Maddy from Disney. Hopefully I took a decent picture of Eeyore to share with you all, if not ai may have to ask Celeste to take one for me(I served as her photographer for her Baby Shower, besides the pictures DBil took as well).
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day and thank you all again for hanging
in here with me on my TR.
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Glad you checked in to let us know how things are going with you & your family. Hope the results of Skyler's MRI are good. Glad to see you are still planning your trip to Chicago. Just for fun the other night, I looked up going to Chicago by train. Peter hates flying, but I won't drive to Chicago, so I thought I'd look into the cost of the train. It's something we'll really have to talk over though. I will be anxious to hear about your experience traveling there. I'm really looking forward to more of your TR & pictures, but I can wait until things calm down a bit for you!
Ok....can't help but mention the Bears......anxious to see how far they go!
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