Happy New Year!!!!

What will 2011 bring??? 

 For sure, my oldest son graduatating high school and heading off to college...(he is deciding between three, none of which are closer than four hours away....)

Madalyn attending her first homecoming dance (in three weeks) and learning to drive..

Kailee leaving the things of middle school behind her and entering the big halls of high school

and Hudson...well, hopefully no seizures, no surgeries and conquering reading which I believe he is determined to do before school starts again on Wednesday.  

2010 was a year of "unthawing" from the numbness of losing my mom and all the "firsts without"...

It was a year of great faith and character building as we had to "let go" of Jordan and trust the Lord with him...and great rejoicing when he decided to come home this summer!!!!  

I feel excited and rejuvenated and am at the point of saying to the Lord "ok,,,what's next?"...that is typically what drives me but after some hard blows over the last 2 years I realized I kind of landed in a "safe zone".....not the place I really like to be as I become lazy and callous....

I have ALOT a want to accomplish this year...one being scripture memory and I am exited to join Beth Moore and my siesta sistas in that starting tomorrow.  You can read more here but I would LOVE for some of my blog friends to join me!!!!  

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIENDS AND ABUNDANT BLESSINGS TO YOU IN 2011!!!!

Another Seizure

Friday the girls, Hudson and I packed up to head down to Mark's moms to see our new nephew, Josiah who had just flown in from Alaska.  Mark and Jordan were joining us the next day as Mark was in trial and it had the possibilty of extending into the weekend.  It is a 4 1/2 drive and 3 hours in Hudson started having another seizure.  It was exactly like what happened here.  I pulled over and called 911 while pulling him out of his car seat as he was throwing up.  I had to make the decision to wait for an ambulance which would be 10-15 min or drive to the nearest hospital.  The ambulance does not have the ability to administer the meds he needs and I knew I couldn't ride with him as I had the girls and I was the only driver.  The 911 dispatcher guided me to the nearest hospital which took about 15 min the entire time Hud is continuing to throw up and Kailee is holding him monitoring his breathing.  Of course we ended up in another small town ER.    By this time he had been seizing about 20 min.  They started to try to insert an IV, for some reason Hudson has a hard time with IV's and they did about three attempts...taking another 10 min.  I finally said "you HAVE to give him something, it has been 30 min and he can't seize this long".  They gave him a shot in his thigh but the seizing didn't stop and he started to convulse....more min passed...more attempts at IV's and still siezing...respitory was called and I finally had to step out to get in touch with Mark as I knew it was getting bad.  I hadn't called him yet as I knew it would be a big deal to interrupt him in trial but also knew if something real bad was happening he would want to know.   I told them to try his foot and FINALLY they got the IV in and since the seizing hadn't stopped gave him another shot in his IV...as soon as that  happened his oxygen level dropped to 70% and so I was pushed out of the way as they tried to get that up.  FINALLY after 80 min of seizing he was knocked out.  They got in touch with Dallas and his neurologist.  He wanted him monitored for two hours and if he was acting "normal" we could be on our way.  He started to respond to stimuli but never really woke up but at 5:30 they released us.  We drove to Mark's moms and the entire time he did not wake up until we got in the house at 8.  He still was real out of it ...couldn't walk on his own, couldn't sit up, slurred speech.  He was SUCH a mess from throwing up and IV's so I went to give him a bath and he started throwing up again.  OK...things were NOT right so I called his neurologist again and was planning on taking him back into a hospital.   I did feel better after we talked.  He assured me with all the meds he had been given and being in a seizure that long it just is so hard on their brain and he needed to just sleep it off.  He woke up at 1:30 am starving so we had a little snack.  He was still so wobbly and disoriented and couldn't remember anything from the day, even being at Nanny's that evening.  Saturday he was much better, still out of sorts, but this morning he is back to his funny, teasing self.  The neurologist called twice yesterday (sat) to check on him and I expect an MRI will be done when we get back to Dallas.

SOOO.....another holiday, another ER visit...more hospital bills.....BUT we are SOOOO thankful Hudson is fine and we pray 2011 will bring some answers.

Hoping to post Christmas Program pictures and Josiah pictures soon!!!

...depraved Indifference....