Reagan is weird

She LOVES her medicine. We took her to the doctor today and found out that our little girl had a sinus infection. So Jim went to the pharmacy and got her meds which was bubblegum flavored. SHE LOVES IT! She sees the bottle and goes NUTS! MMMMM.

Update on Achilles Surgery and Recovery

Ok. I haven't written in a while, so I thought I'd better get caught up on some stuff. Friday, I figured out that my pain medicine would run out on Saturday. So I called the doctor's office and they phoned in a refill to my prescription. Jim picked it up and brought it home during his many errands on Friday. So I started taking it Friday night and by Saturday morning about 2am, I had shooting pains in my heel. GREAT! Just GREAT! The stuff didn't work. Needless to say, I called to ask for something better and they said "too bad". The couldn't call in a narcotic. I'd have to wait it out. UGH!

So by Monday, when I could talk to my doctor's assistant I was kinda over it all. Yes, I was waking up every night with shooting pains, but at the same time I was totally awake and coherent. It's a hard trade off. So now I'm debating do I really want to take the stuff. My leg is numb/sore all day... but.... ugh Oh well.

Anyway. Keep up the prayers! I'm doing well. Jim is too. He is busting his butt - working hard. I'm grateful!

Achilles updates

1/26
Surgery Day - ugh

1/27
feeling good. leg block still working. didn't start to wear off until 24 hour mark
fell in garage after home from dr appt. hurt all night

1/28
still feeling ok. need to sit more. pain meds good

1/29
same as wed. getting frustrated with sitting all day and can't play with reagan

1/30
pain meds are running out. starting to feel some pain. can't cut back yet.

1/31
got new meds. not oxycodone. didn't work at all.
woke up in the middle of the night several times with a sharp stabbing pain in my heel. nothing seemed to help dispite all my efforts.

to be continued...

Cincinnati Bengals

Last night, after Reagan had a bottle, Jim showed her the Bengal tiger on his Cinci Bengals tshirt and then also showed her the one on her tshirt. She was mesmerized by it. She kept pointing at his and then would look at hers. She would pull her shirt away from her body in order to see the tiger print on her shirt over and over again. A few times, she actually would look on the inside of her tshirt. Over the course of the evening, she would point again at Jim's and then look at hers. All the while, we'd say "tiger".

This morning, I had on my Bengals sweatshirt. After her morning bottle, Reagan turned over and looked at my chest and just smiled. She pointed at it and then pointed at me. I said "Tiger". She then looked down at her shirt and got a confused look on her face - almost like "where's mine?"

I'm impressed she kept that in her brain.

Stay away

Today, after school, Reagan saw her pink and brown blanket hanging on the back of the couch. She grabbed it. Then she saw her big giraffe snuggly. She grabbed that too and started walking around with both of them. While going around the table in the kitchen, Sydney got a little to close to her and ended up stepping on her blanket. Of course, this made her mad as anything. She turned around, stopped and SCREAMED (AHHHHHHHHHHHH) at Sydney, stopped and then kept walking. Just that simple. WOW! Jim and I laughed so hard. It was unexpected. We guess she didn't like Sydney stepping on her blanket huh?

I want my Goldfish

Reagan LOVES Goldfish. Not fish, but the snack. I am sure every kid does at this age, but to watch her "go after" them like she does is just amusing as heck. Jim bought a huge thing of goldfish at the store this weekend. Once Reagan figured out that the goldfish she loves to eat came out of that container, she was all over it. I left it out on the end table yesterday. She saw that after school and made a bee-line for it. She then proceeded to pick it up and carry it to me. Wow. She picked it up a bit later and carried it to Jim and made noises until Jim got some out for her. he he

Ate it up

Jim made a roast today for dinner. The smell was throughout the entire house all day (I couldn't smell it, but he said it was - LOL). Mom and Dad came over to help us out in the evening and to also enjoy a bit of dinner with us. They helped chase Reagan around while Jim actually sat for the first time in two days. ha ha.

Anyway, we all sat down for dinner and it was wonderful. The best part - Reagan ate it ALL up. She was hysterical about the risotto. Why? I'm not really sure, but she LOVED it. She wanted more and more and more and told us with her sign language. She ate the roast, risotto, peas (oh my), carrots and also TWO fruit and yogurt cups. Geez. She was a little hungry thing. She just couldn't get enough. When we thought she was done with the risotto on her spoon, she'd cry out for the dish. And oh yea, she was feeding herself. WOW! Note to self - she likes risotto.