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Sep. 6th, 2007 10:57 amIsaac foot update
Isaac is still walking gingerly on the foot that he hurt last Friday at CVS. He claims that it doesn't hurt, but will admit that it "feels different." By the end of the day each day, he's definitely limping on it. I talked to the nurse practitioner this morning (our doctor is on vacation alas) and she said it should be seen, because it could be a fracture. I find that pretty unlikely, because he was just running around on a flat surface -- I think most likely he twisted it while rounding a corner; if he had bumped it on anything hard enough to cause a fracture, there would be something visible, and there isn't. Also this morning I ran my fingers all over the foot and ankle, pressing fairly hard, and nothing made him flinch. Still, it's probably a good idea to have it looked at, and before the weekend is better. So we're going in first thing tomorrow morning. I hope he won't freak out, especially if he needs to get x-rays. sigh. (I also hope we'll be done in time for lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
plaidder and family...!)
Joan health update
The allergies are severely kicking my ass. I've been taking all manner of medications and nothing is working 100% yet, alas. This morning I took some ancient expired Benadryl and it seems to have made me pretty sleepy while not actually doing much for the sneezles and wheezles. I might have to try Allegra next. Meanwhile, I haven't heard anything back about the ultrasound that I had on my stomach/liver last week. I might have to call soon and see what's up.
Reading update
Since Misfortune by Wesley Stace is a hardcover and too big to take on the bus/train, yesterday I tried out Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. I picked this up recently at the used bookstore, thinking it was on my wishlist, but as it turns out, the one on my wishlist was actually The Protector's War by the same author, which has a very similar-looking cover and is in fact a sequel (although it sounds like you can read it standalone). Anyway, after about 40-50 pages, I think I'm giving up on Dies the Fire. I'm just hating it, basically. I don't like to leave a book unfinished, but OTOH, I can't be wasting my time on books that are going to piss me off. I think I knew it right from the start, as the first few pages were crammed full of so much ham-handed exposition-spew it made me grind my teeth. I went and read some of the reviews on Amazon and gathered from them that the whole thing is indeed going to continue along that vein, so I'm probably just going to BookMooch the damn thing and move on. So today I started on Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, which is going along fairly well so far.
(I noticed in Amazon's discussion section for Dies the Fire that someone had posted asking, basically, "was it just me, or did anyone else think there was an anti-Christian bias in this story?" And the author replied, saying, "actually, there is no anti-Christian prejudice in the book." Umm, hello, you're the author. You don't get to say that, because you aren't exactly a reliable judge of such things. Yeesh!)
Dreams, sleep, and Ruthie
Lately I have been having a LOT of very vivid dreams. I shall attempt to describe some of them in another post soonish. I gotta say, this is not a good thing. Remembering a lot of vivid dreams means that you're spending a lot of time in REM sleep, i.e., shallow not-very-restful sleep. I have not been sleeping well lately. It's basically down to Ruthie who also isn't sleeping well and is wanting to spend basically all night nursing. It's really wearing me out. People have been telling me that I shouldn't try to make any changes in her sleep situation when she's still adjusting to the new daycare, and I know they're right, but it is really getting difficult to manage. Not only am I tired like all the time (and the allergies are making that worse), but Ruthie herself is tired a lot of the time too, which of course makes her cranky and more needy than usual, which makes me irritable and not the best mama. Something's gotta change pretty soon, sigh.
On the plus side, she is definitely doing very well at her daycare and adjusting more and more. Yesterday and today she barely even cried at dropoff -- she cried when I first tried to put her down, but both times, she willingly went to the arms of her teacher (also named Ruth), and this morning by the time I said bye-bye and left the room, she was already calmer and starting to get interested in snack. So I look forward to the day, hopefully not too far off, when we'll arrive and she'll just run over to join the other kids without any hesitation. Well, I can dream. ;) Isaac got there eventually; she will too.
Isaac is still walking gingerly on the foot that he hurt last Friday at CVS. He claims that it doesn't hurt, but will admit that it "feels different." By the end of the day each day, he's definitely limping on it. I talked to the nurse practitioner this morning (our doctor is on vacation alas) and she said it should be seen, because it could be a fracture. I find that pretty unlikely, because he was just running around on a flat surface -- I think most likely he twisted it while rounding a corner; if he had bumped it on anything hard enough to cause a fracture, there would be something visible, and there isn't. Also this morning I ran my fingers all over the foot and ankle, pressing fairly hard, and nothing made him flinch. Still, it's probably a good idea to have it looked at, and before the weekend is better. So we're going in first thing tomorrow morning. I hope he won't freak out, especially if he needs to get x-rays. sigh. (I also hope we'll be done in time for lunch with
plaidder and family...!)Joan health update
The allergies are severely kicking my ass. I've been taking all manner of medications and nothing is working 100% yet, alas. This morning I took some ancient expired Benadryl and it seems to have made me pretty sleepy while not actually doing much for the sneezles and wheezles. I might have to try Allegra next. Meanwhile, I haven't heard anything back about the ultrasound that I had on my stomach/liver last week. I might have to call soon and see what's up.
Reading update
Since Misfortune by Wesley Stace is a hardcover and too big to take on the bus/train, yesterday I tried out Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. I picked this up recently at the used bookstore, thinking it was on my wishlist, but as it turns out, the one on my wishlist was actually The Protector's War by the same author, which has a very similar-looking cover and is in fact a sequel (although it sounds like you can read it standalone). Anyway, after about 40-50 pages, I think I'm giving up on Dies the Fire. I'm just hating it, basically. I don't like to leave a book unfinished, but OTOH, I can't be wasting my time on books that are going to piss me off. I think I knew it right from the start, as the first few pages were crammed full of so much ham-handed exposition-spew it made me grind my teeth. I went and read some of the reviews on Amazon and gathered from them that the whole thing is indeed going to continue along that vein, so I'm probably just going to BookMooch the damn thing and move on. So today I started on Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, which is going along fairly well so far.
(I noticed in Amazon's discussion section for Dies the Fire that someone had posted asking, basically, "was it just me, or did anyone else think there was an anti-Christian bias in this story?" And the author replied, saying, "actually, there is no anti-Christian prejudice in the book." Umm, hello, you're the author. You don't get to say that, because you aren't exactly a reliable judge of such things. Yeesh!)
Dreams, sleep, and Ruthie
Lately I have been having a LOT of very vivid dreams. I shall attempt to describe some of them in another post soonish. I gotta say, this is not a good thing. Remembering a lot of vivid dreams means that you're spending a lot of time in REM sleep, i.e., shallow not-very-restful sleep. I have not been sleeping well lately. It's basically down to Ruthie who also isn't sleeping well and is wanting to spend basically all night nursing. It's really wearing me out. People have been telling me that I shouldn't try to make any changes in her sleep situation when she's still adjusting to the new daycare, and I know they're right, but it is really getting difficult to manage. Not only am I tired like all the time (and the allergies are making that worse), but Ruthie herself is tired a lot of the time too, which of course makes her cranky and more needy than usual, which makes me irritable and not the best mama. Something's gotta change pretty soon, sigh.
On the plus side, she is definitely doing very well at her daycare and adjusting more and more. Yesterday and today she barely even cried at dropoff -- she cried when I first tried to put her down, but both times, she willingly went to the arms of her teacher (also named Ruth), and this morning by the time I said bye-bye and left the room, she was already calmer and starting to get interested in snack. So I look forward to the day, hopefully not too far off, when we'll arrive and she'll just run over to join the other kids without any hesitation. Well, I can dream. ;) Isaac got there eventually; she will too.
