Taking the Scenic Route

I found out today that Zach’s half sister had a tubal pregnancy that burst her Fallopian tube about 2 weeks ago.  She was still having problems a few days later and found out that she still had a lot of toxins in her system from kidney damage that resulted from extremely low blood pressure (from the loss of blood when the fallopian tube burst).  Zach’s dad is also still having some effects from the strong antibiotics he was on after his appendix from a few weeks ago too.  I got the impression that his was more annoying than serious, but it still isn’t fun.

Zach woke up in the middle of the night with a fever.  He is lethargic and not feeling very good, but not serious at this point.  I will have to keep my eye on him.  That also means I am putting off Zane’s vaxes for school for a week or so to make sure he is catching it.  I also just don’t have the energy to monitor for vax reactions right now, and that can wait as far as I am concerned.  I think he only has the chicken pox vax left anyway, which just irritates me to no end because I think the CP vax is just stupid.

As far as Dad goes, I posted mom’s email from this morning.  I talked to her a few minutes ago and the respiratory therapist is going to come this afternoon and see if he can breath well enough to take him off the vent.  They are trying to balance his healing with his heart with his lifelong history of asthma, which makes the lungs more susceptible to pneumonia and other lung issues that can occur if you don’t move around enough after surgery.  They took out some of the chest tubes today.  He is slowly, but surely, improving.  It is going to be a much longer recovery time than we were initially anticipating after his bypass.  Two major surgeries back to back like that (on the bypass machine for both of them) are quite a blow to the body.

On a lighter note, Zane met a horse this morning.  I took him to be evaluated for getting him on the waiting list for hippotherapy.  There is a chance he can start that this fall, but we won’t know for a bit yet.  It is a race to return the paperwork to get a better spot on the waiting list.  I have a call into his pediatrician to see if I can email an attachment to them to sign and fax back out instead of driving there.  Zach usually does any faxing we need to do through work, but he can’t do that while being sick.  I might also be able to go to Kinkos or something like that, but I need them to know what is needed, so I have to wait for a call back either way.  I don’t think they are in the office on Thursday afternoons, so I am not sure that my call will be returned at this point anyway, since they didn’t get back to me this morning.

Oh, and school starts tomorrow for Zane.