Still Sick

Well, I still have a cold.  My son is getting much better.  He still coughs once in awhile, but his antibiotics are ending today.  That scares me a little since he is still coughing.  I hope that he doesn’t have a relapse.  I haven’t done any organized exercise this week.  I did take a few walks at work and a little light weights at home.  No running this week due to my cold.  I am looking forward to getting better so I can get some exercise in.  I haven’t been around to your blogs this week, but I hope next week is better.  Thank you to all those who have left me comments and encouragement this week.  I’ll be back in a couple of days with my SCC week 2 weigh in.

SCC Week 1 Update

I must admit I really didn't focus on my goals this week.  I only got in one run this week and no other exercise.  I hope that this week I will get more sleep and be able to focus more on my exercise.

My goals this week are to:
Drink 64 ounces of water a day.
Exercise 4 days (3 runs and at least one other workout)
Eat more fruits and veggies.

Weight last week: 222
My weight today was 218.8

This isn't as great a loss as it seems.  My initial weigh in last week was 2 pounds higher than I had been holding at.  It was the day after new years  where I had eaten more than normal.  So I'll take the 1.2 pound loss that I really think happened this week.

I really didn't focus on weight loss this week.  I had other things on my mind with my son's coughing fits and such.  We took him to urgent care (3.5 hours) on Friday morning and he was diagnosed with Pneumonia and given a prescription for antibiotics.  Well he threw up 3 out of 5 times taking it so Saturday night my husband took him back to urgent care(3 hours) to see if we could get another antibiotic prescription.  He came home with an anti nausea medicine and another antibiotic prescription just in case.  My son had a pretty good night sleep and a great 3 hour nap today.  He isn't coughing near as much as he was and it seems that the antibiotics are kicking in.  I hope it clears it up this time.  It's exhausting having a chronic coughing child who doesn't really understand why he is coughing so much.  He also doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs and I feel like I might be getting sick.  I hope it's just sinus allergy stuff but who knows.

Sorry this isn't very inspired tonight, but I just don't have it in me.  I hope you all have a great week.

Sleep deprived

I don’t have much to report on the exercise and weight loss side of things.  My weight has gone down since my initial SCC post.  I knew it would.  I will post the official number this weekend when I check in.  I have only gotten in one run this week due to being so tired in the morning.  

My son has been coughing some more.  He started to get better when he was taking the antibiotics and oral steroids, but they were only for 4 days.  His cough has come back more often and he has had a fever for the last couple of days.  We have had a rough two nights with broken sleep due to his coughing and fever.  My husband is taking him back to urgent care today to see what they can do or figure out.  I know I said it before, but it’s so hard having a small child who is sick and they really can’t share all the feelings they have going on with their body.  I don’t want him to end up with another hospital stay.

We finally bought our plane tickets for Thailand.  It is a reality now.  We will be there end of February into first week of March.  My husband will celebrate his birthday the day we arrive which will be really nice for his parents to get to be there for that.  I really hope my son can get over this whole cough thing.  That is something we don’t want to have to deal with while traveling in a foreign country.  Please keep my son in your prayers that the doctors can figure out what is going on with him and he gets over this.

The three C's: Christmas, Coughing, and Challenges

Hello you wonderful people.  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas filled with love, laughter and great memories being made.  I have been missing for a little bit haven’t I?  I was enjoying life instead of writing here I guess.  I had a great Christmas with my family.  We spent the night at my parents’ house on Christmas Eve and opened presents together on Christmas morning.  We had yummy breakfast foods, went to Church, and had the big Christmas dinner and more present opening with extended family.  I couldn’t have asked for a better day. 

Unfortunately, Sunday night my son was up 5 times with coughing fits.  He has had a cough for about a month now.  It started after he got a cold and would come and go, but nothing major.  Well Sunday night he was having uncontrolled coughing and crying and whining and just an all around bad night.  A little background on my son…He was in the hospital twice at the beginning of the year due to croup that turned into pneumonia (12-day stay) and then a 9-day stay due to a respiratory infection a month later.  He couldn’t keep his oxygen levels up on his own.  So this time I wasn’t going to wait to take him in.  I went to urgent care on Monday and spent 4.5 hours there getting two breathing treatments, a round of steroids and a chest x-ray.  They didn’t see pneumonia yet, but we got antibiotics and oral steroid prescriptions anyway because of his past history.  He didn’t cough near as much yesterday so I think the drugs are helping.  My son is only 3 ½ so seeing him cough so much is really hard.  I don’t think he knows how to cough effectively yet.  He just coughs and coughs and they aren’t productive.  The more worked up with crying and such the longer the fit lasts.  It’s no fun at all.  Anyway, I am really glad he seems to be on the mend especially since tonight we are going to Toy Story 3’s Disney on Ice. We bought these tickets about a month ago and today is the day.  I’m excited.  My son doesn’t really get it when we tell him what we are going to see.  I think he will have a great time seeing his favorite characters on ice though.  I’ll try to get a few pictures to share.

There are 4 challenges that I know of starting in the new year, but I don’t know if I’ll officially join any of them.  I like the accountability of them, but I don’t really care for the “must do this” type of thing to be in the challenge that 2 of the 4 require.  I just finished one of those with the CDCC and I think I can be accountable and not be forced to read a book or count calories/food.  I know that works for some, but I didn't care for it and I still lost 15 pounds during the challenge. The other 2 I’m not sure what they involve.  They are keeping them a mystery which makes it hard to want to sign up especially since one of them requires a $10 fee to join.  Decisions to be made in a short window of time.  They all start January 1^st I think. 

Okay that is all I have for today, but just so I’m not a boring blogger with no pictures and just words all the time I leave you with a couple of recent pictures of my kids in hats.  I have no idea why my daughter made this face, but she’s 1 ½  and my son just got this hat for Christmas from his daycare person.