What a week.....

A cute picture of our jail bird.

Tommy looking out at his fabulous view of this artwork...sad thing is they started taking down during our stay??
Here's the picture he looked at....it was a nice view considering...


Since I've missed church again I should use some of this quiet time to update you.

Last Sunday Tommy and I stayed home because he was sick. Larry left with the kids to church and told me to watch Tommy's breathing....well I had noticed earlier that morning that his breathing was fast. Needless to say we went to the ER around 2:30 that afternoon.

We went to Children's Hospital...wow, is that a nice treat, treat IF you must have a sick kid at the ER that is?!?!? They were fabulous, although scared me at first. The lady gave me some paperwork to fill out and asked that I stay near the desk because they would be calling Tommy next for vitals.

So, they called him after I finished writing down my name and address....one nurse is doing vitals, another nurse is asking questions. During this she speaks to the tech asking him not to fill all of her rooms??? I stay quiet and start to worry...finally she said he's going straight to a room. Okay, mind you the waiting area looked like McDonald's during a birthday party. I simply said "this must not be good"?! She told me with his rapid breathing and him being a preemie she didn't want to chance him catching something else out in the waiting area.

Since Tommy was not given the RSV preventative shot due to being too healthy of a preemie basically, I'd always feared him getting the virus.

They immediately hooked him up to the monitors...he was breathing 70 breaths per minute and his heart rate (HR) was 189! They did tests after test, a chest x-ray fearing pneumonia and so on. He in fact had RSV. Thankfully we caught it early and with a few breathing treatments....Super Tommy avoided being put on O2.

Connie, this fabulous, my favorite respiratory therapist nicknamed him Super Tommy. She said she'd never had a 1 year old fight her as badly as Tommy fought her. Luckily after the first fight, the next two breathing treatments went a bit more smoothly...

After just 24-48 hours there his HR came down to 110-120 and his breathing came down to 30-40 which is/was expected when baby is sick. At the same time it was noticed he developed another ear infection. He got these nasty, burning shots of antibiotics for three mornign sin a row. He will now see an ENT (ear, nose and throat doc) in a week or so for what I guess will be a set of tubes in his ears.


The ER doc was wonderful, but the icing on the cake was Tommy's primary care pediatrician was on call for the base pediatric clinic...for a week. So, he knew Tommy and cared for him during his 4 night stay. As usual, God took care of our family and was looking out for us. We are so blessed!


Today I should add, although I feel sick, Tommy is doing way better. We missed church due to the van not starting?? Shocked, me too! Thinking it's the starter...we'll have to have it towed to a repair shop tomorrow. L-I-F-E!!

A picture update....

I know this is way overdue...not much been going on, but so much at the same time.



We came home from Disney on Jan 6th with one sick baby! Tommy started puking our last night in hotels on our way back home. No fever and not much congestion...he also slowly stopped eating, I mean stopped so much he was taking in just 7 ozs of formula per day. We thought he was just out of sorts, not feeling well out on the road. After 1 1/2 days home and his eating not improving we went in to the doc. His third ear infection?!?!? Actually he's ears have not been back to normal since his first infection in November. So, he had a rough go of it and finally got better....I should have posted...now he's going down hill again. He's got a cough that is causing him to puke. It's so sad. We'll watch him closely...and pray that we can avoid the ER as tomorrow the clinic is closed for MLK Day.

Oh, here's a recent exciting note...last night Tommy was walking with holding onto JUST ONE hand of Daddy's. He didn't want to stop...I'm thinking he will for certain be walking before his adjusted 1st birthday.

Here are some pictures and highlights.


Tommy hanging out with Great Grandpa P. This was nice for Grandpa as last visit Tommy was out of sorts (and sick with his first cold)...unfortunately he was sick again, but enjoyed his visit!

Here is Great Grandma holding her newest Great Grandson, Patrick (2 months old)...Bill and Jen's baby boy.

Cousins glad to see each other, need I say MORE??

Dad and kids mesmerized by the show in front of Cinderella's Castle right after getting there....and NO, we weren't over dressed. After breakfast the temperature was an unusual FLA Welcome of 36 DEGREES!

The BUZZ ride....this will go down in the Nance memory books as the most memorable ride DIsney has! Our first trip in 2002 is when it happened. Then about 6 months later we were in FL for Uncle Bill and Aunt Jen's wedding, and had to go back to the Magic Kingdom for one day to rdie the Buzz ride....they quit counting after 20-something! It was fun for Robby to ride this now with Brice. It's Robby and Brice and they are just behind Kaitlyn, Aunt Jen and Uncle Bill (and somewhere Baby Patrick was in there too)

This would be Tommy's take on the Buss ride :) Poor sick baby boy!

Mom, Kimberlyn, Robby, Brice and Kaitlyn on the Mad Tea Party ride....man...Kaitlyn and Mom's favorite...TEACUPS!!!

Here we have Uncle Bill (crazy spinner) Kaitlyn and Brice on the Teacups...Larry videoed....yes, it was ONE TEACUP :) with 2 adults and FOUR kids!!

Kimberlyn enjoying some of that frozen pineapple treat....I believe as kids my Grandma E. MADE us all try it...for me, I think she ended up MAKING me love it! It's a fond memory that reminds me of childhood Disney trips with her.

The pineapple treat sign...

Waiting to watch the parade....Mom, Tommy, Kaitlyn, Dad, Kimberlyn (hiding) Brice and Robby. How do you like my hair-do??/ That would be the result of a sweet nephew and a darling son begging me to go on Splash Mountain....WHILE it was 56 degrees!! Oh, the line was short, imagine that...after the ride -of which I got soaked on! It was 53 degrees....We might be getting accustomed to Ohio weather...but that's a bit cold for a water ride with overcast skies to boot!

Girls posing with Tommy in Minnie Mouse's house.

What on Earth are we going to do with these cuties?? Wiating in line (a long line) to see Minnie.

Last....our last night in a hotel before arriving home....Kaitlyn pulled out her tooth in the car just before arriving. Thankfully the Tooth Fairy found her in the hotel that night!

I'm addicted...

To checking in on this other blog....see link to Confecssions of a CF Husband on the upper right side.

I stumbled to this blog from another. It's a couple Nate and Tricia (has cystic fibrosis) whom chose to continue their pregnancy over Tricia preparing for a needed double lung transplant. Man, read on there and you'll see why I'm addicted waiting for updates! Isn't God just MARVELOUS!

Larry left a comment last night....to me it brought back memories of Tommy...and makes me teary-eyed...to him, it hit him harder/differently-- he feels exactly what Nate is feeling but not typing. I was not near as ill as Nate's wife, but those first few days were very scary as my condition (failing kidneys) was not improving immediately after delivery as my doctor expected. Then he had to also juggle 3 kids at home (thankful for the help of his Mom), a baby in one city and his wife in another city! (That telling him to call the nurses' station when he called me for updates!)

I'll update a much needed Nance Family update soon...

and the consequences...

Totally kidding, he DID this all by himself the morning of the green mouth! (Dec 28, 2007)

Trouble T.....

Now you'll see why we call him this...







See he was sitting on Larry's lap while everyone was watching America's Funniest Home Videos...I am not sure what I was doing, I think preparing a bottle for him. ANYHOW!!! Larry and Tommy were on the end of the couch by the art drawers...one of those plastic drawers container things, on top of it sits the bucket of crayons. Tommy had helped himslef to one while Dad was into the TV. We later figured out that the only way a red crayon can turn a baby GREEN was to have had a green marker leak on it. Yes, he picked one of the two nasty ink-covered crayons to teeth on. See pictures!

Mr. Tommy is ONE!!

We celebrated Tommy's First Birthday on the 24th, Robb and Jess had to leave on Christmas Day so we wanted them to be a part of the celebration.

Tommy wasn't into his cake too much at first...he warmed up and got really into thr frosting. His favorite part was the birthday rubber ducky.

Tommy's birthday cake...forgot to take picture of teh big one, it was just a plain jane chocolate frosted round cake!

It's my party, I can cry if I want to...

Favorite part...the duck.

NOw he's getting messy...

even got frosting behind his ear!

opening gifts...

found a cool present...

Driving his new truck.

Isn't this how to make it go??

Snoozing on Mommy on his last day of being an 11 month old BABY! (He's still going to be my baby...)

My Miracle Baby...

Copy and paste the link below to go read my story I submitted through a support forum for women with PCOS. I still need to write up my more personal, detailed birth story...but this sums it up well :)

http://www.pcosupport.org/newsletter/articles/article122707-8.php