Today started out at 6am when Jack comes running in my room with a bad nose bleed. I was really not ready to get up yet. I get Jack cleaned up and prop him up in my bed hoping he would fall back asleep, even for just a little while. He did.
Once the rest of the house started the day we had two things to do, while Phil had to work. My friend is out of town and asked me to check on her mother that is in an assisted living facility and I needed to go to BJ's to get some groceries. Simple enough.....right? I wish.
From my house to the assisted living facility is a decent drive. We walk in and as I am signing in as a guest Jack looks at me and says, "Mommy I need to sit down.....I think I am going to throw up."
I look at the front desk clerk and ask where the closest bathroom is. We walk in the bathroom and I ask Jack if his tummy is upset and he said yes. I tell him to sit on the potty. All of the sudden I see his body buck and I knew he was going to throw up. I spun him around because he was about to sit on the toilet. Thankfully I was quick enough and 98% of it went in the toilet.
So here we are Me, Katie, Jack and Maddie in this single bathroom. I am trying to calm Jack down, keep Maddie from unlocking the door, Katie is just standing there telling me how bad it smells and I am trying to keep it together. It was so bad it came out his nose I felt awful for him.
As I am trying to clean Jack up and clean up the little bit that missed the toilet, I see Maddie try to pull the emergency cord. These are the cords that sends off an alarm for help in case there is a fall in the bathroom. Usually the whole world comes running when the alarm is set off. That was all I needed.
So now I have made this drive, Jack has vomited and we haven't even seen my friends mom yet. I needed to see her for just 15 minutes and talk to the nurse to make sure they didn't need anything and we could leave.
While in her room I am talking to her and trying to find something on TV she might like, my cell phone rings. I look at the number it looks familiar but not sure who it is. I answer it and no one is there. I look up and realize Katie has picked up the room phone and called my cell. It was really hard not to laugh. We then check with the nurse and leave.
One errand down and Jack seems to be doing ok. The BJ's store is not close the the house but on the way home from the assisted living. I asked Jack how he is feeling. He said ok but he was thirsty. I stop to get him a Gatorade to help him along. We meet my mom and get onto BJ's. When we dropped my mom back off home I send Katie and Jack in her house to go to the bathroom before we head home.
Five minutes into the drive home Jack says he has to go to the bathroom. I was angry because I just sent him to the bathroom. Thinking he was playing around I tell him he is just going to have to wait till we get home. Further along he says mommy I really have to go. At this point we are about 7 minutes from home. I figured he could wait, he just went at my parents .
We are now at a point in the drive home that there is no place to turn off, no place to u-turn and the traffic is crawling. Jack starts crying . Mommy I can't hold it! I could not go anywhere. The only solution I had was to let him pee in one of Maddie's diapers. Were stuck and the cars were not moving. As soon as he moves his body, he started peeing and not in the diaper I gave him.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think if he went at my parents house and it took us just under 30 minutes to get home did I think he would have to go again. He swore up and down he went to the bathroom at my parents house. It is now just about noon time and I am ready for the day to be over.
Phil was working this morning and was at home when we were driving home. I asked him to get their lunch ready so they could eat as soon as we got home. By the time lunch was over I could take no more. I put everyone down for a nap and Phil was off to my parents house to do a little work for them.
However, what I wanted was not to be. The girls would not go to sleep. I finally about 2:30 had to separate them and everyone fell asleep including me. About a half hour later I hear Jack running to the bathroom and not everything made in the toilet. At this point, I was really wanting to just sleep and forget about everything for a while. Maddie was asleep in her bed, Katie was asleep in my bed and Jack was just wanting Mommy. So he piled in my bed too.
Sometime later I hear Maddie. Jack is sleeping on top of me (don't ask how that happened) so I tell Katie to get Maddie while I try to get out from under Jack and not wake him (he has had such a rough day). As the girls come back in the room I ask Katie what time it was. It was a few minutes before 5, yes that was 5pm.
I could ask where the day went but I by no means ever want to relive today. I feel really bad for Jack. He will be 5 in about 10 days and I just can't imagine what today was like for him. There has to be a better way.
Hoping Sunday is better.
TTFN~
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