Netti POT

OK still feeling crappy. Yes it has been FOREVER!!! Owen is doing great. Actually playing with daddy right now. I am still coughing a little, I have a stiff neck and my head feels like a big balloon. But I am taking an antibiotic and some cough medicine and pain meds..so eventually they will all do their job...not to mention time. Thank GOD for Laura Hoogenboom. I seriously had a mental break down on her the other day. I was so upset. My family doctor prescribed me an antibiotic that Owen should not have through my milk. I was so upset that she did that. I called Laura asking for a suggestion for a new doctor, because I am NOT going to go back to this lady, and I ended up crying because I swear my stress level has been so high lately and I have felt crummy. So thank you Laura for being a shoulder to cry on when I needed one!!!!! As for the Netti Pot Sara, your gonna have to show me how to use this thing, it looks like it would be easy but I feel like I jumped in a lake and water shot straight up my nose and nothing is coming out the other side, SO WHERE IS IT GOING??? AHHHHHH! I'm a little freaked out.
I went to my friend Deb Kantner on Saturday to get a raindrop massage. OH JOY!! It was spectacular!! I did start feeling better immediately after I got it. I want to get another one but she is going to be out of town for a few weeks so I will have to wait.

Wes and I are going to start a budget here soon. I am going to start working on it today. I am inspired by Sara, and think that Wes and I can easily pay off our loans if we get or priorities straightened out. I think we can do this. Not to mention I am going to start working some Fridays until the weather gets nice enough to take Owen to the park and do things with him like that.

Cute thing Owen did this weekend. He was playing with a little basket and kept putting it on his head. Also he knows that certain toys make music so he will start dancing before he even gets them to play the music because he knows it is coming. It is so cute. His smile keeps getting bigger and brighter..even when he is not feeling well. My little guy is such a trooper. I am so in love with him. He has been the enegizer bunny today though..he keeps going and going and going . I would love for him to take a nap so I could lay down with him. It would be nice.

What did I do to deserve such bad Karma?

WOW, I have been sick now since Thursday. It started out as the shivers, uncontrollable, and then dizziness, tiredness, unable to think and was very very cold. I ended up going to Medpoint at Martins and they said I have acute bronchitis/pneumonia. I got on a prescription to help out with that. Then Monday took Owen to the doctor and he has a bilateral ear infection (meaning both ears are infected) she said they were oozing with puss. NICE!!! So Owen is also on an antibiotic. Not to mention I can not stop coughing for the life of me. So my doctor called me in another script for a cough suppressant. And the cherry on top is I have a very upset belly and now a cold sore to boot!!! LOVELY times!!!

So I am sitting here trying to motivate myself to get around and get dressed so I can go get my script and gas and then the Odoggy. I miss my little man so much. I know he is not feeling good right now either and I feel like such a lousy mom sending him off to daycare while I stay home. But I am afraid of him getting what I have..and I think that would be much worse then him being at daycare.

So Wes picked me out a new wedding ring and we bought it on Sunday. It was on sale for half the price and it is very pretty and it should not scratch Owen so I should not have to take them off. It takes three weeks to get it sized. I am so excited to have a ring again. Now watch we will find my original wedding rings now..they will somehow magically appear in a place that I have checked 1000 times. Has that ever happened to you?

OK enough boo hooing about not feeling good. Wes has been a huge help. I have cried numerous times because I am feeling so useless. But I have to be getting better every day!!! And so is Owen. It just sucks that I have to find a way to choke meds down him again for 10 days. OYE VEY!!!

PS due to this illness my milk supply has diminished tremendously. It makes me sad to think that this may be the time to ween the little guy. If I can not get my supply back up in the next few days I may have to start considering it.

How things are going?

Well I am not feeling any better and I am pretty sure Owen is not either. He is drinking a lot and nursing a lot so that is good. We are both coughing up a lung. I still have chills and heat flashes. It comes and goes. Everything taste like plastics. He keeps choking on his snot. Its pretty sad. I called the doctor and they said if he keeps doing that call them Monday. Luckily I will be off work Monday cuz I think I am going to call both my doctor and his on Monday. I believe part of my issue is sinuses..I am feeling so dizzy and light headed. I am not really sure it is the flu we have. But better safe than sorry to talk to the doctor. I just read on Dr. Sears that normal healthy people will get over the flu with no problems. I really love Dr. Sears he is so great.


Well not much else. Just been hanging out at home relaxing.

Owens HIVES

Happy Valentines Day

Yesterday was good, Wes sent me a singing telegraph at work. It was so cute. I think my face turned as red as a tomato. I got him some chocolate factory. I had to leave work about an hour early. I was miserable. Still feeling pretty rotten. I think I got what Owen has been suffering with over the past week. He had me up last night at midnight choking on his own phlegm. Let me tell its no fun dealing with that when your not sick but throw sore muscles, a cough and weakness on top of getting up and taking care of a sick child, and you seriously want to crawl in a hole for a week.

So I still have not found my wedding rings. Though I am still paranoid that Owen ate them, and I know there is absolutely no logic in that. I do not think a 7 1/2 moth old could choke down two size 9 rings in a minute that I left him alone. I do remember him chewing on a red block too and he was still chewing on it when I went back into the living room to get him. Not to mention Wes was in there laying on the couch, I would hope he would have heard Owen choking down a ring..or two. Yes I am super paranoid. I may have issues with it until I find them, if I ever find them. It really makes me so sad. How could I be so careless???

Owen is still sleeping right now. Since he has been sick he has developed the habit of sleeping right on top of me. Its cute for about half the night and then the other half I get hot and sweaty and yucky feeling. I hope he stops doing that when he gets over this cold. Which I feel like will never end. GOOD thing the hives are gone though. I am so happy about that I could cry.

Got our taxes done and still have not mailed them in. Either I have been sick or Owen has been sick. Also just realized that I have not given Sasha a heart worm pill in four to five months. Called the vet and they said that they will mail us some and to make sure they check her in May when she gets her shots. I just can not remember everything these days.

Well not much else going on at this time.

Owen and his mommy!! OMG SO CUTE

100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo

A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.

After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.

Owen with Mrs. Trisha