Again...

I feel like I am just always here writing about things that are going on with baby bean. It seems like she has been through the ringer this last few months, and she has honestly handled it all so well. She is my hero :)

Friday March 23rd, we took her back to the doctor because she was still coughing terribly, and she was complaining that her mouth hurt. She had been in to see a doctor the following Saturday for mouth complaints and a fever, they told us then and they didn't see anything and to just keep doing her breathing treatments. So here we are back again. Friday they found an ear infection, checked for strep which thankfully was negative. They decided to put her on steroids to try and get the inflammation in her lungs down. The PA that we saw on Friday wanted to have another x-ray done just to make sure that she didn't have anything else settled in her chest. Since haven't had one done since January, they were concerned about what might really be going on in there.

We took Ava to Oaklawn to have her looked at and she did such a good job. She sat still for her x-rays and she was just ready to be done with being at the doctor. We were going to have a low key afternoon just hanging out as a family. Then the radiology techs asked us to stick around for a little bit. That's when we knew that something was not right.

Waiting in the PICU

When they did the x-ray they found something that was lodged in beans esophagus. They weren't sure what was in there, but they knew that we needed to get it removed. They immediately sent us over to the pediatric unit at Bronson Hospital. They put her in the Pediatric ICU, immediately when we got there. In the beginning everything seemed to rushed, I think we were all a little panicked about what was really going on with bean. Once we got there, we were told that we were going to have to wait to actually start any procedures as Ava had eaten fruit snacks at 3:00. We spent hours trying to entertain her in the hospital room, all while she was begging for a snack. You know Ava!

Around 8:30 they came in and did a follow up x-ray. When she did this x-ray we were allowed to see the photo. It was so surreal to see the object stuck in her esophagus. She didn't really seem to be bothered by it at all, but it looked like a medallion just stuck right about clavicle level. They advised at that point that since it hadn't moved that we would have to give her an IV, put her to sleep, use the scope to remove the object, and then we would have to wake her up and get her to eat and drink before we would be able to head home.

At about 9pm we finally started the hardest part, the IV. Ava wanted nothing to do with the IV at all, she was miserable. They had us holding her down, while it took 2 nurses to get the IV in her poor little arm. I have never had to do something that hard in my life. It's just so hard to know that you are doing the right thing for them, even though they are looking at you like you are the worst person in the world.

Right after Surgery

We were anxiously awaiting some news in the waiting room when the doctor walked in about 20 minutes later with a PENNY in between his fingers! He told us that it would be most expensive penny we have ever seen. He said that they figure based on how tough it was to get out and how irritated her esophagus was that it had most likely been there for about a week at least. He said that there were no damages though and that she would be free to go once we got her to wake up and get something in her system. '

She is now just eating us out of house and home! :) She is doing much better, thankfully! We have just tried to tell her that she isn't a piggy bank, so she can't put her pennies in her mouth!

Thanks to all of our family and friends that had us in their prayers last Friday night, we appreciate you all more than you know.

until next time... :)

Relaxing with Daddy after we got
home from PICU

Could it be true? Is this Spring?

So it's finally starting to get nice here in the lovely state of Michigan. I find Spring to be almost humorous because it's as though people forgot what the sun looks like. As though they are discovering a whole new place around them. People are out walking around and kids are playing at the park. Gary has even been our mountain biking twice since Sunday! It's pretty amazing how much better you can feel once the sun starts peeking out. I am so much more motivated to get things done now that it doesn't get dark before I leave work. That is a MAJOR benefit to having daylight savings.

So Ava got to spend the night at Grammie and Papa's on Saturday night. She was in heaven, she got to play games with Uncle Spanky, and she got to have a "campout" with her Grammie, Papa, and Sammy too! She didn't even want to come home with Gary and I when we picked her up on Sunday. Sunday night we caught up with some friends, and on Friday night we even got to have a game night with Josh and Kelli. As you can imagine, game night was a riot.

This week has already been busy and it's just Tuesday! Gary had a test today in Anatomy, Ava has been playing hard a daycare, and I have just been working, but hey that's tough too! We are about half way through the week and before we know it March is going to be half over! Where has the time gone! I just can't believe how quickly this year is going. Ava is only a few months away from being 3.

Ava in her Snuggie!!

Well off to get the crazy kid in bed! She is a complete nut. She informed us tonight after she threw everything she owned all over the house that Papa and Spanky trashed our house. Already blaming things on someone else, oh man are we in for a treat once we hit the teenage years.

Yikes!

So I have fallen off the blogging wagon. I'm back :)

I know you were all missing me, ok maybe I just want to think you were.

Anyways! So lets see we had a busy week few last week! Gary and I went with my brothers and their friends to see Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert at Kellogg Arena on the 23rd . The concert was great and we had a lot of fun. Although Gary and I learned that we aren't quite as young as we used to be.



Kayla, Me, Spencer, Blake, Gary, and some
Blakes' buddies at the Concert.



In other news we had a surprise 50th birthday party on the following night for my parents, which went off without a hitch and was a blast. We really did surprise them, and I was surprise that we were able to it. We just had it at there house with mostly family, and even though it was just something small it was nice to feel like we were able to do something special for them. As you can see it went long into the night... and we have a very good time.

Dad, Blake, and I at the end of the night :)

Gary was away at drill this last weekend so Ava and I spent the weekend relaxing around the house and spending some quality mother daughter time. On Sunday we met mom and dad for breakfast and then went with mom to see the Lorax, it was Ava's first 3D movie, and she wasn't a big fan of the glasses. So she watched most of the movie blurry (to each their own!). She did so good again at the movies though. I'm so proud of her.



Ava in her 3D Glasses!



Gary had midterms this week and got an "A"!! I'm so proud of him, he is doing so well with school. I am glad that he is working towards something that he will truly enjoy. After everything, he deserves that! This weekend Gary is back to work and we are back to our everyday routine at least for a few more weeks until we come up with something else crazy! There is never a dull moment in the Metheny Household!

Oh Ava bean!