Hey Guys! First I want to thank you all for your comments and emails about my last post. I love the support that this community brings! You guys are the BEST. :)
Lucas is so much better now and after lots of tests it ended up just being Sinusitis. Thank goodness that's all it was. He was put on lots of different meds and it is clearing up nicely. The doctor put him on a steroid saying that just antibiotics wouldn't take care of it so that is making him eat tons. Which is definitely a good thing. I'll have to get a photo of him. He is finally gaining some weight and you can already see it in his face.
Thank you all again so much. :)
I'm tired and getting ready to go to bed. Up early tomorrow for the Pirates game! We'll be grilling out with bunches of friends. I can't wait. I wanted to leave you with a quick video of out-takes of pictures I took today of my sisters. They crack me up. Crap, Nevermind. I uploaded it to YouTube and 1. it looks not good and 2. they wouldn't add the music. Boo. I'll figure it out soon and post it for you all.
edit: Ok let's try this. If it doesn't work or is annoying please just ignore it. Thanks!
So yeah, I pretty much suck at uploading and posting videos. Sorry Guys. If you do watch it please sing, I'm to Sexy in your head while you do.
This post might be deleted in a day or two. It depends on how things go and how I feel about it then. Really, right now I just need an outlet and a place to lay out my thoughts. The past month has been a bit rough. My son, Lucas, has had migraines for years. I think it's been about 5 years he has been getting them now and he is only 9 years old. He'll be 10 in September.
The migraines would come maybe once a month for a few hours then it would be gone again for at least a month. There were times that he wouldn't have one for a few months. Our doctor was never concerned because migraines are hereditary. I have them and so does my mom and my one sister. I was just told that if a parent has migraines then the child is 50% more likely than a child with a parent who doesn't get migraines to get them.
So...within the past month his migraines have become more frequent and are lasting longer. A full day at the longest. Then they were coming everyday. He was missing tons of school or he was being sent home early. We made a doctors appt. for last Monday. It was one of his worst he has had that day. He was sent home from school and my husband had to carry him to the car just to get him to the doctors. We were given a medicine to give him nightly in hopes that would prevent the migraines from even starting. That's the goal. Our doctor also ordered a MRI because of the change in his frequency of getting the migraines. He did say again at this point he wasn't really worried about finding anything on it because of the family history. So I had a little freak out and then agreed with him. That was Monday of last week. We gave him his new medicine that night and hoped it would work super fast.
Tuesday. It was actually a good day. I really thought the medicine was a miracle medicine and he was cured..well I knew he wasn't cured but I thought it was doing its job. And honestly I credit that medicine for giving him his first migraine free day in over a week. I was so so happy to see my boy happy and playing with his sister. It was so nice. We had kept him home from school just because we were worried about the side effects of the medicine and we were to keep an eye on him. What a good day Tuesday was!!!
Wednesday. It was bad...so so bad. He had a migraine from the time he woke up and as the day went on it just got worse. We eventually decided to take him to the ER. (I forgot to mention up there that our insurance decided to be dumb and wouldn't approve the MRI right away so we are still waiting at this point to hear back from them if we can get it done or not.) Anyway, we go to the ER and they give him some medicine to help with the pain, but not pain meds, and it worked pretty fast! He had told the doctor in the ER that is pain was at a 10 when he was first examined and by the time we left it was at a 2. YAY. They did a CT Scan while we were there and we got the results pretty fast. It came back fine. They saw nothing out of the ordinary. He recommended that we take our son to the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh to get checked out by the neurology dept. By the time we got out of there they were closed at Children's so I had to call the next morning.
Thursday. I woke up to a phone call from our doctors office saying the MRI was approved!! Thank goodness. Good News! I made the appt. for Children's and they had just had a cancellation so we were able to get in Friday morning! More Good News! Also no migraines today. He did have a few headaches but we were able to stop them before they became really bad. He has been sleeping and laying around a lot more than usual and just not my little boy. The MRI is scheduled for Monday (today).
Friday. We got up super early to head to Children's for our 8 am. appt. So glad we had it that early though because no waiting! We saw our doctor and she went over everything with us. Checked out the scans from the CT he had done at the ER and said we should definitely still have the MRI done. She also said that with the family history she wasn't worried. We got a list of foods to avoid as that is what is said to trigger most peoples migraines. Lucas got pretty upset about this as just about everything he eats is on that list. He's a pretty picky eater. We assured him that he would get used to it and we can find new favorite foods. We left there with instructions to stop taking the medicine that our family doctor gave him and start him on a new one. It was a pretty good day. He had a few headaches but again nothing really bad.
The Weekend. It was a pretty good weekend. Not much went on and Lucas was able to rest with no appts. or doctors visits. Again, a few headaches but NO migraines!!!
Monday. Today. We had Lucas' MRI at 9:45 this morning. I was a little worried about how he would do. Have you guys seen those machines? He was SO good. He stayed still the whole time. I was able to sit in the room with him and hold his leg so he knew I was there. That machine is loud! We were done 20 minutes later and we dropped him off at school. His first day back in a week. He was really happy to see his friends again and be back to normal. The results were to be sent to our family doctor and our doctor at Children's. When I had asked a nurse at our family doctor about how long we would have to wait for the results she had said probably a few days. (I googled it today and the ones I saw said 24 hours or so) At 4 pm today I got a phone call from our family doctor and they said they had gotten the results and they wanted us to make an appt. to go over them. I started to freak a little at this point because 1: at this time I thought it would be a few days to find out and being just a matter of hours I was scared 2: if the results were fine wouldn't they just say that over the phone? ....I guess there are only 2 points there. But I thought valid points. So I called my mom.
Mom's are the best right? I figured my mom would know if it was good or bad by them wanting us to make an appt. to go over results. She had gone through a lot of tests with my dad and I'm sure she had gotten the same kind of call I had got. She was able to calm me down and made me really think about it all instead of just thinking about it being bad. It could be anything. I know that. It is still a little scary but I have convinced myself that he just wants to tell us it was clear and that he wants to go over with us what more we can do to prevent these migraines. Like food and such. He didn't go over that with us in our visit, just the doctor at Children's did and he doesn't even know about Children's yet because it all happened so fast and I haven't had the chance to update him yet. So yeah, I'm sure it's fine and I'll feel silly tomorrow for being so crazy today.
I never do this but please if you could, say a prayer for my Lucas. That the results really are fine and everything is ok. If they are not, I know that we will still be ok and it WILL work out.
If you have made it this far, I want to thank you for listening to this mom's worries. I really appreciate it. Oh...I forgot. We go tomorrow. Tuesday to talk to the doctor and go over the results.
Are you guys ready for St. Patrick's Day? We are here!
Any Pittsburghers reading? I've finally added a new item to the shop. I'm loving this one. :) I used a tee shirt I found at our local grocery store...who knew grocery stores carried tee's? Funny. Maybe I should call this our Grocery Store St. Patty's Day Dress.
I can even add a name on the back if anyone wants that. My photoshop skills still stink incase you hadn't noticed! I'm working on it.
Have you taken your kids to see this yet? I definitely recommend it! I've been looking forward to it coming out for months. We didn't go opening weekend because I hadn't made our outfits yet. So yesterday I finally finished them up and the kids and I had a date night. I love how they turned out. :)
I don't know what's going on with his face in these pictures but these are the best I could get so there ya go!
Lucas is Gnomeo.
Reagan's dress is by far the favorite thing I've ever made. I have a thing for gnomes and when I saw this Michael Miller fabric I knew that I wanted to make Reagan a dress out of it.
I thought maybe you guys would like to make your own Gnomeo and Juliet shirts. This is my first time doing a pdf so it's not the best. Plus it's hand drawn. Enough said. Ok on to the tutorial....
First gather your supplies:
Freezer Paper
Heat n Bond
blue and white felt for Gnomeo
red and brown felt for Juliet
shirts
scissors
iron
pen/pencil
First you are going to print out the pdf of the pattern. It's down there at the bottom of the post. Cut out a piece of the freezer paper and get your pencil ready.
Now trace the gnome hat, hair and beard onto the non shiny side of the freezer paper. You will want to trace 2 hats if you are making both Gnomeo and Juliet.
Cut out your patterns and iron them shiny side down onto the right side of your felt.
Flip your felt over and apply the heat n bond according to the package directions.
Cut out along the lines on your freezer paper pattern and remove both the freezer paper and the paper of the heat n bond. For Gnomeo arrange the blue hat and the white beard onto your garment until it's just how you like it. Make sure your iron is nice and hot and iron over your pieces. I find that with felt it's better to press, lift and repeat. So I'm not rubbing my iron around, just lift it up and lay it back down and press firmly.
Make sure your felt is all stuck on there. Keep pressing until it is.
Since the felt is thicker I like to flip the shirt inside out after I've pressed it right side out and then press the inside also to help keep it secure.
You can also stitch around your felt with your sewing machine to give it extra stability but I didn't here.
Here is the final Gnomeo shirt!
Do the same thing for the Juliet shirt but when you get to the point of arranging it on your garment make sure to overlap the hat over the hair just a bit. You can kinda see in this picture what I mean.
Here is the Juliet shirt finished. I couldn't get a good picture of this one, sorry.
Here are the kids and I ready to go on our date. I had a neighbor lady take our picture because I couldn't find the tripod. I felt bad for stopping her on the street so we weren't worried about lighting or trying to get a good picture. We had her snap one and let her go home. :)
Everyone loved our outfits and it was so nice to go out with my littles on a date.
Here is the pdf. Again, not the best...hand drawing is something I'm not good at, at all. If you love it please let me know and if you make a shirt of your own I would love to see it. :)
If you hate it I can live without hearing about it. ;)
Oh and did you see over there on my sidebar I added buttons for my facebook page and twitter. I would love it if you guys "liked" me and followed me!!
I was on Facebook today and came across a link on Be Different...Act Normal's page that said she was starting to think Packer fans were craftier than Steelers fan. Ha. I think not. No...I'm just playing :) I'm sure they are just as crafty but I wanted to show you some of the Steelers things I've made in the past and present.
I have made some tissue cozies...I've been adding these in with orders from Etsy this month as a little freebie!
I love this "black and yellow" dress. It comes with a matching doll dress.
Do the Packers have 6 Super Bowl rings?
No??? I didn't think so. :)
Reagan's bear is also a Steelers fan!
Go Steelers!
What is an outfit without a matching hairband!
This is a bad picture from my phone of the matching doll dress on my American Doll Wannabe.
The Steelers Pillowcase dress has been my best seller. I've had orders from VA, SC, GA, IW, ID, CA, NV, OH and all over PA!! That's why it's called Steelers Nation. ;)
Need something fun for the kids? How about a Steelers crayon roll.
The pillowcase dress is number 1 right now in the shop. Really though I have nothing else right now in there anyway!
Steelers Key Chain
Finally something for the little boy in your life. The Tie Shirt.
(Isn't my nephew the cutest?)
And lastly, this is my personal favorite. I think Reagan looks adorable in this outfit. Especially in her Curious George rain boots. She loves those.
Three tiered skirt with a little ruffle on the shirt.
LOVE
So there you have it. Steelers gals/guys are just as crafty as the Packers fans!!!
I've been MIA for a while now. I pretty much got the school time/winter blues. I'm hoping that is in the past and I can keep up with blogging once again. I have lots of projects I'm working on. None of which get finished because I find a new one everyday!
Besides working on projects I am working on getting my craft room put together. It' been a mess since we moved in here over a year ago and I've mostly done all my sewing/crafting in the dining room but the family (husband) is pretty tired of me taking up the whole downstairs. :)
I made the kids pancakes for dinner and put them in a stein! Today's pancakes colors were regular and green. They like to mix it up.
