What a week

Jeff was home this week!   We had so many things on our mind this week it was a little terrifying actually.  Jeff had a cancer scare and we had to wait for him to get an ultrasound.  Thankfully that ultrasound happened on Monday, the day before he left and we were able to get in to see our dr for her to say it is not cancer.   So Jeff and I had this heavly on our minds all week.  On Wednesday morning nathan notices a lump on his leg that is a little painful, and of course weird.  Well poor nathan knows a little to much medical things and concluded that this lump was where the femoral artery runs and that he had an aneurysm.  He then thought he was going to die as the femoral artery is the largest artery in the leg if it ruptures I'm dead he says.   Oh boy, it was hard to convince him it was not, I called his pediatrician who was swamped and on call that day.  He said he didn't think it was an annyeurysm, but he would try to call us later to come in.  So I took Gigi to cheer, nathan was still quite frightened at home, tried to convince him if I thought he was near death I would not be leaving.  He said he would not believe until he actually saw his pediatrician.   Jeff had a drs appt with our GP the next day and I thought about waiting to see her.  At 8 o'clock I decided that it was better to go to the ER with him to make him feel better.  Thankfully hardly any wait at the ER.  We saw the dr and she had no clue what it was, but she told nathan she did not believe it was aneurysm   but he needed an ultrasound.  Nathan felt a little better, but apparently did not trust this dr.   Next morning at 7 am I get a phone all asking nathan to come in for an ultra sound right away.  So off Nate and I go.  After the tech was done she said I will go check with the radiologist as he may want to come and look for himself.  Sure enough in comes the radiologist to get a look at it himself.  He is baffled and asking me lots of questions about EDS.  He said that it is not an aneurysm and not a hemotoma, but that it is vascular.  He said he would have to do some research on it and see if he could figure it out. Oh boy, why do we always have to have the weird and the strange things happen to us???   The tech suggested that we head right over to his peds office to see if he could take a look at Nate.  Turns out he was again on call and crazy busy.  Assisting in the delivery if twins etc.  So we then headed over to our GP she took a look and then sent a refferal to the Ped so he could get paid to look at Nathan's leg, cause apparently the ped won't get paid to look at his leg because that was not what his refferal was for.  Oh how I love all the run around.  So we got that done and then we had to wait...   We decided to go to ikea and take the car into Volvo.  Well I get a phone call while at ikea from Volvo saying that some idiot put power steering fluid into our brake fluid. Apparently it eats rubber so it wrecked our breaks!!!   It will either be 1000 to fix( that's just the start).  Or as high as 5000 to fix.  Really!!!   That's what I needed to hear at that moment, I thought it would be simple ha ha.   Poor Jeff had to deal with me in an emotional stupor.  We had to leave ikea without our intended purchase as I could not pick out a chair I wanted for our bedroom.  I can't make decisions when I am stressed.  And I think I was close to my maximum stress potential.  

We then went to the fabric store to pick out sequin fabric for Gigi's dresses for her voice completion.  This was much easier to purchase as I think Gigi is a little designer and picked out everything, she then went and got her brother to ask his opinion.  I love that he was so kind to her and really helped her make her decision.  I think the sales lady either thought I was crazy or Gigi was adorable as I let her pick out all her trims, and the sales lady was helping her make decisions and showing her different things.   How much I love that Gigi knows exactly what she wants, it's a little harder when I have to create what she envisions ;)

Next was back to Volvo where I end up test driving a s60.  Really nice but I don't want to spend 30,000 on a car.  I took my Volvo home without fixing it to determine what to do with it when I am not so stressed.

Next up was the Harlem globetrotters.  The kids liked it, Jeff and I thought if was terrible, yes maybe out moods affected our enjoyment but it sucked.  It seemed they could only be funny if they pretended to be strippers, gay, or if they made farting noises.  Oh and give presents to woman and say since I have you something, you have to give me something in return!  Then demand a kids, at first on the cheek then the other cheek then asking for a kids on the lips!!! Seriously what is that teaching.   Then bringing up another mom and twerking.  1/2 time show was a local dance company with 6 year olds wearing lingerie, bustiers and hot pink bras.  A few on the older girls were bursting our of their bras it was terrible.  

Next day we get a phone call from ped, saying he's reviewed the ultrasound and has no clue, but it is a good sign that it is painful.  He thought the best thing to do was wait until Wednesday to see him as since he had no clue and if he saw us that day, he would just want to monitor it anyway.  So in we go tomorrow for another appt.  his leg lump is getting smaller so I'm sure it will just go away on its own.  But why he is getting a leaky vessel I don't know.  

Monday comes along Jeff gets his ultrasound.   Nathan gets what I thought was a migraine at the drs office, he lays in the waiting room floor, because he feels queezy and his head hurts.  Normally with severe migraines it feels better when he lays flat so that's what I thought was happening.  Jeff and I go into see the dr alone and leave Gigi to watch Nate.  We get the good news and come out and nathan is passed out sleeping on the floor.  Still at this point thinking migraine as you get very tired after one, but never has nathan fallen asleep.  We get him home and find out he has a 104 fever.  He sleeps most of the day, but wakes up today feeling better.   

Today was definitely a better day, I did the taxes last night, that was good to get done and figure out, we are able to buy the extra RRSPs we need before deadline.  Bye bye new car but good for savings in the long term.  We had to say goodbye to Jeff this morning, but I was just so happy he was leaving and we had already found out it wasn't cancer and we did not have to wait 2 more weeks!   It also felt great that Jeff and I just made it through one of the most emotionally draining weeks we have ever had and still intact and we managed to work it all out together.  I guess trials can make you feel stronger, but I am done for a while can I just breeze through life.  

So what did we accomplish this week in learning, I have no idea lol.  Nathan and I worked on multiplication tables he realized he knows the 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,10 times tables already.  I think that made him feel pretty good.  He studied his anatomy posters, to confirm what he thought was going on with his leg.  

Genevieve and I worked on dress design, did some tumbling.  She did lots of art and made Jeff and I cards and notes, I should take pictures of these.  She watched full house, is that considered history?   

Here's to the next two weeks being uneventful