Mapped . . .

I just thought I was better. Then . . . we had that brief weather change the end of last week. I got out of the house – finally – and I noticed swiftly the warmth was doing a number on my sinuses! And just like that, I was back down for the count!

I would feel sorry for my husband. But I’m the one that has all that laundry to catch up on. The sink has yet to be empty of dishes since I was attacked by that flu! And my floors – ugh. I had been in the habit of mopping daily once all the kids went to lidless cups because of all the messes that one certain girl was making. It’s been 2 weeks since my mop was wet. You can only imagine what my floors look like.

Please, no one pull one of those “drop-ins” on me this weekend. I will be forced to ask you to leave. I can breathe today. I’m not coughing nearly like I was. And for once in the past couple of weeks, I actually feel like doing something around here. Of course, it might be because I can’t take all the funk and nastiness around me and I’m having sensory overload. Who knows, but after this blog post – I’ll be jumping in and finally doing something around this house.

And that includes PAINTING! I set down yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks and painted! I was afraid I would have forgotten how to. Fortunately – I hadn’t. I had drawn out this one right before I got sick and then I spent the past 2 weeks thinking about how bad I wanted to paint it! Yesterday morning, I mapped out the stripes. I normally just paint. Rarely do I do this, map out the paint colors. But I was trying to have a balance of the colors.

And really, I don’t know what kind of balance it has until the color gets on the canvas! Which is probably the reason I don’t usually “map” it out! My eyes see color much better than reading it! ha!

I’ll finish this one up today.Basically because I’ve got to get focused and finish up the last few I’ve got! Not only do I have the 4 you see listed on the bottom, but I still have several “gifts,” a few “freebies” {such as donations,} 4 for my kids, and a few I had promised to some friends that when they got pregnant I promise to paint for them {and guess who is pregnant!?}

Once I knock out the last 4 on my list, I’ll figure out exactly how I’m going to do this re-order business! There will be big changes. I don’t ever want to be this behind ever again!  For the record, I got really backed up when Hudson had that spell at Vanderbilt’s Children Hospital. I hope I’m not jackin’ it up, but . . . . I took Hudson off all his meds.

All of them!

I weened him off the steroids. And the medicine he takes that transplant recipients take so their body doesn’t reject the organ, is out of his body, too. Normally, Hudson’s kidneys act up when he gets sick – usually viral. He has been sick since the week before Christmas. And guess what.

Just guess.

He never really tested positive for protein in his urine. There was a day he had “trace” but essentially that is a negative when you have a nephrotic syndrome and healthy people show trace amounts of protein in times of sickness. The Minimal Change Disease he was diagnosed with should go away sometime between the ages of 5 and 8. But I was concerned he wouldn’t out grow it because of the way it kept coming back – constantly! We were told that was so odd that they have never heard of it. The doctors on his case treated us like it was our fault and that we are total idiots. We took his meds by a timer because I started to think that maybe it was our fault. But it wasn’t. And we aren’t the idiots. I think they proved who the idiots were when the called me about Hudson’s bloodwork. The bloodwork that Hudson never had done. Now, whose bloodwork they were look at, I don’t know. But it wasn’t Hudson’s no matter how much she wanted to argue with me! I’m going out on my own with this. I’m over the medicine. It barely maintained his levels. I’m over the doctors. I’ve just been waiting for signs he outgrew the disease. And I got my sign. And I jumped all over it!

So far, so good. I want to thank everyone who has prayed for my son over the past 2 years because of this mess. I’m thinking we are past it. I hope we are anyways. And I’m thinking we all need to pray for the pediatric nephrologist at Vanderbilt and any current and future patients.