Kelly’s Rants and Raves

Way back in March we were on our way home from a Nebraska vs. Baylor baseball game.  We were driving along happily, eating what sunflower seeds that we hadn’t devoured at the game.  From the backseat comes Gray’s voice,”Ben just stuck a sunflower seed in his ear.”  To which I replied, “Ha, ha very funny, quit joking!”   Well, it turns out that, yes, he did stick a sunflower seed in his ear.  We arrive home and try our best to try to get the seed out, no luck.  So off to the ER we go.  We get to the ER, and what are ERs known for?????  Yep, waiting, waiting and more waiting, with a bunch of sneezing, sniffling, nighttime coughing people!  We waited for probably two hours.  We get back to the triage room and the doc comes in and takes the seed out.  It took two seconds.  Just for laughs, I said let’s look in the other ear.  Doc looked in the ear, and proclaims that there is a ball of wax, but that should come out on its own.   So we went on our merry way, seed free.  A couple of days later I was thinking about that ball of wax in his ear and decided to look.  Well, I could see the whatever it was in his ear still.  So, once again we try to very carefully get it out.  The one thing that I discovered was that whatever this thing was in his ear was hard!  Being a weekday, granted 5:30 p.m. on a weekday, I decided to try to take him into the clinic.  Praise the Lord, they were open!  We get back to the room, doc comes in looks at his ear and proclaims it to be, you ready for this, wax.  I was then feeling like an absolute idiot by this time.  Did I misjudge this thing in his ear?  The doc irrigated his ear and out comes this thing with a very audible clank on the bottom of the bucket.  I felt a little justified at that point, wax doesn’t clank.  The doc examines it and he decided that it wasn’t wax, but a rock.  So, my dear readers that is what a sunflower seed and a rock have in common, both ended up in my son’s ears!

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In honor of Gray’s 7th birthday this Thursday’s edition of Fro’ Me to You is all about how he came into this world! Gray was a very difficult pregnancy. We found out at about 20 weeks that part of the placenta was not exactly right. Turned out that the drs. figured it out to be a molar pregnancy. Most molar pregnancies end in miscarriage. I was very sick with Gray for the entire pregnancy, I really couldn’t do anything. Two weeks before he was born I was put on bedrest due to some extra spotting and other complications. The day before he was born I started cramping really bad and had to be once again admitted into the hospital. The next morning the doctor checked me and I was 2cm dialated at 28 weeks. I had to be transferred to a different hospital, by helicopter. This hospital was two hours away by car. When I got to the hospital, my blood pressure started to skyrocket and the drs. decided to induce labor. Gray was born just a short while later at a mere 2lbs. 9oz and 15 inches long. The journey that awaited us in the NICU was a long and somewhat eventful time for us. He ended up contracting pneumonia and other various ailments. He refused to keep his heart beating and breathe on his own. As he grew he did get stronger and stronger. His heart didn’t stop nearly as much as it had in the beginning and he was growing and getting fat! Gray was born on June 22 and came home early Sept. His due date was Sept 14th. When we did bring him home he continued on oxygen for another 3 months and was on an apnea and heart monitor. We were so happy when he became wireless!! What a blessing he is to us and what a miracle! Enjoy the slideshow!

Not to send little kids into my bathroom to wash their hands?? He came out a whole lot dirtier than when he went in! Maybe I shouldn’t let him watch me put on my make-up, either? Oy!