Thanksgiving 2012

     This Thanksgiving was spent with my blood family and family that is not blood related.  But blood does not always define what family is.  I was with my husband, children, and one of my best friends and her son.  We had a drama-free Thanksgiving.  Huck fried two turkeys that were delicious!  Tiffany and I worked on the side dishes.
     Before we all ate our dinner (late lunch, early dinner), we tried to have Elijah say blessing for us.  He just stood there...silent...not knowing what to say.  We had Huck say the blessing...a super quick one and we told Elijah he could say it next year.  Everything was super delicious.  We had turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole and delicious sweet tea.  We had the table set but we all ate in the living room...not all...the kids were in the 'man cave' and the adults sat in the living room.  It was a very nice holiday.
     I thought I would not do much school work over the week long break...but I was wrong.  Once I sat down and realized how much I had done this upcoming week I knew that I had to get it done right away.  So the day after Thanksgiving the work started.  I had written my Utopia paper the weekend before Thanksgiving and now I had a paper on women in Postwar Suburbia, a seven page summary/response to the Navy SEAL book No Easy Day, 2000 words written for my memoirs and an Andy Warhol paper, PowerPoint and art project.  I have finished all but the last piece mentioned.  I have started my research for the Warhol piece but have not started writing yet.  I believe I am going to do a zombie Warhol canvas and give it to Christian when my presentation is over.
     School starts back up tomorrow so I will cut this blog short for now.  I am looking forward to my Christmas Break which starts December 14.

Blessings to all.

My baby...

Yesterday was a hard evening for us. My beautiful 16 (almost 17) year old son, Christian, scared us to death. Something similar happened to him when he was 11 as well. Yesterday he was in the kitchen reaching into the cabinet to get something that was up high for his aunt Tiffany when he lost his vision, blacked out and dropped the large glass bottle he was holding. The bottle shattered on the stove while also breaking a plate. Shards of glass flew around the room striking them both as Tiffany caught him from hitting the floor and his head. His eyes were open she said...but he wasn't there. She screamed call 911 and my husband raced to the kitchen to see what was happening. He tried to grab Christian from her arms but she didn't let go of him. They both were holding him up when he came to and started asking what had happened. When I got to the kitchen their backs were to me and all I could see was glass everywhere and them holding Christian up with his back to me. Tiffany had a terrified look on her face as she told me to call 911. I went into panic mode...in my mind I pictured that he had been stabbed or cut severely. I didn't see any blood. I felt like they were keeping his back to me for a reason. I would have gone into a major panic and screaming fit if my baby had been bleeding and cut severely. But that wasn't what happened. When their backs were to me, they were just getting him to the other room I now think.
I grabbed my phone and tried several times to call 911, but I was in such a panic that I kept pushing the wrong buttons and apps that took me places other than the keyboard of my cell phone. It must have taken me almost a minute to dial the phone number.
Huck was telling me to hang up the phone because he was going to drive him to the hospital but I wanted the paramedics to come. And they did. They took all his vitals and determined that he was in no immediate danger. All of his vitals were fine. They did recommend us taking him to the ER, which we did.
At the Naval Hospital they hooked him up to machines and took blood. They told us that his creatine level was 1.5 which is high. They said he was dehydrated. We asked them to give him fluids and run the blood work again.
After the fluids his levels were 1.3 which still leaves us concerned because his father has the same problem with creatine levels and kidney problems. They discharged us after almost 4 hours and told us to take him to his primary care physician.
Tomorrow he will be seeing the doctor and I am going to insist on him seeing a kidney specialist and a neurologist. I want answers and I want my baby boy safe and taken care of. The worst case scenarios popped into my head and I need reassurance that he is OK. If something is wrong other than just dehydration we need to get it taken care of.
Please pray for Christian Ray tomorrow. He is the best son anyone could ask for. I am so proud of him. He loves God, he makes excellent grades, he wants a Christian girlfriend (he's still waiting patiently), he is honest, sweet and he's very respectful. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. I will update everyone here -- so please make sure you subscribe to my blog.
~~ Michelle ~~