Friday (and a little today)

4:45am Wake up and get ready
5:25am Leave for the Surgery Center
6:00am Arrive and fill out a million forms
6:17am They take Brian back for his IV
6:32am Mary and I get called back to sit with Brian until the surgeon is ready
We also meet the "circulation nurse" (She runs the room) and the anaesthesiologist.
7:12am Surgery starts and we wait and wait and wait
9:30am The surgeon comes out to talk to us and tells us everything went perfect
10:42am We are able to take Brian home
11:20am Alison is complaining of a sore ear
11:45am I fix lunch for everyone
1:00pm Now Alison is crying and holding her ear, so I take her to a children's Quick Care
1:07pm Children's Quick Care doesn't open until 5pm. I call my Mom (just because I'm stressed) and she reminds me that it is Friday not Saturday (like I was thinking the whole day) and that the doctor would be open
1:12 - 1:22pm sit on hold with Dr Hodapp's office. Finely get a real person and an appointment with the NP (who I love)
2:00pm Alison and I stop at Wendy's for a chocolate frosty (It helps her sore throat)
2:45 - 3:10pm wait for our appointment.
3:10pm Find out that Al has a double ear infection and the side she was complaining about is, in the NP's words "raging" (She has only had one other EI her whole life when she was a baby...great timing)
3:42pm drop Alison off at home and go to CVS to pick up her prescriptions
4:35pm get home and start dinner
5:53pm finish dinner and give Al her antibiotics
6:13pm Al knocks the bottle of antibiotics off the counter and the bottle breaks, all the medicine is all over the floor.
6:15pm go back to CVS to BEG for another bottle. They say they can't give me one without a Rx. Of coarse the doctors office is closed now.
6:17pm I am so tired and frustrated I start crying
6:20pm I leave CVS with the medicine and thank them a million times.
7:00pm I ask Mary to read the girls a story and put them to bed.

Meanwhile I have my cell phone set to remind myself to give Brian his pills. He is nauseous, and can't get down to the toilet, so I am helping him not puke all over, carrying his crutches up and down the stairs when ever he moves, bringing him snacks and water/Gatorade, helping him change clothes and get clean (he can't take a shower for 3 days) And of coarse Alison wants Mommy because she doesn't feel good. And Ellie is just being clingy Ellie.

Finely I get everyone settled in and I sit on the couch. I am exhausted but I feel like I shouldn't leave Brian on the couch in case he needs something. I pass out, so it doesn't matter.

Today was better. I'm still crazy tired, and my house looks like a hurricane hit, but Im not going to worry about it. My in-laws left a half hour ago and took my kids with them (and I cried again.) It will be relaxing to be home just us, but I will miss them. I need to go feed and drug Brian again, lay down and recharge, physically and emotionally.