Since I started working our days have been hectic with doctors appointments and then I go to work. After work, our nights are crazy busy with dinner, chores, bedtime routines, grocery shopping trips, Wednesday night Awanas, etc... In short, things have been crazy around here.
Kathryn is being treated for her night terrors. I don't know if I have already written about this as I barely have time to type this, so looking back is out of the question. She did really well with the medicine, which is just Melatonin, for the first 3 or 4 nights and now we are back to waking up in the middle of the night and then over and over again until about 5 or 6am. It's super frustrating to say the least. She goes back for her ADHD appointment in 2 weeks, we will be discussing the night terrors again as well.
Marian had night terrors until she was 7 years old, it was really bad. Much worse than Kat's. Not in how often she woke up, but in the severity of the terror per night terror. Mary would sit straight up, look like she was looking at me but looking through me, and then she'd scream as if she didn't recognize me and then she'd wake up and not remember any of it. It freaked me out every time, it never got any easier to take. I cried a lot. And then she'd want an apple.
Kathryn wakes up whining in her sleep, tossing and turning, fighting physically with her nightmares. Then she wakes up and starts crying. She comes to get me or she cries until I wake up and go to her. We do this every 15-20 minutes for hours and hours, until around 5-6am when she finally goes into a deep, dreamless sleep. Then it's time to get her up for school. It's awful. And once it has gone on for about a week, this Momma has reached her limit and breaks down and cries and throws a hissy fit and finally has to sleep-for many hours. We are going to reach that time right around Easter it feels like right now.
So tonight the kids had Awanas. When I walked in to the church gym to get Marian, she was running and playing!! I love to see that! Especially after a whole week of her not walking at all. She got to play and have a good time tonight and that makes my heart so happy. She didn't ask for her pain meds at bedtime though, so I am guessing she will be feeling it in the morning. :(
We're coming up on her first Rheumatologist appointment on April 05th. It feels like it has taken forever to get here, but it's now just around the corner. Her use of her right wrist is completely gone now. She can't grip anything with her right hand or even try to bear the weight of even a blanket. It's horrible. She is completely one handed at this point. Her hip is hurting more often, but she is hard-headed like her mother, and she pushes through it so that she can have some kind of childhood. Her ankle is giving her lots of fits lately too. She's spent everyday for the past week (possibly more) in the wheelchair. I'm really hoping that she will be ok to do the Easter egg hunt. We will see.
I don't know that I'll be able to post again before Sunday, so Have a Happy Easter, Everyone! :)
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