life & stuff

I thought I would write a little about the miscellaneous stuff that's happened over the past few weeks.

Jake:

Jake has been having bad headaches for the past 4-5 months. They were happening at last 3 times a week. I took him to the doctor. His doctor did some tests, and those came out ok.(blood,vision,hearing,urine) So, he sent Jake to a neurologist. The neurologist asked us a bunch of questions and figured he was probablly having migraines. She prescribed him some medicine and gave me a diary to keep track of the headaches. She gave me a list of foods that can trigger migraines. She also scheduled a CT scan to make sure there wasn't something else causing the headaches.

A couple of weeks ago, Jake had the CT scan. It showed an abnormal vein on the right side of his brain. Apparently a lot of people have abnormal veins, they just never know about them, unless they get a CT scan for some non-related reason. Jake's CT scan was a pretty awful experience. We ended up having to wait 2 hours in the waiting room. (One of the machines wasn't working) For the last 20 min of the wait, Jake had to sit with an I.V. needle sticking out of his arm. He looked horrible, he told me he thought he was going to faint. They finally called us in. The actual scan went fine, Jake thought it was cool. After seeing the results of the CT scan, the neurologists scheduled Jake for an MRI to get a better picture of the vein.

The MRI was yesterday. I was really worried about it. I said a lot of prayers that we wouldn't have to wait long, and that Jake wouldn't freak out during the test. Thankfully, we didn't have to wait at all. Jake wasn't too happy that he was going to get another I.V. The MRI took about 35 minutes. Jake had to stay perfectlly still this whole time. He did awesome. I would have totally freaked. He did start to twitch about 15 minutes in, but then he fell asleep. I was so relieved.

Jake has a check up with the neurologist on Monday. I'm hoping she'll have the results of the MRI by then.

Other Stuff:

-I am no longer doing daycare. The mom decided to have them go to a daycare/preschool place instead. I have had mixed feelings about this. Happy to have a break, it was a bit stressful. Scared for the loss of money. (It has really helped us out with our new mortgage) And worried that Hannah would do ok at the new place.

-School has started back up. Yeah! It's been so quiet around here with just me and Claire. Elise and Jake seem to be adapting well to their new school.

-Ben and I have tickets to see 3 different concert in the next 2 months. We are going to see: Rilo Kiley, Say Hi to Your Mom, and Morrissey. Can't wait.