It's been quite the busy house since Kayleigh was born.
We knew before she was born that we would have to make the decision to have the eye muscle surgery done for Jacen. What I wish we would have done before she arrived, because its proven to be quite challenging to keep up with a 2 year old who has had surgery and a 1 month old.
Just days before his eye surgery he split his ear lobe open. Not quite sure how it happened. I was in the laundry room and he had been helping me, he came out into the living room, which I can see from the laundry room but I had my back turned. All of a sudden I hear this loud crash and him screaming bloody murder. I came running. I picked him up and started rubbing his head, thinking he just bumped his head like he frequently does. Nothing was calming him down. So I pulled him back to see if I could find what was wrong. First I saw blood all over my sleeve then I saw his ear. I was panicking a little. I ran him to the kitchen to find something to cover it with, because at this point he was touching it and pulling on it. I knew I would have to take him to the ER 45 minutes away so I called Jay to tell him what was going on.
We get to the ER they take us back to the pediatric ER and we wait. When they finally come in to stitch him up they tell us we are going to have to swaddle him to keep his arms down. I say yea probably for the best. These are moments I wish I could forget. He screamed like I have never heard him scream before. Broke my heart to see him this way. They told us he would be screaming because he was bound and because people were holding him down, not because he could feel any pain. I think he felt some pain at the beginning even after they deadened his ear. I hope that he didn't but the way he was reacting said different.
As soon as he started screaming, Kayleigh started crying. Jacen kept screaming, "Kayleigh crying!" "I want to go see Shelby!" "Mommy coming!" (I was standing right next to him and talking to him) Made me cry. When they were all done, he was sniffling and looked at me and said "I think they all done" Made us all laugh! He is such a sweetheart and a trooper.
Its been so long since I started this post and I can't even keep up anymore.
These days have been pretty busy. Jacen is saying more and more. There is so much I cant even remember it all. In September Jacen had his eye surgery, it went well. But we go back on Jan. 31st to see if he is going to need another surgery. I hope he doesn't it was horrible to go through that and I don't want for any of us to go through it again.
April is coming up pretty quick. I have no idea on party ideas yet. I can't believe he is going to be 3!!!! Time is going by too fast. Makes me sad. But he is such a sweet boy I am happy to see his beautiful personality shine through.
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