Life's Big Pains and my Toddler.

Oh my gosh, its been FOREVER and a Day since I wrote one of these but something has come up recently and I will have something to blog about regularly to you guys from my Baby Center groups....Not something Good either.

On November 30th, I noticed a small boo boo, on my 2 year old Mateo's stomach, after my mom and sister looked at it, we came to an agreement that it looked like the diabetic sores my Dad is prone too for being a Type II Diabetic, and my sister also has had a few, she too is diabetic, recently diagnosed. So what did I do, I had my mom test my son's blood sugar with my Dad glucose meter. It was 129, so the first thing I did was call the family doctor(hes been treating my family atleast one side for about 40 years)So they had me go in that day for 230 p. I didnt get there til 330 that afternoon, but when I got there they rechecked his blood glucose level and it came back 124. When the Doctor came in he said with the Family History he was NOT going to say my son wasn't diabetic. On one side of my family(paternal) my Dad and his siblings not all but most have Type II Diabetes(Adult On-Set) and so does my sister. But Maternally my grandmother and an Uncle were diagnosed years earlier under age 30 when any diabetes diagnoses at that time under age 30 were considered Juvenile Diabetes(Type I Diabetes), so I kind of knew we were SCREWED.

I continued checking his sugars since then, they wer continously 125-130 all but on the 6th of December(it was 95) and the 7th(it was 109). My Family Doctor told me to get a hold of a Doctor in Manchester NH that is a Pediatric Endocrinologist who was actually based out of Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock(near the mountains to locals its known as C.H.A.D. They finally called me back today and tomorrow at 145p, we will meet with the Pedi Endocrinologist, and immediately after we will meet with a Diabetic Educator, they havent done blood work but from What my Family Doctor told the Doctor up there They are already calling him Type I Diabetic(Jevenile Diabetes)

So what I may be in for is testing his glucose up to 3 times a day, possibly giving him insulin injections daily or multiple times daily, but I am hoping they can show me how to control it for now with specail dieting....The downfall, EVERYONE else who lives in my family's house will have to eat a Diabetic Diet so I am not preparing a bunch of different meals. We already have some adjusted meals in place since my father is diabetic, but my oldest son soon to be 5 year old Pablo will have to suffer with this and so will my 12 year old neiece and 11 year old nephew.

I hear it's going to be a difficult and tryig time for my kids to get used to not eating certain things that they have been eating, and Im hoping they don't take bad to it, and like the change. I feel bad that they will lose out on soooo many things they are used to.....My boys love Pastta dishes and my youngest the diabetic loves rice dishes and we will have to LIMIT those Alot, and they both love to snack on breads....I don't know how this is going to work out, but we will soon see...Like I said this isn't a good thing to blog about regularly but it does give me something to blog about, since I havent had much else too blog about in sooooo long.

Only 5 Pics at a time so heres another POST!!

Here are the last 5 of the shots done that day!!

Family Pics and Pics

We went to Walmart and had the boys pictures done, the picture tech, Enrique(Cancun native) made me and Juan do one of us too. I think they all came out good and have had a few comments on them already between my myspace and facebook, and from those who saw them in person(I bought rights/CD w/ all pics taken on it)here are the shots.

Who knows

Well Mateo has been fine now after his little issue after the TTRS. Pablo went off yesterday afternoon to Maine with my parents to visit family on my moms side. Mateo was utterly pissed off at Mami and Papi when Pablo left, he was throwing toys left and right at us because it was TOO QUIET!! He just knew Pablo was gone. Mami, Papi and Mateo had planned to go into Boston area to visit Papi's brother and wife, but the ATM was being queer so we couldn't take the money out to go, so home we went and stayed all day. When Pablo and his grand parents got back Mateo was oh so happy and hugging his brorah. We went to the store to get some stuff for the house, tp, and trash bags, both Pablo and Mateo got away with a pair of slippers each and a toy each, the toys on Mammy's (my mom) dime. Pablo got some Dad and son fishing figures and camping gear(for the figures) and Mateo just got a baby key set. The slippers were cute though Pablos were army fatigue colors and Mateos had sports balls on them.

Mami has been doing ok in school she did however drop her Humman Bio class, due to baby sitter issues, but she will get them again in September, At the end of June NEXT YEAR 2010, I will be done with my certificate program but not done with school. I will continue afterwards, I will work, actaully find a job with my certificate but at night I will take either online or in class courses to go towards my Associates Degree in Business Management:Health Care Option and by doing that in September 2010 I will be 3/4 done with all the classes I have already taken by June 2010. So we'll see how everything goes. Its good so far so I am not worried.

Papi is almost done with his winter job, from Dec 5th to January 15th he was MAKING snow at the local Ski area, from the 15th until the end of this month he will be manning the ski lifts and then chopping the wood to stock up for next season. Then In April he will be back off to landscaping. That is when the summer begins on the homefront well atleast the grilling 7 days a week.

Tongue Tie Release Surgery UPDATE..Not to Good

Mateo went in to have his Tongue Tie Release Surgery this morning. We were supposed to be there at 630A but didn't get into MGH til 7AM.
All went well, he went in got checked in, waited in OR Induction Room, then into OR for the Surgery, he went to recovery and thats where it all started.
In Recovery his little cheeks were red, we assumed due to his slight congestion before surgery. Well we got released and returned home about 11 AM. At 4 pm We noticed that his WHOLE face was red not just his CHEEKS. So we watched hm for a little longer. When after a few minutes we noticed he was struggling to breath, and what not. Off Juan and I went with Mateo, to the Local ER, LGH.
When we got to LGH I told the receptionist that I thought he was having an allergic reaction to either the anesthesia or the tylenol w/ codeiene he had received when in Boston Earlier that morning for surgery.
Well He got a nice shot of non-oral benedryl, right into his leg. BY THIS TIME<>

Long time, No Blog

Sorry to those who do read my blog, I am so busy. I have been taking classes since September at the Local Community college and caring for both my boys. I am taking course to be a medical biller, but the advisors suggest I change over to Associates in Business Management: HealthCare Option, because of what my plans were in my endeavors. I was originally going to take most of the classes for a certificate in Medical Billing then when I only had aclass or 2 left I would move on to Certificate in Medical Coding, then again, when almost done with that I was going to do Medical Transcription, BUT they are getting rid of the Medical Transcription at my school so thats why they suggest I switch it over to ASSBUSHEALTHMNGMNT. So I have fully completed 4 courses. They are English Comp I (a must), Basic Business Acct'g, and Medical Language I, the 4th class was just to up my speech in Spanish. This semester I am enrolled in 3 more must do course for the certificate they are Medical Language II, Computer Apps(Microsoft Office 2007) and Human Biology and this summer I will be paying out of Pocket for the Human Bio Lab and If I am correct I will be working with pigs and dissection but hopefully don't actually have to Dissect it myself with a lab partner.

In other news, Mateo is going to have a MINOR surgery on February 20th. I told his/my Doctor when he (Mateo) was 6 month old that I thought he was tongue tied, and the Dr. said we could wait until he was alittle older to see if it splits on own, well I brought it up again at his 15 month appt. The Doctor aggreed that the skin beneath his tongue was too close to the tip. He said he didn't know if they did anything for it, but I knew better my Nephew Jr. had the same problem at 1 yr 2 month and had a tongue tie release surgery done, so I called my Brother in Law Gavino for the Doctors name and number. On tuesday Feb. 1oth we drove out to Boston to see the Pedi Surgeon, he agreed that the procedure needed to be done. So He is scheduled to go in and under on Friday February 20th. They say he will be knocked out for a maximum of 5 minutes so long as nothing goes wrong, which it shouldn't since the surgery IS SO MINOR. Then an hour later we will be on the way home. So That's what's going on with me and mine.