do you take your medicine????

So Lee's rash/reaction, I'm glad to report has pretty much gone away...until yesterday, when he decided to not take the pills and lie to me about it. And what happened???? Low and behold, he started getting splotchy (is that a word?) and red, this morning he woke up with a runny nose and a little bit itchy. We've been through this a thousand times with Lee and I think, that maybe, just maybe, perhaps, there is an off chance that he has finally learned that he must take his meds as prescribed, in order to keep his body in check.....He had his dose last night and this morning so my hope is that he will return home, itch free. Yikes! kids......need I say more....lol





The other big news here is that Lee's prayers have finally been answered

we have finally got our long awaited first snowfall. These pics are the view from our back door and our front door.(oops same pic twice, sorry) Lee is in hog heaven to put it mildly. We had to go see the ski hill the other day just to check and make sure, he wasn't missing out on any snowboarding....I can't be trusted with that kind of info....lol. So Lee is ready to hit the slopes the very "second" that they open up! We'll keep you posted on that one.

Bret will be home on Friday, which is nice since the U.S. Thanksgiving is on next Thursday. We're going over to one of my co-worker's house to celebrate, with a big pot luck dinner. I'm sad I missed the Canadian holiday with my family, but we should have fun next week. The bonus is that Bret will be home for Christmas too. Lee's going to his mom and Bruce's for Christmas but will be home around New Years and will be able to get some snowboarding in before school starts. Bret and I are just going to spend a quiet week here in Anchorage. We had hopes of going to Canada, but it's just to expensive around the holidays...so maybe we'll go to Denali or Mt. Mckinley for a couple of days...take the train through the mountains...it's supposed to be a wonderful trip.

Not much else new on this front though....oooooh wait I almost forgot....Lee's class is selling chocolate bars, in order to raise money to go to space camp in March or April....the cost is 1 dollar per bar. If anyone would like some email me at hobbz4@yahoo.com and we'll pay Lee and you can send us the money and we'll send you some chocolate. He has 100 bars to sell so don't be shy :)

take care

bret, jan and lee

The Itchy and Scratchy Show (no...not the Simpsons)

So poor Lee has developed hives, from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. He woke up on Halloween morning with hives everywhere, we kept him home from school and he and Bret went to the doctor. No problem, just an allergic reaction, take benadryl for the next couple of days and he'll be fine. By the time I got home around 3pm the hives were gone. We continued to give him benadryl through the night, but low and behold he woke up on Thursday covered head to toe again! We washed everything in his room....no for those of you who are asking, we haven't introduced anything new, and no he didn't eat anything new. All through Thursday and overnight the meds were keeping his itching to a minimum so off to school we sent him, much to his horror. Bret dropped off some more medicine at 11:30 and by 1pm the school had called me and said that his hives were back with a vengence and the poor kid was going nuts with the itching. Bret by this time has left for the slope.
So I pick Lee up and make the earlist doctor's appt available, which is not until 5pm. We try an oatmeal bath....no good. We try yet another baking soda bath....does not work. We show up at the doctors at 4:30 and luckily they could get us in. By this time poor Lee is just about in tears, and is constantly checking various parts of his body to see if the hives have changed, moved, gotten bigger, or smaller. The doctor thinks that he has some sort of virus that isn't making him sick, but that his body is waging war against. The kicker is that we have no way of knowing how long this will go on, "possibly several months" was what the doctor said. So Lee got 3 prescriptions, a steroid, an antihistamine, and some thing else. Within 2 hours of taking them the hives are gone. All goes well Friday night and saturday. But suddenly Saturday night at about 12am the hives are back yet again. With not many options to help the poor kid I gave him his meds 4 hours early and that seemed to do the trick. We're now taking meds every 12 hours, but the hives start to reappear after about 10 hours, not horrible though. Today (Monday) so far as of 2:30 I haven't heard from the school so I assume he's doing good, I'm sure he has a ton of work that he missed over the last 3 days....but hopefully we have the hives under control......ack......we'll keep you posted!


jan