We are Still Alive.....BARELY

It rained all for days last week, which we never see in Las Vegas. Justin and I were so excited for some weather that reminded us of home. That is until the rain cloud stopped directly over the Patrick family and started pouring!

It all started on Monday, it was just one of those terrible, no good, very bad days for me. By the time Justin got home from work I was just done! Unfortunately I had to go to the store to pick up some milk and other things....that's when I noticed my car key was missing. Now you must know this is a fancy car key we are talking about. A couple of years ago my purse got stolen and one of the car keys was in it. When we went to order a replacement key we found out the price was only $400.....yeah, we decided we would just stick with one key. Well as luck would have it, literally weeks before we want to get a new car, I loose the dang key. Tore my house apart, organized every nook and cranny.....no key, no extra $400 to get a new key.....AWESOME!

So I took Justin to work on Tuesday so that I could get some errands done by using his truck. That night as I leave to pick him up it was POURING outside, and dark, and I'm driving a huge truck that I am not really used to driving so I was being extra cautious and careful.....apparently not and I got into an accident, on a left yielding turn. I don't really know what happened besides I totally didn't see the car and next thing I know, CRASH....the kids are screaming, I start freaking out. Everyone was ok, we were lucky! Turns out the work truck does not have the current insurance card in the glove box so I get a ticket for $899, and a nice court date where I will have to prove the insurance, yada yada yada......AWESOME!

Wednesday morning I notice that Coleman has not touched his bottle. Have you seen this kid? This is not a normal thing. He is coughing, running a bit of a fever, runny nose, looking HORRIBLE....so I decided to take him to the doctor and of course, nothing is wrong, nothing they can do for him. Well come Thursday, he is still not drinking anything and will only eat mandarin oranges. When he woke up from a 3 hour afternoon nap all he wanted was to be held and then he would continue sleeping, plus no wet diapers all day. So my friend who is a nurse tells me that I better make it my mission to have this boy pee tonight or I will end up in the ER. Justin and I took turns holding him and forcing water down his throat with a medicine dropper.....for 6 hours, until he FINALLY peed.

So Friday morning I took Coleman in to the doctors again, this time he sent us to the ER to get him an IV and to hydrate him. Here he is all dressed in his hospital gown and playing...the calm right before the storm.
He then got the IV and a chest X-ray. By this point he was miserable and just laying there. We were told pneumonia, and then he was given some antibiotics.

After monitoring him some more, his oxygen levels were falling when he would sleep. When that started happening the ER doctor decided to admit him overnight.

Not something a mom wants to hear...and now I am starting to worry.

Once we got up to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit things just seemed to get worse, he spiked a fever of 103.7 and his oxygen starting falling while he was awake. By this time he needed some oxygen tubes down his nose. We were also starting a process of breathing treatments. In the mean time they were trying to get a mucus sample, but they kept getting rejected by the labs because there was blood in it. That night we learned he had 2 ear infections as well. Our poor little man!
Both grandmas were so supportive and also freaking out as well. Justin's mom was able to fly out to help us with the boys which was so nice.

So we spent the weekend in the hospital, from Friday until Sunday night. It was long, and I was exhausted. The ending result being that Coleman had Bronchiolitis, which they think was caused by the RSV virus.




He was soooo happy to come home, and so was I. It was so cute, he just started wrestling with his brothers as soon as we walked in the door.

Through it all we did receive some TENDER MERCIES, which I must note.....

1. My house is really clean and organized from looking for that key.
2. The truck is totally fine to drive after Justin took off the bumper so we are not completely car-less.
3. Mike Roe was literally minutes behind me after the accident so we stopped and took the kids so they were not in the middle of the road in the pouring rain.
4. The nice hot bath I was able to come home to that night.
5. Hospitals, medicine, technology
6. My sweet mom for waking up really early to talk to me while i was in the hospital, and everyone one else was still asleep.
7. Justin's mom for dropping everything to be here to help us.
8. My iphone, pretty sure I would have died of boredom if not for that thing.
9. Insurance, Coleman is the only one of my boys that has medical insurance right now......phew!
10. Pray, Heavenly Father is there, I can feel it. With everything that we have been experiencing I have somehow been able to keep pretty calm, and ok with it.
11. Wonderful friends who I would die without
12. Diet Pepsi.....big huge ones!!
13. Tax Returns, I just finished my taxes and Hallelujah we are getting a return!