We do have another computer in the house, but it's literally ancient. It was our first computer we ever bought, about 9 years ago. It's an emachine and it's still going strong. Well, not STRONG, but it's still going :) It's incredibly slow if you ask it to do anything, like load a website with tons of pictures, etc. and sometimes it just gets so overwhelmed it just freezes up. So, basically, I can check email on it and that's it.
Now I have my father's old computer, which isn't old. He bought it right before he bought my Gateway for me. One good thing about working for your father...he buys you great stuff like computers and laser printers for business :) YAY! So, now I have a computer again!! Also, I've been working like crazy lately. Last week, I had a stretch of working every night (at various places) for 11 days! No days off for 11 days is pretty hard while trying to take care of a family. I thank the twins for it, because without them I wouldn't have anything to do with Hailey. I just can't thank them enough. It's been really hard on all of us. We've had a few meltdowns/breakdowns on my end and the kids end. It's quite an adjustment for the family to go from having a mom who is ALWAYS home, and who is always around to drive you wherever you want/need to go to a mom who is never home and now you have to find your own rides to places or can't do things because you don't have a ride. I missed spagetti dinner at Hailey's school...she was heartbroken! I also missed the last day of t-ball and the little awards ceremony for her...that was hard for me. I know many, many kids have parents who work and they make it through life just fine, but I still feel like somehow I'm failing my kids when I'm not around for those things. And it's not like Isaiah can even go in my place either...he works 10-12 hours a day too. That was a rough week, and it's a little better now. It will be a lot better in the summer when the kids are home during the day when I'm home too. There was a stretch of days last week when I didn't see Isaiah at ALL from Monday night until Thursday night. We were like two passing ships in the night! I saw the twins a lot, since they get up early and are home from school early. I would see them for about an hour before I had to go to work in the afternoon. With Hailey though, I only saw her for about 45 minutes in the morning, to get her ready for school, and then I never saw her after school or at night. It was very hard on her (and me). Anyway, it's over, and I'm glad. To top it all off...it was never busy at work so I didn't really make any money :(
We had Hailey's consultation at the endocronologist the other day too. We were getting the results back from all her bloodwork she had done. Isaiah took the day off to come (we didn't really know what kind of news they were going to give us, so we felt it was important for both of us to be there). Thankfully, everything came back perfectly perfect!!! She didn't have any elevated levels of anything...which is a great sign. Her bone age scan came back as normal too, even a little young. They came back as her being 6 1/2 yrs old...which is good. Basically this tells us that whatever is going on is not something sudden (which could mean terrible things like tumors) and is not something that need immediate attention. Nothing is ruled out, because we really just don't know how fast things are moving. We caught it so early that it's hard to say how fast things will go. So, what we are going to do, is go back again in 4 months and do another bone age x-ray, no bloodwork :). With that we can tell how fast things are going. Amazing what our bones tell us about ourselves! If it comes back within normal again (anything under 7 1/2 yrs old) then we don't go back again for another 4 months to get another bone age x-ray done. If all goes well, we will just go back every 4 month to get the x-ray to make sure it's not moving fast. If it comes back not normal, then we discuss the next step, which is an i.v. test and lasts 12 hours. So, for now, all is perfect! We will continue to see our endocronologist until Hailey is within the normal puberty age of 10-11 yrs old no matter what happens though (that's a lot of driving down to Manchester every four months!). If she ends up needing treatment though, it's monthly shots :(
Thank you everyone, for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers!
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