Busted

These children of mine can't seem to stay out of health trouble from one week to the next at the moment! Today, while playing outside at a friend's garage sale, Jack connected quite badly with the concrete driveway and acquired a nice fat lip as a result. It bled badly at first but once we got it cleared up, I could see it was split on the inside and split quite deeply up near the gum. However, we didn't think it needed stitches so went home to clean and ice it. Jacko seems fine and is quite content to drink from a straw for the foreseeable future!

In other news, Sophie is still having her episodes of rapid breathing, although her pneumonia is clearing up nicely. She had an EKG and ECHO last week and her heart and lungs look perfect, praise the Lord! Since one of the only other causes of rapid breathing is acidosis (there are many, varied and complicated causes for this) she has had blood and urine tests done this week. The blood tests came back negative for blood acidosis which is really good news. Her initial urine tests showed a UTI so she's on antibiotics to get rid of that nastiness. We are still waiting on further results of the urine analysis, which may take a few weeks. I feel like we've been on a roller coaster ride with her health ever since she was tiny and although the tests are turning up nothing, there's SOMETHING going on and it's frustrating trying to figure it out. She continues to be our sweet happy Joy Baby though and she brings so much delight to every day. So there you have it, that's what's been going on at our house. Happy weekend!