Bad Things Come in Threes

...or at least that's what my parents say.  After this last week, I hope they are right!  No more!

#1 Sunshine began having headaches about 3 weeks ago (when he started piano... connection????).  They don't last long, or hurt horribly bad, but it was still very strange.  After getting several, I finally took him to the pediatrician.  I figured he would tell me to start a headache journal (which he did) and send me home, but he actually was quite concerned and ordered an MRI for the next day.

They sedated him, which was good.  For goodness sake, that machine is LOUD! 

Here he is ready to go in.  It was actually pretty freaky because he slept with his eyes open!  Thunder and I were cracking jokes and trying to hold his eyelids closed.  Yes, we are the most reverent parents.

After he woke up, he ate a popsicle in his sleep, no joke.  Later he told us he wasn't sleeping, the light was just too darn bright.  The results in the MRI showed no emergency situations, but there were a few abnormalities on the left side of his brain.  We took him to an eye doc that afternoon to check for brain swelling (which would push on the back of his retina or optic nerve) and everything looks fine.  As of now, we are on a waiting list to see a pediatric neurologist.  And he's had a few more headaches.

#2  Last Saturday, the kids jumped in our bed early in the morning.  I ran downstairs to put some cinnamon rolls in the oven, when I heard some yelling upstairs.  I came up to see Thunder cradling his right eye.  Tornado had gouged it with his fingernail and he was in sooooooo much pain.  I had never seen him like that before.  By lunch time, it was clear that Thunder needed to see an eye doctor.  Unfortunately it was Saturday.  However, after I called 10 doctors, one graciously agreed to see us after hours. She put an unwilling Thunder in her chair, numbed him up, and he finally opened his eye enough for her to see that Tornado had scratched off 20% of his cornea!  She said that raw nerves were exposed to the air, which was why he was in so much pain.  

He was given a protective eye contact to wear, and had to miss a prized BYU- Uof U basketball game that night.  And early church meetings the next day were held in the dark (or so I was told).  He looked very celebrity-ish wearing his sunglasses around the house.  But now he is almost back to normal.  We are hoping that it won't repeel.

#3  Tuesday morning I decided to run.  I had the three boys with me.  I did my run on the treadmill and was sitting next to it stretching when Sunrise and Tornado began to play on it.  I had told them before to get off... but I wasn't diligent enough this time.  Sunrise managed to turn it on to number 4 and Tornado fell down.  He was pinned between the wall and the back of the treadmill.  In the short time it took me to jump up and turn it off, Tornado had received substantial burns to his feet, ankle and hand.  We rushed to the pediatrician where they dressed his wounds and informed me that he had sustained 2nd degree burns.  Then the doctor made a joke that CPS may be visiting me.  Thanks!  I REALLY need that!!!

I have to change his dressings once a day.  We use special burn ointment that he loves, and we call it "frosting" because it tastes so good.  Just kidding... it just looks like frosting. I promise I'm not letting him taste the burn ointment, even though he probably wants to.  He's definitely not letting a few bandages slow him down at all.

So that's our THREE.  Can we stay away from doctors for a while please?