What a week!

So, it's been a crazy week. Eve is doing well. A little better each day. That first night of sleep was just a tease. She spent the next several nights waking up about at least every hour and crying for us. As soon as we came in she would stop and as soon as we tried to leave she would start again. Now, the problem with that (other than the obvious) is that all that crying increased leakage around the tube site. Yuck. Well, Tuesday night she actually slept for a 4 hour stretch. Wednesday night it was 6 hours. And......last night is was all night!!!!! She only cried when we first put her to bed, and I had to go in once (right after I put her down). Consequently, her tube site was pretty clean this morning (no crusties to speak of). So, I am guessing that she is getting used to sleeping on her back now. She is using a pillow, and we have another pillow wedged next to her. We keep telling her she is a big kid in a big kid bed just like her cousin Alex (whom she idolizes).

Imagine the lack of sleep we have (all) had and then let's add this to the mix: I got a nasty cold. The usual - coughing, bloody boogs, stuffy. Fine. I can deal with that. Tuesday I planned to spend all day at work catching up from last week since I didn't have to teach. That morning we get Eve on the bus and Jim is complaining of a sore neck. He sits down to eat a bagel and starts screaming in pain. His neck seized on him. He could literally not move. He said it felt like his muscles were ripping (or he was being stabbed in the neck) and that he had never in his life felt pain as bad as that. He basically sat in the chair for 2 hours (while I had to go to Athens for a dentist appt) and I had to help him try to adjust himself in the chair when I got home. There went that day of work for me. We were able to get him to the Dr. and she gave him 2 shots and some Rx for pain, a muscle relaxer and a steroid. He stayed home again on Wednesday, but was much better. Back to work yesterday and today. Crazy life, right? I'm hoping we had a really boring week pretty soon!!
I'll post pictures soon from Grammie and Papa's visit.