Difficult Days for Mom & Trista Update

These past few days have been so difficult for me as I've headed back to work. I really thought I could handle the emotions as they came, but sometimes I just sit at my desk and weep. Just wanting to be home with my kids. I am hoping this is just the "first week back blues" and each day will get better. Sometimes work just seems so insignificant when you've been through such a huge ordeal. Then I snap back into reality and remind myself of Trista's mounding medical costs and the importance of good insurance. I also remind myself that I have a great employer that is willing to work with me throughout all of this and a wonderful mother-in-law to care for Trista when I'm not there.

Only time will tell what will happen. For now, I just plaster pictures of them everywhere at my desk and count the minutes until I'm home with them at the end of the day! I will get through this - just takes some time.

Enough about weepy me - now onto Trista! We received some preliminary results back on her pH probe test. She had 60 reflux episodes in 23 hours and 11 of them came up into her upper esophogus. That's all we know - the GI doctor had a baby on Wednesday last week so we won't hear his interpretation of the results and course of treatment until he returns.

She had her first set of vaccinations last Friday. 5 total (4 in her thighs and 1 oral). All you mom's out there know how yucky this part is. She was just cooing away and smiling at me when they were getting her thighs ready for the needle, then OH MAN the needles went in and she lost it!

Here she is later that day all tuckered out from the day's events...

Tomorrow morning we go in to see Trista's cardiologist for her clinic appointment and EKG. I hope to post tomorrow night with details on how her heart is doing. We hope to also see ENT to re-check her ears.