Author: MRJ

Tonight after the kids went to bed Melissa asked me to make popcorn.  I thought about it for a little while, then pulled out our little air popper. Its a smaller popper and not very good, but it does the job.

One perk of my job is that I can work from home one day a week. I helps our child car and allows me to send time with the kids.  During the day today it seemed like such a nice day that I bundled the kids up and headed out for a short trip to some of the local parks.  Jacob really enjoyed running around outside. It will be nice when the weather is warmer and it’s not such a production to get the kids ready. 

Continue reading “Project 365-62: Climbing in the cold”

Tonight after the kids went to sleep I was vegging in front of the TV, watching Death Race. I enjoy watching things blow up when I don’t really want to think. It was a nice relaxing do nothing evening. Of course there are a ton of things that I should’ve been doing, but I just didn’t seem to have the drive to do them. Then while I was thinking about what I would use for my picture today I saw the Oxygen mask, that the firemen left last week when they were here for Jacob’s Asthma attack. It was just sitting there on a shelf. I’m not sure why we’ve kept it. But there it was. A reminder of that night. One of my toughest nights as a parent. So I spread it out on the table and snapped a picture.

I’ve been wanting to write about that night ever since it happened. I started to the night I spent at the hospital with Jacob. First with the few paragraphs I scribbled out that Melissa posted for me, Followed by a few more thoughts that I tried to scribble but were never clear enough to even type up. Looking at the mask tonight though it brought back some of the thoughts and feelings I had that night. Sitting in the Ambulance riding to the hospital. Jacob was screaming. He didn’t want to go to the hospital. The seatbelt on the stretch bothered him and he spent most of the riding crying, All I could do is it next to him and try to comfort him. It was a hard ride, the hardest part was feeling helpless. It’s a feeling that I felt the second time Jacob went to the NICU when he was just a couple of days old, and not one I wanted to relive. But there I was riding in the back of an ambulance feeling it again. It didn’t really leave the entire time he was in the hospital.  Once we knew the treatment was working it was easier, but it took so long. Today Jacob seems almost 100%, he’s still on his puffers, but we’ve had no more real incidents and he seems to have his usual energy levels back. Here’s hoping that we can catch any future incidents before they need a stay in the hospital.

After a morning meeting at a clients downtown I found myself at the Wheat Sheaf Tavern for lunch, and when at the Wheat Sheaf there is really only one thing I can order. The Texas Hoagie.

Tonight I once again take a look at myself.  Today I tried setting the camera up and using a timer. I’m thinking next month I might try something more artistic… Though I’m not sure what that’ll be.

Today was a nice lazy day around the house. To pass the time Jacob asked if he could do puzzles. He did 5 or 6 different puzzles. He’s like puzzles for a long time, but lately he hasn’t been doing them. It was great to see that he could still put them together without help.

Continue reading “Project 365-058: Putting the Pieces together”

After a long week, tonight was family night. We shared a pizza and wings dinner with Nan, before Jacob and I disappeared upstairs to ‘Do Something Different with the Train set.’. It was a nice relaxing evening, it was Jacob’s choice to play with his train set. It was nice to have a night that was just the 2 of use playing in his room. It’s these moments that I really enjoy as a dad. Perhaps tomorrow will be the day to turn our freezer box into a fort.

Today at work I snapped a picture of my coffee mug. It’ just seemed that after all the drama of the last week it would be nice to just relax with a cup of coffee and what better cup to use then my work cup. The picture is from Jacobs first Christmas. Lynn and Dan gave me the mug as a Christmas gift and I treasure it. I’ve been thinking of finding or taking one of both of the kids and getting a new mug, but till I do I see Jacob’s smiling face every morning when I enjoy a much-needed cup of coffee at work.

Today we have a bit of a departure from my usual 365 posts. Here are my photos for the last three days. I spent the last couple of days at the hospital with our oldest child as he was treated for an asthma attack. Due to being between working cell phones, for much of the last few days I was unable to connect to the internet.  So here they are each with their own write-up.

Taken our first night in the ER. It was the first of many treatments to get his Asthma under control. Around 11:30 we were told that they wanted to admit him. It wasn’t until 6pm the next day that we got into a room.

Our second night at the hospital, we’d finally got a room and the asthma was mostly under control. We were there primarily for monitoring. I tried to get a picture of the room, but I was using a cellphone camera and it didn’t turn out.

I took today’s picture when I returned to the hospital to take back the incorrect discharge and prescription that I was given when we left earlier in the afternoon. I took the picture of the ambulance in memory of how we got to the hospital the first night.

Last night was a long night and unfortunately it didn’t end when the sun came up.  I would love to go into all the details today but circumstances are preventing that from happening,  for now here are view of the highlights.

Jacob was taken to the hospital because of an asthma attack and unlike earlier hospital trips, this tim the treatments did not do anything more than offer temporary help with his breathing.  So after hours in the ER the doctor wanted to admit him for treatment and observation. So, last night I left Jacob at the hospital with mommy and took violet home for the night.  In the morning I left Violet with my mom and headed to the hospital to relieve Melissa.  After a day of treatments, and waiting in the ER for a bed to become available we finally got a room in the pediatric ward.

So, now I sit in his room spending time with Violet, Melissa, and Lynn hand writing out tonight’s post because we disabled the data plans on our malfunctioning cell phones last week.  I have taken my project 365 photos and with a bit of luck, I’ll be able to get home tomorrow night with Jacob to post them and hopefully do a better update about our experience over the last few days.