Mr. Mischievous!
December 17, 2007 | Updates
I’m writing this because I should be going to bed, but I don’t want to get up. Somehow, I sprained my right ankle yesterday (I think). It’s the strangest thing because I have no idea how I did it. I just know that last night as I was making dinner, my ankle started to hurt. I shrugged it off as a side effect from wearing my heals all day when I normally don’t ever do that. But by bedtime, it was killing me and even with a bunch of advil, it bothered me through the night. Today, I could walk on it, but it hurt enough that I was limping and when I sit for any length of time, it tightens up and hurts much worse. And when I try to flex my feet, I can’t flex that one nearly as far as the other one - even if I ignore the pain and try my hardest. REALLY STRANGE! On top of that, I tried to wear earrings for a day (which I normally don’t do) and my right ear got really infected and swelled up twice as large as the other one. NOT a pretty sight! Good think I have long hair. Then tonight, I’m not feeling very well, sort of aching all over and I’m REALLY light-headed. I don’t know what’s going on.
Samuel has been sleeping a lot the past 2 days also. He slept through nearly all of church on Sunday and then took a nap in the afternoon. Today, he took a 3 hour nap and we had to finally wake him up so he would sleep tonight. I’m afraid he might be coming down with something because he was pretty lethargic all day. (Well, except for when he got tired of eating applesauce and knocked the bowl out of Kaylee’s hands and clear across the room. Stinker!) I hope he’s not getting something yucky.
I also got bad news yesterday. Apparently, the WONDERFUL doctor who helped set-up the hyperbaric clinic we have gone to for the 130 treatments Samuel has done is not going to be there much longer. I don’t know the logistics of it at all, but now the clinic is saying that they aren’t really interested in treating brain injured patients any longer and we may not be able to come back for additional treatments. I can’t tell you what I went through to find a place that would even consider treating Samuel. I don’t know what we’ll do if they stop. And I am EXTREMELY saddened to see the doctor there go. He has been nothing but incredible and he deserves so much of the credit for the extreme changes we have seen in Samuel through hyperbarics. To say I am sad, concerned, irritated and frustrated by this would be an understatement. I just hope they don’t go through with it. There are so many children out there seeing positive changes due to hyperbarics. It would be an absolute shame for this clinic to decide to refuse to treat them. An absolute shame.
I’ll leave you on a good note. Samuel did the cutest thing yesterday. Nathan had been up in Samuel’s room watching TV with him, I thought. But when I came upstairs, I discovered that Nathan had taken down all of Samuel’s DVD’s and emptied the DVD’s out of the cases. We’re talking over 50 cases. Needless to say, it was a mess and I was NOT happy. So, I put Nathan in time out and then I went back in the room to clean up the mess. I put Samuel on the floor next to me and started talking to him. I said, “Samuel, did you see this mess? Did you know Nathan was doing this? I bet you were up here trying to call me and saying, “Mom! Mom! Nathan is making a huge mess!” Weren’t you?” I kept cleaning up the DVD’s and then I said, “Wait a minute! Maybe you made this mess!” And I turned to Samuel and said, “Samuel, did YOU make this mess?” And guess what he did? He laughed out loud! And everytime I would repeat it, he would laugh again. It was SO CUTE! It is not too often that I get a laugh out of Samuel and I think he just loved the idea of being mischeivous. I like that idea, too.
Anyway, we hope you’re having a great holiday season. Please continue to pray for our little guy.
Love,
The Jewkes
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December 19th, 2007 at 1:35 am, Sue Searles Says:
What a blessing to hear laughter, it must fill your heart with joy. I will be praying right now that Samuel does not get sick. Also for your ankle, I can relate to ankle pain I feel down our front steps last month and sprained my ankle pretty bad.
Have a Merry Christmas,
Sue
December 19th, 2007 at 5:02 am, Liz and Ashleigh Says:
That is great that he loved you thinking it was him. How cute.