a year ago today…

knucchi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:10:17 +0000

J-bo was admitted to Childrens Hospital. For what? Would we ever know?

She couldn’t walk. Her eye(s) were nearly swollen shut. She was not herself.

Weeks prior, she was admitted to St. Johns, only for two days, for the eyes, the bloodwork. They never figured it out though. The eyes came and went. We had to cancel her birthday party because we had no idea if she was contagious or not. She looked like shit that morning, but as the day went on, the eye started to clear up.

her third birthday - no, she's not stoned...

: J-bo later in the day

did I mention I was 8.5 months pregnant at the time?

The day before her admission to Children’s hospital, J-bo was not herself. she would not walk, and claimed that any weight put on her left leg hurt. Her eye was swollen again, and she was crying a lot. When we woke up (a year ago today) I called her pediatrician and we got in asap. It seems like we were there forever, but eventually they decided that Children’s Hospital was the way to go. At this point, we had been to the doctors maybe 8 times in the previous month, presenting with SO MANY differnet symptoms and no one had a clue. The doctor was afraid that we were missing something, that maybe she had something more serious.

For the next several days, J-bo would undergo x-rays, have her blood drawn far too often, see specialist after specialist. She saw ortho, she saw infectious disease. She saw hematology and oncology…

I would stay with her the whole time, even in my largeness, sleeping on the window seat next to my daughter. My husband would lose his job over this, even if only for a month or two…(stupid cock sucker of a boss…)

Our world would turn upside down. Our fate unknown…

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