August can do down as my LEAST favorite month...EVER!!!

Well August is off to an absolutely horrible beginning and will end even worse...with me losing ALL of my best little men to the place I hate most...school!!! (I find it hard to believe I was a teacher with the absolute hatred I now have for school)

Let me back up and explain why this month goes down for the record books...if you keep up with my blog you know that we all got sick in Disney World, starting July 29th. Well today is now August 16th and is the FIRST day we have not had a sick person since that day!!! And I'm not talking colds and simple stuff...in true O'Brien fashion, we have of course had to have the extreme everything!!! Let's recap...since July 29th we have had: 5 people puke, 4 people have diarrhea, 2 people with fevers of 105 or higher for multiple days, 2 people have fevers of 102-103 for multiple days, 1 tonsillectomy and adenoid removal (more on that in a minute!), 4 Doctors visits, 1 Urgent Care visit, 1 ER visit, 3 sinus infections (one of which resulted in getting to the eye socket and caused severe facial/eye swelling and temporary vision loss), 1 strained muscle in chest behind lung, four people on antibiotics, 2 people on steroids and 1 chest CT (which managed to result in allergic reaction to the injected dye)!!! AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I AM DOWNPLAYING THE SEVERITY OF ALL OF THIS!!! To say we need a vacation from our vacation is an understatement!!! The good news is...as of this morning, I am happy to report that all five members of this SARS-like household are just about back to normal so we can now just torch the place and start fresh;)...just in time for us to start school and catch all new germs attack us all over again!!! Back to the T&A, poor Brian has suffered from acute strep throat for the past year. He is on probation with the school this year (I'm sure Craig will be selling tickets for the showdown that will happen the day they try and tell me that they need to retain my functioning way above grade level child for absences!!!) for having so many absences. The poor guy regularly gets fevers topping 105-106 that cause migraines so it was time for the tonsils to go;) His surgery ended up being much more detailed than we all initially thought it would be as when they got in there, they found a 1/2 inch film of at least 6 month old puss coating the backside of his tonsils (basically means he has not been without strep since at least last Christmas!) As a result, they ended up having to scrape and cauterize 22 blood vessels, making the surgery much more painful than originally planned:( I love my guy more than I could ever explain, but anyone who knows Brian was prepared for this be a very dramatic recovery:)

Holy cow...did he prove all of us WRONG!!! To quote my son "I think they took my dramatic with my tonsils!" Brian should be the poster child for what a dream recovery looks like!!! We kept him stoned (tylenol with codeine every four hours, without fail for the first four days) which allowed for him to heal pain free and was taking plain old tylenol just seven days post-op. The child who once let us know where every last ache and pain was the minute he woke up did not complain even one time this entire recovery!!! He started eating solid foods on day three and has not had an ounce of medicine in over 48 hours:) I am so elated that my little man can start this school year without fearing that every time someone sneezes he'll come home with a fever:) To say that we are beyond proud of how awesome he did is an understatement!

We are going to celebrate this final week of summer doing LOTS of fun things and trying to keep Mommy from being sad at the prospect of her Little Moose starting Kindergarten next Tuesday. I absolutely HATE the thought of losing both him and Brian for 35 hours each week and just want to stop time with my guys staying just the size they are...the perfect size to still snuggle with Mom & Dad and young enough to not be embarrassed still giving Mom & Dad kisses and hugs:)