My first born, Joey and a day in his life!: July 2007

Saturday, July 14, 2007

We're on the News!!!

Today Jim had reserves but it was unlike his typical drill weekend. We, Jim the kids and I, were to be at the War Memorial in downtown Milwaukee for a welcome, an official welcome home. Jim's been home from Iraq for 3+yrs now but never has the battalion said "Thank You" to him, his fellow troops or the families until today!
It was a nice little ceremony with a LOT of soldiers to thank and recognize for their time spent in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and other parts of the world in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
I sat in the right spot for once and had the local news standing right in front of me! Because my babies are so dang adorable they caught the attention of the reporter and her camera-woman and lots of camera time was spent on the boys. After all the awards were presented and the ceremony was over the reporter asked if she could interview us, I said yes, I was so psyched!! I've never been on TV or anything like that before. So we interviewed and here is the link to the video that was broadcast! All four of us were on and mentioned by name. I'm really excited that they spelled my name right, helps that they recorded ME spelling it for them I guess!! LOL So here's the link, I don't know how long it will be good for. I have a copy on DVD from my DVD recorder but I can't get it to work on my computer for some reason. I wrote to the TV station and asked if they would get me a copy so we'll see what they say.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/video/13683361/index.html

Enjoy!!

Monday, July 09, 2007

Our first 911 call and ambulance ride

Yesterday morning (Sunday) daddy got up with the kids and let me sleep in. Oh how I love that! He made us breakfast and I have to say he's a pretty good breakfast cook. So I got up and we were eating breakfast together. I got out a gallon of milk for me, that I'd not opened yet and put it on the table. I turned around to put other things away and get me a cup. I turned back to the table and there is Joey with the gallon of milk in his hand going head first off his booster-chair onto the floor. I can't really describe how he fell as it happened so fast but...instinctively I picked him up and took him into the living room. He was crying pretty good and usually when he's hurt himself he shows the tears for a few seconds and stops. Then it hit me, his neck, I saw his head go all the way back, it's like he landed on his forehead and the weight of his body forced his neck back then his body went forward so he kinda landed on his tummy. So I held him really close to my body and carefully moved from the couch to the floor and as carefully as I could, while stabilizing his neck, laid him down. Once I got him down and held him tight I told Jim to call 911 then call his mom and tell her to get over here immediately. (of course no one local was around so my mom had to drive down from 45mins away! Thank God for her!!)

The ambulance got here in just a few minutes as we live only 3 miles from the firestation. They put him on the c-spine board and had him all strapped down. Man did he hate that! He could only move his hands and wrists and feet and lower legs. He held on tightly to his Thomas the Tank Engine while he screamed for mommy and daddy.

I went with him in the ambulance and luckly they took him quietly so no sirens to scare him. Not even half way to the hospital he quieted down which was such a relief, I was holding up well but ready to break down at any moment with horrible thoughts of paralysis and such. Joey started saying "all done." It was heart-breakingly adorable! I was so all-done too.

They did a couple x-rays and he did pretty well with those. Not like he had much choice being all strapped up right? A bit later the doctor came in and said everything looked fine and he just wanted to take off the c/s board and look at his back and head. He gave Joey a good once over and he was deemed healthy and fit!

Thank you God for catching my baby and cushioning him during his fall and keeping him safe!

He was his normal self the rest of the day. We did our best to keep him quiet and not play too hard but that's not easy to do with a 2yr old. One thing he was really missing was his "5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" which we always do before naps and night time. But he didn't squawk too badly about it. Went down for his nap and at bedtime very easily and now I am to wake him every two hours (he's going to hate that!) to make sure he arouses ok and there's no head injury. I'm confident there isn't a head injury but I'll do it anyway for my big boy (baby) :)

Joey did great during the night. I went in there a few times and he aroused as usual, before I even got in the door! He's always been a light sleeper, you can't sneak in on him very often. He didn't like to be woken up but he did just fine and went right back to sleep again.