Ear Infection

I suppose you're all assuming it's Jordon who has the ear infection, but nope it's actually Darlene. This week i've noticed my ear has been hurting and i noticed some nasty stuff after i cleaned my ears from the shower and my ear was a little sore for some reason. After the second day of it, i knew that wasn't normal, so i scheduled my appointment for the dr. The Dr said that it was very inflamed in my ear and there was a little red bump. So she said that she was going to treat it as an ear infection and prescribed me some medicine for a week and if it doesn't clear up by my followup appointment it might be a cyst that i'll have to go to an ear, nose, throat doctor specialist. Just my luck I know, i haven't had an ear infection since i was a kid. The sad thing is that the only available medicine for it(i have ear drops and an antibiotic) isn't nursing friendly. at all! My obgyn, the pediatrician, and the pharmacist say absolutely no nursing with this prescription for 2 weeks! Yesterday was Jordon's and I first adventure with straight bottle feedings and it was rough, mostly for me i think, Jordon is now kindof liking the stuff which i'm scared about. So for 2 weeks i'm pumping at every feeding so that i can be relieved and to keep up my milk supply. I'm hoping Jordon will come back to me for the feedings after 2 weeks otherwise I guess that's it for nursing. A whole lot earlier than i planned, i was hoping for 8 months of nursing, but we'll see. He's such a good eater i think he'll be fine, but it's already a bit heartbreaking for me. But i'm giving lots of hugs and kisses and playtime with mommy to make up for it, he's a trooper. We had a little talk a day before i started the medicine, maybe he understood! The medicine is awfully powerful, i take 2 pills a day, it makes me quite drowsy, but at the same time it's hard for me to go to sleep. But it's just for a week, so i should be ok. They said to pump for 2 in order to get the antibiotic out of my system. I wouldn't want Jordon to even get a little taste of this medicine, imagine what it would do to him.

Other than that, Chris and I have been doing good. We closed out our wamu bank account almost, since wamu has been sold to Chase. It was sad to let go of the account since they've treated us very well. Chris works in the building of Comerica Bank in Dallas, so we moved our account over there and it seems to be working out really good now. There are a lot more benefits for us since Chris is employed in that building.

We've also been trying to clean up the outside of the house of the parents stuff. We were able to move the basketball hoop to a place where i can get more access to it to shoot hoops and then we're planning to get rid of the old rusty weight machine, with dad's permission of course. So that'll clear up the space back there. Slowly but surely things are getting into order here. With Chris's crazy work schedule and scheduling in Jordon time and getting other things done around the house, i'm the one now who actually keeps up with the lawn mowing job. I don't do the edging cause for one our edger is a little difficult these days, it was probably too cheap of one, and i'm not that good at doing it. One of these days i'll do it but for now i'll just stick to mowing the lawn. We're still planning to plant flowers just have to figure out when we're going to do it. Saturday might be a good day to do it, need to do it before the weather gets too cool.

My family is doing good, mom is doing good from her broken arm injury a few months ago, she's been going to rehab and doing well. She's back at her job a few days a week working a few hours at a time. She's still hoping to come see us here in Texas to meet Jordon for the first time, but i'm not sure if she's at the stage of being able to lift up a suitcase. She has until next march to use her ticket, so we keep hoping soon she'll be coming. Jacey and Ellisa are doing good too, Ella is almost 18 months old and will be going to nursery soon, sometime in October. She is very talkative on the phone, and loves to say hi, kitty, and nana(banana). Erin and Matt and their kids are doing good too. Brinton is over a year old and soon to take his first step. Anya is doing good and enjoying school and playing with her brother, rin tin tin as they call him. We're trying to plan a Gallis reunion in Montana in June next year to get all of us together, and all the cousins can play now that Jordon is getting to the sociable age. In June he'll be as wild and crazy as them and probably walking(scary thought).

Jordon is doing well, eating his rice and oatmeal. He's been experimenting with sweet potatoes and bananas. He's actually started to like his sweet potatoes plain a bit. i had to mix a smidgen in with his cereal at first so he could get used to the taste. He loves to sit up and play along with lying on his back and kicking around. He does ok on his belly but after a couple of minutes he wants to do something else. But that's about it for us. Just wanted to update everyone. Until then, take care!