Trips, Tranformers, and Flintstones
Category: Life
Over the past month, things have been quite busy around here. Rebecca and
the kids went on a day trip to the African Lion Safari (I missed out, as the
so-called fast track from work had yet to materialize). It was a hot day, but
the park has air-conditioned buses, so they had a cool visit. The kids even
went for an elephant ride, which they greatly enjoyed. We are still hoping to
get down to the zoo in Toronto, but that will have to wait until at least next
week, when I'm finally off work.
Speaking of the heat, Darrel has been making the most of his ever
expanding arsenal of water guns. His favourite target is my father, who has
almost as fun being blasted by him as Darrel does doing it! Darrel got me
pretty good the other night, as he was waiting in the darkness with his
super-soaker when I got back from the store. I never heard or seen it coming,
but the gleeful sounds easily gave away who my attacker was. I would have
loved to have returned his water assault, but the central line factor rules
that out.
On this past weekend, I took Darrel and Kira to see the new Tranformers
movie. Darrel is quite the fan, having a collection of probably 30 or more of
them scattered around the house. Since many of the characters have been
modified (or are completely new) in the film, he figures I should go pick up
some more. Although the movie was amazing, I was still surprised that the kids
managed to sit through all of it. If you include all the commercials and
previews, we were sitting in there for almost three hours. After we got out,
we had to go to Burger King to get the tie-in Tranformer toys in the kids
meals. It was a rather expensive afternoon, but well worth it.
Though I don't like to continually bring it up with the kids, Lauren needed
a reminder of the situation. She was wondering how Darrel would make out once
he started back at school in September. I had to tell her once more that he
would never be returning to class. You can imagine how this played out, but it
unfortunately a conversation that had to happen.
While officially nothing has changed medically, I've noticed that his skin
tone seems to be slowly turning to more of a yellow colour. It could be just
the differences in lighting, just me looking for any signs of change, or
actually occuring, but it's only a matter of time before it happens either way.
It's really hard to say, as I am usually doing my best not to think too much
about it, but the reality can not always be easily over-looked. His pain
levels have continued to remain at a low level. His two daily doses of
morphine, along with the occasional hot-pack seem to be doing the trick for
now.
On Monday, Darrel gave us quite the scare. I had recently bought I new
bottle of Flintstone vitamins for the kids. They have been always told to take
just one a day, and have always done so. When Rebecca was moving a few things
around on the counter, she noticed that the bottle felt very light. Of the 60
that were there on Saturday morning, only 11 remained (all of them the one
flavour Darrel doesn't like...the orange ones)!! Apparently he figured that it
would be okay to have extra...like 40 EXTRA, as they tasted like yummy candy.
We immediately called the hospital to get his stomach pumped. With his liver
being compromised, and only one kidney left, we figured that this could have
very dire consequences for him. After consulting with the Poison Control
Centre at Sick Kids, it was decided that action wouldn't be necessary. Since
he taken them over a span of a few days (and we couldn't get a straight answer
on how many he had swallowed Monday morning), it was assumed that the pills
would have already most likely been absorbed into his system. The things we
wanted to do to him....but couldn't!! Lucky for him that I had purchased the
"Complete" vitamins, not the "Extra Iron" ones, or other steps would have been
necessary. While there are no immediate signs of a reaction, it is almost a
certainty he caused further damage to his internal organs that don't need any
more pressure put on them. After all that he has been through, to think he
almost overdosed himself on Flintstones is just unbelievable.
As I said earlier, my leave from work starts next week. Hopefully we can
spend the time doing fun family things for the rest of the summer. Everything
will depend on how Darrel is doing, and the weather on any given day. Thanks
again for reading
Category: Life
Over the past month, things have been quite busy around here. Rebecca and
the kids went on a day trip to the African Lion Safari (I missed out, as the
so-called fast track from work had yet to materialize). It was a hot day, but
the park has air-conditioned buses, so they had a cool visit. The kids even
went for an elephant ride, which they greatly enjoyed. We are still hoping to
get down to the zoo in Toronto, but that will have to wait until at least next
week, when I'm finally off work.
Speaking of the heat, Darrel has been making the most of his ever
expanding arsenal of water guns. His favourite target is my father, who has
almost as fun being blasted by him as Darrel does doing it! Darrel got me
pretty good the other night, as he was waiting in the darkness with his
super-soaker when I got back from the store. I never heard or seen it coming,
but the gleeful sounds easily gave away who my attacker was. I would have
loved to have returned his water assault, but the central line factor rules
that out.
On this past weekend, I took Darrel and Kira to see the new Tranformers
movie. Darrel is quite the fan, having a collection of probably 30 or more of
them scattered around the house. Since many of the characters have been
modified (or are completely new) in the film, he figures I should go pick up
some more. Although the movie was amazing, I was still surprised that the kids
managed to sit through all of it. If you include all the commercials and
previews, we were sitting in there for almost three hours. After we got out,
we had to go to Burger King to get the tie-in Tranformer toys in the kids
meals. It was a rather expensive afternoon, but well worth it.
Though I don't like to continually bring it up with the kids, Lauren needed
a reminder of the situation. She was wondering how Darrel would make out once
he started back at school in September. I had to tell her once more that he
would never be returning to class. You can imagine how this played out, but it
unfortunately a conversation that had to happen.
While officially nothing has changed medically, I've noticed that his skin
tone seems to be slowly turning to more of a yellow colour. It could be just
the differences in lighting, just me looking for any signs of change, or
actually occuring, but it's only a matter of time before it happens either way.
It's really hard to say, as I am usually doing my best not to think too much
about it, but the reality can not always be easily over-looked. His pain
levels have continued to remain at a low level. His two daily doses of
morphine, along with the occasional hot-pack seem to be doing the trick for
now.
On Monday, Darrel gave us quite the scare. I had recently bought I new
bottle of Flintstone vitamins for the kids. They have been always told to take
just one a day, and have always done so. When Rebecca was moving a few things
around on the counter, she noticed that the bottle felt very light. Of the 60
that were there on Saturday morning, only 11 remained (all of them the one
flavour Darrel doesn't like...the orange ones)!! Apparently he figured that it
would be okay to have extra...like 40 EXTRA, as they tasted like yummy candy.
We immediately called the hospital to get his stomach pumped. With his liver
being compromised, and only one kidney left, we figured that this could have
very dire consequences for him. After consulting with the Poison Control
Centre at Sick Kids, it was decided that action wouldn't be necessary. Since
he taken them over a span of a few days (and we couldn't get a straight answer
on how many he had swallowed Monday morning), it was assumed that the pills
would have already most likely been absorbed into his system. The things we
wanted to do to him....but couldn't!! Lucky for him that I had purchased the
"Complete" vitamins, not the "Extra Iron" ones, or other steps would have been
necessary. While there are no immediate signs of a reaction, it is almost a
certainty he caused further damage to his internal organs that don't need any
more pressure put on them. After all that he has been through, to think he
almost overdosed himself on Flintstones is just unbelievable.
As I said earlier, my leave from work starts next week. Hopefully we can
spend the time doing fun family things for the rest of the summer. Everything
will depend on how Darrel is doing, and the weather on any given day. Thanks
again for reading
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