Day 79

What's that expression, it never rains, it only pours? Well, it was one of those days. We finally met Grandpa's hospice nurse today. She had to come out and draw some more blood today to check his Coumadin levels. She got us the approval to increase his Morphine as well. It seems to have helped. He slept most of the day and didn't eat much besides some Ensure. That, in itself, is stressful, just worrying about him and his health. While I was making myself lunch, Emelia decided to make the day more stressful. She has just started climbing up on dining room chairs and today she managed to get up on one and proceeded to do a swan dive right of the edge and landed face first on the ceramic tile. There was very minimal bleeding but both Mom and I noticed right away that her upper lip looked like it was stuck between her front teeth. She also had a huge goose-egg forming on her forehead. I rushed her to the pediatric ER. Luckily they weren't busy and they saw her right away. The pediatrician didn't seem to think she bumped her head hard enough to cause any damage. As for her lip, he wasn't willing to take on her case and told us to take her to a pediatric dentist. So home I went to find a pediatric dentist in the phone book. I called as soon as I got home and they told me to come right in. So off we went again. The dentist didn't seem to think her lip was stuck between her teeth. He just thought her frenulum was swollen from the trauma of hitting the floor. They took an x-ray and her left front tooth does look crooked. He had no baseline to compare it to, but his best guess was that the tooth probably moved and the resulting position and the swelling made it look different from before. We're just supposed to keep and eye on it and give him a call in a couple of days. There wasn't really anything he could do at this point. I just hope it doesn't effect the growth of her permanent teeth later on down the road.

Needless to say, with all the hubbub of the day, I didn't get a chance to do my workout today. :/ I want to move the treadmill out of Grandpa's den because I don't want to bother him any more now that he's sleeping in his recliner almost all day long. I know he says it doesn't bother him but it kind of makes me feel a little uncomfortable. If he was doing better I might have gotten on the treadmill tonight. Oh well, I'll just have to shoot for tomorrow.

Here's what I had to eat today:

BREAKFAST:
-strawberries
-lo-carb strawberry yogurt

LUNCH/SNACK:
-2 1/2 cheese sticks
-2 flatbread crackers

DINNER:
-harvest chicken salad (lettuce, cheese, chicken salad, dried cranberries & ranch)
-cup of chili
-s.f. lemonade