Lately

It's been an interesting week, or so, here at our house. Last Thursday I had dental surgery. They extracted 5 teeth - 2 wisdom, 3 molars. They put me under for the surgery, and I was quite nervous about it. The Lord was with me though, every step of the way. My super spectacular mother-in-law, drove me to and from. She had to hang out in the waiting room for about 2 hours. That was so amazingly wonderful of her! After the surgery I was unable to nurse baby girl for 12 hours. (Yes, I still nurse her at 20 months old.) I thought it was going to be so traumatic for her. As it turned out, she did very well. I left her with my dear friend Silvia, whom she knows very well and loves. Since I would be out of it, and I couldn't nurse her, we just left her and the boys for the day. That way, baby girl wouldn't see me and want to nurse. The Lord's Hand was at work here too. I was blessed with time to recover, and the kids were in loving hands. I couldn't be more blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. It turned out that she only cried a couple of times, and not for very long at all!

Wow.

I have been recovering quite nicely. I took some ibuprofen the first 2 days, just in case, for pain. I never did feel any pain though. My swelling had subsided by the next day, and I felt great! I new I needed to take it easy though. I certainly didn't want dry socket. Although, I really wanted to go about my day as I usually did. My MIL was with us for day #2 also. She helped with the kids. Another huge blessing for me. I do have 4 children, after all, 3 of them being rowdy boys.  =)

As with any extraction, I was prescribed an anti-biotic. I began taking it as I was told to. Usually, I am an avid label reader, but for some reason I was not this time. After a couple days of taking the med, I decided to read the info packet that came with it. Partly because baby girl was having some seriously yucky diapers, frequently. As it turns out, this anti-biotic DOES leak into breast milk, and the has some not so wonderful side effects. Obviously, she was feeling them. I tried to nurse her less frequently. I didn't want to stop taking the med because I didn't want an infection. Well, poor little girl didn't get better, a bit worse. So, I was not taking it as I was supposed to. My poor girl!

I won't go into any details here but by day #5, I was having similar symptoms. That anti-biotic was AWFUL! With my doctor's permission, I discontinued using it. I really should have thought a few things through. Like, how totally different our diet is compared to the Standard American Diet (SAD). And the fact that we rarely ever take any type of  medicine at all. And by rarely, I mean I can't even remember the last time one of us had ANY type of medicine. I don't even remember the last time we were sick it's been so long. Maybe I should have mentioned these things to the doc but I didn't. None-the-less, we are doing much better by far today. Praise God!

So, yeah, that's been us in a nutshell lately. I am still gradually doing different stuff when it comes to our home school. I think I have found what I am going to be using as far as curriculum goes. But that will be discussed another time.  ; )