a house full of sickies

we've been a house full of sickies.
last monday darby broke out in spontaneous coughing. i have no idea where it came from, but it started us going downhill. he got progressively worse and thursday/friday were his bad days.

friday I came down with it. saturday started my bad days of it, thankfully. Jason was able to take care of darby on saturday and sunday.

Darby is in much better spirits, but still has a cough. he just hates it. its so sad to see him cough and then start to whine because he doesn't know what is happening. Poor baby! This is one of his rare first real colds. He has been pretty healthy for his first 2 years, so he's not used to it yet. Only twice so far have we had to run into his room and clean up some puke because he coughed so much in his sleep that he just lost his lunch.

There is just no humanly possible way to take care of a sick child, and not get sick yourself.
Jason is fighting off a sore throat and hopefully he'll really be able to fight it off and not get our germs.

In other news, darby's getting glasses :0) we're going in today to size him up and order them. But we've practiced over the weekend with sunglasses or what not, just to get him used to it. I have to say that I was really impressed at how well he would wear them! The downside is that while we were positively confident that darby was on our vision plan insurance.... he's actually not. The only reason we even got the vision option was because of darby probably needing glasses in the future, and somehow, he didn't get added. So thats kind of a bummer, but after pricing the glasses, i'm feeling a whole lot better. I expected 1000s of dollars to need to be paid, but in reality it will only be $300ish. A much happier number. And did you know that its rather difficult to find places that have glasses for 2 year olds? We went to walmart and lens crafters and they just shook their heads and smiled, as if to say "No, we don't have glasses that would be appropriate for him... but good luck!". Thankfully, there is a pediatric vision care center RIGHT NEXT DOOR to our therapy center, and they definitely specialize in glasses that are too small.

The glasses are an intermediate solution for his wandering eye. During one of his brain surgeries, darby developed an eye injury... and while it has healed GREATLY since he was 7 months old, its not totally fixed. I really trust our eye doctor, as she is very cautious to do surgery, but she said at our last appt (last week) that the possibility is really growing in her mind. But she is willing to try out glasses for him right now, and see if it helps. The concern is that his vision in the left eye would start to decrease and depth perception would not develop correctly. We're not super excited about the idea of more surgery, but we're getting used to it.

We're also facing some issues with insurance this week. Our normal request for speech therapy visits was denied. I can only assume that PT and OT are going to follow soon. There is another Mom who I know who is facing the same problem (our husbands work together and so we have the same insurance), and I'm going to follow in suit with what she's doing and write our letters of grievance, etc.  We basically need to explain to insurance that he has cause for a continual medical condition and that he is not a 'one time accident', which is what they claim he is.

On a happier note, Jason's mom, Pam, will be coming to visit next week! We're all excited! I am hoping the whole house will be healthy just in time for her visit. It seems like the weather will be perfect for her as well. Maybe we'll even get to the beach? That sounds like a great idea.