Par for the Course

Warning to all readers: The following is going to be a complete and utter gripe fest complete with "whoa as me" and more whine than is in my winerator...

Let me start by saying WTH? Why is our "normal", as parents with Rece a complete freakng muddle of ridiculousness and struggles?

In case you are a reader who hasn't heard, Rece broke his leg at daycare this week. YEP. BROKE IT. And I am pissed off. Not at the daycare, actually I have ZERO complaints about this place and I think the teachers are great they absolutley love him and are just as devestated as we are. They should know that for us this is just another stupid crazy thing to add to the list. And it was just that, Crazy. He was climbing on a activity center thing, similar to one we have at home, he slipped, like he does all the time because he is still learning to walk steadily and he fell on his butt. BUT, his foot got caught as he was falling and it twisted and it broke. So he has a cast and he will wear it for 4 weeks. I am ticked that this happened. This freak thing. It sucks. This kid can't catch a break.

To reinforce this point, lets go back in time....one week. Last Tuesday night we were getting ready to give Rece a bath and we take off his shirt and his Left Nipple is all red and puffy and when I touch it a pus head comes to the surface. WTH!?!?!? So me being the freaked out first time mom that I am take him in the next morning, and the doctor (whom is one of the Peds Dr.s we have never seen before) becomes very serious and tells me he has a Mastitis and "it could become very serious" if it is not treated properly. Oh wait, yes, I said Mastitis - a breast tissue infection. The doctor tells is it is "rare" but they do see it and it can occur in both boys and girls of any age. He also tells me that the "bacteria" just gets in through a pore, in this case it was a pore on his nipple. OH, and the "bacteria" are often like a staph or a MERSA. Anyway, we get antibotics, which we haven't had since Dec. (Thank You Ear Tubes) for this infection and they work like a charm, Rece wasn't even phased. When I took him back three days later to make sure the infection was gone, the Dr. kept Thanking me for brining him in. Ummmm, that is a first. Then he proceedes to tell me - he once saw a little boy with this infection and he lost half of his chest wall to the infection. Glad he didn't tell me that the first day I saw him.

Since Rece was born here is what he and we have dealt with:

-GERD
-A nasal tip hemangioma
-Cold after Cold after Flu after Cold
-250 ear infections - ok not that many but a bunch
-A mastitis
-A broken Leg

That equals out to something happening every 2.3 months. If you divide out all the terrbile colds and Flu's this winter, that drives the average down to what like every two weeks?

I actually asked Jeremy last night after we got home from the hospital - "Do you think this is God's way of telling us to only have one kid?" We laughed - but seriously. What are we doing wrong here? Rece is a GREAT kid, the perfect kid for all of this to happen to actually because he is a tropper but he deserves a break - and I do not mean another limb. And the problem is I don't know how to get him that break. I am feeling so helpless as a mom, like I can't protect my kid. This is stupid but I seriously picture his medical file at the pediatrics office, I cannot even imagine what a new doctor would think scrolling through his history. All I can imagine them saying is "what are these people doing?????"....what are we doing? Sigh.

I think I am done feeling sorry for us. Myself. Rece is still smiling.