Doctors, Doctors, Doctors

I feel like I've been to a doctor's office every day this past week. I haven't really, but it feels like it, maybe because the appointments went so long, and they're doubled up, because both Christian and I are going.
After my "episode" a few weeks ago, and after four days of tests, I got a "all's clear" from my cardiologist. Of course that's contingent on keeping my stress level down....yeah right! But I am thankful it wasn't anything "medical" that would have required any procedures or medication.  So I have been taking it easy at home, when I can, being a bit of a bum. Christian and I just play all the time, and when he goes to bed, is when I do the laundry, dishes and if there is time, I get to read some.

I received my pre-ordered FBI thriller book last Friday and I've managed to finish it already!  It was so good, I hated to see it come to an end, but it was nice to be able to sit and read again :)  I'm happy that Christian is picking up my love of reading. We read about 4-5 books every night and he loves it!

I am running out of ideas of what to do in the house, because we can't get outside due to the extreme heat lately.  The evenings are easy to keep us occupied but the weekend is here, so I'm racking my brain.  We have to have a "no cost" weekend, so I might break out the art stuff again. I do have play-doh that we haven't used yet so we may do that.  I'm just a little anal about play-doh, I don't like when the colors get all mixed up and end up being that ugly gray color.  It's not like I can't buy more, I guess I'm just regressing from when I was little. Once we mixed up all the colors and had nothing but a huge mass of gray goo, that was it, we didn't get any more for like a year.  At least I don't have to worry about him eating it, he's past that, "let's put everything in my mouth to see what it is and tastes like" phase.  So I've just convinced myself, play-doh it will be this weekend.

Christian had his follow-up 6 month appointment yesterday.  The doctor didn't get to us until an hour and forty minutes past our appointment time. It was quite the challenge keeping Christian entertained, out of the cabinets and drawers, not playing with the computer, not jumping off the exam table.....  He was wound up!
Then when the doctor came in, Christian decided that was the time to "sing" very loudly.  Nothing I did or said would quiet him down and I was getting annoyed as well as was embarrassed that I couldn't get him to zip it!  Our pediatrician is the best ever and she told me that she has four kids at home and can talk over them so if it's no big deal to me, we'll keep talking over him. So that's what we did. 

The last appointment three months ago, his blood work had some concerns that came up. We changed his diet, gave him iron drops and a few other things for three months and we were back to see how that went.  The doctor and I talked about some other things too, so we ended up having more bloodwork done.  Now I do NOT like having my blood drawn AT ALL, so I completely sympathize with Christian when he freaked out crying when they came at him with the needle. He's strong and the tech and I couldn't hold him still, so she had to call in reinforcements. Between the three of us, we managed to get the blood work done and by this time it was 6:15 pm.  We were both exhausted, me from trying to corral him and him from the blood work freak out.  When we got home, after supper, we both just sat on the sofa, read a few books and both went to bed early.

To my relief, the doctor called me with his test results and it all came back good.  His iron level is still low, so we're addressing that, but the other issues had are fine now. ~deep sigh here~  We got a referral for a specialist for something else and I managed to get an appointment set up today for that, which was great.
So August is full of appointments, and if all goes well, the rest of the year should be smooth sailing. At least until October when we go back for another round of immunization shots.  These insurance office co-pays are killing me! I hope I hit the deductible soon!!!

So I should know either tomorrow or Monday if I have a stress fracture in my foot or not......THAT'S another story for another night.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
~Amy