Kruse Family

Brandon went to the doctor yesterday as he's had a runny nose and cough for a while now. Turns out they think he has allergies. when he was a few months old he was tested for various allergies (when looking for the cause of the constant puking) and at the time he did not have any. Looks like that may have changed.

The one suggestion we were given made me laugh. Use a pillow to help keep his head propped up in bed at night. Now if I haven't made it clear in posts here before...Brandon tosses and turns during the night more than an unsecured dog in a hurricane hunter plane! (best visual reference I could come up with.) If I could rig up a stop motion camera over his bed at night, I think he would manage to cover 98% of the bed throughout the night.

So he's back on the Zyrtec for the allergies and we're starting the process of changing things around the house to see what help. Should be fun.

Not sure what he's dreaming about but Brandon just sat upright from sleeping, yelled out what sounded like "boom" and then promptly laid back down and went back to sleep. Times like this it would be really interesting to know what he's dreaming of. It's better than the screaming fits/night terrors he's had but still seems so odd.

Then again, I apparently look for gophers in the bed when I'm sleeping so who knows!

With the weekend we've had, I think I have enough material to write a country song...you know the kind that usually entail a broken car, injured dog, etc.

Brandon continued to throw up anything we gave him over the weekend and was not even able to keep down the 1oz. of water we kept trying. Ended up going back to the doctors this morning because he was dehydrated and still couldn't keep anything down. I have never seem him so lethargic every....he fell asleep on the table at the doctors which never happens...he didn't move or even make a sound when they took blood (this normally requires mom & dad to pin him down for needles....just like dad!) and then for the finally, he got not one but two suppositories and slept through it.

So far he's been able to keep down the little teaspoons of Gatorade we've been giving him which is good since they told us to take him to the hospital if he didn't keep anything down within 3 hours. I was not looking forward to having to go to the hospital and have him get hooked up to an IV....not to mention I don't know who would be worse...Brandon getting it done or mom having to watch.

So far he's been drifting in and out of sleep...hopefully he'll get better soon and everything will get back to normal. I guess the only questions left is who gets it next, mom or dad, and when?

Update: So he's apparently gone over the hump and is feeling much better now because Brandon is back to his normal self...full of energy and getting into everything. Already had 2 time outs and at this rate I think the only way he's going to sleep tonight is if we tranquelize him!

So yesterday Brandon got whatever little bug has been going around and threw up all over mom...and then a couple more times. After a trip to the doctor we were told no food for 24 hours...normally not a problem since Brandon never wants to eat anyway.

Of course he seems to know this and spent the rest of the day asking for a sandwich, crackers, goldfish, and any other food he will occasionally eat....just because he can't have it. On the good side he started to seem better and was keeping down liquids at night so we had hopes that today would be better.

He woke up about 6am and after trying to get him to go back to sleep we figured we'd just get him to lay down with us and let him have some more Gatorade. A couple minutes after he had a few sips we really woke up when he started throwing up in the middle of our bed.

It was like having flash-backs to the early months when he had the really bad reflux. So we're back to no food again so it looks like it's going to be another fun day...NOT.

Yes I've been slacking on updating the blog lately. It's mostly my fault but there's been a few contributing factors...

On the good side of things, we were able to squeeze in a great trip to Disney in between storms two weeks ago...actually we kinda followed Fay up to Orlando....guess we just wanted more rain. The trip to Disney was unique with Brandon as he appreciated things a little more and we got to do more than usual with him. Went to the water park with him for the first time and he had a blast as did mom & dad!

I think one of the trip highlights was visiting the Reedy Creek Improvement District Fire Station (yes, that's the real Disney fire department) and getting a tour of the truck as well as getting to go for a ride in a real fire truck with light on and all. Brandon & I got to sit up front and mom rode in the back cap...the jury is still out on who was more excited, Brandon or dad! And yes Marlo, Nor has a photo of Brandon with all the firemen in their uniforms for you!

For those setup with the photo sync you'll see a lot of new photos from our trip as well as the Disney PhotoPass pictures that just came in....there are some really good ones.