I'm exhausted. Steph woke up at 445am today, and I've been up ever since. I did write in Jon's journal earlier so I'll just copy and paste....

I’ll start by talking about our experience today. I had to get everyone out of the house by 730am, you needed blood work and an upper GI done. They said all you have to do is drink this stuff and take an x-ray. I thought I could handle all 3 kids, ahhaha. But I called your Dad for backup. The worst ordeal was over with by the time he came. They strapped you on this table, (head strapped, arms strapped, the whole 9 yards) you were fighting to get out, and I had to try and feed you this bottle of crap (barium). You were not happy, you were that way for 10 min. and it seemed like 10 hours.

I got Jess to sit in the stroller, to keep her contained but she was upset because you were, and thank god the baby slept through it all. I just feared she’d wake up, and I wouldn’t know what to do with all 3 kids. It was quite an ordeal. Then your Dad came. They said you’d have to keep getting an x-ray every 20 minutes, and it could take 2 hours for it to get through your bowel. So your Dad took the other 2 kids home, but we were done within an hour. You wanted nothing to do with that drink, and both of us were covered in white stuff, we were a mess. Finally we mixed it with juice and had you drink through a straw instead of a bottle and you were fine with that.

I let you walk around, and held your hand while we walked down the hallway to the x-ray room, and you froze at the door, you were not interested. I had to hold your legs and hands down on the table. It was awful, but not as awful as that first x-ray. We had to do all this because you started spitting up a little lately, and it has been 6 months since you’ve done that. I think this was unnecessary, but the doctor was concerned. Nobody explained to me that it was going to be all this ordeal. I was about ready to walk out when you weren’t drinking that stuff.

So, that was that ordeal. This evening, I got out the buzzers and trimmed Jon's hair in the back. His hair is so baby fine, and he wasn't sitting still, so all I did was the back with a number 4. It looks fine. Then I did Jeff's hair, that was long overdue.

Jessica has been sneezing quite a bit today, so we gave her some triametic... I really pray we don't have to go to the doctors, I am tired of doctor's appointments.

And we just found out we went way over our max with Steph's last doc. appt. So from now on, I am not getting any shots at the doctors office, they are a rip off, triple charging for each shot. The office call alone is a rip off, no wonder we max out so quickly!!! Grrr......

My IC problems have come back 10 times worse.... I hurt and am miserable. It all started last month, I'm not sure why, although stress is a major factor. So, hopefully these awful tests I have to go through will reveal something.

I'm going to bed early, I'm tired. Tomorrow is my gyno appt, then Jessica's orientation. Let's hope for the best. But I've had an exhausting week, and I'm sure something will go wrong!!!!