Happy Valentines Day!

Hearts, chocolate, cupid, cheap sugar hearts with random cute sayings imprinted (usually sideways) on them = Valentines Day. I hope that you got warm fuzzies today from someone.

We have entered another Chapter in the Saga 'o Griffin. On Sunday Maysen got (another) cold. Although we made him wash, wash, wash it didn't help. Last night Griffin began to not breathe real well. He was starting to wheeze and grunt and wouldn't eat. Through the night didn't sleep and eating became even more work. So I took him to the doctor today who diagnosed him with severe RSV. She immediately said he needed to be back in the hospital. GREAT. Upon talking with her and reminding her that we are heading to Portland tomorrow afternoon for our OHSU appt on Friday, we decided to try some breathing treatments but she wanted to see him again tonight and if he wasn't better/worse she was admitting him. After FINALLY getting the Albuterol to put in the nebulizer machine and giving him a treatment I noticed a big difference. He no longer grunted, no nasal flaring, no color changes, and ate 3oz right off the bat. We went back in at 6pm to see her and although he didn't sound any better in the lungs, because he was acting better she decided to let him come home with orders to go to ER or call her if he got bad/worse. She does want to see him one more time before we leave town tomorrow, so we'll be doing that.

On a good note: Nathan got offered a job at Weyerhaeuser today. It's more $$$ than his current job, benefits are WAAAAY better, and retirement perks are so good that we'll (he'll) be set for a long time, not to mention that they'll reimburse him for tuition he paid for getting his degree. Oh - and if we want to adopt a baby someday, they'll help with the finances of that. What a great company. I'm proud of him: it's been his goal to finally get to work there. I'm proud they tracked him down upon getting the OK to hire someone even though Nate's been gone for almost a year. I'm proud that he's getting to do what he wants to do....

I got my warm fuzzies today: A Dust Buster. Don't ask ... it's a problem I have!

Happy Chocolate Day! (that's what the real name should be!)