WHAT A WEEK!

What a week it has been. Michael went to Utah on Sunday to take some pics of family and friends and left me here to tend to the boys. We try really hard to be a tag team, taking care of any of the responsibilities in the house that needs to be done, and taking turns helping the boys. It is great and Michael tries to do as much as he can, so for him not to be here is a really big deal. The house isn't clean, the bed isn't made and I am behind on everything. So on top of feeling a little stress of being behind, James developed a cough over the weekend, so I decided to keep him home on Tuesday after him coming home on Monday and hacking all over us (I didn't want him hacking all over his friends). That night after all day of him barely coughing, we finished getting ready for bed and were going to watch a little show together before we got in bed. I told the boys I was going to go to the bathroom, (yes I know too much information but that is where I was). I heard James starting to hack again like he did on Monday. I didn't think twice of it because after he hacks for a few minutes it passes. Oh, well a couple minutes into the hacking he starts gagging. I yell into the kitchen, "Are you OK James?" He doesn't answer and then a second later comes in with his face pale and sweaty and says, "Mommy I swallowed a gold thing." I start asking him questions, "What gold thing?" Well, he starts to ball uncontrollably and tries to describe it to me. After lots of ?'s we finally figured out that he had put a keychain of mine in his mouth, It was a replica of a widow's mite with a keychain ring on the end that my parents had brought back from Jerusalem for me. Michael had found the boys playing with it the day before and I had set it on the counter and was going to put it away but I forgot. He had put it into his mouth without thinking, (because he is VERY impulsive like that) and didn't think that it would slide down his throat so far. I had just spent the whole day watching him put things in his mouth so to yell at him about it was not the answer. So I decided to try and turn it into a learning experience for him. We talked about it and I told him he needed to remember that this was a hard lesson learned and that he shouldn't do it again. Well, after a few minutes of thinking about what we could do, I decided to call the on call doctor. The nurse answered and told me she would talk to the doctor and then call me back. She called me back and informed me, since we didn't know what it was made out of we needed to take him to the ER and they might be able to do a scope on him. Well, we went and 5 hours later, 2 x-rays, 3 doctors opinions, blood drawn, and a lot of watching the Disney Channel, they sent us home with Miralax and told me I would be poop hunting for the next few days. Yes I know that is way too much information but that is the truth. So no keychain yet, hopefully no lead posioning, and a hard lessoned learned. I found a picture of a keychain that has the similar shape to what he swallowed, the size was almost the size of a coin.

So to make my long story stop, I WANT MICHAEL HOME NOW!!!