Fun with Grandpa Mark

We have had a good week with my Dad being in town. The boys love playing with him. We went downtown to the Riverwalk one day and realized it isn't stroller friendly, oops! Then it came a downpour. :( We had to walk 5 blocks, holding the kids hands and dragging the stroller to get back to our car, we decided it was our adventure of the day and laughed about it. We took him to Sea World too and had a blast feeding the dolphins, and watching the Shamu show.

Torticollis....

is the reason you never heard back from me after last weekend. I had a normal day for myself on Tuesday, my back was a little sore on our way to Sea World but not too bad. Come evening my neck & back were sore, took some Aspirin and went to bed. Woke up at 2:30am Wed. & couldn't move my neck or back at all, just laying there was excruciating. I immediately started crying, I had never felt pain like that and been unable to move. Jimmy woke up, helped pull me out of bed, gave me aspirin and ice packs and started googling trying to figure out could be wrong. Called a nurse hotline, they said call an ambulance, it's the first sign of meningitis. It scared Jimmy & I horribly. I kept saying, "I have to get to the ER." The paramedics came and said I would have seen many other symptoms so don't worry about the meningitis. Grandma came over to stay with the kids while they were sleeping and off we went. The Dr. at the ER knew exactly, he touched my neck and it was horrible pain. He diagnosed me with the term above, gave me a shot, Vicodin and muscle relaxers. On the way home, I finally started loosening up. I stayed on the meds (which make you sleep!) non-stop. As soon as they were about to wear off, I would get stiff again. So from Wed. morning thru Fri. night I was out of it! The dr. said it would last a couple days but unfortunately I'm still not back to normal. I'm a lot better but still very sore and tight, I feel like my head weighs a ton and I can barely hold it up. Hopefully I will feel better quick, my Dad is coming in town tomorrow for the week. Spending his vacation time with us, yeah! I have to mention that my hubby won "dad & husband of the year" award that day (from me)! Got up at 2:30am with me, got home from the hospital at 7:45, out the door for work at 8:15, back home at 6:25 (with Sonic in hand) fed the boys & put them in the car for the circus & got home at 10:45 that night. We had circus tickets that had been planned for almost a month with the Morton family & the boys were so excited, he didn't want to disappoint them. Thanks honey!