Our rollar coaster ride

I have been MIA from this blog and my real life for a while. Thank goodness we are getting back to normal, and that everything is going to be alright. Since we have been on the move for the past month, we were looking forward to a couple of weekends at home. We were going to play on the new boat, and get the baby's room in order. The Powers That Be had other ideas. 2 Fridays ago Jason started complaining of some aches and thought he may be coming down with the flu or something. By early Saturday morning he was in bad pain, the worst of his life. We went to the emergency room. They gave him an IV and ran blood tests. They released him after hydrating and medicating him. We were to wait on the test results. He had spotted a tick on him a week earlier so the initial thought for everyone was that he had Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain. Monday he went to his regular doctor, who ran more blood tests. Tuesday, he was feeling very weak, so we went back to the ER. No one seemed to know what was wrong. Shortly after the 2nd trip to the ER his Dr. called with blood results. Jason had Rhabdomyolysis. Short version: Rhabdomyolysis is the rapid breakdown (lysis) of skeletal muscle tissue (rhabdomyo) due to injury to muscle tissue. The muscle damage may be caused by physical (e.g. crush injury), chemical, or biological factors. The destruction of the muscle leads to the release of the breakdown products of damaged muscle cells into the bloodstream; some of these, such as myoglobin, are harmful to the kidney and may lead to acute kidney failure. Treatment is with intravenous fluids, and dialysis or hemofiltration if necessary. His doctor tried to treat him as an out patient with I.V. treatment in his office but by Thursday, Jason was looking worse. Worried for his kidney's the Dr. had him admitted into the hospital. After a 2 day, 2 night stay, and lots of I.V. treatments they released him. He is back home and finally today is starting to feel like his normal self again. Thank goodness they found out what this was, and how to treat it, and BEFORE it damaged his kidneys. This was really stressful and so scary. (I am sorry, but I do not know how to break up my blogs into paragraphs unless I insert a picture!). We are soooo thankful that Jason is recovering well and is back home with us.

Of course Brighton did not really know anything was wrong and thought his daddy was working. This picture was taken the Friday that Jason 1st started to feel bad. This is a lesson for Jason and I not to take things and each other for granted. It gave us all a huge scare. Our whole family was worried sick about him and are so glad that he is feeling better!