Success!

Decreasing meds last night was a SUCCESS! So, if I maintain at the current dose, I'll be on 100mg/day which is well under the 200mg, but still way over the 25mg recommended dose. The Toprol has been making me wake up at random hours in the night being WIDE AWAKE for a few hours, yet not being able to make myself get back to sleep. So, I called to see if I could take Tylonal PM or something like that to help me sleep and they said based on the reasons I was taking the Toprol, it would exaggerate the side-effects making me have an even lower blood pressure, which is NOT a good thing since I'm not taking the Toprol for blood pressure. Since the Holter monitor showed my heart rate getting too low at night, my doctor told me to start decreasing the meds as much as I could tolerate with the option of increasing if I needed to. So far though, I'm happy to say I am doing great! I still have the non-stop headache that Toprol gives me as well as an over all fatigue and exhausted feeling, but I haven't broke out in SVT like I had before when I was trying to wean off the meds.

I am pretty sure I did have an allergic reaction to the adhesive that was used on this latest Holter monitor. Last night, I STILL had the welts and splotches all over my chest, especially where the leads were. I've never had that before, so it was quite interesting to me to have that reaction. I did notice that yesterday when we gave Zachary his allergy shots and he bled a little, we gave him band-aids and he did develop a sort of rash right around the band-aid. We always contributed it to the shots, but he doesn't break out each time he gets the shots, just certain times. Thinking back, I'm wondering if he also might have a bit of sensitvity to adhesives. Hmmmm . . . . ????? I do appreciate my cousin Chris that suggested that because I am pretty sure that's what it was and its nice to know I'm not the only one! :)

Today, I've been using as much energy as I can while I have it. I have a dull headache, but am trying hard to get things caught up around my house. It is an utter, total disaster!!!! I've tried a little to maintain housekeeping, and Shawn tries (a little) bless his heart. But, I have a bit of different expectations for a clean house than the 5 boys that I live with so getting back to the level of cleanliness that I prefer is taking a lot more effort than I have right now. I'm trying to focus on one room at a time, but at this rate, might never finish! :)

We're also in the midst of figuring out Logan's birthday party. I'm thinking less hassle=a more sane mother! So, I'm thinking we'll just do a pizza party with some side dishes. The Mexican fiesta we had for Zach's birthday was fun, but it was a LOT of work and right now, I'm not sure I'm up for it. I've got to get pictures taken of Logan and get them printed for his invitations. I am thinking we're going to have more of a family/friends party again rather than friends/little kids party. Of course, a lot of our friends and family do bring their kids which are the ones we'd more than likely invite anyway if Logan were just having a kiddie party. I just like having family included and more adult entertainment like card playing, conversation, etc. while the kids play.

The boys have been playing nicely in their everyday clothes today. They turned these chairs upside down and are reading books this morning: