It's so hard to believe that Cam is already 8 months old! This month marked a big milestone, he has started eating "real" food and LOVES it! I don't give too many things but he likes little baby cereal puffs, toast, smashed up beans, and we tried mandarin oranges today. He loves every single thing I give him, so thats good I guess! He has sort of started waving, but he does it backwards and fans his fingers towards himself! He is so proud of himself when he does it and just grins and laughs:) He says dada not really purposefully, but just babbling. And one of the biggest developments is this one: last week when I wasworking, Trey was drawing Cam's bath so he puthim in his crib to play and when he came in his room to get him This it what he saw!!
So now we have a child that pulls up! We moved that mattress down a notch quick and are having to keep a little more of an eye on him. He scoots all around, not really crawling in the traditional sense, but he gets where he needs to go!
On a more sad note, Pa is in the hospital. He has always had numerous health problems, Strokes, TIAs, Heartattack, Diabetes, Aortic Aneurysm, etc for which he now takes a drug called Coumadin an anticlotting "blood thinning" drug of sorts. Mom had gone down there this weekend and Pa was complaining of pain on his bottom. She checked it out and it was really swollen but wasn't bruised and he could walk so she wasn't overly concerned but then after lunch he became aphasic and wasn't able to talk anymore then when she tried to test his movements he wasn't able to move on his right at all. So off to the hospital in Tupelo they went. When he was checked his INR (a clotting time watched closely especially for those on Coumadin) was off the charts. The highest their meters would read was 10.6 (normal therapeutic on Coumadin is: around 3 or maybe 4) and the Dr. said it was probably more like 20!! So the large swollen thing on his bottom was a large hematoma and could have happened by simply bumping into something. He has had numerous tests run and has not had any new strokes but now has severe orthostatic hypotension so when he tries to get up he pretty much goes cold and clammy and passes out. So he is in the Stroke ICU at Tupelo and can now move everything but cannot communicate well, most of the time he just repeats what you are saying over and over and is very confused and almost dementia like. This is in part due to low B/P and the bleeding inside as well as some severe carotid artery stenosis and lack of brain perfusion. So after we did some investigating we discovered a horrible pharmaceutical error. Pa was supposed to take his newest dose Coumadin at night. Previously he was taking 2.5 mg every other night and 2 on the other nights well the dr. had prescribed 3mg in 1mg tablets at night so 3 pills at night, which he was taking but it was discovered that the pharmacist actually had given him 5mg tabs so he was taking 3 of them making his dose 15 mg! More than 5 times the intended dose. We were able to figure this out for ourselves by noticing that his new tabs had a large "5" on them! And they are also color coded for the different milligrams that they come in,his were peach and should have been pink with a "1" on them. So needless to say the nurses, PI, and lawyer in our family are upset and looking for answers. We are hoping and praying that the few weeks of this lethal dose has not caused irrepreable damage...Please keep us all in our prayers b/c right now even though he is in a unit he needs someone at bedside 24/7 which is not always easy with everyone working.. We are just happy and thankful to the Lord that mom ended up coming down last Saturday so that Pa wouldn't have taken another days dose and made his INR even higher and causing him to possibly bleed to death!
