Went to the foot doctor yesterday and the verdict is at least one more week with no running. My ankle is feeling a lot better but when he started poking around he was able to find a tender spot. Two weeks ago during the original appointment he prescribed some anti-inflammatory medicine but left the dosing information off the prescription. So for the last two weeks the pharmacy and doctor have been back and forth trying to work it out and yesterday I was finally able to pick it up.

Andrew hasn’t been feeling too hot lately and we’re really not sure what’s going on. For the last couple of days he just hasn’t been able to keep much of anything down like he has some kind of stomach thing going on. We’ve been to the doctor two or three times recently to have him checked out and each time they haven’t been able to find anything. On the most recent trip we thought that he might strep throat since he refused to eat anything but the test came back negative. Since that visit we’ve had to cut back his food intake so on Thursday we only gave him non-milk liquids, yesterday we started with a little rice cereal, and then today we continued with the rice cereal and added some carrots and sweet potatoes.

He’s managed to keep his food down since we started the reduced food diet. Even though he has been keeping it down he’s still not a happy kid. Last night he was up at least three times and each time it took about an hour to get him back down to sleep. Jen’s been the one staying up with him during the long night sessions so she’s getting pretty worn out. When he woke up this morning around 5:00 I tried to put him back down without much success so I took him down to breakfast with me and gave him some rice cereal and then managed to get him down to bed before I left for work.

I’m crossing my fingers and hope that tonight will be a better night. Tonight Alex was complaining that his stomach was hurting so we are really hoping that he doesn’t have the same thing.

In unrelated news the weather here has been kind of crazy around here the last couple of days. On Thursday we had a low temperature of 40 F (4 C) and a high of 83 F (28 C). 83! It’s the middle of February for crying out loud. Then today, not two days later, the low was 22 F (-5 C) and the high was about 28 F (-2 C ) and we are under a winter weather advisory.