Tuesday night, while we were at Jackie's ice cream social, I noticed Jackie was labouring to breathe. Romy had mentioned that when she picked Jackie up from the babysitter's house yesterday Jackie was pale and had dark circles under her eyes. I think it all started to come together for me, and at 9:00 p.m., on Romy's advice, I took Jackie to the ER at St. Anthony's hospital.
Immediately they gave her a breathing treatment. They also did some chest x-rays. All in all, we were there for four hours. The diagnosis was pneumonia. Crap.
I thought this little illness would blow over, but it blew up in my face bigtime.
So, yesterday I didn't go to work. Jackie was crabby, whiny and wasn't satisfied by a thing that I did all day. She drove me completely bananas. Plus, she was tired and was fighting sleep. I felt like I was about to lose it, but I knew she was acting out because she didn't feel good. I counted to 10 a number of times that day.
This morning she felt fine. Part of it was because she had a 2 hour nap in the evening and then we went to bed at 9:30 p.m. Jackie got a lot of rest.
Good thing, because today was the first day of school!
I got news yesterday (when I was at work) that Terry had called DFS on Renee. He told them, anonymously, that Renee neglects her two girls and beats the 1 year old, Logan.
What a crock!
Of course, DFS showed up at Renee's house immediately. Renee was completely honest and told the lady about leaving Terry and his threats of bodily harm and/or murder suicide.
The lady checked all of the kids. No bruises. Well, there shouldn't be! Renee doesn't run around beating her kids.
Last night I got a call from Renee that the DFS worker had showed up at Kayla and Leah's elementary school and questioned both of them.
Renee was upset and pissed because they didn't call her or anything to let her know they were going to do that. I guess DFS has their reasons, but it still sucks.
Renee did finish filling out the order of protection on Terry. Monday, when she went to do it the first time, she became very emotional and left with the papers. I'm very happy that she followed through this time.
She has a court date on September the 7th. I am going to write a letter for her. I hope it helps.
My sister says she's going from upset and scared to angry. Uh-oh. Bipolars shouldn't allow themselves to get angry because they go crazy and lose it. Renee's not diagnosed but I think she is bipolar, just from our similiar behaviors and such. And Hershel Tate, which is dad, is bipolar. It runs in his family.
I don't want Renee to lose it because she will lose all control and respect for any sort of authority, including law enforcement. Dang-it. I know I shouldn't have let her watch "Enough" with Jennifer Lopez while she was at my house. Crap.
Melinda has been calling me too. Looks like this new hurricane is heading her way again. They are already starting to evacuate Orlando. This ought to be interesting. Melody, my niece, lives in Miami and we are all worried about her too.
As I said, Jackie's first day of school was today. I hope she feels well the entire day and has a good day. I loved her teacher from the moment I met her and think we will get on famously! She just has that way about her that practically screams that she loves kids and loves teaching. I can't explain it.
At 6:45 a.m., this morning, I took Jackie to her before school program, which is the YMCA thing, and it looks like there will be a lot of fun stuff for her to do.
I'm going to try to make up my time that I took off yesterday so I don't have to take a day of leave without pay. Crossing my fingers now...
12:28 pm - September 02, 2004
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