Matson Family: 01.2011

So we kind of had a terrible week! Bummer huh? I decided to blog the whole experience because i don't think I've ever been so frustrated in my life and I'm hoping it won't happen like this for others!!

Last Saturday Nash and I were hanging out up at my parents. I was at the counter reading, Grandma Annie was doing dishes, and Nash was playing with his buddy Rudy (my moms shitszu). Nash was trying to get Rudy to play "hide and go seek" with him...which was adorable... and my mom helped play along by calling Rudy and hiding him behind the counter! Nash was thrilled! Well, I guess while trying to attempt this on his own, Nash startled Rudy and he snapped at him leaving 3 bite punctures on his sweet little cheek, and a fat lip from his paw.:( It was so surprising and so quick! Rudy has NEVER attempted to harm Nash or either of the girls before. He's such a good dog, we believe Nash just scared or touched him somewhere sensitive. After cleaning it up a bit we decided that it looked deep enough that we better take him into the Dr. just in case.

This is our little noodle on the way to the after hours Dr. about 20 min after the bite. The Orem office where we usually take him was closed, so with my mom by my side, we headed to the Provo office where the on call Dr. was waiting. I was happy we brought him in because the Dr. said that the wounds were deep and needed to be cleaned well and to be stitched up. He told me that the largest wound had started to clot and that he needed to re-open it with saline to make sure it was cleaned and to see how deep it really was. Well, we went into the little operating room and they cleaned him up really good, gave him a DPT booster shot and were luckily able to use the liquid stitch instead of stitches. He called in an antibiotic and sent us on our way. Mom and I were both fighting back tears the whole time and Nash was the brave one!
PROBLEM NUMERO UNO!!!! The Dr. never re-opened and cleaned the largest puncture wound! At the time i just figured that he thought it looked fine and that it was ok!

Sunday morning when I woke up I noticed that the wound had white puss on it stuck under the liquid stitch. I was worried and a little grossed out so I called Josh at work for his medical advice. He wasn't too worried since Nash was on an antibiotic and just told me to keep and eye on it and keep him updated.

This picture was taken at about 2pm Sunday. Throughout the day, the white mark got bigger and the redness around the wound worsened. We were having dinner over at Josh's dads and by 7pm Zack pushed us to call the Dr. again because the redness had started moving upwards to his eye! Our appointment was a 9pm and again the on call Dr. was one in the Provo office. The Dr. was obviously upset that he was the on call Dr.! He obviously had other places he'd rather be..(and we didn't?) He basically treated us like we were idiots and told us that it didn't matter because he was on antibiotics! I kept saying "YES, but it's getting worse" doesn't that mean something? Well, he hurried us out of there as fast as he could. He was an ASS! Pardon my french but that doesn't even do the ding bat justice!!!

We kept giving him his antibiotic, but when Tuesday rolled around and the wound looked its worse, I decided to call our own Dr. and leave a message for her personally! She called me right back and told me to come in right away! I called my mom and she headed right over to help.

Nash got right in to see Dr. Melissa Kendall and right away she said we needed to drain the infection. A nurse came in to help me hold Nash down as the Dr. started removing the infection. I couldn't believe how much was coming out! When i thought she was done, she started squeezing the wound and even more came out. Nash was a wreck! He was absolutely traumatized by the situation! She sent a swab in for a culture and told us that the type of infection that is in his wound is not even effected by the antibiotic the other Dr. gave us!!!! WHAT!!!! Antibiotics for 3 days that don't even work?!!! So upset! Oh wait...there's more! That particular type of wound needs to be able to breath and heal from the inside out! STITCHES WERE ONLY HARMING HIM!!! There was a gum ball sized pocket of infection that was stuck because of the liquid stitch! The Dr. couldn't say anything about her co-workers but you could tell she was disgusted in both of them! Dr. #1 who treated the wound wrong from the start, and Dr. #2 who should have easily recognized the spreading infection and removed it from a poor, sick, three year old boys face!

Hours later, the wound already looked so much better and with warm compresses 3 times a day to remove any puss, and a new antibiotic that actually fights the bacterial infection he has...Nash is doing well and likes to let you know that his cheek is "Healfy" and doesn't hurt! We are writing a letter to the medical director of Utah Valley Pediatrics to let them know of the mistreatment we received. An infection on the face of that young of a child can be very dangerous and those Dr.'s may need to return to medical school.

Wow, the holidays sure are busy for us Matson's! This is partially my fault because I love it so darn much ad try to fit in as many "Christmasy" things as possible! Especially this year because Nash was nuts about anything Christmas and was uber excited so i wanted everyday to be magical!

Almost all of our decorations have been pretty low budget/ghetto/hand me down so far and i just didn't have the stomach to put most of them up this year but i did want the house to be festive so we moved to plan B! We went homemade and i loved it! Nash and i started by stringing air pop corn for tree garland. He was really excited until he tasted it and realized it has nothing on pop-secret homestyle!... our house favorite. We made a huge mess but i was pleased, nothing as cute as strung pop corn. I then combined ideas from two of my sister in-laws, cranberries from Megan and Oranges from Kylee. We sliced up oranges and tangerines, sprinkled them with cinnamon, baked them for a bit, then dried them out for a few days. We strung them with the cranberries as garland for the tree and mantle. They turned out pretty awesome and the orange & tangerine slices on the tree almost looked like ornaments and looked super sweet when the lights would shine through them. I took on the big task of sewing and stuffing turtle doves (actually just a bird pattern i found...but lets just say they're turtle doves.) I had some pretty posh Christmas fabric leftover from table runners I made as gifts last year and we recycled the stuffing from an old throw pillow Bri was getting rid of. I glued little alligator hair clips to the bellies and Nash helped me perch them all on branches of the tree. We then added all the ornaments we've collected over the years. Josh has a bunch of pretty rad ones from growing up including, an awesome spiderman, a Santa rock climbing, a sweet old fashioned skier, and many other treasures! His mom has given him one every year since he was born. We also have some that belonged to my dear Gma Becky and ones we've begun to collect for ourselves and of coarse passing on the tradition and getting one for Nash every year. This year he picked mickey mouse playing the drum.

I grabbed some scissors, put on my boots and headed in the back yard to cut branches from our plump little blue spruce to set on the mantel. Added our stocking hangers, some lights, and one of the magazine trees we crafted up this year! Josh was such a trooper and even made one himself! His was the best...of coarse. We spray glued them than added some glitter for a little bling. Perfect.

The best part about going homemade this year was all the stories it brought out of everyone. Our parents, gma Diane, and even lots of friends shared memories of making their own decorations, many which were very similar to ours.

Some highlights of the Holiday were:
The JNP Christmas concert. The girls blew me away with how well they performed.
Zoo Lights, even though we pretty much froze to death.
Nash's Secret elf!, My parents did the 12 days of Christmas for Nash and he was convinced it was an elf leaving him gifts on the door step every night! He'd yell out "Fank you" from the door and was so excited I thought his head would explode!!! My parents are amazing and spoil their grand kids oodles and in such fun ways! Mom never does anything so-so, its always a dreamboat.
Bradford Family party, Santa comes every year and Nash was ecstatic to see him and tell him everything he wanted! This year it was a dog pillow pet and a hot wheels criss cross crash!
Matson family party, Nash is in love with little Natalie Matson and the white elephant gift exchange is always off the hook. I stumbled across a real gem this year and got a sweet Bruce Lee pocket knife with a special box just for it! I'm so glad McKenna got it so maybe Nash will inherit it some day!
Playing Santa, This is the first year that Josh and I actually had to be sneaky and really "play" Santa. It was a fun excuse to get baby sitters, go shop for our nugget and squeeze in a mom & dad only dinner.
Christmas Eve, We had dinner up at Zack's, visited, played games and opened gifts. Liz made every couple and each grandchild their own tie quilt! Talk about a busy lady!!! She did this not only for Zack's kids, but for all of hers and her grand kids...which is a ton! She even made one for our little peanut a brewing in my belly! WOW!! We then headed to my parents for coffee, dessert, and to open our Christmas Jammie! It wouldn't be Christmas without our Christmas Jammies! My mom splurges and gets the girls the best PJ's ever. I look forward to that gift more than any other, i wear them all year!s
Christmas Day!, and what a day it was! We had to wake Nash and he was still a bit of a zombie when he came in to see what Santa had brought. Although slightly comatosed, he was super excited and kept saying "what i always wanted" he's so damn cute! We threw on our clothes and headed to my parents. I'm so happy my brothers both live near and that we have NEVER spent a Christmas apart! Hope it always stays that way. Gmahaha. Jade, Ava, and Nash made a killing then pretended to kill each other with their marshmallow loaded guns in the front yard. A highlight of the day for sure, props to aunt Helena for the fun idea! We headed home and took a quick nap then headed to papa Zack's to have breakfast for dinner and to play games. We played some sort of group charades that had us all acting like giant fools and laughing our bellies sore! It was a great day. It's quite convenient having both of our parents so close so we don't have to juggle the families. It was so great to be able to spend our Holiday with both of them.

I didn't get a lot of pictures this year...kicking myself for that now, but here's a few.