Tuesday, October 16, 2007

MAJOR Upheavals

Wow, what a week. Wednesday night Keegen started throwing up and it continued until about 2:30AM when Ashlee took him to the Emergency Room. We needed to be sure that the naseau wasn't related to his head injury. It turns out that while at the ER for stitches we contracted a horrible GI bug that typically gives you 24 hours of puking, followed by 5 days of diahreea. Well, Bode started throwing up Thursday night and both the boys had hopefully there last puke Sunday morning. Ashlee and I both felt awful, though we never actually purged like the boys. It was a good 5 days of constantly laying up with the boys and washing sheets, towels and clothes. Here are some of the high and low points.
  • Holding Keegen while he throws up and looks at you with those eyes that say, why aren't you helping me?
  • Holding Bode while in between pukes he says "I don't want more stroats" and "Daddy can't you help me?".
  • One morning Bode started throwing up, I grabbed a towel and caught most of it in the towel. Two seconds later Bode says, in his sad little voice "nice catch dad".

Hopefully we are well on the mend and won't run into anything like that soon again.

ALSO, I interviewed last Monday for a new job in my current company. I am going to be moving from my current job "Business Process Analyst" which none of you know what I do to a "Business Operations Manager". It will be a promotion and give me a team of 6 people to manage and have reporting to me. The new business I will be managing is also working on this huge opportunity with the military, where they will be spending 45 Billion dollars over the next 20 years to move, build and consolidate military bases in Guam and Hawaii. We hope to win a large chunk of that business, which would be great for my career.

5 comments:

Alyson Tolman said...

Congrats on the new job :0) I'm so happy you will have a new job that I still don't get, but as long as you are happy and it is supporting your family KUDOS.

Sorry you had such a nasty bug. I hate that. It gets a whole lot better when they are old enough to make it to the bathroom or aim for a bowl. Just a couple of more years :0) Glad everyone is feeling better.

Alyson

Doug said...

Thank you Al. The new job is basically this: I manage 6 people who keep track of the finances for a bunch of our programs. That sounded more clear in my head.

I wonder if my boys will be like me and holler for Mom and Dad when they feel sick and head for the toilet. I plan to be there ready with a towel adn some Sprite.

Anonymous said...

Sorry to hear about all the "puking" but glad that it seems to be over with. Also glad Keegen got all stitched up and was such a brave boy.

Excited to hear about your new job and am sure you will continue to shine there. And thanks for the explanation of what the job entails. I still don't know what Bill does!

Dianne

Kristin and Alyssa said...

hey alyssa im back read it! im going to dads on november 17th isnt that oh and email me at lissa_fo_fissa@yahoo.com ok by

Kristin and Alyssa said...

:)