I should blog more often. Then I might realize that my web page has been messed up for who knows how long.

As usual, my prompts to blog come from kids getting sick. I really learned my lesson this time. It started a few weeks ago when Mason got sick with strep. Just as he was finishing his antibiotics Jaxon got it, too. At this point I should have realized that it was time to blog but nnnoooOOOooo. I didn't do it. So everyone else started getting sick with sore throats and colds, but no more strep.

Well, my blogging activity got a shove on Monday. I got a call from Emilie informing me that Jaxon and Mason had obtained and finished off a bottle of children's Ibuprofen and Tylenol. Mason confessed to drinking the medicine but Jaxon denied it. Emilie called Poison Control and they said both kids needed to go to the ER to be checked for Tylenol poisoning. So I rushed home and then headed for the ER.

I continued to try to get the straight story from the boys but kept getting the same answer. Mason said he drank it and Jaxon denied. Neither knew what was ahead of them because they were hopping and skipping around because they were so excited to go to the doctor.

Emilie showed up a bit later once her mom was able to get to our house to watch the other boys. It was a good thing she showed up because she came at the exact moment the skipping and smiling stopped. To try to absorb any Tylenol that may not have been digested yet we had to force Jaxon and Mason to drink charcoal. The nurse warned that it would be messy and horrible and she was not kidding. We forced about three or four syringes full of charcoal down their throats and by the time we were done with the fighting and screaming they both looked like they just finished a shift in the coal mines. Their mouths and teeth were solid black and their arms, face and bodies were coated with charcoal.

The nurse was nice and gave them both purple Otter Pops. And then Jaxon did the ol' charcoal yawn and expelled pretty much everything we forced him to drink.

So everyone started to calm down and relax. And then they came in to draw blood. Mason freaked out. They had to wrap him in a sheet and hold him down to get the blood. When Jaxon took his turn it was much less violent. After the blood tests it turned out that Jaxon had about four times as much Tylenol in his body as Mason and was borderline toxic. Mason got to go home and Jaxon had to stay at the ER. Since he was right on the edge of toxicity the doctor wanted to wait to see if the level was going up or down. After Emilie dropped Mason off at home she came back to hang with Jaxon and I.

A couple of hours later they came back to draw blood again. This time they didn't even bother wrapping the sheet around him or holding him down. They took his arm and started to draw blood and Jaxon said, "Ow, you're hurting me." And then a moment later he calmly complained, "what are you doing to me?"

Fortunately, the levels were staying steady so they discharged him.

Well, the web page is fixed and the twins narrowly escaped a bout of liver failure. I've got plenty more to blog about and I'm going to try to do it this weekend. But now that we've had our emergency and the web page is seemingly fixed I'll need to look for other motivation.