Dog Tired

Just when you think everything is running smoothly, life will sometimes remind you not to get too comfortable.

Yesterday, I found a dress for the wedding I'm attending on Saturday.  Then I found the perfect shoes to go with my new perfect dress. 

I was practically giddy having accomplished all of that when I found two of the biggest Boston ferns that I've ever seen (also to be used at the wedding), and the peonies are even cooperating and should be beautiful by Saturday!

After finding the ferns I went on to find the perfect wedding gift, well perfect in my mind anyway, and I even phoned Mr. Tide to tell him how swimmingly everything was going!  He suggested we go out and buy a lottery ticket...but I convinced him to go out to eat instead!

It was at dinner that "life," that crazy thing that can be perfectly perfect one minute where everything is going your way, got turned upside down!

Our son Bugs had met us for dinner and I could tell right away that he just wasn't quite himself.  He wasn't chatting and joking around like he normally does and I asked him several times at dinner if he was ok, to which he replied, "I'm fine Mom," followed by an eye roll.  But we moms know these things, that's why we're moms, right?

As we neared the end of dinner, he had barely touched his food and it was then that he finally admitted that he didn't feel quite right.  So I left Mr. Tide to pay the bill and head to the grocery store, while I drove our son home.  As we got closer to home he started feeling worse, tingling and numbness in his hands, headache, feeling lightheaded, and nauseous, something he had experienced once before just a few weeks ago.

So instead of heading home I took him to the emergency room at our local hospital.  Numbness, tingling and a severe headache are not things to mess around with, especially in an otherwise healthy 18 year old!  They ran some tests, and for now it appears that he may have been dehydrated, which is what we suspected was the problem 2 weeks ago.  He used to get dehydrated easily when he was younger, but we thought that phase of his life was long gone, but apparently not!  And they are also running  several blood tests for Lymes and other tick-borne diseases, just to be sure that it isn't one of those.

So, although it was not the perfect ending to the perfect day, it was not as bad as it could have been.  Hopefully the tests will all come back negative, like the preliminary ones which they already  ran at the ER..  And our not so little boy will just need to drink lots more water and not go for hours worrying about taking care of others while running on the local rescue squad, and forget about taking care of himself in the process!

After spending hours at the emergency room last night, and not sleeping very well because I was worried about my baby boy, I think Mr. Quinn (Miss Kylee prefers to hang out under my desk and not on the bed) and I will be doing a lot of this today!  And we'll be surrounded by a big bunch of freshly cut peonies and roses, because I'm dog tired and puppies and posies make everything better!

***Oh, and while I'm napping, be sure to head over to my friend Annelise's blog Annie Wilcox Designs for her first great Giveaway!  She's giving away a one hour color consultation which she can do for you no matter where in the world you live! Click HERE to find out more!***