This is a huge week for the Lost and Tired family. Lizze will be returning to the Cleveland Clinic on Thursday. This time she will be visiting their headache clinic. We have both been waiting for this appointment for many months now. For those of you unfamiliar with what's going on, Lizze has had a migraine for most of 2012. She's literally had this migraine for almost 11 months now and it's been horrible for her.  The past few months have been the worst though. She is in so much pain that she's getting sick all the time and can't eat without getting nauseous. Come hell or high water, I'm getting her to that appointment. She deserves relief and I'll do what I must to help her obtain that relief.…

Last night I was cooking dinner.  We we're having real eggs, toast and some leftover steak from the other night. I said real eggs because we normally use egg whites instead. Anyway, out of the dozen eggs that we're in the carton, at least 6 of them had two yolks. These were supposed to be free range chickens, if that matters. In my entire life, I've only seen twin yolks maybe twice.  However, last night, the first half dozen or so eggs that I cracked open were twins. What are the odds of that happening? In the picture above, you can see the last 2 twin yolk eggs I found last night.

Last week Elliott was officially diagnosed with a tree nut allergy.  It's only been a few days and we're still trying to wrap our heads around this and figure out what we do at home. What do we do for him while at school? Lizze and I have decided to keep him home today because we need to speak with the school. I don't know what their policies are in regards to this type of allergy.  For example, Elliott only has two epipens.  Do we send him to school with one, obviously kept in the office? I would think that the school should keep at least one at all times.  However, I want to have more that one at home, just in case.  So we just ask the doctor for…

How do you know when you've lost your mind? Well, in the Lost and Tired family, it's when you reach the point that you find amusement in watching your dog catch whipped cream out of the air, as you shoot it from the can.  I'm pretty sure that's a bad sign.  ;-) Also, I feel compelled to simply say that if you derive too much amusement from this, should get your mind out of the gutter. :O Mom, please don't ask me to explain that to you.  You're far better off not knowing. 

Emmett was eating some jumbo shrimp for lunch this afternoon when he decided that he couldn't deal with the tails.  Now, up to that point, he was eating around the them as is commonly done by most people when they eat shrimp. Today however, he wasn't willing to do that. He first wanted to cut the tail off with a pair of scissors, but we said no.  We explained to him that he just needs to hold it by the tail and use his teeth like scissors and bite off and chew up the part of the shrimp that he's supposed to eat, just like he normally would. Apparently, today the tail was disgusting and he wouldn't even touch it.  However, he didn't let that stop him.  In true Lost…

I love my boys, I truly, truly do.  Okay, with that out of the way.....  Elliott and Emmett are driving me crazy.  They are literally fighting over and bouncing off of everything. I know that it's been a long break but jeez oh man. I'm actually really nervous about Christmas break in a few weeks because Gavin will be added to the mix for a full 2 weeks.  That's going to be akin to lighting a match while swimming in a pool of gasoline.  That may sound dramatic but it honestly won't go well.  We experienced a small sample of this earlier in the week. Currently Lizze is sick and sleeping, fitfully, on the couch.  I would move her upstairs but she been battling insomnia for a few days now…

It's been over a month since Gavin has moved out of our house and into his grandparents house. He seems to be doing really well there a day we're really happy about that.  Unfortunately, Gavin's health is not improving at all, even on the new cardiac meds. Gavin's resting heart rate sits at about 130 bpm +/-. While he was home the other day, he was up in the high 140's and that's not a good thing.  We are currently waiting for his autonomic specialist at the Cleveland Clinic to get back to us about a secondary medication to help slow his heart rate down. This means that at this point, Gavin cannot be considered medically stable.  This makes residential placement all but impossible. We have been advised to set…