My child acts like a crazy person...

So to most outsiders, my dear little Syd acts like a cute little angel. But once you get in on the inside....well it's another story.

Example...today at Old Navy...we went with my mom to get some new jeans for Sydni. Well, while we were there we got a whole cart full because it was an extra 30% off! So we go into the dressing room and Syd is trying on clothes (which she loves to do) when all of a sudden she decides to step up and stand on the front of the cart. Well, then the cart starts to slide into the wall, so I told her to get off of it. What did she say? She said, "Uh, no." So I said, "You need to get off of it now or I am going to have to count to 3" so she says "No, it's my stage, I'm not getting off." So I say "Okay, I am going to count to 3 now and if I get to 3 we're leaving do you understand?" And she says "No." So I say "Okay, 1.....2..............3. We're leaving!!" So she starts SCREAMING....no not crying, or loud whining...she was at the top of her lungs screaming like I was beating her with a bat. Well of course, Old Navy dressing rooms aren't completely enclosed so I know everyone heard. I was so embarrassed. She started pushing the cart into me while I was putting clothes on the hangers and folding shirts (so that the lady wouldn't have to clean up our large mess) she started smacking my arms when I pulled her away from the cart...she started sliding her hands over the clothes I folded, causing them to fall on the floor...she pulled the clothes on the hangers off the wall where they were hanging....she didn't calm down until she realized I was serious and then she had the nerve to say to me "if you let me try on the rest of the clothes I'll stop, I promise." OMG. I almost lost it!!! She refused to take the clothes off that she was trying on....that was a battle to get her pants back on. She continued to scream at me but at a higher level when I told her that trying on the rest of the clothes wasn't an option. P.S this lasted for probably 25 minutes while what seemed like the WHOLE WORLD was listening. So, I cleaned up, walked to the car and went home. She was NOT happy. So after being housebound with her since Monday (because she was sick), this was not the most pleasant way to spend our first day back out into the world.

Wow..I needed to vent.

Okay, well fyi she is currently playing with her Littlest Pet Shop toys on the living room floor (2 hours post meltdown) and we had a thorough discussion when we got home of how she can't scream like that when we're out because someone will assume I'm hurting her, and the last thing anyone wants is for someone to tell the police that. She was pretty upset about that, but she now understands that the only time to scream like that is if someone is trying to take her or hurt her. And she knows why I wouldn't let her try on any more clothes or buy her any for that matter....because I told her that I don't do nice things because I want her to like me or because I feel like I have to...I do them because I love her and thinks that she deserves to do nice fun things when she is being a good girl (i.e., having manners, listening, etc) and that when she isn't and she refuses to listen she isn't showing me respect and that makes me think that she is ungrateful for everything that is done for her. I asked her if she thought I should've let her get the clothes, try on more clothes or if I should take her back because she apologized and she told me no. I asked her if it was me being that bad and her being the mommy if she would've let me do any of those things and she said "noooooooo."

Sigh.....
Okay, well she is over it now. I hope that doesn't happen again for a while or ever. It was quite stressful.

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Oh my health.....

If it's not one thing it's another right??

So I have had this inconsistent sharp pain right below my rib cage on my left side since May 2009. I got it checked out with a ctscan (because I had previously had an enlarged spleen causing similar pain) and everything was fine. So then just incase I had a liver biopsy for my Hep B to make sure everything was okay with that. That was fine also. Okay well about a month ago I started having this abdominal pain again. The sharp pain on the left side..etc...well it then started going to my back, my shoulders, my right side, and now it's chest pains, upper right abdominal pain, inner left ribcage pain......seriously...who wouldn't worry??

So I got a CBC, which was normal, they did two tests, Lipase, and Amylase, both normal, got checked for celiac disease, negative and I got my hepatitis blood work back which I am unable to translate because..well I'm not a doctor. All I know is it looks awful and frankly scares the shit out of me....what do I do now? I am definitely scared and I have to wait until Monday to hear anything from my Hepatologist because he is out of town right now.....whoo hooooooo...

Ya, so that's what's been on my mind lately. I have pains that cannot be diagnosed....I think that my primary physician thinks I'm crazy.....and I just instinctively think the worst you know? Ugh. This sucks.