I hate weeks that Kyleigh is sick. Its literally like loosing a week (or two or three or 6 months) of your life. Every time we are in the hospital I come out not even knowing what day it is or anything.

This pic pretty much sums our entire week and weekend. When Ky is feeling really badly she wants to be held… 24/7. We even had to break out the sling (which is AMAZING BTW… its a ZoloWear that several of my photography forum friends bought me years ago when Ky was tiny) and put her in it because she would just SCREAM if we put her down and our lives have to go on. I wish I was able to do nothing all day but sit on the couch and hold her but reality sets in and you have to bathe the boys, cook dinner, do the laundry and………. notice what Troy is doing??? If you can guess what that is I will send you a prize! WHAT IS THE PRIZE?? I dunnow yet… but I will think of something! So… when you leave your comments… try to guess what is happening! There are clues in other posts and pictures!

Back to the story… So how is Kyleigh? She is doing better. The light is back in her eyes which means a lot in our world. When she is sick you can SEE it. Evidently Omnicef is NOT a good drug for kids (or our kid anyhow) with intestinal issues. The omnicef that we gave her for an ear infection starting monday- darn nearly shut down her intestines by Thursday. Lucky enough for me … we have BTDT once before. Our favorite friends Laura and Emma were (Laura… rewind to October… yeah that is what I dealt with again this week! Nice right?) staying with us so that Emma could see Dr. Levitt (butt surgeon) in Cincy. Ky did the SAME thing. Started pooping blood… horrible irritable.. lots of pain… definitely some major bacteria issue happening in there.

We have managed to get it under control and we are home with gut rest (pedialyte only on a continuous feed… sigh) and flagyl in the g-tube to ward off the intestinal issues and large doses of probiotic (more than normal). It seems to be doing the trick. Ky relapsed on Saturday and had a horrible day but we were able to get it back under control.

So now we know. Even an ear infection for Kyleigh can be life altering. And NO MORE OMNICEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have sworn it off. We did end up having a good discussion with Megan (the ped) about supplementing ANY antibiotic run for Kyleigh with Flagyl seeing as how her flora is an extremely delicate balance. She constantly teeters on flora disaster obviously and at least running Flagyl with each antibiotic would be better than spending more weeks like this one!

On a brighter note… Couponing this week was HUGE!

Deals of the week for me:
Walgreens : I had $50 worth of Register Rewards that I had to roll because they were expiring on Sunday. I managed to find plenty of stuff that was on sale, more RR, FREEBIES and good stuff to use that up.

I got:
2/$3 Oscar Meyer Bacon
2/$3 Eggs
(2) Gilette Fusion Razor (FREE after coupons and RR)
(1) Schick Quattro Razor (FREE after coupons)
(2) Bottles of Pedialyte (man that stuff is EXPENSIVE!) 2/$4
(2) Rolls of Reynolds wrap ($2.79 with WAGS coupon- $1 MFR coupon)
(3) Boxes of Tampax Tampons ($6.99-$2 WAGS coupon- $1 MFR coupon= $3.99 each)
(6) Cans Hunts Tomato Sauce ($0.39 cents each)
(1) Triaminic ($2.99 after Rebate and coupon)
(1) Axe Hair Gel (for owen’s new spiked look!- FREE with rebate)
(4) Boxes of Kelloggs Frosted Flakes Cereal (4/$10 – $2 RR = 4/$8 – (2) $1 /2 = 4/$6 = $1.50 each)
(1) Neutrogena Facial Scrub (I am OUT and I do not compromise on this although it rarely goes on sale! – $7.99)
(6) Small cute things for the easter baskets ($0.39 each with WAGS coupon)
(4) Russell Stover Easter eggs ($0.39 each)
(6) Wonka Easter Candies ($0.39 each)
(2) Motts Apple Juice (WAGS sale 2/$4 – $0.75 coupons)
(1) 3 pack of Ivory Soap (use tons of this in my laundry room to get out chocolate stains) $1.78
(1) Fingernail brush (its summer… gotta get the dirty from under there!)

Then I was off to TARGET!
I was a little disappointed that not even 4 hours into their sale day- FIRST day… the aisle was EMPTY of razors.

The Schick Quattro was $6.99- Buy TWO get $5 gift card. Use TWO $4/1 coupons from the 3/22 Smartsource = $8 off. $5.98 out of pocket – $5 in gift card = $0.98 or $0.49 each!

AND it was stock up day for me for Herbal Essences! I had coupons about to expire and I love their shampoos! I got 12 shampoos-
SALE $2.99 each – $3/2 coupon from 2/8 P&G (exp 3/31) = $2.98 for two or $1.49 each
AND as a bonus… I found an endcap that had all the shampoos with the EXTRA 40% free so I got nearly 1/2 times the shampoo for free! It may take me a year to use it all but it was cheaper than buying 1 shampoo and 1 conditioner at full price.

Now… for my biggest buy of the year thus far (well other than the diaper deal at WAGS!)

Walmart Overage paid for my groceries this week!

Glucerna Cereal is rolled back to $3.97. I have a $5 off coupon! That means they PAID ME $1.03 to take the cereal home! I had 5 of those for a total of $5.15 in overage.

THEN there are $2.83 Gentle Care Wipes. Ihad some $5 off any Gentle Care Product left over so those yielded $2.17 EACH in overage. I had 7 of those for a total of $15.19.

Then I had $1 off any Johnson’s Bath Buddy Product. My kids are newly in love with those! They are $0.97 at Wally so they each produce $0.03 in overage. Total – $0.36

All total they paid me $20.70 to take home those three products!

With my credit I purchased:
(1) Gallon of Milk
(2) packs of cheese
(1) package of bologna
(1) Spaghetti Packet
(1) Loaf of Bread
(1) Bag of Oreos
(8) bananas
(4) Apples
(1) Canteloupe
(5 lb) Potatoes
(3 lb) Ground Chuck
(1) Mac N Cheese
(2) Cans Tuna
(4) Vienna Sausage (don’t ask… owen loves them and sometimes its the only thing we can get Kyleigh to eat!)
(3) Tiny swirl suckers because they were just too cute!
(1) bag of M&M’s (my treat for all my money saving efforts!)

For FREE I also have in this pic:
(5) Boxes of Glucerna Cereal
(9) Huggies Gentle Care Changing Pads
(12) Johnson’s Buddy Bars

Total Paid out of Pocket $4.48 at one store $6.00 at another. TOTAL: $10.48.

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