Well the weekend has come and went doesn't last too long. This weekend many things have happened. Firstly All the kids seem to be under the weather Friday but Ryan had a fever since Thursday night. While sitting around at dinner I looked over at Ryan cause he was whining a bit. He hadn't been eating much and was overall just feeling terrible when I looked at him his finger tips looked a little purplish and so did the top of his lips. I gave him some Advil cause his temperature was back up and we dressed him and got him into the car for a trip to the Picton Hospital to have him checked out. I guess it must have been pediatric night cause everyone one there that night was either a toddler or a child under the age of 10 . I guess there was a bug going around which consisted of a cough and fever. Ryan had a cough, fever, laboured breathing and now his lips were a little purple/blue. When we arrived at the hospital his colour had returned back to normal but we thought well since we are here we might as well have him checked out anyway. It was a 1-2 hr wait and after the first hour Rhonda came through the door carrying Rhett. He too was having difficulty breathing, running a fever and had started to throw up as well. Fortunately Ryan's ears, throat and chest were clear but they did prescribe him new puffers. Before leaving we checked in to see how Rhonda and Rhett were doing but they were going to be a bit still so we brought Ryan back to get him to bed. We all waited up to hear news on Rhett but Rhonda called around 1am to let us know Rhett was being sent to the Bellville hospital and so Shaun and Mark ( Pattie's husband) drove to Bellville (1hr drive) to bring her an overnight bag. Cary and I decided to go to bed thinking Rhonda wouldn't be home till at least the morning. Well at 5am I had Patty knocking on our door. I was in such a daze all I heard was can you or Cary go pick up Rhonda and Rhett cause eMark hit a deer with the car. I was like what??? I guess she had said more to me but I didn't hear it but I was already thinking Mark hit a deer with Rhonda's rental car (from Mississippi and already has a huge hospital bill) and now he must be in the hospital and Rhonda and Rhett need to be pick up. Fortunately no one was hurt and the car had little damage but Mark was just too tired to drive all the way there again so Cary went. Rhonda had told us they had let Rhett go 5minutes after Shaun and Mark had left.....urrrrrr! So everyone in the house had pretty much little to no sleep. We were walking around like zombies the next morning. Turns out they believe Rhett was just suffering from an asthma attract on top of a cold. To top it off a couple of weeks ago I went to town with Ry to send out some mail and I pull off to the side of the road to make a call, since there isn't any cell phone service within 15km of the camp but ended up putting my truck in the ditch instead. Here in Milford when they plow the roads the truck goes far over making the illusion of a shoulder of the road but like I said it's just an illusion therefore when I put the truck into park the whole truck just slid sideways and I we were tilted over. I had a guy stop and tell me to put it into 4X4 back it up a bit and I should be able to drive it out of there but when I did it the truck tip even more and now it was farther in the ditch so I called the local towing company. I got back to the house to tell them what happened and they chuckled at me. Less than a week later Shaun went to town and a few hours later we got a phone call asking to pick him up cause his SUV was in the ditch we all had a good laugh cause he had to call the same towing company and happened to get the same guy I did. Ahhh good times!!!
Saturday we went to the local Milford Carnival.........we had a blast Shaun won first place in the bed racing competition, the played tree stump ice curling, and toilet seat toss........yep it was a true red neck carnival.
