Easton....

Well today's the day we find out if Easton will have to endure surgery on his arm and hand. We are both nervous and scared out of our minds. It's almost noon here and I'm sitting at work trying to stay calm and hold it together, I needed to be at work today to keep my mind on something other than Easton's "hand fate". Brett is not so lucky in that he is with him all day.

Last night during "wound care" it appeared that it was healing a bit in places, so we are not sure what the Surgeon will say, we are told that they might want to wait a little longer and see what happens, I don't think Brett and I can keep up this waiting game, it's killing us not knowing Easton's fate.

Brett had a really hard day yesterday seeing Easton in pain. Last night was the worse. Easton was up from 11 pm till 6 am this morning. Needless to say we didn't get any sleep nor did he as he was in pain. Not sure if the medicine is working still or not.

We just pray that our little boys hand and arm will look normal and have full use of his fingers, knuckles and such. We keep seeing photos of his hands before the accident and it breaks our hearts as his hand was just perfect, so small and innocent, soft and "plump" little fingers ready to explore the world.

Brett and I are just mixed with emotions right now, Brett is angry now and me I'm just numb. WE know accidents happen, but it's so hard when it's your baby (child). You feel so helpless and you wish you could just change places so they don't have to be in pain.

The only blessing we have is that Easton is such a happy baby, he's our brave little boy.

Please pray today for us and his future. Pray that we have the strength to get through this. Pray for our friends who are devasted by this incident in their home. Pray that if Easton has surgery that he recovers 100%.

Heather & Brett and Mitchell Webb

P.S. These photos were taken on Monday. The dazed one is Easton on Drugs...LOL....

Baby Easton Hospitalized

Beautiful Eyes...Our Brave Little Man!!!

Well let's add some more anxiety to my (our) life. On Wednesday 1/28 we got a call from our friends Roni & Ronnie who watch Easton on Wednesday's. Easton was burnt. I was at work in Seattle, when the call came in from Brett who was up in Everett at Comcast Arena. We talked and agreed he'd pick up Easton from them and I'd meet him at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland.

I beat Brett to the hospital by about 15 minutes, I was a wreck since I didn't know the extent of his burn(s). I told the front desk in the ER that our 8 month old was en route with 3rd degree burns (our sitters husband is a Children's Hospital ER nurse and told us it was blistering).

When Brett pulled up I was curbside waiting, I had the door flung open before Brett could get out of the car, the wet towel that was protecting his wound fell down and I saw a partial glimpse of his burn, I freaked. I had to have Brett take him out of the car seat. I grabbed Easton from Brett and ran into the ER. They waved me back to the Triage room, when the whole towel fell off his arm and I saw all off his burns, I went into hysterics and was starting to hyperventilate. They got me called down by reminding me he was gonna feed off of my emotions.

They took his vitals and by then Brett was running in through the ER doors to where I was sitting. They then took us back to wait for the Dr. While we were waiting I had Brett run out to the car to get the diaper bag (since the clothes Easton was wearing were soaking wet from the towel that was protecting his wounds). While Brett was at the car the Dr. came in and took one look at Easton's burns and said we needed to go to Harbor View. He left the room. In the meantime Brett had come back into the room to me crying hysterically again telling him that they wanted us to go to Harbor View... just then the nurse came in and said a ambulance was on the way for him. They drugged Easton up pretty good for the ride and to stop the pain.

Ok...can I say that I was freaking at the point as was Brett. Easton was passed out by the time the ambulance arrived 40 minutes later. Brett followed us to the hospital in our car.

We arrived at Harbor View in about 30 minutes (got to love traffic from the Eastside right at rush hour). We pulled up to the ER....ok for anyone like myself who does not know the reputation for Harbor View, this is the place where the die hard druggies go, the gun shot wounds, etc. go. I walked in through the doors to a lobby full of police officers, ambulance drivers, Doctors, nurses, it was absolutely crazy. I was freaking out once again.

They led me and Easton back tot he Triage room, where I was met by about 7 people all questioning me to what happened, then more people were coming in asking what happened, I felt like a broken record at this point and Brett still had not arrived.

(ok I love Grey's Anatomy and I totally felt like I was on this TV show, you know when they are waiting outside the doors for an ambulance to come, and it's crazy with people everywhere, etc)

I was then told that this was a "teaching" hospital I made the comment "Oh like Grey's Anatomy" and the cute Pediatrician says "sort of, we are cuter and there's less sex", thank god for humor at this point.

By then Brett had shown up with the "social worker", he was freaking about that. LOL...protocol.

Needless to say the CUTE plastic surgeons (yes they are as cute as Dr. McSteamy)...LOL took a look at Easton and told me what "could" happen, our friend Ronnie also kind of let us know what we might be in for. They told us they wanted to keep us overnight. By this point it was now 8 pm and Easton's arm was still exposed to the element. Nothing was happening so I sent Brett home to take care of the dogs, get Mitchell settled with our friends, pack up stuff for Easton and I and then head back.

By 8:15 we were on our way up the Burn Clinic. We got up to the 8th floor, and were put in a room only to wait again. A nurse came in and FINALLY took care of Easton's burns, they put cream, gauze, and 2 hospital socks taped around so he couldn't put his hand in his mouth.

By 9:15 I was finally able to get into a room and nurse Easton and put him to sleep (they gave him more meds). Brett arrived and kept me company and cried with me till about 11 pm and then he had to get home to the dogs.

We both tried to sleep that night but neither of us had much luck with that.

1/29 - The next morning they came and got Easton and I to give him a bath and do "wound care", this is where you get to see the wound and they show you how to take care of it. She had me "try" to remove the bandages, but I just couldn't do it....when the nurse got it off I was able to give him a bath and see the damage. Once again I freaked as it was worse than the day before and you could see where the 3rd degree burns were (the white part). She showed me how to re bandage him and that too I had trouble with. So she again helped me with that.

They wanted to know if I thought I could take care of it, I was freaking out as Brett still hadn't gotten there. When he did arrive we were told we were going to be discharged around 1 pm. I was like I can't do the wound care, and they overheard me telling Brett this and so they pulled him aside and told him that we could stay as long as we needed to and until we were comfortable with handling his care.

Easton also had slept for 14 hours straight and only had 1 wet diaper in over 24 hrs, so the were concerned that he was getting dehydrated. So we stayed another night. I told Brett he had to be here in the morning (Friday) so he could help me with Easton as I couldn't do the wound care by myself again.

1/30 - Friday morning, time for wound care - 11:30 am...I took the sock off Easton's had and you could see all the discoloration of the wound through the bandages, I carefully pulled the next layer off, to be met with more gauze "mess", and I starting to freak yet again, and Brett was welling up, we removed the next layer, and the next and by then we were both crying. It looked worse than the day before - more white (not pink which is what you want)....

Brett gave Easton a bath while I cried some more and prepped the new gauze to be applied. Brett held Easton while I put the gauze on and the nurse helped show us what to do, I was having a hard time, and so was Brett it just looked so painful for Easton. About 30 minutes later (oh and yes they drugged him to the hilt before all of this), we were back in our room, and I was nursing him until he fell asleep.

They wanted to discharge us today, but Brett and I were so freaked out at the thought of having to do the wound care by ourselves that we told them we wanted one more day and one more day of practice.

We go back to the Dr. on Wednesday next week to determine if Easton will have to have a skin graph. It appears that he will, but we are not Dr.'s or experts. They say children are resilient and that he could heal without it, but they want to wait a week and see how it heals and if they will need to help it along.

We will keep everyone posted hopefully on here or via phone calls. Please pray for him and for our strength to get through this.

Heather & Brett

P.S. We are very greatful that Easton was with "The Roni's" when this happened as he was in great hands, just an unfortnuate accident - he crawled or rolled over to their gas fireplace and his arm got burnt on the glass & vent. Then "Mr." Ronnie went into nurse mode - thank GOD!!!

DECEMBER 10th, 2008 - Christmas....

Hey Everyone, well you are probably wondering if I fell off the face of the earth? Well I sure do feel like I have. It's been a rough month let me tell you....



December 10th, 2008
Brett and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary. We went to dinner at our favorite restaurant "Scott's" (no pun intended) in Mountlake Terrace. It was sooo good! Brett gave me an early Christmas present...front row seats for two to watch the Seahawks against The Jets ( my BOY BRETT FAVRE!!!!)....and I got my own Green Bay Packers Jersey!!!

Sunday, December 21st, 2008
The day of the game the 21st of December, it was snowing like a B***H here! I took "Brett's Jamie" with me, we drove in with Brett (he worked the game) and had breakfast and then the stadium opened up at 11 am. We got to our seats just as my Boy Brett was warming up...then all hell broke lose...I got the dreaded phone call.....

My office was raining!!! Mitchell had gone into the office (which we normally keep locked from him when we are not at home) and saw the water pouring out of the ceiling... We had three pipes burst in our brand new office (my side only) and the garage....thank god I have the best nieghbors and friends ever...and they came to our rescue...thanks Andy, Shahram, Dave, and Brett's childhood friend Ryan (burst pipe fixer!!!)....

Since Brett was working we couldn't get home...I tried really hard to enjoy the game but my mind was elsewhere thinking of my poor scrapbook room, photos, albums, etc. I had just got my office complete and had posted it on "Rate My Space" http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/Girls-Rooms/My-Scrapbook-Haven/detail.esi?oid=1439130

After we got home - around 8 pm that night....we had to face the music. I didn't want to go in there as I was afraid of what I'd find. Luckily my photos/albums were not touched - thank god my laptop was upstairs (see the photos of the office - where the laptop sits is where the water was pouring in) - I would have lost my computer....

I tended to the office with the carpet cleaner sucking up water, it was no use it kept coming and coming - 10 buckets later and it was still a few inches of water in the carpet. Brett tended to the garage (I did not go in there) until the next morning.

We were up till midnight doing damage control.

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
The next morning Brett went and rented a UHAUL moving van. It was my first time in the garage and it was worse than I expected. All the sheet rock was saturated and all of our shelving completely full had ripped out of the walls and everything came crashing down to the middle of the garage, everything was soaking wet....

My mom had just brought hers and my real dad's china to me and it was on the floor in the garage and a few pieces got broken (40 years old) I was devastated...I lost it I started to cry hysterically....the more I dug in, the more damage I found. My first task - get everything out of that garage, the top shelf had not crashed yet and we had about 20 gallons of paint on that shelf and if it came crashing we'd have lost everything.

Bless our neighbors Ronnie and David who were gracious enough to come help us load everything into the moving van - did I say that we have the BEST neighbors!!!!

That night Service Master sent a crew out for damage....they set up I think 9 blowers and 2 dehumidifiers, to dry everything out. Those were set up 24/7 for 1 week (so excited to see my power bill)

So now we are two days out from Christmas....we have 12" of snow on the ground.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Brett had a Dr. Apt scheduled for his hernia and to go over his results from his Colonoscopy that he had on the 18th...the hernia had gotten worse due to him moving everything into the moving van...she wanted to do surgery right away....

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 - CHRISTMAS EVE
6:00 am we are on our way to Northwest Hospital for Brett's surgery...Yep...we spent our Christmas Eve in the hospital, Brett made it with flying colors. He was released around 1 pm and I was freaking out all morning that I was going to have to drive in the snow (which I DO NOT DO) and thank goodness it was raining and the roads were clear!


Thursday, December 25th, 2008 - CHRISTMAS
Easton's first Christmas, I wish I could say it was the best holiday ever but it wasn't. I was extremely depressed over the water damage, my house looked like a missile had gone off in it, I had spent 3 weeks cleaning and preparing for family to arrive (which they didn't due to the snow) only to have to deal with the pipes, Brett's surgery and spending the holidays without my extended family and I hate clutter to no end to the point I get anxiety about it.

We tried to make the best of it, but we got another 8" of snow that night and so we were in lock down all day. I made breakfast for the boys and we watched movies and hung out. I still could not shake this depression I was having or the anxiety.

Happy Holidays....from the Webb's

Weight Loss Update - Week 8

Well...I'm in week 8 right now. After 6 weeks they ask that you take your measurements and you have the option of weighing in. Since I believe your weight is just a number I wasn't too concerned with that portion. However I was very excited to take my measurements. So after taking my measurements, which I will post...I lost a total of 15 inches! I had to go to my doctor to check in as he wanted to run labs and make sure my iron count was ok (since I'm anemic). And they slipped and told me what I weighed (I always way backwards - I don't want to know) but they let it slip and I lost 15 lbs. Not bad for 6 weeks...I'm down 2 pant sizes and everyday it feels like the inches are melting away. Stay tuned I will post more at my 12 week mark.

Floor Ordeal

A year ago Brett and I had Pergo Laminate flooring in. A month ago I noticed that the tiles surrounding our fireplace were cracked and bulging away from the wall. Brett called Lowe's and told them the floor was causing this to happen. They sent a flooring guy out to take a look, and sure enough, not only was that the issue but our entire flooring was failing and that it was installed incorrectly. He said they needed to be completely replaced.

So Lowe's honored our warranty and said they would replace our flooring. They delivered wood on the 31st of October since it had to sit for 3 days to aclimate. Monday, the 3rd the movers came and packed our belongings, and on Tuesday, the 4th, the moving company came and took our things to storage. The flooring guys then showed up and tore out our old flooring on Thursday and realized that LOWE's didn't deliver enough wood to do our floors, so they delivered some more wood (but then it had to aclimate for 3 days), so I'm without my house, without my floors and I have two kids going into the weekend, I have no kitchen at this point. So LOWE's put us up in a hotel for 4 nights...We got back to our house Sunday evening. Monday, the 10th, they installed the new flooring.

Our trim however didn't survive being ripped off the wall twice and then professionally painted, so LOWE"S sent their guys out today Wednesday, the 12th to remove and install all new trim. They are also replacing our tile around our fireplace (which they will install in the next few days), the trim was not painted, but was primed and so Joe our painter is coming tonight around 9pm to paint all of it.

Thursday, the 13th, our furniture to being delivered, thank goodness!!!

Friday, the 14th, we get to go get the dogs who have been at the breeders house, playing with all their relatives....

What an ordeal....but there is light at the end of the tunnel, or so I hope.


They started almost 2 weeks ago, they hired a moving company to pack our entire downstairs space and move it into storage while they completed the floors (this was Monday 11/4 - 11/5), then on the 7th Lowe's delivered the wood that had to sit for 3 days to aclimate. The flooring company came out on Monday and tore up the existing floor

Weight Loss Progress - Week 3

Well I'm in week three and going strong. I've had some trouble getting enough calories in, can you believe that...LOL....It's hard eating healthy, as you have to eat alot to get enough. For instance I wanted to get a coffee so I thought I'd get a Sugar Free Vanilla Breve Latte this morning, without realizing how many calories I was consuming until I was talling up my totals for the day....568 Calories!!!! for a DRINK! Can you say I"M NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN, but I did meet my calories today....

I'm out of my maternity jeans (THANK GOODNESS)....I am in my Fat jeans now, but they are getting looser on me every week, when I first started I couldnt zip them up, now I can zip them up and they are loose in my waist, butt and hip area.

Well this is all the news about my transformation....stay tuned for more