Finally! I’m connected. Sort of. We are attempting wireless (again – last time 3 years ago was unsuccessful and we ended up wired) and are having issues with it so I may still be in and out until it’s really going. *sigh*
So, anyway, I’m sure all of you are just dying to know how the last week went. Please, allow me to tell you. *Warning: Copious amounts of exclaimation points coming*
The plan:
- Turn over our apartment in Cali over the weekend
- Load our car and drive to Utah
- Get keys to new apartment
- Buy new washer and pick up dryer from in-laws’ barn
- Paint a few walls
- Move stuff in from trailer when it arrives
- Unpack it all Thursday-Sunday so it can all be put away by Monday when NYDD starts clinics again
- Visit family and friends in Utah that we haven’t seen in a long time
Reality:
- Turned over apartment in Cali over the weekend
- Loaded car and drove to Utah on Tuesday – arriving later than planned because we left an hour later than planned and forgot about the time difference between California and Utah
- Got keys to new apartment
- Found apartment dirty and unfinished! – it was still being turned over when I viewed it and signed the lease and everything and it looks like they stopped work that very day – SERIOUSLY!
- Made innumerable trips to the hardware store
- Finished turning over our own apartment that should have been finished by the owners (!) – oh, and don’t worry, they are soooo being billed for all our hours and materials
- Bought a new washer and arranged for my dad to bring the dryer down on Thursday
- Primed and painted one wall that the owners should have taken care of in the turn over – we had to scrape 3 layers(!) of torn(!) wall paper off ourselves – seriously, who rents out an apartment looking like that and considers it finished!?
- Unloaded our trailer in a somewhat orderly fashion – most boxes made it into the correct rooms and only a couple of things were damaged in shipping and unloading, one being our old entertainment center that NYDD bought 5 years ago for $15 – darn
- Began unpacking our belongings and finding places for them to live
- Changed Peanut’s sheets and pj’s 3 times between midnight and 3:00 am on Friday/Saturday because she barfed on them
- Gave up on sheets and pj’s and switched to towels and onesies when we realized the barfing wasn’t going to stop
- Did eleventy hundred loads of barf and/or diarrhea laundry in my *new* washer and dryer – if I were still doing the coined laundry situation I had in Cali I’d have run away from home and never come back as it was nightmare enough without having to drag it all out of the apartment, down the hall, and try to remember detergent and money
- Said good-bye to my mom who came Wednesday and stayed to help us until Saturday afternoon – thanks mom, I honesty don’t know how we would have done it all without you!!
- Took Peanut to the emergency room at 6 am on Sunday morning for a 105* fever and dehydration where she received IV fluids
- Took Peanut home and tried to sleep and feel better
- Took Peanut back to the ER because she still had a fever of 105*, was still barfing, and still wouldn’t drink or eat anything
- Took Peanut home again after they observed her and gave her more Tylenol and Motrin – wishing we’d just stayed home
- Spent the rest of Sunday night trying to give Peanut little amounts of fluid and control barfing
- NYDD started clinic again on Monday – there were still loads of boxes all over the house that hadn’t even been looked in because instead of unpacking all weekend we spent all our time cleaning up barf and poop and administering food and drink to our only child
- While NYDD was a clinic I spent all day Monday trying to get the house put away between changing majorly nasty diapers, clothes, towels, etc.
- Tuesday more of the same
- Today Peanut is behaving much more normal but is still only wearing a diaper and an undone onesie as the diarrhea persists and she makes the most irritating, horribly grating, screaming sound every time she poops or has pooped or is about to poop (read: for two and a half delightful hours straight this afternoon) – I’m beginning to believe it will never end – yet I feel bad for her because she’s obviously terribly uncomfortable with all the gastro-intestinal issues she’s having
Good times, no?
Basically Peanut and I haven’t seen anyone but each other and NYDD since Sunday night when we were at the ER and we are having major cabin fever but can’t really go anywhere because of the precarious explode-o-diaper situation. It royally sucks. And I hate to say it but because of all the stress from this last week plus being hormonal because I was also on the rag (sorry, I know that’s TMI) I am not feeling like the nicest person in the world and it’s probably a good thing I haven’t seen anyone. I hear myself being mean but I just can’t seem to stop myself. Ugh! Everything for over a week has just been so overwhelming and I’m not dealing well at all. I need some social interaction and probably also a break from my sick-toddler and her poop duties. I feel like crying but I’m just too worn out to. Can’t we just get on to “normal” life already?
I know this is really whiney and I shouldn’t complain, but I have to vent somewhere. It isn’t like I don’t have fun and exciting things to post about. I do! Quite a few of them actually. I’ve just been so bogged down in all this garbage I haven’t been able to dig my way out yet. So I apologize for dumping on all of you, and I promise the good stuff, along with lots of pictures, are on their way as soon as I get a little more time without a screaming, poop-exploding, vomiting toddler.
Oh man. I’m so sorry about the GI excitement at your house. That really sucks. Also sorry about the losers that failed to finished your new home.
It’s okay to cry. It always makes me feel better to get it out and move on.
I hope Peanut is feeling lots better very quickly.
Sending good thought your way, and Peanuts way too! I hope you are able to get a break from all of the unpacking and sick child tending soon.
Yuck, yuck, yuck! That doesn’t sound fun at all. You guys are definitely troopers! Poor Peanut…I feel so aweful that she feels aweful! That’s gotta be the worst since she really can’t tell you what she’s feeling or where it hurts, etc. It sounds like your new landlord needs a good kick in the rear! I hope you guys took before/after pictures to validate; I would have been livid! Good luck with the unpacking and organizing.
@ Aliese,
Oh, yes. We have some excellent before and after pics. I might even post a couple here to give you the full effect and do a little post on how to properly turn over an apartment.
What a hard moving experience!! I’m so sorry about sick little Peanut. And about your wallpaper… and no clean apartment. Good luck with everything from this point out.
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I am so, so sorry Peanut got that bug. Were you still in Cali I’d have you run to just about ANY store for kefir to put some good, helping flora in her gut, but I don’t even know WHERE you can buy that where you live now.
I can’t wait for the “proper apartment turnover” post; it’s right up my alley.
Hang in there and welcome back to MST! If it makes you feel better, at my first house ever, the pool bottom is covered with algae and the primary swamp cooler has been disconnected for some reason.
I hope little Peanut feels better soon. That must have been so scary for you. Do you find yourself thinking in all the apartment drama… “I’m totally going to blog about this!”
What, no pictures of poop and barf??!
And about the apartment not being finished….ggrrr…when we managed apartments, we NEVER left stuff like that. That’s totally absurd. Just remember, “this too, shall pass”. Totally sucks until then, tho, right? I love you!!!
Caden had that bug last year and it was horrible! He was so out of it, he didn’t even know they put an I.V. in him! I am so sorry she got it RIGHT when you moved! I hope she is feeling better soon! I would be furious about the apartment! For some reason everything happens all at once huh? Hope you have a better day! Hugs and Prayers coming your way!
I think this goes down in history as one of the worst weeks ever!!! I really hope it improves and that peanut feels better soon.
holy cow. so so so so sorry! Hopefully you’ll be able to get the apartment a little more to your taste than it would have been if someone else was doing all the work! Hope NYDD is able to get back into the swing of stuff despite how that whole debacle unfolded. I wish you all long naps!
Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. So sorry. Nothing is harder that a state-to-state move, and then to have a sick girl- ugh.
Hope all smooths out soon.
Three words: McDonald’s French Fries. Seriously. I had a 1 year old and a 3 year old with the most awful GI problems once, and my pediatrician told me to stop off at McDonald’s on the way home from the office and give them fries. I was so mad…shouldn’t he give me medicine or a Rx? But I did it, (and got myself a chocolate sundae, because I deserved it after taking care of sick toddlers while my husband was out of town of business) and 2 hours later the diarrhea had stopped. Something about the oil and startch combo. And it only works with McDonald’s – Burger King and Wendy’s use different oil. And Sprite works to help keep fluids inside to avoid dehydration. Have NYDD pick-up some Micky D’s on his way home for you.
Hope you’re getting settled and you’re liking your new place!
WOW! I hope Peanut feels better and you can get some serious socializing done soon! I feel bad for both of you!!! Hope the rest of the move goes well!
What a nightmare! Don’t feel bad at all about venting! You need to vent after all that stress. I hope Peanut feels better now and you’re able to get back out into the world of the well
Don’t you just love moving!! I hate it!
Oh HSF, I’m so sorry! Poor mommy and baby! “No fun” just doesn’t sum it up.
And what were your apartment managers thinking?! Honestly!
TOTALLY NNOOO fun. It’s hard when you have everything planned out and excited about it. . . and then reality sets in.
I’m afraid it doesn’t get much better the more kids you have, but you get a little more use to it. 
Hang in there.
Love, H
Wow! You have been through it! It’s bad enough when your feeling crazy from no social interaction, but compounded with sickness, I would feel like running away
Hopefully everyone is feeling better now. I can’t believe the apartment managers, that makes me speechless. Who knows you may be just down the street from me, if your ever feeling some terrible cabin fever.