Nick finally got his holter pack in the mail. They sent one several days ago, but it was faulty, so we had to send it back and have them send us another one. Anyway, we put it on yesterday after lunch and so now we're counting down 'till he can take it off. He really REALLY hates having the stickers (leads) on. They shouldn't hurt him at all,but he insists that they do and he becomes a completely different child. His voice goes up an octave and he talks all squeaky and soft, his body tenses and he clenches nearly every muscle, he wont play or do ANYTHING like he normally does. He continually cries that it hurts. He wont walk, sit, stand, lay, go potty, or even eat without help. I really think this is a mind issue, partly because I can distract him a tiny bit once in a while. Today, I even moved all the furniture around in the front room so that he could ride Andrew's tricycle around in the house.(It snowed last night, so outside isn't a good option). Here's a shot of that. You can see how he forgot momentarily that he "can't" do anything.
We'll send the pack back this afternoon and then he'll be back to his normal wild-man self. It does worry me a little bit that he wont play the way he usually does, because they want to see what his heart is doing under normal conditions, and him sitting around not doing anything is NOT normal. Oh, well. We don't really know what else to do! Lil' Turkey.
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