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| Sunday, February 11th, 2007 | | 4:04 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 | | 2:10 pm |
Back in the hospital
I think theyre starting to know me by name now. I'm really quite over this. This should be my last time in the hospital for a LONG time, as they took out my freaking gallbladder yesterday. I'm only 4 weeks post partum, and they wanted to wait until 8 weeks, but my attack were coming more frequently and harder to control with diet alone. Everything went fine in the surgery. He was able to do it laproscopically, so I only have 3 little incisions, not one big ugly scar. There were only two hiccups. One, is that there was a stone in my common bile duct, which is kinda scary, but he was able to push it out without having to cut me all the way open. Then, my liver was "oozy" (his words, not mine). I have a drain in my side to keep my liver .... dry ... I guess. Kinda gross. He says its because I was pregnant not that long ago. Well, the fucker is gone now. It's hard to have gall stone attacks without a freakin gallbladder. I really have the feeling that all my GI problems of like, the last 6 years might go away now. It's upsetting it took 6 years to figure out the problem, but hopefully its solved now. Athena is happy and healthy. She's working on her smile, and is reaching out to grab toys. She just had her first vaccine, which she wasnt happy about. She's gaining weight much better than she was. She weighs 10 lbs now! Check out her pics at http://photos.yahoo.com/baronbentgrass . Shes so beautiful! Ta Ta! | | Sunday, December 24th, 2006 | | 1:36 am |
Athena Noel is born
I finally had her on 12/18 at 10:47 pm. I stopped dialating at 7 cm so we had to do a cesarean. She was 8 lbs. 4 oz. and 19in. No complications other than that. She's got a mild case of jaundice, but were treating that at home. I'm exhausted. I haven't slept more than 3 hours in over a week. I had prodromal labor for 4 days before I delivered. So 4 days before, and now 5 days after. Ugh, I want a good nights sleep. But, I have my little angel in my arms now, and its all worth it. | | Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 | | 12:00 pm |
Preggyness
38 weeks (out of 40 weeks) preggy now. I could pop any second, kinda scary. Existing has become uncomfortable. I still consider myself having won the preggy lotto with as little complications as I've had. I've STILL not thrown up since I conceived. Gall stones are the suck, but that's because I'm fat, not because I'm pregnant. I haven't had an attack in more than a month. Keeping to a low-fat diet has really helped. I gotta find out how long I have to wait after the birth before I have the gallbladder surgery. That's all. Life is boring. Update off. | | Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | | 6:32 pm |
Ugh...Hospital Stay
Last Sunday, before sunrise, I went to the ER with gallstone pain. I'd been diagnosed with gall stones a few weeks before. Attacks usually last 30 mins to 2 hours. This one lasted 6 hours. And I later found out the a stone had lodged in the duct to the pancreas, giving me pancreatitis too. Happy Happy Joy Joy. So, they admit me. A surgeon comes in (to the maternity ward, I might add) and starts raving about how we must do surgery immeadiately, my labs came back way high, he'd like to operate. My SIL asks something about how the surgery will affect the baby and he's like "What?! You're pregnant?! (still in the maternity ward, 7 months pregnant with a 7 months belly) We can't operate!!" I hate stupid people. They do tests and the come back fine within 24 hours...except for my white blood cell count. Okay, so I have an infection. I don't have pain, nausea, vomiting, swelling, contractions, fever, NOTHING. They have no idea why the count is up or any idea how to fix it. So they want to hold me until the count comes down. It doesn't. Still no symptoms, but the count was still up and no one wants to be the doctor to discharge me from the hospital for liability reasons. So, EIGHT FREAKIN DAYS LATER my OB doc finally gets fed up with it and discharges me. I love him. He is my hero. That's my drama. That's where I've been. I hate hospitals. Rant off. Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | | 12:38 am |
Memo for me
Last heat, I had no idea when our beagles had mated. So I don't lose the date, today she started standing for him. Cross our fingers! | | Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | | 2:35 am |
Family in town!
My mom and dad get in town friday to stay til monday or tuesday. I miss my mom soooo much (She moved to TN about a year ago)! We haven't seen eachother since I've been pregnant. This is their first grandchild, it's all so exciting! I think I'll buy stuff so we can make some of my famous peanut butter-chocolate fudge. Yummy! So excited! Current Mood:  excited | | Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 | | 11:36 am |
I'm so sad :(
I was just websurfing and thought I'd poke around and see which play the American Stage people were going to do next year in Pinellas for their annual Skakepeare in the Park. They've stopped doing it :( They are all excited that theyve moved into an indoor theatre. Boo! Have these people not heard of a "gimmick". What's better than watching a play under the stars? I'm seriously mournful. I have some really really great memories based on this. No more new memories to make :( I think I may cry. Current Mood:  crushed | | Saturday, August 26th, 2006 | | 6:55 am |
I feel like ASS
...And I'm not even full-blown sick yet, I just have a sore throat and malaise. I shiver to think how awful I'll feel if this gets going real good. Why is it that preggos are subjected to the greatest discomforts of thier lives and simultaneously restricted to allow for practically NO alleviation of these discomforts? Same thing with stress. We're subjected to the greatest amount of stress and hormones ever...and nothing to alleviate that. No alcohol. No drugs. Not even a nice fucking hot bath. *Screams* Current Mood:  sick | | Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 | | 12:48 am |
It's a girl!!!
So I'm having a little baby girl due 12/31/06! We're thinking of Aeva, Alexandra, and Athena as names. It JUST occured to me that all of our name picks are 'A' names. Curious. I have a meeting with a doula tomorrow. I've had heartburn and gas pains so bad I've considered going to the ER. That's pretty much it for preggy news. | | Thursday, July 20th, 2006 | | 12:19 am |
Is the world really this stupid?
Today has been one of those days where you really have to wonder if people really are as stupid as they seem to be. You would think that nothing would ever get accomplished, but somehow things get done. I hate stupid people. | | Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 | | 1:53 am |
Someone explain to me...
...why is it that I am awake at 2am? It's at least 2 hours past my bedtime. I'm tired, I'm bored, and have no good excuses for being awake. So why is it I'm awake. Sleep just doesn't sound good... Wtf is that about? Why can't my biorythms be like other peoples? You get sleepy, you go to sleep. Simple equation. Le sigh. | | Monday, May 22nd, 2006 | | 11:53 pm |
| | Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | | 9:58 pm |
Preggie Fun (really!)
So, everythings fine. I was just a little earlier than we originally thought, so the fetus was smaller than we thought. The doc says everything looks great, and we've avoided this first disaster. Rosie, my beagle, ended up having a false pregnancy, but that doesn't seem to cause complications either. We just get to try again around August. So things are looking up! Yay! Note: If you're gonna get tired of my preggie rants, you might remove yourself as a friend (like, for LJ, not in life permanately). The rants aren't likely to stop. This is my LJ and I reserve the right to rant as much as I want. This is my own little LJ universe and it can, and will, revolve around me. I don't mean to be snooty, just giving a fair warning :-D  Current Mood:  nauseated | | Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 | | 9:01 pm |
Preggie Fun (...not)
I'm starting to understand why it's recommended that you keep your pregnancy secret for 12 weeks. I had some possibly bad news from the doc yesterday at my first prenatal appointment. There was apparently too much fluid in my body for them to see a fetus clearly in the sonogram (which, by the way, was internal using a dildo device, not the friendly belly jelly kind). So, the doc said most likely it was because I had had a ovarian cyst that the pregnancy caused to rupture. Sounds scary, but this would actually be the best news. Basically, nothing else would happen because of the rupture. No complications or anything, just a kind of "oops". The other thing the doc said was that, since he couldn't see a fetus, it's possible a have a tubal pregnancy (the fetus implanted in the phalopian tube, not the uterus). If that's the case, then I can take a medication that makes my body absorb the fetus, if that doesn't work they have to surgically remove it. If they do the surgery, there's a possibility that scar tissue could cause my tube to close up, not enabling an egg to drop in the future. This is usually not a big deal because you have two ovaries, for just such an evolutionary disaster. The problem is, I already lost one when I was twelve. So if...if...if...if...if. If all the "ifs" happen in exactly the wrong way, then the only chance of having biological offspring is through egg harvesting and implanting. Mucho expensive. But, I'm just freaked about it. I keep telling myself that ALL the "ifs" have to fall into place, and the first "if" hasn't even happened yet. Oh, and my beagle may have a "false pregnancy". If she does, we'll probably have to spay her and no puppies for her :( This has been a crappy week. Current Mood:  crappy | | Saturday, April 29th, 2006 | | 12:24 pm |
Fun Quizzy Thing
Stolen from the Dragon If you comment... 1. I'll respond with something random I like about you. 2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you. 3. I'll name something we should do together. 4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me). 5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you. 6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you. 7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you. 8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people. | | Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 | | 12:12 am |
Random Blogging
So, R and I are broke as frickin' convicts. We've got 3 mortgages at the moment and have had no income for about 3 months. Broke doesn't even really begin to describe the absolute lack of money we have. I hate hate hate hate being broke. When I was very young, I was a spoiled rotten brat. Both my parents had fantastic jobs so I never wanted for anything. Then my mom got laid off and my dad got sick. All of these events occured when I still thought the number of toys I had was a direct correlation to how happy I was. So thanks to that lovely history of my life, its so hard to divorce happiness from money. Livejournal: the new psychotherapist! In a related story, I had to get a job. I am now waitressing at Outback. I'm not telling which one for fear of stalkers, or worse yet, all my friends will come and point and laugh. So, I had to go shopping today, with borrowed mother in law money, to buy pants and shoes for work. The shoes were pretty easy, but my fat ass wouldn't fit in most of the stuff I tried on. After about 3 hours of shopping and wanting to shoot myself, I actually found some on sale, in my size, and *gasp*, even in petites. Unfortunately, petite still must mean 5'5", and I'll still have to get the damn things hemmed an inch or two. But in happy news, Rosie (my female beagle, the cutest beagle alive) is due to have her puppies any day now. It's her first litter and I think it's gonna be a small one. She's barely showing at all but her teats and freakin' huge. We had a false alarm last night when I think the puppies pressed on her bladder and instead we thought her water broke. I'm on pins and needles waiting for her to pop. I'm so nervous, I just want it to be over so I can stop worrying. They say she'll lose her appetite for about 24 hours before birth, that hasn't happened yet, but its hard for me to imagine a beagle without an appetite. Alrighty, random blog off. | | Friday, December 30th, 2005 | | 2:18 am |
Blah
Bored again (weird). Parents are in town for Christmas. I hate that they don't live near me anymore :( Ron noted that I seem so much happier since theyre here, and its true. I'm launching a master plan to get them to move back here, but things are working against me. Oh, I'm putting the baby making on hold for a few months. I have a few medical things I want to take care of first. Just a few vaccinations and such, nothing major. I need a chickenpox vaccination. I've never had it. I'm so weird. Getting sleepy. Off to bed. Night night. Current Mood:  bored | | Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 | | 3:26 am |
New pic
Just figured I'd actually make an icon that looks like me. Odd compulsion. | | Saturday, December 24th, 2005 | | 2:55 am |
Yay Cirque!
I had an incredible day. We went and saw Varekai, a Cirque du Soleil show. My MIL sprang for VIP tickets and it was FANTASTIC! I love it when people kiss my ass...lol. Ta ta. Current Mood:  ecstatic |
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