Leigh Ann Akins

Happy Birthday!

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:04:55 GMT

To me!

Back in the hospital

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:48 GMT

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!

Athena Noel is born

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:36:52 GMT

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.

Preggyness

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:00:25 GMT

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.

Ugh...Hospital Stay

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:42:30 GMT

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.

Memo for me

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:38:37 GMT

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!

Family in town!

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:38:08 GMT

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!

I'm so sad :(

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:57 GMT

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.

I feel like ASS

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:00:30 GMT

...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*

It's a girl!!!

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:48:52 GMT

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.

Is the world really this stupid?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:22:06 GMT

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.

Someone explain to me...

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:55:19 GMT

...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.

Preggie Update

Tue, 23 May 2006 03:54:17 GMT

Fine, fine, I'l lj-cut so you can ignore my boring posts more easily...

I had an appointment with the doc today. I go to a group with no guarantee of who I get so see, and I actually got someone I like. There's really only one I don't like. He's the head doctor. We shall call him Dr. Satan. Dr. Satan was the one who got me all worried about the ectopic pregnancy.

Dr. Satan also said that my cough was nothing serious, it should go away in 3 weeks or so. "But mine's been here over 6 weeks already", to which he did not reply. I'd also like to note that he did no sort of examination to determine this.

Dr. Q, however, after me expressly asking for him to listen to my lungs, determined that I have bronchitis. Bronchitis doesn't go away without meds. Stupid freakin Dr. Satan...grrrr. So I have to buy an inhaler for $100.

Bitching: Off.

Happy: On.

We saw the heartbeat! Two weeks ago the baby was 3.3mm, and today he was 16.1mm. Boy these suckers can grow! Anywho, due date moved to 12/31/06 now. Hubby is praying for the tax break. *Sigh* Everything looks great. I haven't thrown up yet, and they say that stabilizes this week. Basically, if I don't throw up this week, it's likely that I won't get morning sick. Woohoo!

That's all for now. I would post the sonogram pic, but it's really fuzzy this time. My bladder was full and baby was hiding in the back. Ta ta!

Preggie Fun (really!)

Wed, 10 May 2006 02:02:49 GMT

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

Preggie Fun (...not)

Thu, 04 May 2006 01:13:36 GMT

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.

Fun Quizzy Thing

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:24:25 GMT

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.

Random Blogging

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:26:43 GMT

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.

Blah

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:24:29 GMT

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.

New pic

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:27:13 GMT

Just figured I'd actually make an icon that looks like me. Odd compulsion.

Yay Cirque!

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:57:14 GMT

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.

Crappy day

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:06:57 GMT

Nothing all that redeeming about today. My self-esteem is in the toilet. I keep waiting for better days to happen. Sister in law comes in tonight, maybe my family will be too distracted to notice me, relieving me of bitch dutie for awhile. One can hope...

What a bittersweet day....

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:43:39 GMT

Today was one of the worst and one of the best days I've had in a while...

It was good because I had a great birthday dinner out with my MIL, then spent hours at a good friends house baking cookies and hanging out.

It was awful because I'm apparently having one of the most brain dead days I've ever had. It seemed like everything I touched, I dropped or in some other way ruined. Everything I said came out entirely wrong. Everything I did, came out wrong. I felt really really crappy about myself today.

-Vent Off-

Poke

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:59:33 GMT

Random posting for no reason at all...

Tag, you're it!

Bored

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:10:35 GMT

I'm noticing that I don't really post in LJ anymore unless I'm bored out of my mind.

I went to the dog park today with my two beagles, Sam and Rosie. Sam just turned 3, so we went to celebrate. I met a friend there with her dog, and we all had a good time, excluding a few brats. There were a few kids there that kept hitting our dogs, holding them down so they couldn't play, leaving the gates open so the dogs could get free, etc. They had the cutest little puppy, too :(

Oh! My magnifiscent, great, perfect, generous, and loving mother-in-law bought me and some family tickets to see Verakai, a Cirque du Soleil show. I'm a Cirque freak, and in fact have already seen this show this season. But my in-laws are coming in and the hubby thought his sister's family and his mother would like it. So she bought tickets for us all. When she went to get the tickets, the only one's available were the super expensive VIP tickets and then some nose-bleeds. Because she's AWESOME, she bought the VIP tickets. We're fourth row back, center, and have privelages like cocktails, hor deuvres (sp?), meeting the performers, and extra performances at intermission. I'm SO psyched!!!

If you've never seen a Cirque show, you need to make it a point to see at least one before you die.

I've been wanting to see "O" in Vegas for the longest time, and now that the hubby has seen a show, he's planning on a trip for us to see all 4 Cirque shows in Vegas. One is called Zumanity, and is for adults only. I can't wait.

I'm moving in January, just a block away. We're getting into a smaller house (with smaller mortgage payments) so we can afford to live without roommates. The new house has a pool, which will be good for kids. We need to have a heater put in though. We were gonna move out hottub to the new house, but that would involve ripping down screened porch on both ends (both houses have screened porches). We've decided to buy another hottub and sell our current one with the house. It will probably make a good selling point anyways. Anyone looking to buy a house? 5/3.5/2 low 500's. Let me know.

I've run out of things to say.

Ta ta!

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