I've been in pain since Wednesday. I can barely walk, the pelvic pressure is so bad and I've been contracting like crazy. I had to take terbutaline last night. I haven't had to take it for two months. I wondered (hoped) it was a bladder infection again but I got it checked yesterday and there isn't one. I'm blaming this one on my neighbor. She did some thing that has me super stressed out plus I have about 100 things going on. I'm worried that if I go to bed she will call the city, the dog pound and CPS! Long story and I don't feel like going into details but to sum it up we have a couch, a bunch of chalk, a few boards with nails sticking out and a few weeds in my front yard, a dog that barks occasionally (mostly when her son is out on his skateboard), I homeschool and homebirth. She could easily pick on me if she really wanted to.
I have costumes to finish, a couch to clean up so I can bring it inside, my house is very dirty because my kids have been doing the bulk of the cleaning lately and, well, they are kids. I have a front door that doesn't open, brakes that squeak and a son that is sleeping on the floor because his bed is broken. I wanted to finish my midwife requirements before I started having problems but because most of the births this month have gone too fast I've only been to two and I should have been finished by now. So I'm probably going to have to quit before I get finished.
I don't really have anyone that can help me either. My Mom is out of town, my MIL just got back from 3 wks in Africa and has a big event on Monday to get ready for. Most of my friends are either out of town or as busy as I am. Dh has a hard time getting the ok to take time off so most of the time he just doesn't bother. Thank goodness he has a three day weekend. Hopefully we can get a bunch of things done.
Yep, I'm being whiney and feeling very done with all of it.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Much, much better!
I think the Lord has decided to save me from myself because I've had very few problems since that last entry. I don't think I've timed any contractions since then, the pain is mostly gone and I started prilosec for the heartburn. I still occasionally have to stay up late due to heartburn but it only happens once or twice a week rather than the every night that it was before. The blood sugars are much better, not sure why except I've found what works for my body and I'm following it. The Dr also suggested that the UTI might have been partially responsible.
As predicted, JA did really well for two weeks, then I noticed yesterday that he has started to slacken off on his testing. It's the same routine. He does really well for a week or two after an appt, I watch him really closely until I start feeling like he is doing ok, then I start giving him more space and after a couple of days he starts missing a test here or there then it eventually gets to the point where we are lucky if he remembers one test a day. I will resume watching him closely today. He has his first appt with a counselor next week, good timing I think!
Cp update. Well, I still don't know. JZ and AC should have broken out this week if they were exposed. Granted it could still happen in the next 3 or 4 days plus AC got a few red dots on her face that could possibly be cp but there weren't any other symptoms ie: fever. So I still can't say for sure but it seems like if it were cp at least one of them would have gotten a more severe case. So at the moment I'm assuming that it was never cp to begin with and they should still get exposed at some point.
As predicted, JA did really well for two weeks, then I noticed yesterday that he has started to slacken off on his testing. It's the same routine. He does really well for a week or two after an appt, I watch him really closely until I start feeling like he is doing ok, then I start giving him more space and after a couple of days he starts missing a test here or there then it eventually gets to the point where we are lucky if he remembers one test a day. I will resume watching him closely today. He has his first appt with a counselor next week, good timing I think!
Cp update. Well, I still don't know. JZ and AC should have broken out this week if they were exposed. Granted it could still happen in the next 3 or 4 days plus AC got a few red dots on her face that could possibly be cp but there weren't any other symptoms ie: fever. So I still can't say for sure but it seems like if it were cp at least one of them would have gotten a more severe case. So at the moment I'm assuming that it was never cp to begin with and they should still get exposed at some point.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
He is home
When I got to the hospital on Thursday I met with JA's Dr and he said that since his numbers were fine during the night that he would be able to go home. He needed to meet with the psychologist one more time and go to a nutrition class and then would be done. We left about 12:30 and he decided he wanted to go to the remainder of his classes for the day so we got home, he showered, then I took him to school. He said everyone was very surprised to see him.
He has done great since we came home but he always does for the first week or two after a Dr's appt. The real test is to see if he continues. We have made a few changes in routine so hopefully that helps.
I was recently told that mild cases of cp can come and go. When I picked up SR on Thursday she had a few more spots on her lip. I assumed because of that that it was not cp until somebody told me otherwise, course that wasn't until after she played with a friend on Saturday! I'm feeling frustrated because of it! I just wish I could say for sure one way or another. It would have been much easier if she had just gotten a full blown case of it.
It's been a crappy pregnancy day. I am now in the portion of my pregnancy that I dread from day one. I get heartburn so bad that I start dreading the thought of food. I usually spend the first half of the night sitting upright until whatever I ate before bed (I don't eat any later than 7:00, I go to bed at 10) finally gets digested. A lot of the time that doesn't even help. I've tried every remedy known to man, NOTHING works! This pregnancy I'm finding my blood sugar slowly creeping up. It used to be that the only thing that affected it was a lot of straight sugar all at once. I've taking a cup of jelly beans here. Now I can't seem to have any more than about 55 carbs for breakfast or it goes high. Between the two I'm beginning to feel a real aversion to food.
I just wrote a long whiny paragraph that I've decided I don't really want to share but sufficeth to say I'm sick of the pain and ctx and I still have at least 12 weeks left. I would spend most of my time crying my eyes out except I can't stand the stuffy nose that goes along with it. The biggest thing I worry about is that most of the time I don't care whether or not I'm having contractions so I ignore them. You don't have to remind me how risky that is.
A friend from church told me today that she is pregnant. I think she said she was around 8 or 9 weeks. I'm not quite certain what she wanted from me. First she stated that she wants to get to the point where she has homebirths but for now she wants to stay with her OB but that her OB is changing hospitals to one further away from us. Then she said something about a midwife. (Still trying to figure out staying w/ ob and going to midwife too? Maybe a mixed practice?) I told her that even though I can't take the national exam to become certified until August 2009 I could still be a DEM before that and that I also planned on talking to some midwives about being my backup. So then she backed up and said she wasn't ready for a homebirth yet. At first I thought she was wanting me to be her midwife but I realized after the conversation that I didn't quite know what she wanted. Anyway, just thought it was interesting!
He has done great since we came home but he always does for the first week or two after a Dr's appt. The real test is to see if he continues. We have made a few changes in routine so hopefully that helps.
I was recently told that mild cases of cp can come and go. When I picked up SR on Thursday she had a few more spots on her lip. I assumed because of that that it was not cp until somebody told me otherwise, course that wasn't until after she played with a friend on Saturday! I'm feeling frustrated because of it! I just wish I could say for sure one way or another. It would have been much easier if she had just gotten a full blown case of it.
It's been a crappy pregnancy day. I am now in the portion of my pregnancy that I dread from day one. I get heartburn so bad that I start dreading the thought of food. I usually spend the first half of the night sitting upright until whatever I ate before bed (I don't eat any later than 7:00, I go to bed at 10) finally gets digested. A lot of the time that doesn't even help. I've tried every remedy known to man, NOTHING works! This pregnancy I'm finding my blood sugar slowly creeping up. It used to be that the only thing that affected it was a lot of straight sugar all at once. I've taking a cup of jelly beans here. Now I can't seem to have any more than about 55 carbs for breakfast or it goes high. Between the two I'm beginning to feel a real aversion to food.
I just wrote a long whiny paragraph that I've decided I don't really want to share but sufficeth to say I'm sick of the pain and ctx and I still have at least 12 weeks left. I would spend most of my time crying my eyes out except I can't stand the stuffy nose that goes along with it. The biggest thing I worry about is that most of the time I don't care whether or not I'm having contractions so I ignore them. You don't have to remind me how risky that is.
A friend from church told me today that she is pregnant. I think she said she was around 8 or 9 weeks. I'm not quite certain what she wanted from me. First she stated that she wants to get to the point where she has homebirths but for now she wants to stay with her OB but that her OB is changing hospitals to one further away from us. Then she said something about a midwife. (Still trying to figure out staying w/ ob and going to midwife too? Maybe a mixed practice?) I told her that even though I can't take the national exam to become certified until August 2009 I could still be a DEM before that and that I also planned on talking to some midwives about being my backup. So then she backed up and said she wasn't ready for a homebirth yet. At first I thought she was wanting me to be her midwife but I realized after the conversation that I didn't quite know what she wanted. Anyway, just thought it was interesting!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Quick update
I need to leave for the hospital but I thought I'd update you real quick.
JA is doing fine although he got a bit bored last night. He is already tired of the things he brought to keep him busy. We are finding out that he really wasn't getting enough insulin. I felt a little better when even the hospital couldn't keep his blood sugar down in a normal range. We met with a psychologist that feels he does have some emotional problems that would benefit from meeting with a counselor so we will start that when he is released.
MA is feeling much better. We still don't know if SR had cp but the three sores she had are scabbed over so even if she had it she is no longer contagious. I think the only way we will know for sure if she had it is if the other kids get it too.
Ok, off to the hospital. I'm hoping to make it before the Dr. comes in to see him.
JA is doing fine although he got a bit bored last night. He is already tired of the things he brought to keep him busy. We are finding out that he really wasn't getting enough insulin. I felt a little better when even the hospital couldn't keep his blood sugar down in a normal range. We met with a psychologist that feels he does have some emotional problems that would benefit from meeting with a counselor so we will start that when he is released.
MA is feeling much better. We still don't know if SR had cp but the three sores she had are scabbed over so even if she had it she is no longer contagious. I think the only way we will know for sure if she had it is if the other kids get it too.
Ok, off to the hospital. I'm hoping to make it before the Dr. comes in to see him.
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