I've had a great couple of days. Yesterday I woke up with energy for the first time in weeks! I wanted to go to Barnes and Noble to find a case for my NOOKcolor. I got a hold of my mom and she needed to take my brothers laptop to Best Buy. So off we go! We had a great kid helping us at Best Buy who arranged to have Jeremy's laptop shipped to a Best Buy in Florida! Very helpful, and that is not usually what happens at Best Buy!
So then we went to Barnes and Noble. I found a really cute pink leather case for my NOOKcolor and found a baby book for the new baby. Got home, made dinner and had a good evening with my family.
This was way different than the couple of days before. I had an OB appointment on Tuesday and had a cervical check. So while cramps are normal after a cervical check, these lasted for over 18 hours and were painful but never turned into anything as I'm still pregnant.
Last night we are going to bed and Jason goes to turn the monitor off and the window sill that it sits on has got water all over it. Having no idea why it's wet we go to bed and figure we'll check it out tomorrow. I wake up and while checking my email... yes, my email... I have one from Jason. It says that the reason the window sill is wet is because we have an ice dam that has gotten so bad it is leaking through the window inside. Oh, by the way, can you call your dad and see if he will send a crew to steam it for free?
For those of you that know how my relationship is with my dad this wasn't going to happen. I have a really hard time asking anyone for help and the number one person that I cannot ask for help from is my dad. He wasn't around growing up and so it's hard to ask him for anything.
So I call Jason and after talking for a few minutes I tell him that I'm calling Jeremy, my brother, and asking him for advice. Is there anything that we can do DIY so that I don't have a $1000 steaming bill? After talking to Jeremy he tells me to salt the piss out of it. Yep, the piss out of it! Go buy the cheapest water softener salt and just dump it on and watch it melt the ice away! Then after this is done, fill an old nylon with salt and lay it on the roof and it will help keep ice dams from starting.
Well, last night I made Jason promise to sweep and mop the kitchen floor. I feel this need to get the house clean and the kitchen floor is where I need to start. With my SI joint separating sweeping and vacuuming cause me a ton of pain so Jason has had to pick up the slack for me. Well, now he has to spend his evening up on the roof fixing our ice dam problem. Well that doesn't fix the fact that to me I NEED the kitchen floor cleaned.
Well, welcome energy. I decide that the pain from my SI joint is less important than cleaning my house. So I pick up, sweep and mop the kitchen floor. You'd think that I would feel accomplished. Well, sitting on the couch taking a break I realize that I now need to clean the living room too. So we finish watching 'Bringing Baby Home' on TLC and down to the floor I go. I cannot bend over anymore so for me to clean the toys up I literally crawl on the floor throwing them into the toy bins. I got all of that done and decide that now I need to vacuum. Once that is all done I can now walk through half of my house (the parts we live in the most) and they are CLEAN!!!
NOW we can bring the baby home... wait what was that? Bring the baby home... ah, crap. I'm nesting. I've got the insatiable urge to clean and do laundry. If I could reach the bottom of the washer the laundry would be done too!
They say that nesting can occur right before you go into labor. Well, I can assure you that vacuuming causes contractions. I don't know if they will actually put me into labor but it's worth a try! At least you get a clean floor out of it!
Tomorrow I'm 37 weeks and according to the the medical world that is full term and the baby can come any time now and they wont stop labor!
So wish me labor pains!!!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Don't let life get you down!
Well, I'm still dealing with my heart acting up. I'm not sure what it is. My OB doc says it's not damaging my heart and the baby is fine. Well I don't feel fine! I feel like I've just run a marathon without getting off my couch! It's exhausting and I'm ready to be done with this pregnancy to see if this stuff continues on it's own or not. I see the cardiologist tomorrow morning and I'm hoping that Regions gets the report from my holter monitor back to her in time for my appointment. I'm going to ask her to track it down if she doesn't have it on the top of my file when she walks into the room. So I'm hoping for good news tomorrow. Good news would be this:
1. There is no lasting damage done to your heart, it is simply the strain of being pregnant and you will be 100% fine.
2. In order for your heart to stop being stressed you need to deliver this baby sooner rather than later. YaY!
3. In the 6 weeks after you give birth you should have no episodes and will not have to continue to take the heart medication.
Ok, so that probably isn't going to happen, at least #2 probably wont. I'm preparing for another 4 weeks and 2 days of being pregnant. I want my baby to be healthy but I also don't want to have a heart condition for the rest of my life either! It's pretty hard to decide which is worse! Deliver baby early or have a lasting condition that will forever affect how I can live my life? I'm hoping that the cardiologist will be able to answer some of these questions for me tomorrow.
For those of you that haven't been talking to me recently this is what I feel when I have an episode:
1. My heart beat increases
2. I start to breathe faster
3. My chest gets tight
4. I get light-headed which leads into full on dizziness if I don't get control quick enough
5. My ears stop working. I can barely hear anything because of the lack of blood pumping through my body and to my brain.
6. I get shaky
7. I get nauseous
8. I am exhausted.
These happen at almost every episode, but not always in that order. These episodes last anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Try taking care of your children when you can't hear what they are saying to you. Rather difficult my friend. I've had this with the other two pregnancies as well but the heart medication has always kept it under control with very few break-through episodes happening. Well this time none of the 3 different heart meds that I've been on this week have done anything to keep it under control.
So I'm hoping that the cardiologist has the magic answer tomorrow and everything will be perfect!
On a side note:
I'm turning the big 3-0 on Monday. What! No way you say! You can't possibly be that old. Well, my friends, that is exactly how old I'm going to be.
I've started thinking about which face creams I will have to apply daily so that this ancient face doesn't fall right off my bones. Did you know there are like millions of them out there? How in the world do you chose? How do you know what you need to look for? Alpha-hydroxy, green tea extracts... blah blah blah.... It's the most confusing decision I think I've had to ponder in a long long time. Which college to go to was easier than this! It's crazy and makes my head spin! So with crazy pregnancy hormones I'm supposed to decide which magical cream is going to keep me from looking like the crypt keeper in five years? Ha! Not going to happen my dear friend, not going to happen! I think I'm going to take my chances and wait until my face actually starts to shrivel up, then I will get serious!
Another side note:
I really want an e-reader! I keep hoping that my wonderful husband will surprise me with one for my birthday but I don't think that we can afford one right now and while I totally understand it still sucks! I really want the NOOKcolor but I can't figure out how to come up with $249 for a machine to read books that I can get from the library for free? Did you know that there are like millions and millions of ebooks out there fore free? Or even as little as $.99?!!?!?! Talk about crazy!
I was talking with my mom the other day about how much the revolution of ebooks is going to save the planet. Can you imagine how many trees are going to be saved because they don't need paper to make a book? Think about the manufacturing pollution that will not be needed anymore because instead of a factory making books it will be a group of people sitting in an office, working on their computer, to publish these books. I'm sure that the editing cost will go up because someone is going to have to sit there and make sure that they are in the right format for publishing electronically and such. However there will be a loss of job in those factories for the people who are standing there working the machines that create books. The great thing is that even though there will be less books made there will still be books made! Not everyone can afford an e-reader and as such they will still be purchasing regular old books!
I started out thinking I would never want an electronic form to hold all of my books. Then I realized that there are so many more books available to me in the virtual world that my library will never be able to accommodate my reading habit to the fullest. So I've decided that an e-reader would be amazing and that I will gladly take one from any method I can secure one from!
So for all of you out there that have a ereader that is simply collecting dust on a shelf. Please email me and I will forward you may address so that you may send me my birthday present. If you don't happen to have a spare one lying around then you can send donations to me for the purchase of a new one. Rest assured that it will be well loved and taken care of. At least you aren't making donations for some bimbo to get a boob jog. This will continue to educate me and I will be a better person for it. Not simply a bigger breasted one...
1. There is no lasting damage done to your heart, it is simply the strain of being pregnant and you will be 100% fine.
2. In order for your heart to stop being stressed you need to deliver this baby sooner rather than later. YaY!
3. In the 6 weeks after you give birth you should have no episodes and will not have to continue to take the heart medication.
Ok, so that probably isn't going to happen, at least #2 probably wont. I'm preparing for another 4 weeks and 2 days of being pregnant. I want my baby to be healthy but I also don't want to have a heart condition for the rest of my life either! It's pretty hard to decide which is worse! Deliver baby early or have a lasting condition that will forever affect how I can live my life? I'm hoping that the cardiologist will be able to answer some of these questions for me tomorrow.
For those of you that haven't been talking to me recently this is what I feel when I have an episode:
1. My heart beat increases
2. I start to breathe faster
3. My chest gets tight
4. I get light-headed which leads into full on dizziness if I don't get control quick enough
5. My ears stop working. I can barely hear anything because of the lack of blood pumping through my body and to my brain.
6. I get shaky
7. I get nauseous
8. I am exhausted.
These happen at almost every episode, but not always in that order. These episodes last anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Try taking care of your children when you can't hear what they are saying to you. Rather difficult my friend. I've had this with the other two pregnancies as well but the heart medication has always kept it under control with very few break-through episodes happening. Well this time none of the 3 different heart meds that I've been on this week have done anything to keep it under control.
So I'm hoping that the cardiologist has the magic answer tomorrow and everything will be perfect!
On a side note:
I'm turning the big 3-0 on Monday. What! No way you say! You can't possibly be that old. Well, my friends, that is exactly how old I'm going to be.
I've started thinking about which face creams I will have to apply daily so that this ancient face doesn't fall right off my bones. Did you know there are like millions of them out there? How in the world do you chose? How do you know what you need to look for? Alpha-hydroxy, green tea extracts... blah blah blah.... It's the most confusing decision I think I've had to ponder in a long long time. Which college to go to was easier than this! It's crazy and makes my head spin! So with crazy pregnancy hormones I'm supposed to decide which magical cream is going to keep me from looking like the crypt keeper in five years? Ha! Not going to happen my dear friend, not going to happen! I think I'm going to take my chances and wait until my face actually starts to shrivel up, then I will get serious!
Another side note:
I really want an e-reader! I keep hoping that my wonderful husband will surprise me with one for my birthday but I don't think that we can afford one right now and while I totally understand it still sucks! I really want the NOOKcolor but I can't figure out how to come up with $249 for a machine to read books that I can get from the library for free? Did you know that there are like millions and millions of ebooks out there fore free? Or even as little as $.99?!!?!?! Talk about crazy!
I was talking with my mom the other day about how much the revolution of ebooks is going to save the planet. Can you imagine how many trees are going to be saved because they don't need paper to make a book? Think about the manufacturing pollution that will not be needed anymore because instead of a factory making books it will be a group of people sitting in an office, working on their computer, to publish these books. I'm sure that the editing cost will go up because someone is going to have to sit there and make sure that they are in the right format for publishing electronically and such. However there will be a loss of job in those factories for the people who are standing there working the machines that create books. The great thing is that even though there will be less books made there will still be books made! Not everyone can afford an e-reader and as such they will still be purchasing regular old books!
I started out thinking I would never want an electronic form to hold all of my books. Then I realized that there are so many more books available to me in the virtual world that my library will never be able to accommodate my reading habit to the fullest. So I've decided that an e-reader would be amazing and that I will gladly take one from any method I can secure one from!
So for all of you out there that have a ereader that is simply collecting dust on a shelf. Please email me and I will forward you may address so that you may send me my birthday present. If you don't happen to have a spare one lying around then you can send donations to me for the purchase of a new one. Rest assured that it will be well loved and taken care of. At least you aren't making donations for some bimbo to get a boob jog. This will continue to educate me and I will be a better person for it. Not simply a bigger breasted one...
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