tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88333782024-03-07T19:57:59.041-05:00Wandering Cross StitcherA home created for friends to keep up with the daily chaos that is my life. Hope I don't bore you guys too much :)Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-12267745206588737382008-07-26T18:21:00.002-04:002008-07-26T19:10:23.602-04:00The doctor called back and said that he wanted to look at another option called chemoembolism. This is basically a chemotherapy treatment that is injected directly into the tumors in order to kill them. It's supposed to make you much less sick than regular chemotherapy and it's much less invasive than surgery to removed the tumors. He's still going to present my case to the other specialists at the conference because he said there my be some issued since I have a heart murmer and high blood pressure that developed during my pregnancy and haven't gone away. I'm still on hold for everything till the doc gets back from the conference in mid august sometime. I'm in a much better place emotion wise than I was during the last post. I'm okay with having to do something about this.<br /><br />Valerie came over today and watched Riley while we went to the movies. We went and saw Hellboy 2 and The Dark Knight. I won't ruin anything for anyone. I really enjoyed Hellboy 2. I like it much better than the first one and truly enjoyed the entire movie which was full of action and comedy. I'll definately see that one again.<br /><br />The Dark Knight was a little different. I did enjoy the movie but it is not a movie for children. It did portray the darknest of the batman comics to the extreme. It showed the joker as the psychotic killer that he is but left out his outward charm. I won't be seeing this one again.<br /><br />I'm currently reading The Chase Brother series by Lauren Dane. I love this series. This writer has found a perfect way to mix in a more erotic slant to wonderful love stories with strong women and men that find ways to be together in partnerships. I just finished the 4th book in the series, Making Chase. This was a wonderful story that showed strong families are made from many different things. It melded the heroine's strong family that emerged from an alcoholic father with the hero's family that was strong due to the love and support of a strong parental unit. Both the man and the woman were strong members of their family and I love the way she brouht the couple together. This is considered erotic romance. I have found that there are several writers of erotic romance that I absolutely love. Yes, they have the very steamy sex scenes with words that I wouldn't want my child saying. They also have some incredibly talented writers that can weave an engaging tale that keeps you turning the page just to see what's going to happen next.<br /><br />I love to read. I've taken some flack about some of the books that I read but it's not going to stop me from reading them. I read all books. I have favorite authors in scifi, fantasy, romance, comedy, suspense, horror, childrens, young adult and even non-fiction. There are incredible authors and stories in all genres of books. I read because I enjoy diving into a book that can transport me to a world created by my imagination using the authors guidance. I love movies too but for me movies are a way of mindless entertainment. I don't have to image what a movie is trying to show me cause it's there on the screen. I find myself reading more and more and escaping into my own mind instead of staring at the TV. I do go through periods where I don't pick up a book for months though and during that time I find myself watching TV while I stitch. I can't remember the last time that I sat down to just watch TV. I'm always doing something else like stitching or playing a video game or computer game or playing with baby while the TV is on. When I sit down to read though, I read. Reading is my time. Justin takes care of the baby and I let my mind go to a world of the author's making while my body relaxes from the day.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-45735837688752038702008-07-18T16:12:00.002-04:002008-07-18T16:29:52.539-04:00The doctor's office just called. I'm not happy about the news.<br /><br />Most of you will remember my horrible liver surgery back in '04 when they took out a quarter of my liver due to tumors that were caused by the estrogen in my birth control pills. When we decided to have a child, I consulted my liver specialist. He warned me that being pregnant elevates the estrogen in my system and the tumors had a possibilty of coming back even in the short time of the pregnancy. We decided to risk it anyway and were blessed with Riley. <br /><br />During the last month of the pregnancy, 4 small tumors appeared. When I had an MRI in January after Riley was born and it showed the tumors had grown to about quarter size. The doctor advised me at that time to do nothing. He wanted to do another MRI in July after my body had a chance to recover and see if they tumors had gotten any smaller. He told me that there was a good chance that my liver would regenerate itself and make the tumors smaller.<br /><br />I had my follow up MRI on 7/12. They called me today to let me know that the tumors had not gotten smaller. They haven't gotten larger. The doctor is recommending I have a laser surgery procedure to burn the tumors off my liver. My options at this point are either this surgery that he's recommending or waiting another 6 months to see if my body can heal the tumors. He tells me that the chance of them healing are now very small since there hadn't been any progress in the last 6 months. He also tells me that there is a chance that they will get larger if I wait and if they get larger then I'll be forced to go through the same surgery I went through in '04.<br /><br />My gut says "keep the surgery away!!!". My brain says "it's smarter to have the laser surgery than to risk the worse surgery".<br /><br />The doctor told me to think about it and he'll contact me in 3-4 weeks when he gets back from a conference. The conference he's going to is going to discuss some new procdures for these kind of tumors so the doc wants to take my films with him and discuss my case with the guys presenting the new options and see if there is a better way to approach this.<br /><br />I hope there is a better way.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-1750593168872966352008-07-18T14:34:00.002-04:002008-07-18T14:49:28.265-04:00Okay. I'm going to try to follow Valerie's example and start blogging again. <br /><br />I'll have to find stuff to talk about though.<br /><br />Riley Is 6 months old now. He had his 6 month check up yesterday. He's 27" tall and weights 19lbs 2oz. The doc says he's in the 75th percentile. He's able to sit up assisted, transfer objects from hand do hand, follow people with his eyes, recognize mommy in a photo, babble at will and imitate ooh sounds. Doc says he's doing great and found it hysterical when Riley kept winking at the female nurses (taught to him by daddy of course).<br /><br />I'm currenty reading From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris. I just recently started reading this series. It was recommended to me after one of my friends saw that I read Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series. The name of the series is the Southern Vampire series. It's about Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie is a waitress at a bar that can read people's thoughts. This book is about her life and her desire to find a special someone while she wades through the muddy waters of the supernatural community of vampires, shapeshifters and fairies. This series surprised me with the quick depth of the characters. Not many writers can make you care about new characters as quickly as Ms Harris has managed to do in this series for me. I find myself waiting for the new release to see what happened to the minor characters as much as to see what Sookie gets into next. For those of you that like a little bit of romance with your fantasy this series rocks.<br /><br />I've been stitching on Santa's Dragon from Dragon Dreams but I haven't gotten very far on it. I find that reading is just more appealing right now. It's just so much easier to pick up a book and read a few pages in between taking care of Riley than it is to get out all of the stitching supplies.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-43215336148115270242008-06-03T16:27:00.002-04:002008-06-03T16:29:49.780-04:00June AlreadySorry that I haven't posted in so long. There just isn't anything fun going on in life right now. I work, I take care of the kid and I sleep. Nothing too fun in all of that. I am gonna try to sneak out this weekend and see the new Narnia movie. <br />I finally finished Fish City but scatterbrain that I am, I forgot to take a picture before dropping it off at the framers. DUH! It is now at Nease's needlework being framed and I have no idea when I'm getting it back since I told her not to panic over it.<br /><br />Nothing going on in this neck of the woods.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-23244005382834567052008-03-26T15:14:00.002-04:002008-03-26T15:21:22.396-04:00sleeping through the nightThe little guy may actually be getting ready to sleep through the night finally. He didn't wake me up until 5:30 this morning which is 2 hours later than usual but only 1 hour before I normally have to get up so by the time I finished feeding him, it was time for me to get up and get ready for work so I got up early this morning.<br /><br />Work is finally starting to settle down a bit. Would you expect an insurance company to give you $3000 to replace a tv that only costs $1200? I realize that the person paid $3000 for the tv 4 years ago but plasma tv's just don't cost that much anymore. <br /><br />Valerie dear... you have forgotten about your blog!Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-84186585508766332432008-03-20T23:37:00.001-04:002008-03-20T23:40:39.424-04:00webshots updateI've updated my webshots album here:<br /><a href="http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/97261271xcDRWc"><img src="http://thumb2.webshots.net/s/thumb4/6/22/27/97262227NcxgAl_th.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Webshots.com"></a><br>by <a href=http://community.webshots.com/user/vjinton> vjinton</a><br /><br />I've added a album for the beading that I've been doing which include those banners out of the Far Away Places Book that Medieval Needle gave me. They turned out great and I'm really happy with them. You can clearly see that The Dragon was the first one that I tried since I didn't get the top of it as tight as I should have but I fixed that problem since then.<br /><br />I put a few new pictures of Riley in there too.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-16139391421142362008-03-20T09:59:00.002-04:002008-03-20T10:38:05.319-04:00tornados suckI used to think that tornados were an awesome act of mother nature and were pretty cool. After dealing with claims for the last 3 days, I'm sick of the word tornado. They are still awesome acts of mother nature but I'm not sure that I consider them all that cool anymore. I've lived through several tornados being from Texas. I've even been in a car that was picked up by a tornado when I was a child but this is the first time that I've been on the insurance side of one and I don't like it at all.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-63910422959608140812008-03-18T09:29:00.003-04:002008-03-18T09:44:39.594-04:00GrowingI had to put away all the 0-3 months cloths last weekend. He's not wearing 3-6 month cloths a little early. I guess I should have figured that he would grow faster than average since I did too. I wonder if he'll hit 5 feet tall by 5th grade like I did. <br /><br />Do you any of you guys know where I can go to look up if adding a little bit of baby cereal to his nighttime bottle would hurt him at this point? the 6oz bottles aren't completely satisfying him. I remember my mom starting to feed my brother whole milk and mashed potatoes when he was 3 months old but I don't want to do that to my little one. I rather transition from formula to cereal to baby food and then to people food.<br /><br />I need to update my weshots album again. I've finished My own happy ending from dragon dreams, the anniversary sampler from victoria sampler, and happy new year from calico crossroads. I've also finished some beaded banners that came out of a book that Medieval Needle gave me. I've managed to finish 3 of them and I need to start a folder for beading I guess since I've been doing more of it.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-61997833269109183932008-03-11T16:24:00.002-04:002008-03-11T16:29:23.538-04:00Say What?At Riley's last check up, the doctor commented to DH that Riley should be eating every 4-5hrs now instead of every 3-4hrs. He then proceeded to tell Justin that we should make him wait for his bottle at least 4 hours so that he would start to go longer between feedings. This baffled me. I've never heard of making a baby wait for food. I refuse to listen to my child cry cause he's hungry or dirty. I can easily fix both of these issues and I'm going to. I started giving the little guy 5oz per bottle instead of 4oz and sure enough he now goes 4 hours between feedings. Problem solved. <br /><br />The doc was happy with his grown and the strength in his arms and legs though so he looks great even if he wants to eat all the time.<br /><br />Have you guys ever heard of making a baby wait for food? This is nuts right?Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-74823402521576813042008-03-06T09:53:00.002-05:002008-03-06T10:06:13.779-05:00RoutinesIt's a little scary how fast I fall into routines. My days have become very very routine. Monday through Friday:<br />3am - get up to feed and change kid<br />3:45am - go back to sleep<br />6:30am - wake up, shower & dress<br />7:00am - make up bottles for day care<br />7:10am - feed and change kid<br />7:30am - wake up DH, leave the house to take kid to day care and go to work<br />9:00am - 5pm Work<br />5:45pm - pick kid up from day care<br />6:00pm - get home, wash bottles from day care, feed and change kid<br />7pm - cook supper and eat<br />8pm - 9pm - take an hour to myself while DH feeds and changes kid (this is usually spent stitching or beading)<br />9pm - do dishes and go to bed<br />DH feeds and changes the kid again around midnight and then he comes to bed<br /><br />Saturday and Sundays are a little more varied but they revolved around Riley's eating schedule. I can almost tell you exactly what I'm doing during the week though if you give me a time. The girls at daycare say that I should be very happy that Riley has fallen into such a predictable pattern but it seems like such a boring pattern right now.<br /><br />Riley got his first shots on 3/4. He did really well and only cried while they were holding him down and sticking him. He's now 21inches long and weighs 10lbs 4oz. The little guy tagged on the weight once he decided he liked formula. He even managed to not lose any weight while he had the flu.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-32762624720142400662008-02-29T12:07:00.003-05:002008-02-29T12:13:46.971-05:00Two Months Old AlreadyIt's hard to believe Riley's two months old already. His first day of daycare was last week on 2/19 which was also my B'day. It was hard to leave him that day but easier the next day. I kept him home on Friday 2/22 cause he had a fever and DH took him to the doctor. Early Saturday morning he started throwing up and we had to take him to the ER where I watched them put in an IV to give him fluid and then they did a spinal tap to check for meningitis. That's something I hope never to see again. They ended up admiting him to the hospital and diagnosing him with the flu. We spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the hospital with the kid. I ended up in the ER on Sunday thanks to the flu and not being able to keep down my medications. We are all doing better now and he's back in daycare and I'm back at work. Daycare keeps telling me what a well behaved kid he is and how he doesn't cry. Then I get him home and he screams at me. <br /><br />It's friday though and now we get a couple of days off to actually relax this weekend... I hope. I keep trying to stitch but the kid starts to fuss after about half an hour of stitching which drives me nuts. DH will switch off with me so I am getting an hour in here and there. I have managed to finish a Dragon Dreams since the kid was born but that's been it. I'm working on a Victoria Sampler that I'm gonna finish this weekend too. I have to get back to fish city after that though.<br /><br />Hope everyone is doing well.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-34127862050852530032008-02-10T10:44:00.000-05:002008-02-10T10:48:51.432-05:00I'm still alive.... I thinkSorry to not have posted in so long. The child has been occupying every spare moment of my day that doesn't involve sleep. I think I'm finally finding a routine which helps. Of course now that I've found a routine, it's back to work on 2/18 and I'll have to adjust that routine.<br /><br />I have finally updated my webshots album which I have been promising to do for some time now. I even added a folder for pictures of the kid and it can be seen here:<br />http://community.webshots.com/album/562366017dGxNXh?vhost=community<br /><br />I've been through over 20 doctor visits and a case of the 3 day measles since my last post. I told them I didn't want a booster shot at the hospital but they insisted that I had to have one or they couldn't release me from the hospital so I end up with the measles and of course Riley got them too just to make life fun.<br /><br />Not much else going on in my neck of the woods. I have a boring life of sleep, change the kid, feed the kid, sleep.... and so forth. I get some laundry done and cook occasionally just to spice things up :)<br /><br />Hope everyone is doing well.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-18611713520028142102008-01-07T16:49:00.001-05:002008-01-07T18:42:27.199-05:00Riley Grayson Zimmerman is HERE!I finally had my little one and we came home from the hospital today.<br /><br />There are a few pictures that can be seen here:<br />http://www.our365.com/webnursery/WebNursery/Baby/BabyPage.aspx?birthid=0&babyid=0<br />that were taken by the hospital. I will have more to share later once I'm a little more able to get up and around.<br /><br />He arrived via emergency c-section on 1/3/2008 at 5:20pm. He weighed 6lbs 8ozs and was 18 inches long.<br /><br />Apparently while I was in being induced the first time, my OB doctor went under the knife herself for emergency gall bladder surgery and my case was transfered to an on call doctor and that was why I was sent home. The on call doctor didn't have the last two weeks of my medical history and hadn't seen the sharp decline in my health. When I went to see my regular doctor on on Wednesday 1/2/07, they were appalled that I wasn't in the hospital recovering from having the baby and they propmply sent me back to the hospital to have the baby. I went back into the hospital on 1/2 and they started up the inducement procedure again at around 4pm. After about 24 hours of inducement, I started having sever pain in my upper right abdomen. About 45 minutes after that, my upper abdomen started to swell and distend. This prompted everyone into action. The doctors pushed very hard for me to get the epidural that I had refused in order to do the c-section and they made enough valid medical points in favor of the baby that I finally agreed to it. 4 stabs later, they got the epidural in place and we started in on our way to the main O.R. instead of the c-section O.R. in case my liver had ruptured again so they could perform that surgery as well without moving me. We all piled off the elevator on the second floor and started in on direction only to have someone say that we got off on the wrong floor. We piled back on to the elevator and before the doors closed another person said, no this is the right floor, we just went the wrong way. Everyone came back out of the elevator and started off. Mom and DH were then seperated from me and DH was told they would come get him once I was prepped for the c-section. I was taken to the O.R. where there was an ultrasound waiting. They checked the baby first and he was fine and then they took a look at my liver and upper abdomen and couldn't find any signs of bleeding. My doctor prepped me for c-section and told one of the nurses to go and get DH only to be told by the nurse that he would not be allowed in the main O.R. like he would have been in the c-section O.R. My doctor responded by pinching me to see if I was numb yet only to be told that I hadn't been given anything through the epidural yes. 4 doses through the epidural and 4 pinches later I was not numb at all so they put me under anyway since the epidural wouldn't take. I woke up and was transfered to a room and shown the baby about 9:30pm. I still had the big grin on my face that I had the moment I woke up in recovery and was told the baby was okay. I woke to find my child was healthy and I was alive since I was awake so the best of everything had happened as far as I was concerned. The general concensus is that the repeated contractions from 4 days had stretched and pulled the internal scar tissue around my liver and irritated it causing it to swell and cause severe pain. Once the C-section was done and the contractions stopped the swelling went down and I was okay and only needed the c-section and tubal to prevent further pregnancies.<br /><br />I'm glad to be home. We have to keep Riley on a Billy light because he became more jaundiced than they wanted to see. He doesn't like laying on the light and I can't say that I blame him. The thing dosen't look all that comfortable. I'll be taking him to the doctor daily until is billirubin levels are down and he can be taken off the light. I have to go my doctor later this week too so that I can get my blood pressure levels checked since they haven't gone back done. I also have to follow up with a gastro speciallist for my liver in 3-4 weeks. I'm on bed rest until they can get my blood pressure stabalized but I'm happy to be home with the litttle guy in tow. You guys are welcome to call my cell and welcome to come by as long as you call first to make sure we are at home and not at the doctor. I welcome visitors since I can't go anywhere for a while.<br /><br />Talk to everyone soon.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-7297932943894984252008-01-01T11:54:00.000-05:002008-01-01T12:10:58.472-05:00I tried to get the kid outThe amnio showed that the kid's lungs were fine so I went into the hospital on Thursday and started my inducement at 4pm. <br /><br />Friday at 4pm I was still 1cm. <br /><br />Saturday at 4pm I was still 1cm and the doctor that came in was the on call doctor and not my regular doctor. When I started asking about my options and what they were going to do she basically in a round about way that she wouldn't do a c-section cause it was elective and she didn't do elective surgeries and that she didn't understand why I was being induced and risking my premature baby anyway so she couldn't justify a c-section but she would continue the inducement since that's what I wanted. <br /><br />Sunday at 4pm I was still 1cm and the on call doctor came in and told that they were going to take me off the meds for a while so that I could shower and walk for a bit and then they would start again. I got up and showered and tried walking around but my feet were so swollen that they were starting to pit so walking was more painful than contractions. I got back to the room and waited and waited and waited and finally at 7pm I called the nurse and asked why my medications hadn't been started again. The nurse came in and let me know that they didn't feel I should be put back on medication because the inducement was obviously not working and they felt the best course of action was to admit me overnight for observation and if everything looked fine in the morning I could go home and see my normal doctor on Wednesday. <br /><br />When they came in to the room yesterday to tell me I could go home, they told me to increase my blood pressure meds to 3 times a day and see me normal doctor on Wednesday and I asked them if MY doctor told me to increase the meds cause I had been told not to previously because it might endanger the baby. They couldn't tell me which doctor had given the order cause they had spoken to them on the phone.<br /><br />I now sit here at home madder than a wet hen about going through contractions every 3-5 minutes for 3 days and then being sent home without a child and told to increase meds that I was previously told could hurt my child. I'm not increasing the meds. I am going to see my doctor tomorrow at 11am and I am going to vent about what happened and if I don't get answers that make sense I will be trying to find another OBG to finish out this pregnancy. Erin... I may need the name of your doctor.<br /><br />During all this, my dad had to go to the doctor as well and they sent him to the hospital for testing and have discovered that he's in the early signs of emphazema. He's been put on 2 inhalers and a steroid and he's been told to stop smoking. Maybe he'll actually listen now and stop smoking 3 and 4 packs of cigarettes a day.<br /><br />That's were I stand. I'm home. Worried about the tumor in my liver splitting my liver before I get back to the doctor. Worried about having to have a c-section when I didn't really want one. Worried about the baby being hurt by my high blood pressure. Worried about all this swelling going down in my hands and feet. Worried about having to find a new doctor in my 8th month of pregnancy. Mad at having gone through all this over the holiday weekend for nothing. <br /><br />Hope everyone is having a good new year! Hopefully this year will be better for everyone than the last year.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-34636367271748590182007-12-25T10:47:00.000-05:002007-12-25T10:48:26.080-05:00Merry Christmas!Hope everyone is having a great day with their families!<br />Take care and have a blast!Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-24842420575508311902007-12-23T07:56:00.000-05:002007-12-23T07:59:47.625-05:00Almost DoneI really need to get better about this. My health problems have become bad enough they are talking of inducing the baby now. I have another ultrasound on Wed Dec. 26th and they are going to do an amnio at the same time. If baby looks okay, then they are inducing me on Thurs Dec 27th. My blood pressure is too high and the spots on my liver have returned and I had a fun little episode where I lost part of my sight for about an hour so they've decided that my body has had enough and they might need to get the baby out for the safety of the mommma. I'm feeling pretty good for the most part and I'm optimistic about being done.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-45535872100431957122007-12-06T10:34:00.000-05:002007-12-06T10:41:02.186-05:00Junior is impatientI had a scheduled OB appointment yesterday. My blood pressure was way up again... the bottom number jumped back into the 90's and even went over 100 for a tiny bit. They put me on the baby monitor to check on Junior and make sure he was okay and to my surprise, I was having regular contraction that were about a minute long and occuring every 6-7 minutes. I thought that was the baby moving. <br /><br />The doc increased my blood pressure meds and gave me some meds to stop the contractions and I have to go back on Friday morning to get checked again or to the hospital sooner if the contractions come back despite the meds or if my water breaks which it thankfully has not. <br /><br />This is the second time the little guy has try to get out way early. I'm only at 33 weeks... the doc says that she would really appreciate it if he would at least wait until 36 weeks. I think Junior objects and wants out now but I'm doing all I can to keep him in there.<br /><br />I'm on bed rest so I'm home. I'm listening to the doctor and staying home with my feet up and taking my meds instead of trying to go to work cause I'm scared that if I go to work and my blood pressure goes too high it will start the labor again which will land me in the hospital to the baby comes and while in hospital they will keep me on IV meds for 3 weeks to make sure he makes it to 36 weeks and I don't want to be in the hospital for 3 weeks so for once I'm listening to doctor's orders. How unlike me. :)<br /><br />Hope everyone is doing well. I'm okay other than the planned escape by Junior and a chest cold that likes to make me cough a little but that's finally going away now.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-26165962754851033042007-11-29T16:50:00.001-05:002007-11-29T16:58:30.172-05:00Painting and Fishies are all doneWe did manage to get the room decoration done and the crib put together. Junior decided to try and make and early appearance which landed me in the hospital from the 21-27th but the doctors and I won and he is still safely unborn. I put together the changing table last night while DH started with the dresser. DH is gonna finish the dresser tonight while I wash the cloths that we have bought so far which aren't many but at least the kid will have something to wear home from the hospital. I am going to need to buy more 0-3month stuff though. I had held out on buying the tiny stuff cause DH was a big baby and I was scared that junior would be too but the doctors are predicting a 6-7lb baby now since he's still under 4lbs at 32 weeks. This works for me. Less weight to lug around at first and maybe the poor kid will have a shot at not being too overweight as he gets older. <br /><br />Justin took pictures of the room before we had anything in it and I'm gonna take some more pictures once we have the furniture in and the crib mobile and stuff done up so that you can see what it will actually look like for the baby. I will put pictures in webshots once we have all of that done at some point this weekend and I'll post the link on here so you guys can see.<br /><br />This saturday, I have lamaze class and sunday I will be cleaning to make sure the house is presentable for the baby shower next saturday. I can't wait to see those of you that are coming and I'll miss those that can't make it but you guys are welcome to give us a call that day if you want or any other day for that matter if you have my cell number... if you don't have the number let me know and I'll email it to you rather than post it here for the world to see.<br /><br />Hope everyone is doing well. I'm still plugging along and starting to feel a little large but DH swears I'm not really that big and one of my customers made me feel good by telling me that his wife was already this big at 4 months when I'm already at 7 so that was nice but I'm not sure I completely believe him.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-35198917747613956312007-11-12T16:22:00.000-05:002007-11-12T16:24:51.625-05:00Painting FunThanks to Valerie and Justin, the babies room now has painted walls. I'm stopping at lowe's tonight to pick up some not quite white paint to do the trim work and doors. The wall paper fish are set to arrive on Wednesday according to an email I recieved today so I can put up fish this weekend to have a completely finished babies room.... Then I just need poor Justin to build the crib and dresser so I can put away cloths :)<br /><br />I had lots of fun on Sunday painting with Val and DH. I think we may have gotten more on us and than drop cloth than on the walls but we had a blast doing it.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-18004884567118484752007-11-08T15:28:00.000-05:002007-11-08T15:44:08.723-05:00Baby ShowersEvery baby shower that I have ever been to has really been more about advice, laughter and visiting with a few small gifts from people. This was my expectation of what mine would be like as well. DH's office threw him a shower today. When he went through the list of what they had bought, I realized that these people had spent over $800 on this. I'm floored. The baby's room is also set for furniture with no problem now. <br /><br />We went a little nuts on the registry cause we knew we didn't have anything and we did put some really expensive stuff on there like the stroller/car seat combo and the high chair. I didn't expect to get these things as gifts, I put them on there because I knew we would need them and this would help me remember which one we had wanted.<br /><br />I have to write out a bunch of thank you notes and make some goodies for him to take to work to say thank you. I'm just floored with all the trouble they went through for this when they don't even know me. They do know DH though and they do like him at work so I guess that is where all the trouble came in. We'll also get to reciprocate a little bit since his boss' wife is also pregnant and the girl in HR is also pregnant.<br /><br />Not much going on with me. I went through the test for gestational diabetes and I'll find out if I have that sometime this week.<br /><br />I'm still working away on Fish City but the work has slowed down since I'm so tired and not staying up as late as I'm used to. We have decided on just painting the room and putting up fish cut out wallpaper. I have to order the wallpaper stickies and go buy the paint friday night so we can paint the room this weekend and set up the crib and everything.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-44617243140491627922007-11-06T11:03:00.001-05:002007-11-06T11:06:48.558-05:00Pregnancy is not for meAnother ER trip and hospital stay over the weekend. This time with a mock heart attack. The EKG said heart attack. The blood work said heart attack. The echocariogram said no heart damage so no heart attack. Doctor's don't know what caused it or how to stop it from happening again.<br /><br />I am definatly not having more kids. One will be enough and if I just have to have another child, I'm adopting it instead of going through this nightmare again.<br /><br />I'm beginning to wonder if I'm not supposed to decorate the kids room cause every time I make plans to go pick up the wall paper and paint, I end up in the hospital.<br /><br />Sorry Kirabug... there have not been any pictures of my belly to date and if I have my say, there won't be any at all. I can email you the last ultrasound pictures though since the new ultrasound doctor sent them to me in an email instead of printing them.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-10057697412680965932007-10-31T16:07:00.000-04:002007-10-31T16:21:31.255-04:00Sorry GuysThe last trimester has arrived and with it returned my energy and will to do something so I've been cleaning the house and getting ready for the arrival of the little one.<br /><br />I had another ultrasound today where I learned that it is definately a boy no doubt about it. He's between 12-13 inches long so far and a little over 3lbs. He has already turned and his head down and ready to come out. The doc says he may come a little early since he seems to be so eager about getting ready. He said he was in the 45th percentile so I have a completely average baby as far as height and weight. Cool. He wasn't concerned at all about me not gaining a lot of weight. I've actually gained 4lbs now which is about how much the kid and fluid weighs. The new ultrasound doc says weight gain is an individual thing and I have the right body type and hip position to support a pregnacy without gaining extra weight. Cool.<br /><br />The house is starting to look neat. I had originally planned to wallpaper the bottom of the baby's room with fishy wallpaper but then I found these really cool fish wallies where you would paint the wall and then just stick the fish on the wall like wall stickers. Valerie mentioned wanting to throw me a baby shower and possibly doing it at my house since it's big enough to hold everyone and people could stay as long as they wanted so that they could visit too. I thought maybe I could give everyone a page of the fish wallies and they could just have fun sticking them on the wall randomly. I have to run the idea by DH first though. He'll probably go for it though since it will be less work for us. :)<br /><br />I have started some beading work as well again. I found some awesome beads to make necklace fobs so I'm probably gonna do a few more of those when the beads come in. I've been doing some beaded banners too which are kind of interesting and fun. It's all Melanie's fault, she brought a bunch of books to the Kansas City trip and let us go through and get what we wanted and now I'm beading with Delicas.<br /><br />Not much else is going on. My life has become preparing for the little one which is normal I suppose. I'm looking forward to tonight. Halloween is Mischief the cat's favorite night of the year because a whole bunch of people ring the doorbell and give her attention. She has a blast every year and we have a blast watching her run to the door and stand up to try to see who is there every time the bell rings. I swear she meows at and tried to play with every kid that comes to the door.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-49962311559744507652007-10-17T16:05:00.000-04:002007-10-17T16:15:14.034-04:00Life DetouredMonday the 1st, I ended up in bed all day with what I thought was a migraine. Tuesday was spent in a similar fashion. Wednesday, I got up to go to work and almost passed out. I believe the only thing that stopped me from passing out was concentrating on the nausea that rolled through me. We called the OBG and she set an appointment for noon but told me to go to the hospital if anything else happened. Lo and Behold, a half hour later a nosebleed started and off to the ER we went. They rushed me right in and I ended up spending the rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday in the hospital with the diagnosis of dehydration. The good part of this was that they kept the baby on a monitor and his reading were all strong and he showed his persistent stubborness by constantly kicking the monitor to dislodge it as much as possible. Spent the rest of that week home in bed and the following Monday and Tuesday as well. Wednesday, I went in to the OBG again for the normal check up and she couldn't find a reason for the dizziness and nausea that were persisting so then I went to see my general practitioner and he found that the bones in my middle ear had gotten stuck together and he gave me some medicine to try and help with that.<br /><br />I finally made it back to work this monday after two weeks off. Needless to say, work was not happy but I'm surviving. I spend a lot of time being tired though and my appetite is very sketchy. The doc is back to reprimanding me for the fact that I weigh the same now as I did the day she told me I was pregnant. I keep arguing that the kid still weighs less than a pound so me not gaining weight yet can't be that bad of a thing. She disagrees since I'm only a week and a half away from the 3rd trimester. I figure I'll gain weight when the little guy lets me eat and worse case scenerio, I'll end up weighing less that I did to start after I have the baby... That can't be a bad thing since I was a little overweight to start. I really don't feel 215lbs is a bad weight at this point. I had dropped down to 205 so she should be happy that I'm back to the 215!<br /><br />I've been stitching away on Fish City. I have the buildings and fish done on half of it and I'm almost 1/2 way with the buildings on the second half so I'm making great progress. I've also been doing some peyote stitch beading and I've managed to finish a little dragon banner. If I ever get up the energy one evening to get the camera out, I have a lot of stuff that I need to take pictures of so that I can update my webshots album.<br /><br />I also need to get off my bum this weekend and get the baby's room cleared out and buy the paint and wallpaper for in it so that I can actually paint and wallpaper one weekend.<br /><br />*sigh* anyone got some energy they can give me?Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-52004040196881216082007-09-25T10:51:00.001-04:002007-09-25T10:53:05.297-04:00nothing to reportNot much going on here. I went to the gtg on Saturday and had fun talking to everyone.<br /><br />Still working. Still stitching ... or attempting to stitch. I haven't really been in the mood to do much so I'm mostly vegging on the couch reading and watching TV.<br /><br />Baby Boy is still kicking strong and often.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833378.post-71826479214427024962007-09-20T11:09:00.000-04:002007-09-20T11:23:47.676-04:00shouldn't have complainedI shouldn't have said anything about Tuesday's being boring because that lead to a very eventful Wednesday. I woke up Wednesday morning feeling like crud so I called work and told them I was feeling really bad and didn't think that I'd be in but I would try to come in later. I was laying in bed and DH was in the shower when my phone rang. It was my mom checking to see why she hadn't heard from me yet. I was in the process of telling that I was sick when pain shot through my upper right side. I quickly explained that I was fine and hung up the phone. I then got DH who had finished his shower and was dressed by then and we took a trip to the ER cause the pain was bad enough to make me cry. At the ER, the got me in pretty quickly for an ER and ordered a bunch of tests. I refused pain killer cause I didn't want to hurt the baby so I endured the blood tests, pelvic, full stomach ultrasound, and chest xray to find that I had a kidney infection. The doc was a little baffled about how I got a kidney infection and showed no signs of a UTI but I just chalk that up to my quirky system.<br /><br />Today, I'm sitting here at work in pain cause they weren't able to give me a pain killer that was both safe for the baby and that I wasn't allergic to. I do have antibiotics though and will hopefully feel better soon.<br /><br />Don't let me complain about boring days any more.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325611734533879252noreply@blogger.com5