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It is not the swine flu! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!

Update

We are all moved in and I am slowly unpacking. I love my house! I have just laid in my bed and marveled at how quiet it is. All the neighbors we have met so far seem really nice. Jayden has been sleeping through the night in his room all alone. Hallelujah! OK so I admit he is asleep when he goes into his room but he stays there all night so I don't care. This morning I did the dishes while watching 3 Robin birds eat worms out of my yard, sure beats the hell out of looking at a wall. If and when I finally unpack the camera I promise to take pictures.

In other news Terrell is sick AGAIN! This has been quite a year with the sickness. They are pretty sure he has the flu, we are waiting for the lab results but the doctor said it is most likely the swine flu. Great just great, where in the hell did my kid get that from? So he will be home for the next 5 days or so. The doctor gave him Tamiflu, no generic version so our copay was $35 at CVS.

Anyway that is what is going on around here, what is new with you?

Sickness

So far today I have been thrown up on, pooped on and stubbed my toe. This was all by 6:30am. Then I got T up, just before he started to eat breakfast he said "Mommy my tummy hurts." Yup he threw up too. How did I get so lucky????

I am finally feeling better. I had to leave work on Thursday because whatever I had hit me like a ton of bricks. I spent all day Friday in bed minus the time it took to drop off T at school and pick him up. I tried to pawn J off on the sitter but she was sick too. I got lucky though and he slept for 2 hours with me in the morning. It could have been so much worse.

I did drag my butt out of bed on Saturday for 2 reasons. We had home inspection and I had a function at the hotel that I was coordinator for. I had to be there no way around it. The inspection went really well. There are some minor things, but what house is perfect? We need to put an electrical outlet in the bathroom since there isn't one. We also will be moving the dishwasher from the basement to the kitchen. Weird place to have a dishwasher but what can you do? We are now hammering out the purchase and sale contract. We should have that done some time tomorrow. Closing will be April 20th with a clause for them to extend it 30 days if need be. I need to kick the moving into high gear because before you know it Bam it is gonna be time. I am going to start this weekend with pictures and knick nacks, you know the dust collectors and work my way from there.

Jayden woke up about 3:30 this morning gagging and throwing up. Why do they always get sick in the middle of the night? He was whiny and clingy and unhappy most of the day. Poor thing couldn't keep a thing down. Then about an hour before I need to go to work he is able to keep water down. Daddy has him now and he is fine happy and giggling. Ate a whole bottle too with no throwing up in sight.

So much going on

I have so many thoughts swirling around in my brain right now that I thought a famous bullet post might be in order. Come on you know you love them.

• I am pretty sure I am getting sick
• Of course this would happen now
• I am event coordinating a function on Saturday
• I have to be there for the set up
• We have our home inspection on Saturday as well
• Today is my parent teacher conference with Terrell's teacher
• I need to find out how close to the end of the school year we can close without him needing to transfer schools
• I need to write a $400 check to the attorney who will be helping us with our home purchase
• I am scared to death about the amount of money we have to come up with
• $7200 for the down payment
• Another $5000 or $6000 for closing
• plus all that stuff you don't always thing about like
• $850 for the lawyer
• a new fridge and a washer dryer
• Curtains I mean I know I can get away with just shade for a while
• Oil, we heat with oil in these parts and a few days before closing someone will go stick the tank to see how much oil is in it
• Yeah we have to pay for that at closing
• Homesteaders act. Although our 1st time homebuyer class told us it costs on $35 and to do it ourself at city hall
• At closing they try to make you do it for upwards of $200
• Home insurance
• Packing
• Unpacking
• The kids adjusting
• Me adjusting
• We have lived here 10 years as a married couple I will be sad to leave
• I got the doctor to give me a new prescription for Zoloft
• Now I just need to fill it
• T needs a haircut
• J needs pajamas
• Anyone got some 12 month pajamas they aren't using?
• Did I mention I am getting sick????

Ok I think that is enough rambling for one day.

1st post of the new year

and guess what? We have all been sick, sicker than sick. We all had strep throat and really bad colds. I still managed to work NYE and NYD but I did not feel good doing it. We all got on medicine and are starting to feel better but we are still not 100%. I forgot how much it sucks being sick and still needing to take care of kids. With all of us sick we took turns. Everyone got a chance wallow in there own sickness and I will admit it I did not take a shower for 3 days. We all smell much better now too. Off to work again today, we are hoping to be 100% by the weekend.

Sick

Jayden is still not feeling good and it is starting to catch up to me. Once I finally made it home last night he decided it was a good idea to wake up. You can't blame the poor little guy he is just miserable. Now I feel like I am getting sick. Thankfully whatever was bothering Tbone yesterday seems to have cleared up. Hoping we will all be better for the Christmas eve dinner and Christmas morning craziness. Have you gotten everything done for your holiday celebrations?

NOOOOOOOOO

Ok seriously this is just not funny anymore. Terrell woke up puking this morning. My poor baby on the eve of his 5th birthday can not even keep a sip of water down. WHY!!!!!!!! Seriously who did I piss off in the world? I have a OB appointment at 10:30 today. Thank god my friend and sitter Andrea is willing to watch him while I go. I have had enough of the sickness in my house for the year. Can we just get a few days of everyone feeling good?

Enough Already!

I want to know just what I did to god to piss him off. I have the post nasal drip that causes me to cough uncontrollable all night again. Seriously I think I peed my pants 6 times last night. I finally had to get up and sleep sitting up on the couch and that did not even really help. Why have I been so sick this pregnancy? What did I do to upset the balance of the world? I just want to be able to sleep for more than a hour or 2 a night before Jayden gets here. I actually hurt my stomach coughing so hard last night.

In other news a few days ago I had my friend Kristin get her pendulum so we could ask some questions. A while back we had asked the age old question every pregnant woman wants to know boy or girl. Well I be darned but the thing was right. So I decided I needed more answers, this time I am documenting them so we can go back and see if it was right. The pendulum says I will not make my c section date but will go between May 15 and 20. I will not go into labor at work or in the middle of the night. My OB will be the one to deliver me and Jayden will be born healthy. It also said I will work until the very end, I am not happy about that one but oh well. 33 weeks today, a baby sometime in the next 5½ weeks WOOHOO!

Not Funny Part Two

Well the momma is better and now Terrell is sick. Poor kid is throwing up everywhere. I sure hope he is better for Sunday, he will be heart broken if he misses the shower.

Not Funny

It is so not funny to wake up and feel fine but within an hour suddenly feel like someone is out to get you. Yesterday morning all of a sudden I felt nauseous, stomach was cramping and I had a fever. WTF I ask myself. I had an OB appointment so off to the doctor I went. Even my doc could tell I was not right. By the time I got home I just wanted to sleep so I dropped T at school and made my way to the bed. Then the vomiting and runs started. Don't forget the fever to round things out. Ahh good times in my house yesterday. On the appointment front I gained another pound so 16 total so far. Jayden's heartbeat was good but I was so sick I did not even ask what it was. I am measuring right on target. I go back in 2 weeks and after that it might be weekly depending on how I am doing. Dr. D wants me to get a CBC tomorrow when I am at the hospital for my non stress test. He wants to check my platlets. Not sure why but I will google it later. Right now I am trying to decide if I am going to work today.

Sick Boy

Sickness is visiting my house again. Poor Terrell who has had a cold for a few days took it to a whole new level this morning with projectile vomiting. No pregnant woman should ever have to clean up vomit. I am still not sure how I managed to not throw up myself. So no school for him today, he is on the couch and will stay there unless he needs to ride with me to work. My poor baby, he hates being sick as it interferes with his busy schedule. I on the other hand hate to see my boy unhappy. So it should be a lovely day in this household.

Adoption

Today Terrell accidentally changed the channel and the next thing I knew we were watching CBS morning news. They were talking about adoption and this girl who later found out her best friend was in fact her sister. It was a sweet story. T asked me what adoption was, I took a deep breath and told him that when a Mommy and a Daddy can not take care of the baby they give it to another family to love and take care of it. I then told him that he has a big brother named Brian. He asked a few questions and I just told him that Mommy was really young and that the baby went to live with another family and maybe one day we will see him again. It was strange for me to talk to T about Brian. It is not something that my DH and I talk about alot. He tries to pretend that Terrell is my first born.

On another note I most likely have a UTI. I am waiting for doctor to call with the UA results. No pain when peeing but it just does not want to come out. Hours later now my back is hurting and I am getting paranoid that I may have another clot in my lungs. Oh the joys of being broken. Every little back pain I start freaking out, you see my first clot started in my pelvis and I only felt it once it had gone to the lung and I started coughing up blood. I get really worried everytime I have a twinge now.

It is so weird for me right now. you would think with the IVF working and actually being pregnant I would have a lot to blog about and yet I am silent. It is freaking me out that I really don't feel pregnant. I have to keep reminding myself that I am. The only real symptoms I am having is sneezing and really really bad gas. I mean clear a room bad. Yes sneezing is a pregnancy symptom for me, crazy huh? I am so not okay with not getting another beta before Monday. That seems so far away but at the same time I know if anything is wrong there is no way to stop it anyway. This is the problem with IVF pregnancies not only do you know way sooner you also know all the bad shit that can happen. I am trying very hard not to dwell on the bad stuff but it sure is hard. Terrell is overjoyed at the thought of being a big brother. I know some people think it is crazy to tell him so early but he has known that we were trying. He has put an order in for a little sister, I hope he won't be disappointed if it is a boy.

He is a bit under the weather again. The doctor thinks he may have strep throat , my boy might be a carrier. Other kids get ear infections all the time mine appears to get strep. Aren't I lucky?

Well

Well I am finally back to the land of the living. The reaction I had to the Repronex was so bad that I had a fever, aches and pains, a headache and a sensitivity to light. My leg and stomach are still all swollen and red and gross looking. Today is the first day that I have not had a fever in 4 days. I went in to the clinic and let them have it. The answering service never paged the doctor for me on Monday. I got a call from the director of the clinic about what happened and I guess they are getting a new service since this is the second time it has happened. They also had a nurse take a quick look at me and she immediately told me to stop taking the meds. I was there for blood and ultrasound but they asked me to hang around so the doctor could see me. Thankful I am off of repronex now, I am just doing gonal f two times a day and now I am taking ganirelex too. I am hoping I continue to respond well without the other med. I had 2 good size follies on my right ovary a 19 and a 13.5 as well as 3 under 10. On the left I had 4 good size ones, I think one might have been a 20 as well as 2 under 10. I go in tomorrow morning to have another look and I am hoping for trigger Friday or Saturday.

Guess What?

Well guess who still has strep throat? If you guessed Terrell and me you would be correct. My doctor called at 9:30 this morning to tell me the throat cultures both came back positive. Good thing I had him swab my throat huh? He called in a script for me and Tony since he figures we probably all have it. I am hoping the keflex kills it for Terrell. The poor kid needs some relief. His skin is so dry and he is itchy all the time. I went and got him $13.00 Eucerin lotion to help with the dryness. That stuff better work for all the money it cost! I can not believe I have strep, every other time I have ever had it I would be dying in only a day or two. How is it I have been walking around with it for weeks?

We did go to Legal Seafood Friday night and it was to die for! The food was so good. Terrell had a half pound lobster, Tony had soft shell crabs and I had crab cakes, scallops and grilled shrimp. Yummy.

We went to Wally world today and bought a new grill. Our last one died at the end of last summer and we grill alot so it was needed. Tony is grilling tomorrow but I will miss it since I will be at work.

Scarlet

Terrell is sick. He came home from school yesterday not feeling very good. When I picked him up he was sleeping, he had complained of a headache. He had a fever last night and just wanted to be held. Today more of the same but he started complaining that his mouth and throat hurt. He complained of the light bothering his eyes and was just clingy. Then I noticed a rash. All over the trunk of his body and neck. Called the doctor and in we went, even the doctor's office knew something was wrong right away because he was just not himself. Doctor is pretty sure it is strep throat/scarlet fever. He is on antibiotics and is sleeping at the moment. Looks like it is going to be a long weekend around here.

Sorry

I am sorry I did not post sooner. It seems the phone company was out here Monday afternoon working on the pole by my house. Well while they were doing whatever it is they do they took out my phone service. It took 3 days to get it back and that was only after I called to complain many times and told them that I know they messed up my service because it worked fine until your guy was on the pole. I finally got a really nice guy who got someone out her on Wednesday to fix it. Yes I know today is Thursday but my RE gave me an awesome stomach bug! I was sick as a dog all night Tuesday and all day yesterday. The whole shebang vomiting diarrhea and the chills with a fever. Thanks Doc you are a peach.

Ok now for what you really care about, the appointment. It was not good. Basically boils down to the reason I am not pregnant is because I am fat. OK he did not really say that exactly but that is what I heard. He will not cycle me this month. He wants me to lose 20 pounds first to bring my BMI under 35. The best thing? I gained 7 pounds during the last IVF cycle. His perky pregnant nurse told me to try either Atkins or south beach, she said with either one I could get to the 20 pound loss by the next cycle. Now I do not care so much that she is pregnant but hello she weighs maybe 90 pounds what the hell does she know about loosing weight? He also wants me to give my shots in the thigh because there is less fat there. Seems fat is a theme here huh? No Lupron this time as he thinks it might of suppressed me to well instead I will be doing reponex/menopur? I need to do some research on them now that I have my computer back. So I am going to try the south beach diet and hope it works well for me. I have considered going to another clinicc as well though. We will see. I am really just still trying to process it all.

Sorry

so sorry I went MIA on you guys. The ick found me too and had me down and out for a few days. not to mention all the drama going on lately at work. Things at home are going well though, we got a letter from our insurance yesterday telling us they will cover 3 IVF treatments at this time. After that we have to get another approval. I am waiting for the clinic to call me so I can get my meds from freedom drug. I wish I had something else to talk about here but really there is just nothing going on right now. What's going on with you?

The Ick

The ick has invaded my house. I swear I am the only one without some kind of stomach bug. T was sick Friday throwing up, better the next day but still not eating much. This morning at 1am he started throwing up again. I had Tony stay home today because T was supposed to go to the sitters. Called him at 1 in the morning too. I don't feel the need to get his whole house sick as well. Even though I know he would have still taken T. Tony has been sick too so it was good for him to stay home. He did give me a bit of a hard time about it though. I told him to suck it up, T is almost 4 and this is the first time we have had to call out due to him being sick.

Only problem is now I have to see if the nurse over at the clinic will still see me for injection training without Tony. I will let you all know.