Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
An update to the previous update of the update.
Little Piggie has been taken off of everything in the NICU. Later today he is supposed to get released to my room so that I'll have someone to talk to and I'll stop bothering the nurses. Also, this means I can stop walking to the NICU all night to feed him. Here is a picture of the little booger now that he finally has all of the tubes and gadgets off of him. The red marks on his face are remnants of the aggressive behavior that the nurses cruelly inflicted upon him with tape and tubes. The nerve.
He looks a lot like Piglet did as an infant. They have very different personalities so far.
In other news? I PASSED MY KIDNEY STONE! This is major cause for celebration. The lucky nurse who strained my pee acted like she found gold. We placed it in a sterile container and shuttled it to Dr. Urine to find out what it's made of. You will have to remain on the edge of your seat while we wait in eager anticipation. It looked like a piece of gravel, in case anyone is interested in the hairy details.
He looks a lot like Piglet did as an infant. They have very different personalities so far.In other news? I PASSED MY KIDNEY STONE! This is major cause for celebration. The lucky nurse who strained my pee acted like she found gold. We placed it in a sterile container and shuttled it to Dr. Urine to find out what it's made of. You will have to remain on the edge of your seat while we wait in eager anticipation. It looked like a piece of gravel, in case anyone is interested in the hairy details.
Friday, June 20, 2008
An Update on the Update
Dr. OB just visited. He said he thinks I am the only woman he has ever seen who is electively breastfeeding, but using ice packs. I offered to show him the corners of my boob, but he politely declined. He also explained that he will be keeping me here another night due to the update he got from Dr. Urine.
Dr. Urine ordered a CT Scan this morning and identified the jerk of a kidney stone that has been tormenting me these last few weeks. It is hovering on the edge of my bladder, quivering with anticipation as it waits to exit. It was delayed by the presence of Little Piggie pushing 8 pounds of boy down upon it. A collecting agent has been installed on my potty and I have offered a prize to whichever nurse should strain the offending stone. It is 3mm wide and Dr. Urine thinks it has a 90% chance of coming out. If it doesn't, he's going to go get it. He also alerted me that there are two more stones, one in each kidney. The one in my right kidney is 7mm wide. It will not be passed, but will have to be blasted with a laser. And my kidney is swollen from the backups of recent weeks.
Little Piggie is still in his jaundice tanning bed. His levels dropped yesterday, but they are giving him one more day to bring them down further. He is on track to lose his IV today and increase his liquids. He is nursing like a champ. I have no idea how he is able to latch onto these deformed boobies, but he does it. As the cords are removed from him and the tape taken off of his face, he's getting cuter and cuter. He has fuzzy blonde hair like Piglet and his eyes are still blue, but will probably change. He does not like to be messed with. Diaper changes, cord adjustments, his cool shades that protect his eyes from his tanning bed....these things are unacceptable to Little Piggie.
Dr. Urine ordered a CT Scan this morning and identified the jerk of a kidney stone that has been tormenting me these last few weeks. It is hovering on the edge of my bladder, quivering with anticipation as it waits to exit. It was delayed by the presence of Little Piggie pushing 8 pounds of boy down upon it. A collecting agent has been installed on my potty and I have offered a prize to whichever nurse should strain the offending stone. It is 3mm wide and Dr. Urine thinks it has a 90% chance of coming out. If it doesn't, he's going to go get it. He also alerted me that there are two more stones, one in each kidney. The one in my right kidney is 7mm wide. It will not be passed, but will have to be blasted with a laser. And my kidney is swollen from the backups of recent weeks.
Little Piggie is still in his jaundice tanning bed. His levels dropped yesterday, but they are giving him one more day to bring them down further. He is on track to lose his IV today and increase his liquids. He is nursing like a champ. I have no idea how he is able to latch onto these deformed boobies, but he does it. As the cords are removed from him and the tape taken off of his face, he's getting cuter and cuter. He has fuzzy blonde hair like Piglet and his eyes are still blue, but will probably change. He does not like to be messed with. Diaper changes, cord adjustments, his cool shades that protect his eyes from his tanning bed....these things are unacceptable to Little Piggie.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Update
Howdy from the hospital! I really like this hospital. I like that they have WiFi, good food you can select from a menu which includes chocolate chip cookies, nice nurses, and beds that go up and down. Boy, will I miss this bed when I get home.
Things are still going reasonably well here. Little Piggie is still in the NICU, but doing much better. He's gotten all of his breathing apparatus off and is breathing properly. Unfortunately, he has jaundice and has to spend his time now under the bright blue lights of his tanning bed sporting some foxy foam rubber sunglasses attached to a headpiece. He's also still on an IV. They just started letting him eat yesterday, which has vexed me greatly. Timing wise it worked out great because my milk came in last night, but they are ridiculous about making sure he eats a certain amount instead of just letting him nurse happily. This results in me nursing him (he's a natural!), then they feed him any extra milk I've pumped, plus formula up to 25 mL. It's crazy, but whatever. I'm trying to be flexible.
It's hard to be flexible when your boobs are two rock hard melons that come up to your collarbones and into your armpits. I don't think this typically happens with your second baby, except that I haven't been able to feed mine as often or as much as I'd prefer.
Also, my kidney stones aren't really gone. It turns out that they were just in hiding, masked by the spinal block leftovers until yesterday. Bah. So now Dr. Urology and Dr. OB are trying to figure out what to do and I have no idea when Little Piggie and I will be released.
In better news, we closed on both houses this week from the hospital. It's amazing what you can accomplish in one week if you really put your mind to it! Time to go attempt to pump my melons. Hope you're having a good one!
Things are still going reasonably well here. Little Piggie is still in the NICU, but doing much better. He's gotten all of his breathing apparatus off and is breathing properly. Unfortunately, he has jaundice and has to spend his time now under the bright blue lights of his tanning bed sporting some foxy foam rubber sunglasses attached to a headpiece. He's also still on an IV. They just started letting him eat yesterday, which has vexed me greatly. Timing wise it worked out great because my milk came in last night, but they are ridiculous about making sure he eats a certain amount instead of just letting him nurse happily. This results in me nursing him (he's a natural!), then they feed him any extra milk I've pumped, plus formula up to 25 mL. It's crazy, but whatever. I'm trying to be flexible.
It's hard to be flexible when your boobs are two rock hard melons that come up to your collarbones and into your armpits. I don't think this typically happens with your second baby, except that I haven't been able to feed mine as often or as much as I'd prefer.
Also, my kidney stones aren't really gone. It turns out that they were just in hiding, masked by the spinal block leftovers until yesterday. Bah. So now Dr. Urology and Dr. OB are trying to figure out what to do and I have no idea when Little Piggie and I will be released.
In better news, we closed on both houses this week from the hospital. It's amazing what you can accomplish in one week if you really put your mind to it! Time to go attempt to pump my melons. Hope you're having a good one!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Whining Can Cease!
Baby Pigs was born today at 11:17am about three weeks early. He weighs 7 lbs, 14 oz and is 18 inches long. He's having some lung problems and is being monitored for breathing difficulties, which is apparently not uncommon in a c-section delivery. He is officially off of my kidney and into the world! He looks a lot like brother Piglet so far. I will post a picture once we have a cute one that doesn't involve blood, gunk, scrotum, or breathing apparatus. I will also mention that he was born during a thunderstorm and the power went out four times during my surgery. It was lively and interesting!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
It seems a week has passed.
Car:
Well, turns out I did a mere $2500 of damage to my car and $1300 of damage to my friend's car. Aren't you impressed that I could cause that much destruction going 5 miles per hour in my own driveway? After a week of rental cars, we both have our cars back all fixed up. If anyone is a teacher or has ever been a teacher and is insurance shopping, I highly recommend Horace Mann.
Cletus:
Cletus is really giving me a time. I know everyone says that every pregnancy is different, but good grief. These two are night and day. Between the kidney stones and the chronic nerve pain, the severe indigestion and the three trips to labor and delivery, this kid is way more high maintenance than Piglet ever was in utero. I have a constant, burning, bladder infection-like urge to pee and nothing is there. I don't have a bladder infection, but I have blood in my pee all the time. I think it is related to the piercing, radiating pain on the right side of my nether regions. I'm on an antibiotic until the baby is born to prevent a kidney infection. I've been placed on "semi-bed rest" to try to keep the weight off of my bladder and parts being smushed by the baby. It doesn't really help. All I can hope is that in 15 days this kid will be a super laid back baby. That is, if he lasts 15 days. The urologist wants to deliver early because of fear of kidney infection, the OB does not because it's a boy and he doesn't want him to have underdeveloped lungs. I agree with the OB with the exception of this chronic nerve/bladder pain. Pain as in, they gave me a shot of Demerol and Phenergan and it made me completely dopey and tired, but didn't touch the pain. Argh.
Piglet:
Piglet is a big boy now. He has easily made the shift to a big boy bed at night with only one incident the first night. (He got out to get Froggy and couldn't figure out how to get back in, so he just sat in the floor for who knows how long. I went in at 5:30am - was up peeing - to check on him and he looked up and said, "Uh oh.") Ever since then, he's slept all night. Today we made the shift from the crib for nap too and it was a little more tempting for him. He spent the first hour and a half looking at books, walking around his room, talking to Froggy and labeling all the kinds of trucks on his sheets. Then he finally fell asleep on the floor for an hour. I guess it will take a bit of adjustment? We shall see.
House:
The house has sold. We close on both houses next week and it will all be over. The buyers had their inspection done and their super-professional inspector broke half my house. He tracked mud and grass all over the hardwoods, he pried open one of my magnet child locked cabinets in lieu of using the magnet to open it and shattered the lock, he broke all of the doohickeys that roll up our blind cords, and he left both fence gates opened and unlocked for Gus to get out. What a train wreck!
Must run. I just wanted to update. I have to go deal with my radiating pain and sit down to pee some pee that's not there. Cheers.
Well, turns out I did a mere $2500 of damage to my car and $1300 of damage to my friend's car. Aren't you impressed that I could cause that much destruction going 5 miles per hour in my own driveway? After a week of rental cars, we both have our cars back all fixed up. If anyone is a teacher or has ever been a teacher and is insurance shopping, I highly recommend Horace Mann.
Cletus:
Cletus is really giving me a time. I know everyone says that every pregnancy is different, but good grief. These two are night and day. Between the kidney stones and the chronic nerve pain, the severe indigestion and the three trips to labor and delivery, this kid is way more high maintenance than Piglet ever was in utero. I have a constant, burning, bladder infection-like urge to pee and nothing is there. I don't have a bladder infection, but I have blood in my pee all the time. I think it is related to the piercing, radiating pain on the right side of my nether regions. I'm on an antibiotic until the baby is born to prevent a kidney infection. I've been placed on "semi-bed rest" to try to keep the weight off of my bladder and parts being smushed by the baby. It doesn't really help. All I can hope is that in 15 days this kid will be a super laid back baby. That is, if he lasts 15 days. The urologist wants to deliver early because of fear of kidney infection, the OB does not because it's a boy and he doesn't want him to have underdeveloped lungs. I agree with the OB with the exception of this chronic nerve/bladder pain. Pain as in, they gave me a shot of Demerol and Phenergan and it made me completely dopey and tired, but didn't touch the pain. Argh.
Piglet:
Piglet is a big boy now. He has easily made the shift to a big boy bed at night with only one incident the first night. (He got out to get Froggy and couldn't figure out how to get back in, so he just sat in the floor for who knows how long. I went in at 5:30am - was up peeing - to check on him and he looked up and said, "Uh oh.") Ever since then, he's slept all night. Today we made the shift from the crib for nap too and it was a little more tempting for him. He spent the first hour and a half looking at books, walking around his room, talking to Froggy and labeling all the kinds of trucks on his sheets. Then he finally fell asleep on the floor for an hour. I guess it will take a bit of adjustment? We shall see.
House:
The house has sold. We close on both houses next week and it will all be over. The buyers had their inspection done and their super-professional inspector broke half my house. He tracked mud and grass all over the hardwoods, he pried open one of my magnet child locked cabinets in lieu of using the magnet to open it and shattered the lock, he broke all of the doohickeys that roll up our blind cords, and he left both fence gates opened and unlocked for Gus to get out. What a train wreck!
Must run. I just wanted to update. I have to go deal with my radiating pain and sit down to pee some pee that's not there. Cheers.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Advice?
By the by...anyone with kiddos out there? If you have any handy tips on switching a toddler over to a big boy bed, I'd be glad to listen. Tricks? Bribes? Lemme know. The process commenced last night and was quite entertaining.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Mama! Car! Owie!
Agent: Insurance Company, may I take your claim?
Me: Um....I need to file an auto claim.
Agent: Can you describe for me what happened exactly?
Me: Okay, but listen. Before you judge me, I'm about nine months pregnant.
Agent: Ma'am, that's really irrelevant unless you sustained injury.
Me: Oh. Well, just so you know something bad happens to your brain when you're pregnant. I have a very clean driving record.
Agent: Tell me what happened, please.
Me: I kind of backed into another car. With....my car.
Agent: So, you backed into a car that was parked in your driveway. Did you know the car was there? Who did it belong to?
Me: Um....I need to file an auto claim.
Agent: Can you describe for me what happened exactly?
Me: Okay, but listen. Before you judge me, I'm about nine months pregnant.
Agent: Ma'am, that's really irrelevant unless you sustained injury.
Me: Oh. Well, just so you know something bad happens to your brain when you're pregnant. I have a very clean driving record.
Agent: Tell me what happened, please.
Me: I kind of backed into another car. With....my car.
Agent: Was anyone injured?
Me: No, there was no one in the car.
Agent: So, the car was parked? Where did this take place?
Me: Um, in my driveway.
Me: Um, in my driveway.
Agent: So, you backed into a car that was parked in your driveway. Did you know the car was there? Who did it belong to?
Me: Yes. I knew it was there. It was my friend's car. She was in the car with me.
Agent: [long silence]
Me: I really am a good driver! I just forgot it was there! Don't judge me! Can you fix it?
Monday, June 02, 2008
Swooooooooon
Just a little PSA that I feel obligated to put out there. If you have not tried Dove Toffee Caramel Moment ice cream, you are missing out on an amazing taste experience. The entire top of the ice cream being sealed with a layer of Dove chocolate doesn't hurt either. I, um....just remembered something I have to do. After I wipe the drool off my chin. And get a spoon.
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