So the whole pregnancy is beginning to sink in. I hope it is not all in vain, but my first ultrasound will be Monday (fingers crossed we see the heartbeat and development). Life in general is progressing well. Husby and I have been madly working on the house (some days I wish it was all done, but then I see the final product and am happy). We moved the office out of the bedroom across from the Master bedroom and to the back Florida room since that was unutilized space. Now we have that bedroom to convert to the baby's room. We pretty much have an idea of what we want in terms of furniture and we have our theme picked out. Hopefully we will be able to make it all work, but that is not a current project. After he finishes sanding and staining the desk, it will get installed and the remainder of the sewing/craft stuff will get evicted from the bedroom and the office area will be completed. Then it's the guest bathroom and Husby's idea of painting, blacksplash tiling and some minor cosmetic repairs to the room. After that is the baby's room and the kitchen probably close to the same time...depending on how much of a discount a friend of ours can get us on kitchen cabinets. We shall see since finances is important at this point. I sortof hope the kitchen gets done before the baby comes so we do not have a disaster with a newborn, but who knows. I also need the kitchen redone so I have cabinet and counter space....dreaming of my pantry cabinet/closet!
Since we may have a new arrival in the household, I started fully investigating my degree plan. I am halfway through and am going to start doubling up on my courses so I can (fingers crossed) have just one class (and be about halfway through) around my EDD. If I choose to walk, graduation is in Miami around Feb. 5th, 2011. So excited, although not sure I will want to do the whole graduation thing again, but once again we shall see.
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2.18.2010
11.18.2009
Because dogs are part of the family too...
So love of my life, Snow, our littlest pup is a very adventurous dog. Some mornings he spends the entire time outside exploring the backyard, as if it has changed in some form in the last 12 hours. Typically, he is the hardest to come inside because he is wandering the yard looking for the best place to go potty or just being inquisitive and exploring. Well, Sunday Husby and I got home from bowling and noticed he was acting strange. He quickly went outside and took his time doing his business, but then suddenly darted inside and cowered in the kitchen with his tail wrapped around his behind. Usually this means he did something wrong (our dogs have very guilty consciences and end up ratting themselves out before we find the disaster). So I grab and notice he has a mess on his behind (which happens time to time), so I get Husby to help me since one needs to hold him down and the other needs to do clean-up. When he wipes away the poop, I realize there is blood. So now I get concerned thinking pup has bloody stools, so Husby takes him into the tub and gives him a bath to clean the area and see where the blood is coming from. After his bath, he notices a wound beside Snow's butt, and so we apply pressure hoping the blood will clot and life will be ok. The rest of the night, Snow snuggles in one of our laps and doesn't make a peep or fidget. He shakes when he cold and when he is nervous/scared/in trouble, so he does that a bit, but otherwise it looks fine. Husby takes a look at it again and thinks maybe Snow dragged his bum along the grass and got scratched by a burr or along one of the coralline rocks and scratched it, so we put him to bed. Monday, the wound is still there, still open and oozing a bit, so I wipe it off and left him go outside which he fights me on. I eventually have to stand outside for him to come out the door on his own and he quickly pees and runs back inside and to his house (usually I cannot get him to go to his house willingly, so I think something is up, but rush to leave for work). We keep cleaning it and watching it but it doesn't look too terrible and we notice Snow keeps trying to lick it and get at it, so we spend Monday evening (after getting home from our whirlwind shopping trip...post to come) keeping him distracted from it so he will let the wound heal. Tuesday morning still looks puffy and irritated but we chalk it up to him messing with it, so I don't worry too much, especially after Husby tells me not to worry, it'll be fine.
Well, yesterday when I got home, I noticed Snow was still favoring his bum and was passing up food and water and really did not want to be outside, so I picked him up to look at it and I notice it is oozing even worse today. Thinking it is still due to him disrupting and maybe it is bothering him because it is healing, I gave him a washcloth bath and cleaned up. When, Husby gets home and really gives him a bath, he realizes it the wound is now double in size and almost mimics a spider bite (We have tons of burrows that look like spider dens and we are in a residential area, but not too far from the park/preserve, so now I turn into super uneasy, worried Mom mode). Husby researches pictures of common spiders in our area and what their bites look like which leads us to think maybe he had gotten bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider (if you are interested in what a bite from these looks like, you can research it, but I will summarize your search to tell you that these bites can be serious to humans, so imagine it on a 5 lb. Chihuahua). I immediately locate an emergency clinic in our area and we rush him off to it. An hour or so later, and a $200 vet bill later, Snow had an anal gland abscess, and it ruptured. He had to get a haircut, a scrubbing and cleaning and then a shot of antibiotics and we were sent home with 7 days worth of antibiotics (2x/day) and told to clean the wound daily with antibacterial soap. So needless to say, last night was a long evening and Monday night was a long evening and tonight will be long and then my new specialist doctor's appt. is Monday and most likely a pre-op appt. and then surgery on Tuesday....so we will see how this week goes.
Well, yesterday when I got home, I noticed Snow was still favoring his bum and was passing up food and water and really did not want to be outside, so I picked him up to look at it and I notice it is oozing even worse today. Thinking it is still due to him disrupting and maybe it is bothering him because it is healing, I gave him a washcloth bath and cleaned up. When, Husby gets home and really gives him a bath, he realizes it the wound is now double in size and almost mimics a spider bite (We have tons of burrows that look like spider dens and we are in a residential area, but not too far from the park/preserve, so now I turn into super uneasy, worried Mom mode). Husby researches pictures of common spiders in our area and what their bites look like which leads us to think maybe he had gotten bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider (if you are interested in what a bite from these looks like, you can research it, but I will summarize your search to tell you that these bites can be serious to humans, so imagine it on a 5 lb. Chihuahua). I immediately locate an emergency clinic in our area and we rush him off to it. An hour or so later, and a $200 vet bill later, Snow had an anal gland abscess, and it ruptured. He had to get a haircut, a scrubbing and cleaning and then a shot of antibiotics and we were sent home with 7 days worth of antibiotics (2x/day) and told to clean the wound daily with antibacterial soap. So needless to say, last night was a long evening and Monday night was a long evening and tonight will be long and then my new specialist doctor's appt. is Monday and most likely a pre-op appt. and then surgery on Tuesday....so we will see how this week goes.
11.16.2009
Recap
So it has been a busy last 2 weeks and this and next week are going to be even more hectic.
1. Saw the 3rd Orthopedic doctor since my accident in May this past Monday (11/9). He quickly suggested arthroscopic surgery to repair my shoulder. According to him, I have a trauma-induced impingement in my shoulder where the bursa is being smashed between my two bones in the joint like between a rock and a hard place. This is because I have no more gap/room in my shoulder joint. The surgery will involve them reducing the swelling by either removing part of the bursa or shaving each of the joint bones down to make room. Also, he thinks I may have a tear near my rotators cuff (which is something Husby, the physical therapist, and my family doctor thought may have occurred due to my earlier symptoms).
2. My workman's comp nurse is trying to pull a fast one over me and not cooperating on getting my paperwork and authorization filed so I can have surgery soon. I'm on to her and so is the doctor's office...and well, let's just say I have a lot of time on my hands and will be calling her everyday until the authorization is sent to the surgeon's office.
3. I am hoping to have the shoulder surgery done the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, that way I have the longest gap of time for recuperation without affecting work, Husby's work, Teaching, Grad School, Husby's travels for work, and life in general. This means Husby will be doing all the cooking for Thanksgiving for us, and his 2 European coworkers. He is brave and insisted he will be fine to do everything.
4. My reproductive specialist/ Gyn doctor changed practice effective Nov. 1st, 2009 and unfortunately, I am not allowed to see her any longer because her previous practice states she must sign a contract to not see patients from her old practice at her new practice for at least 2 years. Thankfully, a family friend (who is my old Dr.'s administrative assistant) got my file and referred me to a new doctor, which I promptly called this week to schedule an appointment with.
5. New doctor's appt. is next Monday and the office is close to Husby's office, so hopefully he will tag along for moral support and give me his vibe of the new doctor. I am almost out of medicine and am still having the severe side pains and wacked cycles, so hopefully he can prescribe something or do further testing to determine the root of the problem, and start off BC to TTC.
6. Snowie hurt himself somehow last night. He has a small cut on his behind, like he dragged his butt along a rock or something (they all tend to do that time-to-time when they go #2 and feel like that missed something or left something). It was bleeding last night and we cleaned him up and bathed him and Husby tried to hold pressure on it, but puppy was not having it. This morning it still looked pretty bad and was oozing, so when I get home I may need to consult with the vet if it is still oozing or bleeding. Poor puppy!
7. As if that all is not hectic enough, I have not yet started Christmas shopping for anyone. The one small gift I bought Husby he did not like...happened to see it in the store and he stated he didn't like the look of it, so tonight we are returning it (I'm making him return it and explain his fickleness to the store clerk).
8. Grad school is driving me nuts. The current class is sooooooooo boring!
9. My final big project at work is suppose to start around the 1st week of December and I am needed around the 18th (so hopefully shoulder is operated on next week, so I am healed enough to work the 18th or else major problem).
10. We decided obviously not to go anywhere for T-day and instead split Christmas and New Year's between the Mom's....Christmas at my Mom's, New Year's at his. Hopefully this still works, but as of now that is the plan.
So excuse me if my blogging becomes scarce in the next few weeks as it is quite hectic here.
1. Saw the 3rd Orthopedic doctor since my accident in May this past Monday (11/9). He quickly suggested arthroscopic surgery to repair my shoulder. According to him, I have a trauma-induced impingement in my shoulder where the bursa is being smashed between my two bones in the joint like between a rock and a hard place. This is because I have no more gap/room in my shoulder joint. The surgery will involve them reducing the swelling by either removing part of the bursa or shaving each of the joint bones down to make room. Also, he thinks I may have a tear near my rotators cuff (which is something Husby, the physical therapist, and my family doctor thought may have occurred due to my earlier symptoms).
2. My workman's comp nurse is trying to pull a fast one over me and not cooperating on getting my paperwork and authorization filed so I can have surgery soon. I'm on to her and so is the doctor's office...and well, let's just say I have a lot of time on my hands and will be calling her everyday until the authorization is sent to the surgeon's office.
3. I am hoping to have the shoulder surgery done the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, that way I have the longest gap of time for recuperation without affecting work, Husby's work, Teaching, Grad School, Husby's travels for work, and life in general. This means Husby will be doing all the cooking for Thanksgiving for us, and his 2 European coworkers. He is brave and insisted he will be fine to do everything.
4. My reproductive specialist/ Gyn doctor changed practice effective Nov. 1st, 2009 and unfortunately, I am not allowed to see her any longer because her previous practice states she must sign a contract to not see patients from her old practice at her new practice for at least 2 years. Thankfully, a family friend (who is my old Dr.'s administrative assistant) got my file and referred me to a new doctor, which I promptly called this week to schedule an appointment with.
5. New doctor's appt. is next Monday and the office is close to Husby's office, so hopefully he will tag along for moral support and give me his vibe of the new doctor. I am almost out of medicine and am still having the severe side pains and wacked cycles, so hopefully he can prescribe something or do further testing to determine the root of the problem, and start off BC to TTC.
6. Snowie hurt himself somehow last night. He has a small cut on his behind, like he dragged his butt along a rock or something (they all tend to do that time-to-time when they go #2 and feel like that missed something or left something). It was bleeding last night and we cleaned him up and bathed him and Husby tried to hold pressure on it, but puppy was not having it. This morning it still looked pretty bad and was oozing, so when I get home I may need to consult with the vet if it is still oozing or bleeding. Poor puppy!
7. As if that all is not hectic enough, I have not yet started Christmas shopping for anyone. The one small gift I bought Husby he did not like...happened to see it in the store and he stated he didn't like the look of it, so tonight we are returning it (I'm making him return it and explain his fickleness to the store clerk).
8. Grad school is driving me nuts. The current class is sooooooooo boring!
9. My final big project at work is suppose to start around the 1st week of December and I am needed around the 18th (so hopefully shoulder is operated on next week, so I am healed enough to work the 18th or else major problem).
10. We decided obviously not to go anywhere for T-day and instead split Christmas and New Year's between the Mom's....Christmas at my Mom's, New Year's at his. Hopefully this still works, but as of now that is the plan.
So excuse me if my blogging becomes scarce in the next few weeks as it is quite hectic here.
10.12.2009
...
Blogging has definitely taken a backseat to life here but mainly because grad school, being sick, teaching 7 classes a week, Husby traveling, and my shoulder still hurting has been the primary focuses. Once again Husby is traveling and it is a quiet week between grad school (term starts Wednesday) and teaching (Exam 2 this week).
Nothing to exciting has been occurring either. We have the village almost all set for Halloween (pics to come in future post) and this weekend, we bought some new furniture for the home. We are beginning to transition ourselves from newlyweds and "stay-at homes" to more entertaining and future family status, so we found a really nice dining table that has a leaf for widening/extending it with 6 matching chairs and also a loveseat to match our couch in the Living Room.
Our Couch:
Our New Loveseat:
This is the Dining Room Table except with 6 chairs:
The Tall chairs (Ones on Left) are the chairs we went with (We already plan to redo the seats as I do not like the material on them from the warehouse):
*I think we are going to cover the chairs in a blue suede-like material, but cannot find a good picture*
*::*Update*::*
Although this is crappy camera phone picture, you can kid of see the color of the fabric. I happened to be near Joann's and figured I could snap a quick picture.
Saw this fabric and want to make pillows out of it or maybe placemats and napkins:
*http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat1183844&PRODID=xprd779844*
Nothing to exciting has been occurring either. We have the village almost all set for Halloween (pics to come in future post) and this weekend, we bought some new furniture for the home. We are beginning to transition ourselves from newlyweds and "stay-at homes" to more entertaining and future family status, so we found a really nice dining table that has a leaf for widening/extending it with 6 matching chairs and also a loveseat to match our couch in the Living Room.
Our Couch:
Our New Loveseat:
This is the Dining Room Table except with 6 chairs:
The Tall chairs (Ones on Left) are the chairs we went with (We already plan to redo the seats as I do not like the material on them from the warehouse):
*I think we are going to cover the chairs in a blue suede-like material, but cannot find a good picture*
*::*Update*::*
Although this is crappy camera phone picture, you can kid of see the color of the fabric. I happened to be near Joann's and figured I could snap a quick picture.
Saw this fabric and want to make pillows out of it or maybe placemats and napkins:
*http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat1183844&PRODID=xprd779844*
8.12.2009
Tuesday Rambles
I am honestly losing my mind over keeping up with this blog and keeping everything organized. We have been super busy remodeling/decorating the house. Greene has been working nonstop on the Master Bathroom and this past weekend, we finally finished it! I found everything to decorate it between my local favorite haunts and Marshall's, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, Ross and Home Goods over the weekend. And because of how detailed oriented (you may call it something else), we even hand-made our own reed diffuser and tray sets for each bathroom (pictures to follow if I ever find the cord to connect to the computer). My friend from back home comes to visit next week, so thankfully we finished the bathroom in the nick of time. Now the next projects are minor details like trim and then once we get through August and all our guests and visitors, we will deconstruct the guest bathroom to paint and do some minor detail tiling.
On side note, my shoulder is still messed up and I am still waiting for the Orthopedic Dr. for WC to decide what the next plan is. I am still having issues lifting anything and moving my shoulder without experiencing some pain, so who knows what is wrong at this point. I think I may need to look into WC lawyers and go to our family orthopedic doctor for a second opinion since this has lingered ALL SUMMER. Since we are already on the mention of doctors, today I have yet another lovely appointment with the OB/GYN specialist for my cysts. The recent BC medicine she gave me to help cycle me and reduce the risk of cyst ruptures does not seem to be working and I am beginning to fear the worse (why? because I always worry about everything). With the lack of cycles I was sort of hoping for the pink line, but none so far, which means it must be the PCOS rebounding against me. Even though we are not trying to get preggers at the moment (I need to finish my Master's) in case the 9 months are bad, I would rather know why my cycle is so wacky and I'm having all the pain.
We did, however discuss the future and try to make a time frame for when we want to have kids. Ok, I know you cannot have a schedule and expect your schedule to run fluidly with God's plan, but at least I can hope. So, I think we came to the conclusion we can start trying in a few more months, but we won't enlist any help until Summer 2010. *It is likely I will need to go back on the Met with another medicine to get my body to have normal cycles long enough to conceive, so that is what we mean by "enlisting help".* I wonder, can I still do some diving while I am pregnant? I lost this entire summer to my shoulder, not sure I want to lose another summer, prime dive season....this could be interesting.
School starts up in another 2 weeks. I am looking forward to going back to teaching in the classroom. I made my schedule so I will teach all day * night Wednesday, afternoon & evening Thursday and Friday morning for a total of 7 labs. I will work at the lab only on Mondays, Tuesdays and mornings on Thursday. I am itching to get back in the classroom since the lab has been so quiet lately, but I am also hesitant the schedule is a bit hectic and I still have all my Grad School work to keep up on.
Other than the above activities, life has been quiet and good. We've had some rough thunderstorms lately, but thankfully no H's. They may have named the first one yesterday, but it was so far away that it is not a concern at the moment. All the puppies are doing good. They are being their mischievous selves. Our gerbil passed away recently and I think Lucky took it the hardest. While we were cleaning out the cage and packing it up for storage in the shed, he kept whining and putting his nose in the tank in a search for Buddy, the gerbil. We moved the little turtles over to where Buddy's cage used to be, so occasionally he runs over to the tank and then sadly realizes it is no longer his gerbil friend.*There is no plan to get another gerbil...Buddy lived a long, wonderful 3 years and we are not planning to have a gerbil again until one of the kids ask for one* The fish tanks, turtles and dogs are more than enough to handle with school, work and home remodeling.
But it seems our house is still an animal shelter. We may (keyword: maybe, meaning if someone else does not step up) be getting another dog by default in the coming weeks. So as most of you know, we live on a pretty quiet street, with nice neighbors. Well there are a few houses for rent, one being the house next to us. So the last renters up and left one day leaving behind some things (a car, some of their kids toy's, and their puppy). We did not realize they had left the dog in the backyard, but there she sat for a week in the patio area of the house until the new renters moved in. We guess she is 6-8 months old and she is some mix of a pitbull and something else. Being that she is so young and super friendly (she loves to lick and give kisses, responds to us-she has escaped their backyard gate numerous times when they lived there, and is still a puppy and therefore trainable). She also plays well and seems infatuated with Lucky, so we will see how the next few weeks play out. The new renters do not want her, but they too do not want her sent to the pound, so who knows maybe they will fall in love with her and decide to keep her along with their other dog. The old renters have been called numerous times to come get her, but say they do not have room in their new home nor a kennel for her. The biggest issue about her, she is not house trained at all, :( but Greene thinks he can easily crate and house train her if we should adopt her in. Being that she is female and super affectionate and has run around in the backyard with our 3, I am not concerned with her pitbull genes being a problem...but if we adopt her, we will probably take her to a local vet to get her checked out and determine what her breed mix is.
I think that about sums it up. I have a few more things to catch up on, but I need to get back to work. Hope everyone is having a good week!
On side note, my shoulder is still messed up and I am still waiting for the Orthopedic Dr. for WC to decide what the next plan is. I am still having issues lifting anything and moving my shoulder without experiencing some pain, so who knows what is wrong at this point. I think I may need to look into WC lawyers and go to our family orthopedic doctor for a second opinion since this has lingered ALL SUMMER. Since we are already on the mention of doctors, today I have yet another lovely appointment with the OB/GYN specialist for my cysts. The recent BC medicine she gave me to help cycle me and reduce the risk of cyst ruptures does not seem to be working and I am beginning to fear the worse (why? because I always worry about everything). With the lack of cycles I was sort of hoping for the pink line, but none so far, which means it must be the PCOS rebounding against me. Even though we are not trying to get preggers at the moment (I need to finish my Master's) in case the 9 months are bad, I would rather know why my cycle is so wacky and I'm having all the pain.
We did, however discuss the future and try to make a time frame for when we want to have kids. Ok, I know you cannot have a schedule and expect your schedule to run fluidly with God's plan, but at least I can hope. So, I think we came to the conclusion we can start trying in a few more months, but we won't enlist any help until Summer 2010. *It is likely I will need to go back on the Met with another medicine to get my body to have normal cycles long enough to conceive, so that is what we mean by "enlisting help".* I wonder, can I still do some diving while I am pregnant? I lost this entire summer to my shoulder, not sure I want to lose another summer, prime dive season....this could be interesting.
School starts up in another 2 weeks. I am looking forward to going back to teaching in the classroom. I made my schedule so I will teach all day * night Wednesday, afternoon & evening Thursday and Friday morning for a total of 7 labs. I will work at the lab only on Mondays, Tuesdays and mornings on Thursday. I am itching to get back in the classroom since the lab has been so quiet lately, but I am also hesitant the schedule is a bit hectic and I still have all my Grad School work to keep up on.
Other than the above activities, life has been quiet and good. We've had some rough thunderstorms lately, but thankfully no H's. They may have named the first one yesterday, but it was so far away that it is not a concern at the moment. All the puppies are doing good. They are being their mischievous selves. Our gerbil passed away recently and I think Lucky took it the hardest. While we were cleaning out the cage and packing it up for storage in the shed, he kept whining and putting his nose in the tank in a search for Buddy, the gerbil. We moved the little turtles over to where Buddy's cage used to be, so occasionally he runs over to the tank and then sadly realizes it is no longer his gerbil friend.*There is no plan to get another gerbil...Buddy lived a long, wonderful 3 years and we are not planning to have a gerbil again until one of the kids ask for one* The fish tanks, turtles and dogs are more than enough to handle with school, work and home remodeling.
But it seems our house is still an animal shelter. We may (keyword: maybe, meaning if someone else does not step up) be getting another dog by default in the coming weeks. So as most of you know, we live on a pretty quiet street, with nice neighbors. Well there are a few houses for rent, one being the house next to us. So the last renters up and left one day leaving behind some things (a car, some of their kids toy's, and their puppy). We did not realize they had left the dog in the backyard, but there she sat for a week in the patio area of the house until the new renters moved in. We guess she is 6-8 months old and she is some mix of a pitbull and something else. Being that she is so young and super friendly (she loves to lick and give kisses, responds to us-she has escaped their backyard gate numerous times when they lived there, and is still a puppy and therefore trainable). She also plays well and seems infatuated with Lucky, so we will see how the next few weeks play out. The new renters do not want her, but they too do not want her sent to the pound, so who knows maybe they will fall in love with her and decide to keep her along with their other dog. The old renters have been called numerous times to come get her, but say they do not have room in their new home nor a kennel for her. The biggest issue about her, she is not house trained at all, :( but Greene thinks he can easily crate and house train her if we should adopt her in. Being that she is female and super affectionate and has run around in the backyard with our 3, I am not concerned with her pitbull genes being a problem...but if we adopt her, we will probably take her to a local vet to get her checked out and determine what her breed mix is.
I think that about sums it up. I have a few more things to catch up on, but I need to get back to work. Hope everyone is having a good week!
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