March chat thread - Page 8

[Peony]

Jill, It must be so scary to hear those things. I hope you get good results back. Ds is supposed to go back to one of his specialists in May for a followup. He didn't walk till 17-18 months and has mobility issues he wears inserts for. His only dx now is low muscle tone, he isn't able to speak either despite months of speech therapy, he will be 2 next month. We got CP thrown around last time we were in, those things are never easy to hear, it feels like your heart just stops. I'll be thinking of you guys. 

I'm supposed to be cooking for a potluck tonight and a bake sale for a family we know who had a medical crisis and has many, many medical bills. Or cleaning my trashed house, but I feel like crap today so I'm blowing everything off and am just waiting until I get go take a nap with DS. 

[Birdie B.]

Oh, wow Jill, I hope you get some good news soon! 

[jillybeans]

thanks everyone.  I posted another exhausting update on FB tonight.  Hoping for some results tomorrow.

[SoonToBe]

I somehow missed the March thread.  Whoops.  So I haven't read everything, but I am hoping for a good outcome for Jillybeans.  Sorry you are going through so much.

On my own personal note, I was hungry as a horse today.  No idea why.  I tried not to eat bad stuff.  Wanna know what I ate?

B - organic brown rice cereal with organic berries and milk and then a greek yogurt a little later to add more protein

S - pudding (only 1/4 cup and it's an all natural kind)

L - homemade chicken soup (no noodles...just chicken, veggies, and broth) and some strawberries

S - 2 string cheese

S - Lara bar

S - 2 hard boiled eggs and veggies with homemade dip

S - orange

S - strawberries and cheese

D - chicken breast, mashed taters, corn, cranberry sauce, and a cold glass of milk

Tomorrow I'm going to try a bigger breakfast to see if it cuts down on the snacking, but I was seriously hungry.  I even woke up hungry at 3 am last night.  Midwife warned me this may happen when I saw her last month...a 3-4 day period of feeling tired and/or very hungry.  She said to just go with it and make good choices.  I'll have to see if this was a random day or maybe part of her warning.  At least I didn't eat crap food, but man, I couldn't shovel in enough!!

[Beckily]

Originally Posted by SoonToBe 

I somehow missed the March thread.  Whoops.  So I haven't read everything, but I am hoping for a good outcome for Jillybeans.  Sorry you are going through so much.

On my own personal note, I was hungry as a horse today.  No idea why.  I tried not to eat bad stuff.  Wanna know what I ate?

B - organic brown rice cereal with organic berries and milk and then a greek yogurt a little later to add more protein

S - pudding (only 1/4 cup and it's an all natural kind)

L - homemade chicken soup (no noodles...just chicken, veggies, and broth) and some strawberries

S - 2 string cheese

S - Lara bar

S - 2 hard boiled eggs and veggies with homemade dip

S - orange

S - strawberries and cheese

D - chicken breast, mashed taters, corn, cranberry sauce, and a cold glass of milk

Tomorrow I'm going to try a bigger breakfast to see if it cuts down on the snacking, but I was seriously hungry.  I even woke up hungry at 3 am last night.  Midwife warned me this may happen when I saw her last month...a 3-4 day period of feeling tired and/or very hungry.  She said to just go with it and make good choices.  I'll have to see if this was a random day or maybe part of her warning.  At least I didn't eat crap food, but man, I couldn't shovel in enough!!

I have those days! FEED MEEEE ;) And then poof! bigger belly. Sounds like you handled it beautifully.

Please ignore the giant hershey's cookies 'n' cream bar that I'm currently gnawing on ;)

[greencarnation]

So, I had been at this new job for three weeks now.  My boss called at 9:15 last night to tell me I was laid off.  Apparently, the whole small company is probably going.

Awesome.  I am 19 weeks pregnant, and no one in my house is employed...

[Peony]

I'm so sorry GC. 

[Beckily]

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

So, I had been at this new job for three weeks now.  My boss called at 9:15 last night to tell me I was laid off.  Apparently, the whole small company is probably going.

Awesome.  I am 19 weeks pregnant, and no one in my house is employed...

Oh man. I'm so sorry.
 

[Tamera]

I'm so sorry! Do you get separation pay or unemployment in the meantime? No one in my house is employed either =(
 

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

So, I had been at this new job for three weeks now.  My boss called at 9:15 last night to tell me I was laid off.  Apparently, the whole small company is probably going.

Awesome.  I am 19 weeks pregnant, and no one in my house is employed...

[jillybeans]

oh no GC!  I'm so sorry honey! 

[Baby_Cakes]

Oh GC, that's just awful!  I'm so sorry, mama.  You will figure something out.  I agree, what about unemployment?  I was laid off after working for just 3 months at a small poly company.  I say look into it.  Can't hurt.

AFM - Can I vent/whine about something that I'm probably taking way too personally?  I mean, that's really my MO this pg, just taking things personally and getting offended easily, but still.  I can't shake this hurt feeling I have.

I was texting with my BFF this morning, like always.  We go back and forth about what we are doing that day, etc.  Well, we were in the MIDDLE of a conversation, like an active conversation, and I asked if she wanted to see my latest belly pic.  (She's pg too.  That might help you see why this hurt me.)  She said of course, so I sent it.  Waited for a reply.  20 min go by.  An hour.  TWO HOURS.  Now I'm thinking something is wrong, so I send another text making sure she's ok and not in labor or something crazy.  Another HOUR goes by.  Mind you by this time, DD and I are out and about and walking thru Target.  My phone jingles and her response???  "Sorry.  Was in BRU and forgot to look at my phone. Cute pic. Sorry." 

Forgot to look at your phone?  We were in the MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION.  I just feel so slighted.  And so mad.  

I ooh and ahh over ALL her belly pics and pics of baby clothes and every tiny little thing she sends me and tells me.  I feel like I give 110% and then she just oops -- forgets about me.

AND it makes me think she just doesn't give a rats ass about my belly pic, and I feel embarrassed and want to unsend it.

I feel very blown off.

I didn't reply back for awhile b/c I was just really upset about this whole thing.  Finally I just wrote back, "Ha. Thanks." and left it.  B/c I know I'm overreacting a bit, but I don't want her to think I'm completely fine, either.

Thanks for reading.  I know it's trivial but my feelings are hurt.  

[egmaranian]

Originally Posted by Baby_Cakes 

AFM - Can I vent/whine about something that I'm probably taking way too personally?  I mean, that's really my MO this pg, just taking things personally and getting offended easily, but still.  I can't shake this hurt feeling I have.

I was texting with my BFF this morning, like always.  We go back and forth about what we are doing that day, etc.  Well, we were in the MIDDLE of a conversation, like an active conversation, and I asked if she wanted to see my latest belly pic.  (She's pg too.  That might help you see why this hurt me.)  She said of course, so I sent it.  Waited for a reply.  20 min go by.  An hour.  TWO HOURS.  Now I'm thinking something is wrong, so I send another text making sure she's ok and not in labor or something crazy.  Another HOUR goes by.  Mind you by this time, DD and I are out and about and walking thru Target.  My phone jingles and her response???  "Sorry.  Was in BRU and forgot to look at my phone. Cute pic. Sorry." 

Forgot to look at your phone?  We were in the MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION.  I just feel so slighted.  And so mad.  

I ooh and ahh over ALL her belly pics and pics of baby clothes and every tiny little thing she sends me and tells me.  I feel like I give 110% and then she just oops -- forgets about me.

AND it makes me think she just doesn't give a rats ass about my belly pic, and I feel embarrassed and want to unsend it.

I feel very blown off.

I didn't reply back for awhile b/c I was just really upset about this whole thing.  Finally I just wrote back, "Ha. Thanks." and left it.  B/c I know I'm overreacting a bit, but I don't want her to think I'm completely fine, either.

Thanks for reading.  I know it's trivial but my feelings are hurt.  

Carrie:  I can totally relate to your feeling hurt by your friend's behavior and I don't think you are overreacting one bit! 

I have a very good friend whom I have known and been friends with for almost 20 years.  We were definitely BFFs for most of those years, but have grown apart a little in the last couple of years due to some issues on her end.  Regardless of the distance between us now, we ARE still friends and I still care a great deal about her.  So here's what happened...I delayed telling just about everyone I know about this pregnancy until I was 16-17 weeks along due to my extreme anxiety over my previous miscarriage.  The only people who knew I was preggo before the 2nd tri are my DH (of course), my mom, my in-laws and one friend of mine who was very supportive of me during my loss and beyond.  When I did finally text my former BFF to tell her I was pregnant, she, of course, wanted to know how far along I was.  I replied "17 weeks...I have been really quiet about it because of what happened last time" (meaning my m/c).

NO RESPONSE AT ALL!!!

To this day I still haven't heard from her again and it's been nearly a month!  Now, I know she's not upset because I told her I was pg via text message because that's pretty much the only way we communicate at all these days so it's totally not out of the ordinary.  I can only think that she's being selfish and got bent out of shape because I waited so long to tell her at all.  Needless to say, I haven't made any attempt to contact her again because if she can't even scrape together enough niceness to pretend to be happy for me then I really don't need her around at all.  I guess that's one less friend I have IRL now.   They seem to be dropping like flies with each passing year and major event in my life!

[ChemistryClass]

I am sorry, GC! I hope you find a better job and soon!

Tamera, I am sorry you are going through something similar. No one is employed in my house either. DH finally goes back to work on Friday. It's been a long, hard 4 months!

Edited by ChemistryClass - 4/5/11 at 9:24am

[Peony]

So better not be the same bug. My 4y DD2 has a very long complicated respiratory history. She got pertussis as a newborn and suffered lung damage. Anyway, we do the whole hospital/pneumonia/ severe illnesses thing often, and the child was always, always sick. Like never longer then a week between illnesses, ever. Until last fall. We put her on $$ daily meds, and then she was like a normal kid with normal illnesses and normal amount of them. She played with a neighbor girl last Friday morning, I guess the girl and the little brother got sick over the weekend, which more then likely means they were contagious on Friday. The brother was life flighted out in respiratory distress today, he isn't a baby so if he is that sick then it is one nasty bug. And DD2 has been sick today, came up very suddenly. Dropped her off at preschool and she was fine, picked her up and she wasn't. She was one cranky, grumpy girl for *only* having a snotty nose which means for her, something else is brewing. Arrggg! My Dh flew out today on a week long business trip, he can't come back unless someone is on their deathbed, it is a major project, and he is multiple flights away anyway. My mom spayed her dog today and the dog isn't handling it well which means my mom is worthless to me because she can't/won't leave the dog. My sister's one day off the whole week was today. Let's hope these meds I pay a small fortune for help and it stays just a cold or else I'm screwed. 

I'm sorry so many are struggling with jobs right now. I'm hiring for my work right now, had two no-shows for interviews today and two last week that canceled the day of. I was like,  really? In today's economy, you can't be bothered to even show up for a job interview that caters to mothers with small children? I will never understand people. 

[Baby_Cakes]

Oh no, Peony, that's scary.  I hope your DD is ok.  Keep us posted.

Thanks for the support, too, everyone on this stupid situation with my friend.  I think I'm getting over it and realizing that this is just how she is.  Doesn't make it hurt much less, but at least if I realize it's just typical, I can see it's not about ME and it's more about HER.  

I feel big lately.  Idk, up until about a week ago I felt cute but these past few days I feel a bit frumpy.  Need to get back into regular exercise I think, and maybe get some fresh air.

[Peony]

Definitely got it.  About 10 minutes after I typed that last night, she woke up and was wheezing already. She got really sick last night, fever so high she was hallucinating and vomiting. I was up till 4am with her last night, and she was up by 6:30 so two hours of sleep for me. I'm doing nebs constantly and it seems to keeping her airways ok for now, and her fever is down right now. So we'll just wait and see, we've done this SO many times that we don't need to go unless she is retracting or her O2 sats are really low, and it is too early yet to tell if it will turn into pneumonia. I managed to get DD1 a ride into school today but I doubt I can pull it off again.

[Lynann]

Originally Posted by Peony 

Definitely got it.  About 10 minutes after I typed that last night, she woke up and was wheezing already. She got really sick last night, fever so high she was hallucinating and vomiting. I was up till 4am with her last night, and she was up by 6:30 so two hours of sleep for me. I'm doing nebs constantly and it seems to keeping her airways ok for now, and her fever is down right now. So we'll just wait and see, we've done this SO many times that we don't need to go unless she is retracting or her O2 sats are really low, and it is too early yet to tell if it will turn into pneumonia. I managed to get DD1 a ride into school today but I doubt I can pull it off again.

and more I'm having my first taste of a really poorly little one so I know this is no fun, no matter how many times you've been through it. I hope the at home treatments work and she doesn't get pneumonia, and I hope you manage to get more sleep.

I've realised after my little guy woke up 4 times during an hour long nap this morning that he is in fact still ill from last week's cold, and not teething. He keeps waking up wheezing and gasping for air then starts to cry from fear that he can't breathe. I just want to hold him and let him sleep in my arms, but he doesn't settle down in my arms anymore. At almost 10 months old he wants to wriggle around and play when he is in my arms. So I just have to try and keep him comforted and try to get as much fluid down him as possible, which isn't easy when he won't drink because it hurts too much.

[greencarnation]

Since I was only there for three weeks, I am not qualified for unemployment.

At least I finally got my Hubby into the clinic.  We have been to the ER twice now, and no one can tell what is wrong with him.  They are testing for Lyme and Hyperthyroid now.  *sigh*  I just want him to get better.  For himself, and also because taking care of him is very draining right now.

The good news is, I found a midwife who will take my new Cigna plan!  They have a birth center in a house out in Marshall, VA, and I love it!  

I have my 20 week sono next Monday, then my first appointment with the midwives on Wednesday!!!

[jillybeans]

Oh Peony, I'm so sorry!  I have a dd with asthma, and anything respiratory is SO scary!  I hope the frequent nebs help and that you can get this kicked w/out a pneumonia or similar incident!

[veggiemomto2]

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

Since I was only there for three weeks, I am not qualified for unemployment.

At least I finally got my Hubby into the clinic.  We have been to the ER twice now, and no one can tell what is wrong with him.  They are testing for Lyme and Hyperthyroid now.  *sigh*  I just want him to get better.  For himself, and also because taking care of him is very draining right now.

The good news is, I found a midwife who will take my new Cigna plan!  They have a birth center in a house out in Marshall, VA, and I love it!  

I have my 20 week sono next Monday, then my first appointment with the midwives on Wednesday!!!

Just wanted to say, if you need any info on Lyme, please PM me (I'm not around on here much right now though).  I have chronic lyme.  It was undiagnosed for quite some time.  I went to at least a dozen doctors pleading with them - I was given every wastebasket diagnosis under the sun.  Testing through regular labs such as quest or labcorp are very VERY unreliable. I finally found a LLMD (lyme literate doc) who tested me through a reputable lab that does loads of Lyme testing and of course was highly positive, even by CDC standards.  If you think there is a possibility he does have Lyme, you need someone very well educated on Lyme Disease.  It's a very controversial illness and the treatment for chronic Lyme is even moreso controversial and complex. I was very ill and just kept getting more and more odd symptoms.  I hope you get it figured out!