A Day At The Park

Lovely Weather

I just looked at our 10-Day forecast and guess what??? It's not getting out of the 60's! Woo hoo! I love this weather, I have the door open and a cool breeze is just blowing through the house and cooling everything off. I love it! I think tonight Brandon and I will have to have some hot chocolate on the porch. :)

Deployment

Well Brandon got accepted for the deployment that he applied for so he'll be taking off in April of '09. He'll be gone from 14April-14October. I still don't want him to go. But I know if he wasn't supposed to go, God wouldn't have let him get accepted. So we'll look at the upsides: I get to go home for 6 months to hang out with my family and we'll be able to get out of debt by July and save tons of money before he gets home in October. Also, as long as Corbin hangs out for a week or 2 more, Brandon will make it home in time for his birthday! I know it will be hard, but he is excited and I think it's a great opportunity for him. More details later.

One Word Answer

1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Your significant other? Sleeping
3. Your hair? Long
4. Your Skin? White
5. Your mother? Fun
6. Your Favorite Thing? Christmas
7. Your dream last night? Weird
8. Your favorite drink? Pepsi
9. Your dream/goal? Joy
10. The room you’re in? Living
11. Your ex? Gone
12. Your fear? Water
13. where do you want to be in six years? Texas
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. What you’re not? Motivated
16. Muffins? Yummy
17. One of your wish list items? ---
18. Where you grew up? Texas
19. The last thing you did? This
20. What are you wearing? Nightie
21. Your TV? Off
22. Your pet(s)? Kitties
23. Your computer? Laptop
24. Your life? Interesting
25. Your mood? Blah
26. Missing someone? Family
27. Your car? Hightop
29. Favorite Store? Target
30. Your summer? Hot
31. Like someone? Brandon
32. Your favorite color? Green
33. When is the last time you laughed? Days
34. Last time you cried? Yesterday
35. Who will/would re-post this? Mom
36. Whose Answers are you anxious to see? Everyone's

Calming Down A Bit

Well life has been slowing down for us here lately, thank goodness. Of course we are still having trouble with the bank and ADT, my house is still dirty, etc. But I haven't been in the hospital in the last week!
Today is my Dad's birthday! He's still too young to be a pappaw but he'll have to get over it soon ;). My Mom also had a big day today, her first run!
The weather is getting cooler, which I am enjoying a lot!
I can't wait to go home for Christmas!

Well Holy Crap

Last Tuesday, after I made my last post, I had to go back in! The pain got way too bad and I had to have DH take me. By the time we finally got there, the pain was at least a 15 on the pain scale! It was ugly.
It took them a million years to get me meds. They gave me demerol, and that didn't do anything for me at all. About an hour later they gave me stadol, which worked for all of about 20 minutes. So an hour later they gave me a shot of stadol in the leg and a shot in the IV. It worked for about 30 minutes. So they finally started giving me morphine, which finally did work for about an hour at a time.
They hooked me up to a PCA, which means I had my little happy button I could push every 10 minutes to get more morphine going. They eventually took that away and went back to giving me the morphine through the IV and mixing it with finergin (not sure if that's spelled right) to make it last longer. I was like that for about 3 days.
My mom flew in on Wednesday, if she wouldn't have come I'm sure I would be in the hospital still.
I saw every specialist in the hospital except for infectious disease and none of them could figure out what was wrong with me.
I had ultrasounds of my gallbladder, pancreas, liver, kidneys and they tried to get one of my apendix.
My white blood cell count was up and down and bouncing all around from like 10-19.
Thursday evening I just started feeling better. I went without my morphine for a few hours, only asking for it so I could sleep.
Friday afternoon they said I could go home! They never really figured out what happened, there are a lot of theories though. It was probably a combination of things.
Oh, we did find out what was causing my weird white blood cell count. On Wednesday I told the nurse that my IV site was infected, she blew me off. I was right! Here it is Monday and my hand is still puffy, swollen, gross and sore. I'm on antibiotics for it still.
So that's what's been going on in the Anderson household. We'll keep you updated!

P.S. Corbin is doing great, his heartrate/movement didn't change at all despite all the drugs in my system. We were praying that the placenta would screen out all of the drugs and keep him safe.

Yet another baby scare...

Well I thought our week of craziness was over...I was wrong! Sunday night at 9:30 pm I had sudden, severe back pain that started in my middle back (right side), wrapped around my side and went up into my shoulder blade.
The most painful thing I've done in life so far is to have my ribs tattooed. So on my pain scale, that is a 10. This pain was easily a 9.
I went with it all night, getting no sleep or relief. At 4:30 am I woke up Brandon and told him that I had to go in. I told Brandon that he should stay so he could go to work with Seth in the morning. When he agreed, however, I had a panic attack and started freaking out and crying so he ended up going with me. I'm glad he did, I don't know what I would have done without him!
We went in and actually got seen pretty quick, I got 2 vicoden and a sonogram to check my gallbladder. We went back to the waiting room and waited forever. The vicoden took the edge off the pain but I was still very uncomfortable. So they gave me a loritab when the vicoden wore off. That wasn't much better but you know, whatever.
They got my sonogram back and my gallbladder looks fine. So they ask for a surgical consult. I talked to the surgeon and she basically said that there are 2 possibilities. It could be apendicitis or my kidney is swollen. With apendicitis they can operate, the only way to fix my kidney is to have Corbin.
So here I am, 32w5d pregnant. In bed. On percocet. If the pain gets worse I have to go right in because that probably means apendicitis. If it stays the same, I have to go in tomorrow evening and we're talking delivering Corbin early. If it gets better, I just hope to goodness that everything stays ok until I hit 35 weeks and I can safely have him! So just 16 more days for that.
I had a midwife appt today and she said that Corbin is still measuring big for dates, she even asked if I was positive about my LMP! So I know he'll be ok.
Talk to y'all later!