Daisalana

Wow can't believe you're so close to the finish line!!

Haydee you sound like a commercial when I was reading about old Mexico. I could hear the voice on tv while the camera panned around lol. I'm sold!! :wink_smile: Russ wanted a girl, I'm pretty sure.. but he's not disappointed I don't think. I just got back from the obgyn. I had a glucose test this morning, so last night I had to stop eating by 7pm--so I went to bed!!! Woke up at 6am and started drinking this orange sugar water stuff. Doc did test on my iron & glucose, and said I was 'unusually' normal. I am not anemic at all, and she said most women have to do 3 hours of testing for the glucose stuff.. but not me! My BP was fine too. So all is well.. except? MY WEIGHT. She nagged me again about my weight gain, said I've gained all I can gain and need to not gain anymore (uhm ok). The nurse made the comment about the glucose, she said "This is baby's first sugar rush, he should be moving around" and I said "This isn't his first sugar rush, but yes he is" and she said "I'll pretend I didn't hear that". Really? Pregnant women don't eat sugar? I have had some pains in my left side, which could be normal ligament pains but due to the pelvic kidney being on the left side and I only hurt in the left side I brought it up.. so she is sending me for renal testing this week to make sure my kidney is still functioning right. I also scheduled the 28 week 4-d ultrasound, and she told me it can be hard to get a good picture if you're over 200lbs, blah blah. I get that, but I did the 4-d at my first ultrasound and was over 200lbs and had no problem? I wonder if 200lbs is based off of someone shorter. Well, I'm doing it regardless. 30 minutes of videos & pictures of Carson! So that's a lot of words, going to get to work now.. ugh work! These holidays have made me lazy.

I was looking online trying to find some sort of spreadsheet that has a spots across the top for 'date' and then left side is body parts (Waist, hips, thighs, etc) And you can put in inches as you progress. Couldn't find anything, so before I go to putting it together (me and Excel don't get along most of the time), wanted to see if anyone has one of these already they could e-mail me?

Ya'll sold me on the soup, I'm not doin the test but the soup sounds good.. I likely won't do tofu tho, is that to up the protein or something?

Never had problems till the last 2 items, which is making me really irritated with people.. but you're right, and I have seen people do that. In the future that is what I'll be doing. I just don't want to deal with a wet TV (It's been raining for weeks).

Craigslist makin me want to pull my hair out. What is with the nut jobs on there recently?! We got a new TV, so I am GIVING AWAY our old tv. It's 32", works fine (Russ just made me get the new tv). Not even selling, just whoever can come pick it up. Got 7 responses in an hour. First guy, I told him I have to get it out of the house (it's big and in the middle of the floor now) and if he could come get it at noon today. He said yes, I said if you change your mind please let me know so I can contact one of the other people (meanwhile I let them all know someone already asked about it, but I'd let them know if he backed out). Anyway, 1pm comes, still no sign.. so I called the guy, he said he got busy with something, he's going to call his uncle who will call me and come get it. 2 more hours pass, so I call him back and he says he lost my number and was calling his uncle right now. Uncle calls me and says "You have a tv?" and I tell him yes, he asks the brand blah blah, I tell him and he starts talking about how TV's don't sell like they use to because of the economy and all kinds of random crap. I said.. I'm not selling it, it's FREE. He goes, well I just left Madison (my city) and I don't know if I want to come back. What the hell?! So I'm like, OK but it'd be nice in the future if you let people know these things in advance. Meanwhile, I emailed all other 6 people and said whoever can pick it up today it's theirs and left my number for whoever to call me. GARRRRRR..

Can't wait till our get together, could use sitting around with hot tea & my V's!! I found this in the suitcase, Ripley's had a gene machine.. they combine you to show what your kid will look like, we thought it'd be funny to compare one day. Nevermind that we both look like we're in a mugshot, and our "kid" is wearing all black and looks kind of evil?

I pee really well after surgery lol. I remember the revision surgery they said I had to pee before I could leave, so I go to pee in the bowl so they can measure it, and I filled up the entire bowl, it was like a 1/2 gallon! The nurse was shocked. Take your pain meds Jenn!! Woohoo Tracy, I will live vicariously through your weight loss. I won't even tell ya'll how much I weigh now, it's depressing. My only comfort is that as soon as Carson is here, I am tightening up the band and it'll all work out.. right? I picked up poor Gracie from the vet, after we dropped Russ' car off this morning. She was sedated luckily for the enimas, but they said they had to go in and scrape so she is on pain meds.. she's all big-eyed. Can't imagine what that feels like, hopefully Apollo will let her rest. After we go pick Russ' car back up, someone from Craigslist is coming to pick up one of our old tv's. Giving it away for free, just want to get rid of it.. wish we had someone else to help move the furniture out of the nursery, gah I am so irritated it's still not done!!! My parents leave for the bahamas this morning for a poker tournament my dad won a trip into, when they get back me & mom will be shopping for nursery furniture. I'm so ready to get it set up!

ok did i miss a recipe? where is this ham and cheese soup??

I'm going to have to go look up John Travolta's thing, that's so sad :tongue2: I took Gracie to the vet, and as she told me the results I thought of Michelle. They X-rayed her, said she was dehydrated and had a TON OF CRAP stuck in her, and it was all hard since she was dehydrated. They let me look at the xray.. then they pointed to something that seemed to be causing the block, and said.. they need to do enimas and hydrate her and then they will re-xray to see what that is.. Well it ends up the enimas and everything worked like a charm and out came a bunch of artifical Christmas tree.. so she's been eating the tree.. DOH. They are keeping her till morning to make sure when she eats, she keeps it down. Michelle how much did that run you? It's going to be $250 for us. Then I went to Publix and got healthy food. Forgot how expensive healthy food is. Then Russell says he scheduled to get his tires changed tomorrow.. at 7AM!!!?!?!? What is wrong with men?! I said "Have fun" and he goes "I need you to pick me up" ARGH.. I asked why so damn early, he said "That's when they said they could get me in" and I told him how that's when you say "7am is too early, what else do you have?" Sighhhh. So much for sleeping in. I think I had a fever this morning, my allergies are nuts right now. Today's intake.. 1/2 of a chicken wrap from KFC Lots of Water & Vitamin Red grapes w/cream cheese Hot chocolate made with skim milk(which I PB'd a lot of it some reason) And I'm going to make dinner soon.. Russ went to go pick up Cassy from his parents, I am thinking about making either cornish hens or salmon.. but not really in the mood to stink up the house tonight with salmon.

We sound alike Pam in the things we slipped back into :biggrin: GOOD LUCK JENN!! Purple vibes your way. I went to TN on Christmas day for Christmas with In-Laws, then the day after Christmas till this past Tuesday we went to Florida to visit my g'parents (dad's parents) for Christmas. Went to the zoo, Dirty Dick's Crab Shack (mmm), Ripley's Believe it or Not, and the beach. Fun stuff.

I'm lucky I guess that my port flipped and they moved it from my belly to my chest. I do notice some insignificant pain where the incision (I guess where the port use to be, the scarring inside). It's very minor in the scheme of things, but I would think some port pain when the baby pushes on it is normal.

Agreed, go get an unfill ASAP. If you let that linger too long, it can result in a slipped band. Congrats on the baby (and only gaining 18lb!!)

Good luck on your pouch tests!!! Yesterday was my good intentions, started the day with 2 boiled eggs.. then mom called me over to do our good luck hoppin' johns.. I ate a few bites.. then some pigs n a blanket, then almost a whole box of Junior Mints.. then I got home and raided DH's stocking candy (10 or so hershey kisses). argh! So last night I threw away both our stocking candies, my turtles from work, and any other tempting evil. No more sodas (I had fallen back into these lately), no more candy, and no more fast food. I stopped eating fast food post-band, but post-pregnancy I've been eating it at least twice a week. No more! I can do it! I stopped by Burger King on the way to work and got an Orange Juice. Leaving work early today to take Gracie to the vet. I hope it's nothing serious..

Yes.. yes!! ARGH!!! I am starving all the time, and if I don't eat regularly I get soooo mad. Christmas day with the in-laws, she was cooking turkey all day and I didn't know when we were eating. I was ravenous, I kept begging DH to go sneak me some turkey meat. She finally brought out cheese & crackers and in 3 hours, I ate the entire platter. I was emberassed at first--kept going back for more, then by the end of 3 hours I didn't care anymore, I was so hungry. We were on a road trip back from Florida Tuesday with my parents & DH and it's a 6 hour drive. As soon as we left (I was up since 7am, we hit the road at 11am--no food yet) I said let's stop for food first. My dad talked about making good time blah blah, and I started yelling. I said "YOU DON'T HAVE TO EAT BUT LET ME GET SOMETHING!!" and he said he'd stop at Dothan which was 2 hours away. I started to tear-up, telling him I couldn't wait that long. Then he did the old trick he did as a kid "We'll stop in just a minute", then we get to stretches of road with no where to stop, and we didn't stop till Dothan. The whole time to Dothan I kept tearing up and my stomach hurt so bad, I was so hungry and miserable. I thought about staging a PB so they'd have to pull over at a gas station at least and let me get something. Yeah it's pretty pathetic, if I get hungry and don't eat something I am a wreck. And I will act like a diva and throw a child like tantrum to get it!!

Curious to know OP's outcome! I'm sad right now about the weight I've gained so far (depressed is a good word for it), so I'd like to hear how it all went away..

Right, both my OBGYN and GP kind of wishy-washied about it, neither of them came up with an answer (neither seemed concerned either, but they were concerned about the rash on my back-they thought it was either ring worm or something syphillis). It wasn't syphillis (duh), so they treated it for ring worm and that did go away. My hands are still cracked & rashy, but it flares up more-so in cold weather. Psoriasis is prevalent on both sides of my family, so my dad let me use his psoriasis cream on it. It does help, so I guess that's it.

I only am saying pregnancy rash because I never had it before I was pregnant!!! 2 months pregnant I got a rash on my back and some burning in my hands. I went to my GP, he said the back looked like ring worm, and my hands weren't real bad so he dismissed it really. I went to my OBGYN a couple weeks later with no improvement (hands were getting worse, started cracking and burning more) she said to put a different cream on my ringworm and to use the cream my GP gave me for my back on my hands. I didn't use it on my hands, just because that rash comes and goes.. to no known pattern I can figure out. Last night it flared up and it was so bad.. it burns so bad, felt like my hands were in an ant bed!! I tried healing lotion, felt worse.. washed that off and tried aloe vera, didn't help much. Anyone seen anything like this or know someone (pregnant or not) that has had something like this and what to do to treat it? I think both my docs were too concerned with the ring worm to pay much attention to my hands. I think it feels a million times worse than it looks.. but its across the top of my knuckles and up my thumb (both hands). On my right hand it's also on my joint knuckles. I have no known allergies.

Happy New Year V's!!!!! I am so behind in posts! Hope you all had a great holiday break, and were safe last night! I slept through midnight (oops). I fell asleep around 9 I think. When we got back from Florida one of the cats has been getting sick, diarhea looking vomit all over the place--carpet, their cat tree, my recliner.. I tried feeding them wet food last night, so whoever it is can keep hydrated. So at 12:20 last night I wake up to Gracie gagging next to my head so I wake up immediately and pick her up, and she projectile vomits LITERALLY 10ft, covering the floor and Russell's side of the bed. It was everywhere.. and it was the wet food. Vet is closed today, so I locked her in the bathroom with water & her litter box. I've been slowly cleaning up the vomit piles, there are so many and most were hard from when we got home. Ugh. The car I got is an '08 Nissan Altima. They gave me a good deal on it (I was looking at an '05, but it was only 2k more to get the '08 which is pre-owned and had 10k miles). I love the tinted windows. And it has a TON of room in trunk & back seat, reminds me of a luxury car like a Lincoln or Cadillac on the inside with all the room in it. It doesn't drive as fast as my convertible, but oh well. I started reading Snow Flower & the Secret Fan while in Florida, I am halfway through so I will probably spend today sitting around reading. I need to clean the house too, including the dry spots of vomit that I've let soak with wet paper towels (yuck yuck yuck). I feel Carson every day now, woohoo. He is a kicking machine. I hear if you look at times they are active, it's an indication of their schedule when they're born.. Looks like he likes 2am, 7am and 11pm the best! During the day he's very much asleep. Oh, anyone want to come over and put away my Christmas decor? I am with you Judy, I am throwing out all candy today!! Russ is too, he said he's dieting starting today. His g'ma gave us a digital picture frame for Christmas and included some old pictures of him in it.. has pictures from when I first met him, I forgot how skinny he was!!! (This is back in 2000) This was us at Christmas with my sister. And here's a baby bump pic, it's officially there.. this is with sucking my gut in!

I gotta new car. (This is a pic I found online, but this is what it is & color & tinted windows)

I logged in last night to catch up and then got distracted and left the browser open! Can't stay, got a lot of catching up to do at work. I'm using an '08 Altima today, test driving it really.. but they're tryin to rip me off so I'm likely going to be passing on it. Bummer!! THANK YOU TERRY & JANE!!! You girls are too sweet ((HUGSSSS))

LOL Terry! I saw a onesie somewhere that said "Boob Man" I was like oh geez. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I got up earlier than I planned, so I got an hour to kill. Christmas with my family was fun last night, except my sister did bring her girlfriend, her old old girlfriend that we all liked, but then they had a horrible break up and she told us these horrible things about her- so now that they are back together it's hard to accept her back. Made for a bit of akwardness. I don't think I made eye contact with her the whole night. Got all the baby stuff I picked out with my mom, and we put together the stroller & carseat. Russell is excited about a boy-whew! LOL We picked out the middle name- Micheal, which is his dad's name and also my uncle's name. He got to feel him kick last night too. My parents also got me a surprise present I didn't know about.. a digital video camera! I've never had a video camera before, never even thought about one.. so that'll be neat. Mom (jokingly) said "So you can record the birth and put it on youtube" hah hah! Yeah right. Going to head over there soon to help them cook breakfast, then do dirty santa with the big extended family... then off to Tennessee! It's nice and warm out, no rain so it should be a pretty drive. My brother was saying "Yeah when you have a baby, Christmas becomes about them not you" (because all of my Christmas besides the camera was baby stuff) I was like yeah I know.. I guess that was a downer for him when he had my niece, but I never have anything I want for Christmas anyway, so I'm glad to be getting all that stuff!! He got tickets to a Phish concert in VA, so he was stoked. They are getting back together for a reunion tour or something, and he said he plans on following them around the country. Must be nice, not having to worry about a job or anything at 28? Anywho.. glad you liked them Judy!!! Off to get dressed, hope everyone has a great day and I'm a bit jealous of those of you having a WHITE CHRISTMAS. I have never had one :thumbup:

Funny you say that Tracy, I came home before Russell cause he needed to finish stuff and I had to get home to pack & finish wrapping. Glue trap worked. He only got his tail & 1 back leg stuck in it, so he was trying to run with it, and is wedged behind my night stand. UGH. I had to close up the room (so cats don't get it and so I don't freak it out anymore) and now have to wait for Russell. Now what???? My mom said my dad throws them away, but that sounds horrible.. but the alternative is Russell having to kill it, UGH?!?! Very squeamish right now, glue traps sound horrible but I only put 2 glue traps and 6 of the snap traps.. and the glue trap is what worked.. figures.

Ohh thanks for the suggestion Heather! I don't know what's out there, I just got what I found at Publix (the snap traps inside a round disk thing). They didn't have those boxes. If we haven't caught it by time we get back from the holiday vacation I'll venture to WalMart to see if they have them. My parents had rats sometime this year, I know they used the glue traps outside and a bird got caught in one, my dad had to drown it (they live on a lake) :thumbup: They were telling me not to use the glue ones.

Not all docs require a fill diet (mine doesn't).