Where did November Go!!

Oh gosh can not believe its December already, where did November go. Well lets see....we've all been sick most of the month of November. First it was Briana with the stomach flu, then Christopher, then me and George. We all went down. As we were getting better, we were all doing good for a week and then bam...there we go more sickies in the house. Christoper had fever and ear infection and then Briana a day later with a blister ear infection, can you believe she had a blister on her ear drum, never heard of such a thing. Then you guessed it, Mommy got a bad sinus infection that had me down from 2 days. I started feeling almost human again after a few days. Thanksgiving was not what we had planned since George also got sick. We stayed home and had a small meal together and watched movies. It was kind of nice for a change, just bad that we were all sick.

Hope December is a much better month for us.

Busy-Tiring-Stressful Monday 11/09/2009

Ugh, what a busy Monday monring it was. I had so many appointments it was crazy. I had to get my in-laws to babysit Briana too and that was stressful. They just got over their cold and we were not sure if they were 100% better, but we had no one else to leave her with. My regular babysitters stated working and going to College so they are pretty much busy too.

I was glad George was able to stay one more day, his new Boss and job are so understanding and pretty much love him over there. They let him take as many days he needs to take care of stuff here and take care of me and Briana. I really needed him with me on these appointments.

One of my doctors appointment was at the hospital. I had to see my gestational diabetes nutritionist and dietitian to go over my blood sugar levels I monitor every week. Good news! I am doing perfect, I now only have to monitor my self 3 days a week instead all 7 days..YAY!!

The next appointment was with an Ultrasound technician. They wanted to see how my amniotic fluid is doing and check things out. Baby looked good, moving a lot and being stubborn already, the technician could not get a good picture of him. He was having his back to us. I guess he did not want to be bothered.......LOL!

Next person was another technician, she is going to be monitoring the baby's heart beat after each movement and while he is resting. The test is called the Non stress Test.A technician straps two devices to your belly. One monitors your baby's heartbeat and movement; the other records contractions. The test usually takes 20 to 60 minutes. Per the technician everything looked good. I was there for 35 mins.

After like 1 1/2 hours of being at the hospital, when I went to schedule my appointment the nurse told me that Cashier downstairs needed Georges employment information, which I thought was weird, cause it was on the paper she gave me. So off me and George went to see her...well it turns out that our Insurance provider is no longer on contract with this hospital and will not be covering my visits or delivery.....WHAT!!!! You got to be kidding!! After going back and forth, told her we will call our insurance and see what can be done. I so upset and pissed. I am suppose to have the baby in a month and they come out with this.

After the hospital, we had time to go back home, eat lunch and pick-up Briana to go to my OB/GYN appointment and let the in-laws go, before they hit traffic, they hate driving in rush hour and at night, so we had to rush....gee!

Meanwhile, George goes online and gets a list of hospitals that our insurance will cover and pray to god that my OB/GYN is a member of too. Off to my OB/GYN's appointment. Lost 1/2 pound and blood pressure was high, not to bad, but the RN asked me if I was feeling okay. Told her its been a stressful day. The Dr. comes in and tells me heard you've had a stressful day, so George told him the situation with the hospital and to see if he was a member of any other hospital that he can deliver the baby.....Thank goodness, he was!!!! Yay!! After my check-up he went ahead and worked fast to get us scheduled for my December 11Th c-section, get the authorization from our insurance for the new hospital, gave us new paperwork to fill out and told me to stay a little bit and relax to see if my blood pressure will go down. It did. While there I also asked him about the H1N1 shot, We wanted to know more info about it and he did. So while waiting for all of the other paperwork, I got my H1N1 Flu shot....it hurt!!! Will just a little.

After all these appointments, it was time (4:30pm)to take George to the airport (although his plane leaves at 6:25pm), the Orange county one, which means its 4pm and we going to hit rush hour traffic on the way home...lovely. But of course, before taking him to the airport, he noticed one of the car tires was low, so we took it to the tire shop and they said it has a leak, but they can't fix it because the hole is on the side of the tire. So we had to get a new tire and have them put it fast or George would miss his plane. They did, they were awesome. Off to the airport, go there in 35 mins, not bad. But going home that took me an hour and 1/2 to get home. Ugh! How I hate the traffic here in California.

So now I am home trying to relax and hopefully go to bed early.

That all that has been going on here. Hope you had a non stressful Monday. {{HUGS}}

A trip to the Hospital

No not me.....I am doing good, baby doing good. It was George. He was up most of the early morning with abdominal pain, he did not want to wake me up or get me all worry, so he waited as long as he could. Well, at 6am he was as pale as a ghost, clammy and hunched down in a lot of pain. Finally he was convinced to call 911, they came pretty fast and took him for a ride to the hospital. I got Briana up and got her in the car. Well, after being there for 3 hours just waiting for the test results, George just wanted me to come home with Briana, as she was being impossible and she was cranky (I don't blame her). I couldn't find anyone to come get her or watch her. The girls I use to babysit were either at work or class. Did not want to call his parents, cause they will just get on our nervous and they don't do well in emergency situation.

George finally called after 1:30pm and said he was still in a little pain, but not so much they had given him something much stronger than morphine, he can't remember the name of it and he had fallen asleep all this time. The doctor said all his tests came back good and now he wanted to do a ultrasound to check his stomach. Well, the result of the ultrasound was that he has Gallstones. Yup, after like 2 years that we went through the same thing, this doctor finally gave us the news, why couldn't they (the other hospital and Dr) tell us this 2 years ago.....I have no idea!! I was pissed and relieved at the same time.

Home after 4pm, he is doing good. I made some bland rice and chicken for him to eat. No more fatty foods for him, which we really do not eat anymore. That big fat Carl's Jr hamburger he at on Sunday for lunch was his last. Hope he enjoyed it.....LOL! Oh, that hamburger was what had triggered the abdominal pain. Now to re do our dinner menu and find new recipes that he will like and are not to greasy. You know for this Cuban girl, its going to be hard leaving my roasted pork!

Love ya babe.

Here is a website with some info about Gallstones.

http://www.gastro.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5680