And now, a report on Christmas. We had a very nice Christmas despite my not having the 23rd to shop for Scott's presents. I procrastinated once again and left a lot till the last minute and then had to drop things (Christmas cookies, cards in the mail, etc) as other emergencies came up (see below).
Scott bought me a beautiful right hand ring and a Cricut scrapbooking machine and some other wonderful little things. He got a leatherman tool and a duck blind. On Christmas Eve we opened our traditional Christmas pajamas and watched a Disney movie - "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes". Scott has been on a Disney movie kick and we've been buying these old (non-cartoon) Disney movies from the seventies.
Christmas day after sleeping in, having hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls and opening presents, we headed to Payson where we spent the rest of the day with Scott's parents and his brother, Jeff and his wife Chantiel. It was a really nice, relaxing afternoon and I enjoyed the day a lot.
The day after Christmas was spent returning the duck blind for the one he really wanted (since I just bought the first one I saw as a demonstration/place holder of what I was giving him) and ran some other errands. We went to see "Seven Pounds" with Will Smith and then had dinner at Outback with some friends.
Saturday was the Dalton family Christmas party. We gathered at my parents house for soup and salad (thank you Bryan for making that salad - it is soooooo good, I still think about it). Rachel and Spencer were in town for the weekend and we were just sad to not have Mary and Ryan and their kiddos from Texas! Maybe next year we'll get everyone.
I have this week off and I'm sad to see that it is already half over. Only four more days until I get back to normal life! Only four more days to send my Christmas cards (If I get around to it) finish all that backlog of laundry I was going to do, and take down the Christmas decorations. Maybe those can wait another week!
Hope you all had a great Christmas too and have a fun New Year's night tonight.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Touring the Women's Center
On December 23rd Scott and I got to tour the women's center at the new Intermountain Medical Center hospital (is that the right name? I just call it the new IHC hospital on 54th and State). Unfortunately, it wasn't a planned tour.
I woke up at 4am the morning of the 23rd with sever back pain on my left side, just below my ribs-around my natural waistline. I wasn't sure but figured they were braxton hicks contractions and since I had read that changing positions helps I began pacing the living room. I didn't want to wake Scott up because I figured the pain would go away. The weird thing though was that the pain didn't come and go as I thought a contraction should. It was just sustained pain, sometimes bad enough to literally take my breath away! Well, after pacing and sitting I thought I'd try a warm bath. That helped a bit but I was freezing cold and couldn't get warm even in the tub. Next try was to turn up the heat and sit on the heater under a blanket to at least get back warm again. Scott found me there and convinced me to try the heating pad in bed. At about 6 I threw up and then fell blissfully to sleep!
The next morning the pain was gone but I was very sick to my stomach. At 11:35 I started getting contraction every ten minutes accompanied by at least nausea and more often, vomiting. After 30 minutes we called the Dr.'s office and left a message and then after an hour Scott convinced me that we should at least head over to the Dr.'s office. I couldn't believe how regular those contractions were. I could watch the clock and with a 1 minute margin of error, there would be a contraction and sickness!
On our way to the Dr.'s office the nurse called and directed us to the hospital. They checked us in, put on the heart monitor and contraction monitor and set up an IV so I could have two bags of fluid. I was apparently very dehydrated from all the throwing up. My urine sample came back with blood and other abnormal minerals so they were thinking bladder infection, which would explain the "kidney" pain in the night. They decided to do a catheter and do some more tests. They came back with kidney stones as the diagnosis!
After 4 hours, two bags of fluids, and Zofran (love that anti-nausea medicine!!!) I felt good, the contractions had stopped and they sent me home. They said that they didn't know if the stones had passed or not but there wasn't much they could do. I was to drink a lot and then suffer through whatever came next.
Christmas Eve morning I had another hour of back pain (another stone passing perhaps?) but this time the pain was a 8.5 rather than a 10. Then on the night of the 26th I had another bad bit of pain but this time it was more like a 7. Regardless, it all seems to have passed, my urine sample today at the Dr. came back normal and so I look to be in the clear.
They say that kidney stones are worse than labor so looks like I am all set, I've had a tour of the hospital, I know how to put on that funny gown with all the snaps and ties, I know how to wrap my monitor cords around my neck like a necklace when I have to visit the restroom, and I have had pain worse than labor! This is going to be a breeze when I go in for real in 9 weeks. (Can you believe I'm in the single digits? I realize that is still over two months but 9 weeks out of 40 seems so close!!!)
I woke up at 4am the morning of the 23rd with sever back pain on my left side, just below my ribs-around my natural waistline. I wasn't sure but figured they were braxton hicks contractions and since I had read that changing positions helps I began pacing the living room. I didn't want to wake Scott up because I figured the pain would go away. The weird thing though was that the pain didn't come and go as I thought a contraction should. It was just sustained pain, sometimes bad enough to literally take my breath away! Well, after pacing and sitting I thought I'd try a warm bath. That helped a bit but I was freezing cold and couldn't get warm even in the tub. Next try was to turn up the heat and sit on the heater under a blanket to at least get back warm again. Scott found me there and convinced me to try the heating pad in bed. At about 6 I threw up and then fell blissfully to sleep!
The next morning the pain was gone but I was very sick to my stomach. At 11:35 I started getting contraction every ten minutes accompanied by at least nausea and more often, vomiting. After 30 minutes we called the Dr.'s office and left a message and then after an hour Scott convinced me that we should at least head over to the Dr.'s office. I couldn't believe how regular those contractions were. I could watch the clock and with a 1 minute margin of error, there would be a contraction and sickness!
On our way to the Dr.'s office the nurse called and directed us to the hospital. They checked us in, put on the heart monitor and contraction monitor and set up an IV so I could have two bags of fluid. I was apparently very dehydrated from all the throwing up. My urine sample came back with blood and other abnormal minerals so they were thinking bladder infection, which would explain the "kidney" pain in the night. They decided to do a catheter and do some more tests. They came back with kidney stones as the diagnosis!
After 4 hours, two bags of fluids, and Zofran (love that anti-nausea medicine!!!) I felt good, the contractions had stopped and they sent me home. They said that they didn't know if the stones had passed or not but there wasn't much they could do. I was to drink a lot and then suffer through whatever came next.
Christmas Eve morning I had another hour of back pain (another stone passing perhaps?) but this time the pain was a 8.5 rather than a 10. Then on the night of the 26th I had another bad bit of pain but this time it was more like a 7. Regardless, it all seems to have passed, my urine sample today at the Dr. came back normal and so I look to be in the clear.
They say that kidney stones are worse than labor so looks like I am all set, I've had a tour of the hospital, I know how to put on that funny gown with all the snaps and ties, I know how to wrap my monitor cords around my neck like a necklace when I have to visit the restroom, and I have had pain worse than labor! This is going to be a breeze when I go in for real in 9 weeks. (Can you believe I'm in the single digits? I realize that is still over two months but 9 weeks out of 40 seems so close!!!)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Christmas Decorations - Finally
These are terrible pictures from by Blackberry so I may take better pictures and replace these. But, they will at least show for now that I do have my decorations.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Growing Baby Girl
Out with the Old
Thought I should put this in as a reminder of what we came from! Wow!!! Do I have an awesome husband or what. He sure does beautiful work.
Homey living room
Well, it's here! The furniture came the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Well, all but the consol table that we can pick up at the warehouse on the 13th. The furniture store gave me a delivery window of 11-3. I had decided already to take the day off because I figured that the delivery window would be smack in the middle of the day - isn't it always? Then I figured that they would come at the end of the delivery window so I would sit around waiting all day until they left at 3:30 and then what was I supposed to do - go back to work for an hour?
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So, I got up at 9 and ran to some stores. I needed to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner and pick up a prescription and do some other errands. I was sitting in the Rite Aid waiting area for 30 minutes while they filled my prescription ("we'll have it done in 10 minutes ma'am") looking at my clock and getting worried because it was getting closer and closer to 11:00. Of course, there was no need because what delivery has ever come right at the beginning of the delivery window right?
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At 11:05 I was 100 ft from turning down my street when my husband called to tell me that the delivery truck was at the house and had been since 10:55! Come on - really? So I rushed down the street and apologized profusely and by noon, I had a living room! :) I suppose I could have gone back to work but hey, I had the day off. So instead I spent the time cleaning all the glass doors and shelves, did my grocery shopping and made jello and pies. So domestic.
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The dogs love to sit on the back of the couch cushions and look out the window. It's pretty darn cute. I love to sit on the couch and read my book. And the best part is that we have lights in the buffet so we turn on those and the lights over the fireplace and turn off the overhead lights and it's so homey! I feel like I need a fire and some hot chocolate. Can't wait for my visiting teachers or home teachers to come this month.
Oh, the paint cans and stuff on the floor in the bottom picture are trying to keep the rug from curling - hate that! It seems to have worked.
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