Tim's Ordeal

Where do I start this long story? I will try to break it down and make it as short as I can. It all started on Wednesday April 20. Tim was having some abdominal pain. This started in the morning and he thought he just had to use the restroom. Well as the day went on the pains got worse. By the time that he got home from work he was barely able to stand up straight. I told Tim we needed to get to the ER. I was thinking he had something like appendsitis. We got to the ER at like 9:15. Got right in to a room so I thought we would not have to wait long. WRONG! The Dr first thought that Tim had something going on with his bladder so they wanted to do a scan. While waiting they did give him something for the pain but it did not help even a little. Bladder scan normal, next step a CT scan of abdomen and pelvis. Tim got taken back to have his scan at 2am. We sat around and waited some more and finally at 3am we were told that he had diverticulitis and it had caused a small hole in his large colon. He would need to be admitted and monitored closely and have IV antibiotics.

So Tim was put on nothing to eat or drink for 2 days and was given antibiotics and pain medications. He was slowly feeling better and was able to eat. He spent Easter weekend in the hospital. It was very tough for me as well as the children to be with out him for a holiday. Mondat Tim was doing great. He had his first full meal since the whole thing started. He wanted to come home that night but I talked him in to staying one more night just to monitor.

Tuesday morning Tim was ready to come home. I got the kids off to school and headed up to the hospital to bring Tim home. What I walked into was terrible. Tim was in the worst pain of his life. I have never seen him like this. I knew it was bad. I did not know what to do to help. He had already called his nurse and they were calling the doctors. Did not take long and he was surrounded by nurses and doctors. Off to CT to find out what was going on. We found out the he had opened the small hole in his belly and it was leaking. He would need surgery asap. Luckily we work with the best doctors around and they had Tim in the OR within the hour. He required a 3 hour surgery to remove the bad part of his colon and clean up the surrounding area. Surgery went well. Since then Tim is slowly recovering. He is not in near as much pain as he was before surgery.

Tim now has a belly full of air that is not moving. He looks more pregnant than I do. It is causing him great discomfort and has a hard time taking a deep breath. The doctors say he is heading in the right direction just rather slowly. We have been praying the he make a speedy recover. I know it is in God's hands and he will heal and come home.

Baby Wax week 16

I am 16 weeks pregnant today. I am feeling great. The nausea is gone. I have a few cravings but not anything crazy. So far it has been Stefanina's pizza and tomatoes. I have not gained any weight. In the first trimester I lost 4 pounds and I am still at that weight. That is a great start to this pregnancy. My goal is to only gain around 15 pounds.

We know someone who is an ulrasound tech. She was nice enough to look at our baby to see if we could figure out what the sex is. What we found out is that we have a very stubborn little one. It was so sweet to see the baby moving. It was standing on its head and would turn and look at us like, "do you see what I can do?' But the little booger kept its legs crossed for mos of the ultrasound. We did get a quick look but it was hard to tell. The ultrasound tech said that if she had to put money on it she would go with a boy. I said that was great and Trim is beyond excited. Layne said, "Are you sure it's not a girl?". Our big girl wanted a little sister to dress up! Jaxon is super excited and says this little one is already a great little brother! I am so excited but I will not by anything blue until we know for sure at our big ultrasound next month.

In other news I have started clinicals at school. it is so nice to finally be done with night classes. I am getting used to being in 2 different places during the day. It is wonderful to be at home during the evenings. I remembering what is like to make dinner for my family again! Jaxon continues to do well in school and is looking forward to the summer. Serena can not wait to start Kindergarden so she wants the summer to go by fast. If all goes as planned Laynie Lou will be going to public high school in the fall. I am excited and nervous for her! I myself love summer weather but am not looking forward to suffering through the heat this year. I have a feeling the air will be set way low with me inside and my feet up!

A couple weeks ago we had Terry, Amy, Bailey, and Jackson here. While there were here for a sad reason, a family member was in the hospital, we did enjoy spending some time with them.

Pregnancy ups and downs

I am 14 weeks pregnant. This week has proved difficult for me. I am starting to show which I think is so neat. But with a bigger belly comes a bigger back ache. My chair at work offers no support and I am hurting. I switched chairs and have started doing some yoga. I am hopeful that this will help. I am tired. Going to school 3 nights a week is taking its toll on this expecting mama. My last night of class is tomorrow. I am so excited that I finally made it through school. Next week starts clinicals for me. I have to do them part time so I can continue to work. This is going to take about 12 weeks to finish. I anxious to get through this because I am not so thrilled about the pay cut I will be taking. I miss seeing my husband. We get to see each other for about 30 minutes before I crash at night and for 10 minutes before Tim goes to work in the morning. I would love for us to be at home more but I know it just can not happen at this point in our lives. I am so thankful that we have the oppurtuunity to work so much and try to better our lives. But it is so hard to do. I have faith that things will get better. I keep praying for strength. I know God is walking with my family and we are so blessed. With out God I believe we would not be able to handle a lot of what we go trough. While I have had a hard week, I remember that we are going to be ok.

Showin off the baby

I had my first trimester screening this week. I got to see the baby moving and kicking and flipping. It was so neat and I feel like I could sit all day and just watch. I am already so in love with this child! The scan looked good but this is only the first part of a 3 step process. I had some blood work done and have not heard those results yet. In a couple more weeks I will get more blood work and then at 20 weeks we will have a more through scan than what is normally given. We will also find out what we are having at that time. I am so anxious. The days can not go by fast enough. I will be happy either way but it is very exciting to find out.

In other pregnancy news I am still having bleeding on and off. Mostly happens when I do too much. This past Saturday I bled all day long. That is a scary thing when you are pregnant. SInce everything is ok with the baby the doctor beleives I have something going on with my cervix. A varicositie is what she called it. And if I do too much then I will bleed. She wants me to take it easy. Try to sit more at work and not do as much around the house. Easier said than done with a big family, but I am trying to follow her advice as much as possible. I may have to post pone doing my clinicals at school. Because it would consist of a lot of standing and massaging. I don't want to push it. Everything else seems to be going really good.

Jaxon is going to do a series of tests at school. If he does well with these he will be placed in an accelerated program. I could not be more proud. He really enjoys school. Serena is doing really well in speach therapy and continues to improve on a weekly basis. Layne had a fine arts program that she did with church and her group took first place. Tim and I are truely blessed with wonderful children.

Bump Update

I had another visit with my ob/gyn this week. Things are still going along nicely. It was good to see her again after last week's scare. We got to hear out little ones heartbeat again. There is nothing better than hearing that. It is a good strong heartbeat too! I am in the last week of my first trimester and finally starting to feel better. The nausea is almost completly gone and only gets bad if I do not eat. I do not have an appetite and am not craving anything but I am sure that will change shortly. So far I have lost 4 pounds and I have not started to gain it back. I am completly ok with this.

We are going to have an ultrasound on Monday. This is called a first trimester nuchal test. It is to see if the developing baby has any signs of Down Syndrome. With Tim having a child with Down Syndrome this is just something we felt we would like to know. This is not going to change anything about the pregnancy or the love that we have for this child. We would just like to know either way. We will get some good pictures I am sure and I will be sure to post them when we get them. I am pretty excited about seeing our little one.

I am still prett tired. I think a lot of that has to with working full time and going to school 3 nights a week. I am sure it will get better once school is done. I have 2 more weeks of night classes and then have clinicals during the day. I am so excited to be able to go home after work. The kids are also excited to have mom at home and not a baby sitter.

More to come next week.

ER Visit

Just want to keep everyone updated. Friday this past week turned out to be a horrible night. My kids were at their dad's house and Layne had stuff going on with church. So Tim decided to go into the main lab for a while. I was looking forward to a nice evening to myself. Mostly I wanted to catch up on some napping! So I read a little and slept alot. Around 9:15 I got up and felt like I needed to go to the restroom. I will try to spare the details but I will let you know what I saw in their was the scariest thing I have ever seen while beibg pregnant. I was bleeding, and not just a little. Needless to say I was scared. I called Tim right away even though he was not due to be home until 10. He answered and I told him we needed to go to the hospital. He was 5 minutes from home. God is great. I knew he was looking out for me on this night. So we rushed to the ER. While there we thought the worst. We had lost the baby. All that kept going through my mind was we are going to have to get rid of the halloween outfits we had already gotten for baby wax. It seemed like we had the longest wait ever. They got me into a room in about an hour. The doctor came in and was more worried about my heart rate being elevated than my bleeding. So I was hooked up to an EKG and given IV fluids. Finally at about midnight the Dr came in to examine me. The only thing she could tell me was that yes I was still bleeding but no she could not tell if I was having a miscarriage. Since it was so late at night they did not have anyone there to perform an ultrasound. While laying on the stratcher in the ER I prayed that the babies life was in God's hands and for Him to give me the strength to get through whatever happened. After this I felt completely calm.

We were sent home with the diagnosis "threatened miscarriage". I was told to go home and wait for the rest of the bleeding to start and to follow up with my doctor on Monday. I was not happy with this diagnosis. So Saturday morning I called my doctor. She called me right back and told me she would meet me at the hospital to do a quick ultrasound for peice of mind. Oh what a great dr i have! We got the ultrasound and there was our baby with a very strong heartbeat. Sweet relief. Hearing the heartbeat was the best thing I had heard all weekend. It was a stressful 2 days but it all turned out ok. Hopefully this is not something that I will have to go through again. It was a reminder of how precious our lives are. I am thankful that I have a wonderful supportive husband.

Baby Wax 2011

If you can't tell from the above pictures, we are going to be adding to our family! Tim and I are excited to share this news. Baby Wax is due 10/8/11. We will probably meet this new little life on 10/3/11 as I have to have a scheduled c-section. I am currently 8 weeks along. I am not feeling great during the day. I get icky feeling if I llet myself get too hungry. And that happens a lot because no food sounds good to me right now. I am patiently waiting for this phase to be over! This past week we had an ultrasound and got to see our little raspberry with a heartbeat!

I am thankful everything is going so well and I am praying that it continues to do so. The kids are thrilled with the idea of another little one in the house. Jaxon practices his big brother skills on a daily basis and Sernea is warming up to the idea. She rubs my belly and talks to the baby already! Layne can't wait to hold the new baby! I will post updates on everybody. May God continue to bless this family!