Something…
I better write something. Anything. Or else I’ll be a hypocrite when I give others a hard time for being lazy and not keeping the blog updated.
Since it is officially Saturday, I am officially 38 weeks pregnant. This past Monday I spent the entire day and night in Memorial Hospital only to basically (in the end) have wasted my entire day. They ran every test under the sun from extensive bloodwork to urine to catscan to leg ultrasound (OUCH) and a nuclear scan. They believe I have a blood clot somewhere but couldn’t find it. After keeping me all day, they then sent me up to L & D. Originally I went to L&D in the morning but they had no beds, so I was escorted down to the ER and, well, whatever. You get the point. I’ve got a major shortness of breath problem that has improved a little since Monday but at some points I can BARELY breathe. Not sure what is going on, I’m hoping that things will clear up after I have the baby.
John and I went out on a date tonight, leaving the girls with F (the babysitter). After 5.5 years of only having my Mom or one friend (who both live very far away), John and I have been slowly breaking a mothers helper in and have left her with the kiddos a few times now. I’m still nervous about leaving them with anyone, but have been taking baby steps. They are only so little for so long, right? John and I went to Fargo’s Pizza Company for dinner. It was definitely different, I can’t say I was extremely impressed. It would have been a borderline nightmare if we had brought the kiddos. Afterwards we went to Joyrides and had a decent time. The golf course was the UNIMAGINABLE, nearly to the point of not being able to play. We waited in line for about 15 minutes to go on the go karts (amongst obnoxious teenagers) and when we got up to the front, the kid running the karts didn’t want to let me on. It’s a “ride at your risk” type policy and I was willing to take the risk. C’mon, I’m 9 months pregnant and I carry a very heavy and opinionated 1 year old up and down a flight of stairs with our puppy in tow MULTIPLE times a day. Letting me go around a go-kart track for 4 minutes is a picnic. I had fun. 
John is asleep, the girls are konked out. I’m planning on having a quiet and uneventful saturday with just us. I love the company of our friends, the girls really like F, but… tomorrow I told Rachel it was a “just us” day. John has to see customers in the morning and I plan on getting some work done in the afternoon, but I don’t want to do much other than hang out with my kids. Rachel has been run ragged going to school all day, she needs some time just to reset her brain and do some mindless tv watching and playing outside. Julie is “down for whatever.”
Life is going well. I am on a week break and start 2 new classes next week. There are 2 classes per session and 2 sessions per semester. 3 classes a semester is considered full-time, but I’ve signed up for 4. I don’t want to be 30 and still working on this.
The kids are great. The marriage is great. I’m great. Life is great.
Whine I must.
I have a love-hate relationship with this stage of pregnancy. I have an ulcer which is SCREAMING at me because of all of the acid that my stomach is trying to manage with the baby pushing on my stomach. I finally started taking OTC Prilosec (once a day) and Zantac before most meals. I’m doing much better with the acid problems.
The other main problem I have with this part of pregnancy is the gross lack of sleep that I have the pleasure of dealing with. Between my pelvis feeling like it will shatter, my legs which are constantly restless and the weigh change in my abdomen…
I
CAN
NOT
SLEEP!
At 2am I finally bit the bullet and took 2 tylenol PM. I had to do this while pregnant with Julie for my gallbladder pain when I didn’t want to use up some of the heavy-duty prescription pain killers my doctor gave me. I can steal 20 minutes of sleep here and there, but I have been getting up in the morning feeling like I never went to bed. Tomorrow night I am going to have John take some tylenol PM and sleep on the couch, just so he can get a good night sleep. I feel really badly for him having to put up with me and my moving, shaking, shifting (etc).
This is all worth it, just very difficult to maintain life right now.
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Girls are great. Jack and I had our first appt and we are both doing very well. John is awesome, working on dishes as I type. Business has picked up for the both of us and while we are still struggling, who isn’t?
I’d ask that everyone who reads my blog to send some positive thoughts of health and stregnth to our friend N. He is starting another battle against cancer this week and we are rooting for him 100%!!!
This afternoon we are taking our neighbor with us to the Firefighter/MDA Chili Cookoff, we’ve all been looking forward to it for weeks!!
Tomorrow we head to Denver to spend the day with Mickey and Minnie and kiddos. Funnily enough, John (well me since I am the one who coordinates this stuff) accepted a quick network install in the town over from our friends. Not sure how that will work, but can’t turn a feasible job down, right?
Sunday and Monday will entail hanging around the house, I really want to see “Hitch!” We’ll probably go to the fireworks in town on Monday.
Things are good. Busy. Hectic. Fun. Stressful. Overall, we are super super happy.
14.5 Months…
Julie has started taking her first steps. Rachel was just shy of 15 months when she started walking, and it looks like Julie will head down the same path. People say that “bigger” babies walk later, but Rachel wasn’t a big baby. I think my kids just like to be held. Constantly. Like all the time. Julie has John wrapped around her little fingers.
Rachel is bored out of her mind and I am finding it to be quite trying. I am going to all the town sponsored events that I can manage and she is in TBall, but summer camp is proving to be out of our budget this summer. She is too smart for her own good.
Work is good. Both John and I got some new customers this past week and he has already received payment from most of them. I, on the other hand, find myself waiting for payment from multiple people, but that is the nature of my industry. Well, for those of us who don’t hide behind complete automation and email.
Not much else, just really busy. I get the feeling that my friends and online “buddies” feel alienated because of my lack of contact, but my life has been busy, trying to keep us above float and continue to promote the good geeks in our new market. Sometimes I wonder if my online friends that feel alienated are feeling this way because of “talk.” But those that know me, know that my life is truly busy at the moment, and not just a case of me vanishing.
I. Clearly. Have. Not. Vanished.
Quite the opposite, actually, as I am now 24 weeks pregnant. I’m expanding.
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TeamRachel aka mrskatvon is both a website to gain public awareness of Juvenile Batten Disease (which affects my oldest daughter) as well as a journal to remember the events in our lives.
Rachel was diagnosed with Batten Disease in July 2009 and while we knew something was "not right" we had no idea that such a nightmarish disease existed. There are dozens of nasty, orphan disease which affect people both very young and old.
Aside from dealing with the changes of Batten Disease in my daughter, Rachel, I have tasked myself with making life memorable for all of my children to make sure that (at least) 3 of them grow up to be as well adjusted and happy as possible.
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