Hi everyone! It's so nice to look on here after a long day and see all of you being so great. Sorry I'm not writing in your journals today, I'm just soo tired, but I promise I'll visit each and every one of you tomorrow.
WillBsexysoon, Thanks! You're pretty pretty yourself!
No problem on the advice, that's we're here for
Kdel, first off, I love your avatar, it always brightens my mood! With the finger, I really don't know. They said it can happen in just the tiniest of nicks. so I think I maybe got her with the nail clippers, not enough for her to bleed but just enough to kind of open the skin, then sucking on her fingers put bacteria in there. Thanks for saying that I'm doing well with everything, sometimesI feel like flying off the handle because we have sooo many medical bills, we can pay them but they still suck and cause us to have to budget a little tighter. We got a bill for $44,000 the other day for one of my stays in the hospital. Luckily insurnce paid all but $175 of it, lol.
OhappyDaye, you're so cute
This forum wouldn't be as great as it is without you. I hope you never leave, even though you're at your goal weight.
pequin...I wonder what has more calories, baby toes or baby cheeks... I would think the cheeks
Hehe, thanks for wishing me luck at the appointment!
Losing it, Hi! It does sound like we can relate! What were you in the hospital for? (you don't have to tell if it's a secret, I'll only pry a little
) We actually went to the doctor today, I'll tell you about it in my main post. Thanks for the encouragement!
be_gone_soon, Hello to you too!
Well today was a hard day for me in every department. I had planned out my meals and snacks for the day and included fast food because we were out and about, but my husband tempted me with Chinese food, I was weak, and now I don't know how many calories I had. luckily I talked him into just take out instead of the buffet, so that cut down on calories. Today was also the day of our appointment with the neurologist at the University of Michigan. It went really well, they said that it was probably just Myatonic jerks which just occasionally happens in babies because their little developing brains get overloaded with information, and that we really shouldn't worry. But while we were there we went and visited a little girl we knew who was in the children's hospital. My family is from a very small, 3 stoplight town in mid-michigan. Although I live in a bigger city now, my parents still live in my childhood house, all of our neighbors out there are Amish and we are actually really good friends with them. Their six year old daughter stepped on a nail a few weeks back and contracted tetnus and lock jaw. This is a very rare and life threatening illness. They had her in a medical induce coma until just recently and she was moved out of the intensive care unit yesterday into a regular room. It's so hard to watch her now. She used to be the little girl in the bonnet and dress waving at me from across the street and now she looked like she was in so much pain. She can't walk,can barely sit up, she has a feeding tube in her nose, she has a tracheotomy so she can barely speak, and we she speaks she can't speak english anyway (they speak pennsylvania dutch until they're older) so I felt bad that I couldn't understand her. But her mom, (who is due with a baby in 2 weeks!
talk about stress!!) helped her hold my baby and it made her smile which made me so happy! It's just hard to see a little child in that condition, my husband was even on the verge of tears the entire time. So that was emotionally draining, add that to the fact that Abby was fussy all night and we had to be up at 5:30 (as compared to my usually 9:30 waking time) in order to get to our appointment on time and I am just so worn out. Like I said, I don't know how many calories I ate, but I can at least say what I ate today.
Breakfast: McDonald's Egg McMuffin and Hashbrown (420)
snack: 2 rice cakes (100)
Lunch: Chinese (a million)
Dinner: Salad (330)
Snack: cheez-its (130)
beverages: 8 8 oz. glasses crystal light (40)
So approximately 1,001,020
Oh well, tomorrow's another day and as long as you guys are here for me I'll be ok and be able to hop back on track. Thanks everyone, I'm gonna go to bed now, *yawn* nighty night.
