Monday, March 24, 2008

it's monday!!!

and in about three hours i'll be putting bam-bam on his bus and sending him on his way! o thank goodness! one down and two to go, can't wait til NEXT monday and i get to put all three on all three busses!

we had a very uneventful weekend. tatertot left on thursday to go take generational pics w/ skeeters mom and sister and grandma. they kept her until saturday nite so she'd be there to go to the memorial with them since they're Jehovah's witnesses. surprisingly, skeeter joined them.

i slept. and slept. and cramped. and slept.

i managed to accomplish two whole loads of laundry this weekend. woohoo! i'm on a roll!

Friday, March 21, 2008

pics of the fam......

to put a face to the name.....and on these pics i was having a HORRIBLE hair day..most of these were just play around test shots taken by elizabeth (link to her website on right) and her hubby randy.




tatertot, celebrating her first bday in january 08...ummmm-yummy cake! her face enjoyed it too! lol



here's me and the tatertot



me and my bunch



me and my lil man bam-bam



tatertot and skeeter



the whole gang...and yes, lil unknown was already baking away




daddy and his girls




bam-bam, the 7yo little man of the house



and bam-bam again



puddn




puddn...my oldest offspring, ms. bossy and trying to grow up too fast. she'll be 11 in june.








twiggi, the 9yo, my peaceful yet extremely goofy child





skeeter aka mr. koolaid smile himself



thing 1 and thing 2....skeeter and tatertot

SPRING BREAK....

o my gosh! we're already placing bets on which of my kids will actually survive summer break when i'm big, pregnant, hormonal, and HOT. cuz this month they're driving me nuts!

i went back to class today. almost had to mapquest to remember the way.

took the make-up exam for immunology/serology and it was pointless. i'm only CERTAIN that i got two of the questions correct out of about 70! wonder if i'll get points for my spelling my name correctly.

i think i found a pretty good deal on a cpu for my mom. 40.00. i can't wait to go pick it up. i hope it works well.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

she's better!!!!

yaaaaayyy! and driving me nuts!!! booooooooo!!! she woke up this morning asking for juice so that was a sign we were headed in the right direction. now she's complaining that her "legs hurt". i told her it's because she's been lying on her butt for days. i've encouraged her to reconnect w/ hot water and soap.

omg, come on monday! bam-bam will go back to school and then i'll just have the girls home the rest of the week. whoever came up w/ spring break?! isn't summer enough?! i'm already looking at summer camps.

i saw my ob today and good news! i have the cervical length of a superhero! it's currently 5.7cm so............NO PAINFUL PROGESTERONE SHOTS FOR ME! so now i've just gotta take it easy, hope the cervix stays in superhero mode thru august and continue to hope that those that know the gender of my baby don't slip up. our "big" ultrasound is scheduled for april 11th.

tatertot is w/ skeeter's parents tonite. i hope they have an easy time w/ her since she's been binkie free for weeks now, but she's always been around us. hmmmmm.

that's about it. nothing exciting. going to drop some of my classes tomorrow. time to lighten the load.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

we'RE home.......

and i just noticed that the last title says "we" off to see the wizard instead of "we're" and for some reason that is soo hilarious to me right now.

the staff was very nice, very thorough. she is NOT monofied. they did an ultrasound of her abdomen and everything looked good. they gave her a full bag of iv fluids and zofran thru the iv and she perked up. she ate half a popsicle and ate two bites of a graham cracker. final diagnosis....stomach virus on top of strep. what fun.

she's sleeping now. i'm about to follow suit.

we off to see the wizard....

i wish. more like the ER docs, AGAIN. iv fluids and screen her for mono. what freaking fun.

where did i leave off?

let's just make a long story short.

puddn is still sick. she's severely dehydrated. since we got home from the er at 6am yesterday she's had hardly NOTHING to drink and she's slept almost 24hrs. she's only urinated once. she's looking SLIGHTLY better today, and i do mean slightly, and she's asking for water. i did manage to just get a zofran in her to help w/ her nausea. i've got a call in to the pedi since a friend suggested it could possibly be mono, so we'll see.

twiggi, my trooper, happily trekked off to school today, last day before spring break.

bam-bam is asking me for "quicker wheat".

i'm going to class today, wow! i almost don't remember where campus is!

aw, well, on w/ the day!

Monday, March 17, 2008

has anyone ever......

just dropped dead where they stand from absolute, pure exhaustion?! if not, i may be the first.

the past few days have really been trying my endurance and i think i'm about to reach my limit. that nervous breakdown that one therapist said i was long overdue for, and i decided i'd schedule for my 50th bday, may very well be coming a little sooner than scheduled!!

woke the kids up for school friday morning after getting ZERO sleep the nite before from the normal preggo nuisances, hip pain, cramping, etc. the girls were both complaining. twiggi who seldom ever complains vehemently was doubled over and complaining of a tummy ache. puddn jumped on the bandwagon. hey, having had no sleep, i was not in the mood to argue or prod...FINE, everybody back in bed! bambam wasn't due to leave for an hour and a half so i plopped my bones back in the bed for a bit. fridays are SUCH a pain, it's skeeter's early day, so i have to get up and take him to work by 6am.

15 mins later, puddn comes in my room, dressed for school. i told her she could go back to bed and my heroic child said if you and daddy can tough it out so can i. awwww. so she finished getting ready, not looking the best, couldn't really stand straight up, but she went on. i watched her from the window til i saw her bus go around the corner. then twiggi's bus went by, i felt a LITTLE guilty, because i normally walk them out, so i'm usually out there to say "she's not going today", but i just couldn't do it so i have no idea how long he sat in front of our building waiting on her, by the time i saw him he was 10 mins behind schedule.

ok, the one thing w/ fridays, is bambam doesn't have to wear his uniform. so i rolled on outta bed, threw him in some jeans and a shirt and he was thrilled...brushed teeth, put him in jacket and sent him on his merry way. he always walks down to my mom's to say goodbye to her before he leaves, otherwise she just can NOT function.

ok, so now it's just me and twiggi. figured out very quickly her issue. no BM since march 2nd, ok, did i just doublecheck the calender and does it say today is march 14th!!!! o great! come on now, we've been dealing w/ this off and on since she was 2, hello, she knows after 3 days of no poop we go into crisis mode w/ her. ok, fine, so i made her a big bowl of oatmeal and laced it w/ miralax after having her make her way thru a big bowl of peaches. and now we wait. and 45 mins later she made a mad dash for the bathroom....and after 15 mins of sounding like she was in labor, she came back, hair matted from sweating, looking drained, but gave me the thumbs up sign.

then the phone rang.

it was puddn's school nurse. she said that puddn didn't even know she was calling, that i didn't have to come get her, she just wanted me to be on alert. she said strep was running rampant thru her class and that puddn herself "smelled" streppy, and her throat was red and she had two white spots on her tonsil. swell! she said puddn had already gone back to class because she was going to "tough it out." so i hand up and put in a call to the pedi. normally, they call me back and confirm which lab we can go to and then fax over the req form for a throat culture. the office closes at 11am on fridays so i expected a call back soon enough since it was already after 10a. didn't get the call until after 1p. and instead of sending her for a culture, they went straight to antibiotics. and as soon as i hung up, the school nurse called again, and said it's time, come get her. sooo, i load twiggi and tatertot in the car since tatertot had just shown up w/ my mom, and off we go. skeeter is due off work in 30mins and i'm about to head 20miles in the opposite direction. so he's ticked. omg. get on the freaking bus! it's 230p, daylight, decent weather, busses running frequently..grow up!

so i get there, my kid comes basically crawling to me, she can't stand up straight. i get her in the car, she's doubled over w/ her head in her lap. we swing by the pharmacy and pick up her meds, and head home. pull up the same time as the big brat who just couldn't take the bus, or wait on me to be 20 mins late.

so we get the girls in the house. puddn immdiately sets up camp on the sofa. i pull her pills out the bag and all us adults are like what the hell are those?! so i call the pharmacy and ask if these HUGE horse pills, 875mg amox, are chewable, they tell me no. they can be crushed or cut in half but now chewed. you've got to be kidding me! it's to be taken every 12 hrs anyway, so i decided to start her at 7, so she'd always be at home or at least with me, for her dosing.

we decide to go get take out. i was really craving chicken wings. so off we go to this place that i smelled so many times but never eaten there, and it turned out to be a pizza hut/wingstreet. not even sure what that really means. all i know is one of the employees had her infant there in the back and her dog out in the car. talk about family-friendly. all of a sudden a pain just ripped thru my abdomen. now I'M doubled over. food is ready, i'm twitching and can't breathe, it hurts sooo bad.

we get home. get in the house. i make it to the sofa and take up residence under puddn's feet. my mom decides to help fix the kids plates. bam-bam has to go the bathroom. then i hear him yell... "the toilet is pee-peeing on the floor." now w usually hear him in a 10 sec delay because our brains have to adjust to his speech impediment. o crap!

AND NOW AS OF MONDAY AT 920A, I'M HEADED BACK TO THE ER W/ MY DAUGHTER. WILL FINISH LATER.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

back from onco appt....

and everything went well. full speed ahead w/ the hysterectomy after delivery. bloodwork was great. it was pretty funny that the np examined me and didn't notice i was pregnant. love the medical profession! i'll be starting pt for the lymphedema i've had in my upper right arm and flank for hmmm, apparently 5yrs now.

intro.....my perfect blend

guess i could've done this day 1, hahahaha....although, i'm sure anyone reading this probably knows me.....but anyhow,

pnkrbn02.....i'll be 32 on april 5th. i'm currently in school full-time studying to be a clinical laboratory tech, ultimately i'd love to have my master's in pathology, but i may just be happy settling w/ my bachelor's. i was diagnosed w/ breast cancer at age 26, after having found the first lump at age 25 and undergoing my first lumpectomy. i went on to have double mastectomies and radiation therapy and then unsuccessful reconstructive surgery that has left me looking deformed and mutilated, but hey, i'm alive. i'm happily divorced, wow, for over 5yrs!! have 4 goofy, loveable, get on my last damned nerve sometimes kids, and one more coming. i'm engaged to my "winston" (how stella got her groove back)...almost 10yrs my junior, but we work well together.

skeeter is my fiance'....my 22 yr old baby. we've had our hard times. we still have our moments, but they tend to pass quickly. he works hard to provide for us. he's still male, "y" chromosome, genetically screwed from conception! lol

pudd'n...my oldest child. the child that is trying to walk me by the hand into my grave, like next week! she's been thru a lot for her almost 11yrs, but she's a good kid. right now it just seems like that good kid, is being suffocated by some demon spawn creature! she's in 4th grade. the first part of the year was tough but the past couple weeks she's seemed to even out. we just have to keep praising her and rewarding her positive behavior.

twiggi....the 9yo girl...the middle daughter. quite the goofy 3rd grader. she makes HERSELF laugh all the time. she's my "relief" child...she doesn't get into a lot of trouble, no phone calls home, etc. she's the one you grab and hug and hold on to and thank over and over for being so easy! lol now don't get me wrong, she's quite CAPABLE, and probably does more than we know, she's just very very clever and crafty, whereas, her older sister could be featured on "world's dumbest criminals".

bambam....my dear sweet bambam, got that name when he ripped the doorframe of his bedroom down at 13mos old....now true, we live in public housing, need i say more, but still! my 7yo, so far, only male child. he's my "special" kid, in so many ways. he was diagnosed as "mentally retarded" a couple years back. he's made awesome strides though! we're really proud of his accomplishments! it's funny, he's becoming more and more "boy" and not "baby". the kid is about to eat me outta house and home! he walks in the door from school and i swear he eats from the then until he goes to bed.

tatertot....my rambunctious, precocious 14mo old. my miracle baby. the first one after having the cancer and 8 surgeries. the one they had no idea whether or not i'd be able to carry. the one that after months of struggling w/ pre-term labor was born full-term at 37w 2d. yeh, her birth story is quite interesting and i think i have it saved somewhere for a future posting. she's walking and talking and letting the world know she's in charge. looks just like her daddy. i was just an oven, baked her and delivered her when she was ready.

johnny bravo/jj/kermit.....my unborn child w/ many nicknames. due at the end of august, but shanon, my ob, thinks 34 weeks might be our magic # this go round and that puts me at the end of july. i'll take it as long as s/he is healthy. yep, s/he...although i'm 15 weeks pregnant and almost everyone else knows this child's gender, i don't. i want the element of surprise. this is definitely my last child and i want the whole "it's a......." thingy this time. skeeter is dying to know. he says he's gonna jump out of a window if it's another girl. i'd really like another son, of course, i'm gonna be happy w/ a healthy whatever, but i really don't wanna know it's a girl, IF it's a girl, until she's in my arms and i have no choice but to deal w/ it.

and there it is, the base of my family. the extended ones we'll get into later.

onco appt today.....

well, it's that time again. time for the one year checkup. i'm a LITTLE nervous going into this one. yes, it was 5yrs in october, BUT since then i've had an abnormal pap and they've found a "nodule" in my right chest wall, you know, the side that had the cancer. i'm really looking forward to delivering a healthy baby and then having my hysterectomy. i'm actually looking forward to menopause! my biggest fear is dying while the kids are still young. i can't leave my babies. pudd'n already has enough issues she's working thru, i think she'd really snap. twiggi is borderline nutso. bambam is oblivious, and i'm starting to be thankful for it in certain situations. tatertot might recover well since she's so young, but o gosh, i don't want to think about it.

in lighter news....twiggi and bambam were cough-free all nite so i didn't have to take them to the pedi at 8a for asthma checks and orapred.

i really need to be shampooing my hair, but after moving all the furniture the other day, i'm sooo sore and i think my right flank is swollen. not a good feeling.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Finally!

I'm finally jumping on the bandwagon, and for once in my life, I don't have anything to say!

OK, here's the deal, i do not use capitalization, so this is about the only post where it'll be used.

yep, that's about it.

that was interesting.