Baby Jeffery

Concern from Far Away

For those of you that follow my blog and or know me well, you are aware that my mom is very sick. Back in August was when it all got serious. She started to loose weight rapidly, she lost her appetite and could barely keep anything down. They did test after test trying to figure out what was wrong. Then in October, things got really bad. Mom landed herself in the hospital for the first time. They conducted exploritory surgery and found NOTHING. THey ran some other tests and they did some other procedures and still nothing. Over the course of the next 2 months Mom spent time back and forth in the hospital and home on bed rest. Her last stint in the hospital was just before Thanksgiving. We thought maybe things were going to start to get better, although we still had no answers to what was cauing all the problems in the first place. Then, early this month they conducted an LP test on her and she took a turn downwards. She was eating less and less until finally she was not eating at all, because she could not keep anything down. As a result last night the doctor put her back into the hospital. He was going to evaluate her and decide what to do. They decided that they would use a feeding tube to get nutrition into her. The rest of the story I am a not sure of other than the text message I got from her which basically said that at some point today she had collapsed, while still in the hospital, and so her doctor had order her to bed confinment with medication and tubes in her nose. As a daughter who has always been very very close to her mother this whole situation is very scary. I think that it is even more scary right now because I am so far away and I cannot go see her and make sure that she is as comfortable as possible. It has always been my job to make sure that Mommy was taken care of, since she took care of everyone else. Granted Dad helped but still I always thought that I had to take care of Mom and now I cannot. I know that I have to take care of my wonderful, caring, super considerate and wonderful at taking care of me Husband, my dauster who I love always despite her toddler temper and her desire to be super independent and the new baby that is growing inside of me, but I cannot help but still want to take care of Mom.

My biggest request are that everyone keep my Mom in your thoughts and prayers that the Doctors may finally be able to solve the mystery and that she will begin to feel better.

Second, pray for me. I do not know if it is because of how long this has gone on or if it is the distance and the fact that I cannot be closer to Her or if it is the hormones from my pregnancy but I am having a REALLY hard time with this situation this time. All the other times she was back and forth in the hospital I was ok. I was worried and of course wished I could be there to help but I was ok with it and I knew that everyone was there for her and they kept me informed about everything. This time I am really struggling withit. I am emotional and scared and just plain upset about the whole thing. The hardest part of course is trying to keep my cool and stay calm so I do not cause any stress on the baby.

Last, pray for my poor husband. He has to put up withthis emotional pregnant walkign disaster.

I will keep you all updated as much as I can. Thank You for your thoughts, prayers and support!!!

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Negative What?

Ok...so the past 2 1/2 weeks since we got back to Washington after our trip to California for Christmas, we expected lots of snow, that is not what we got. We got fog, chilly temps, ice, and a little sunshine. No SNOW!!!! It has been kind of nice because the town and University were able to clear many snow drifts that were large and blocking other things, everything was able to melt down and looked a lot like it did in the fall. Then this last weekend we got hit with some snow. Very Little, but snow none the less. It didn't really bother anyone and the maintenance people were very good about being on top of the roads. They were plowing and graveling right away so there were never any issues with roads or parking lots. It was great. It has been in the low 20's most of the weekend. Nt varing too much. Then this morning, Garratt went out to brush off the car and start warming it up so we could take Faith to daycare and me to work. He left me inside with Faith finishing getting ready and he came in and announced that is was"REALLY CHILY." Now, you have to know my husband well to understand that it has to be PRETTY COLD for him to say it's cold. So we got all bundled up, loaded into the car and headed for daycare. I assumed that it was in the low teens maybe into single digits, because it was pretty chilly but didn't seem too bad to me and that is saying something, but I think that my hormones have my whole body temperature off anywho. So, on the way to daycare we pass the Bank of Whitman, which has a large sign that rotates different announcements and includes the time and temperature, as we passed it this morning it read... -9 ... yes people you read that right...negative 9 degrees...that is the coldest we have gotten, so far...OMG...that is COLD. Oddly though it is REALLY COLD...it doesn't seem like it is THAT cold. WHY?? I have no Freakin' clue. I wish I had an answer, I swear I should be a popsicle...but I am not. I guess that as it has gotten colder over time I have adjusted to it rather well, and that my blood is thickening as a result. I guess you just become acclimatted when you have to.

Baby Update

So today Garratt and I went and had our first baby exam and ultra sound. It was really exciting. We got to see our little grain of rice. The heart rate was 150...yeah....and we could see the baby a bit. We determinded that I am 7 weeks along and doing very well. I will post the pictures from the ultra sound as soon as I get them scanned.

There you have it a new baby on the way and fully verified!!!

No More Lemonade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is this old saying "When Life throws you lemons, make lemonade." Well, I have just one thing to say to that...I AM SICK OF LEMONADE!!! I am done!! NO MORE!!! I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE!!!

This all because of some stuff that happened at work today that puts us in a VERY difficult situation.

I will explain another time...for now PLEASE PRAY for our Family.

For those who do not know!

For those of you we didn't get to see while we were in California I am sorry. It was a busy and chaotic, but fun visit. We tried to see as many people as we could but I just couldn't get to everyone. Again, I am sorry.

So, for those of you that We didn't see...if you have not heard form others....I am PREGNANT!! I am, just over 6 weeks along and in the yucky morning sickness stage. We will be finding out what the baby is...sometime around April. My due date at this point is August 29th. We have not yet had this officially confirmed, we will be doing an ultra sound soon to confirm the due date. So, we will be adding a new bundle of fun to our family at the end of the summer.

A Snowy Return

Hello Everyone! Well we have made it back to Washington safe and sound...barely!! We got hit with a yucky storm just after we got home yesterday, We got into Pullman, unloaded, headed to the grocery store and made it back before the storm hit. It was like a "rian downpour" only instead of rain it was snow. YUCKY!!! They decided to have the University on "normal" operation which was a pain because it was so snowy and almost unsafe. Oh, well, our parking lot was REALLY bad again so Garratt decided to keep Faith home with him and I got bundled up and made the snowy treck into work on foot. I could not get the car out if I wanted to...there was like 11/2 feet of snow...I was wet and cold by the time I got to work but I made it. I will be staying here for lunch...I am not going to try and walk back home and then walk back to work. Then I will carefully make my way back home after work. Carefully being the key.