Rae October 26th, 2007
I have had time this morning to add a few more photos to these folders; Chelsea, Vincent, Brittany, Rae, and The Cute Couple. You will have to scroll down to the bottom of each folder to see the new ones. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Here are two of my favorites:
This one was taken by Chuck. Grandma Esther took the older grandkids to visit the local fire station on open house day.
Then this next one is a good view of Chelsea’s stork bite. Who needs a mood ring when you have a stork bite that gets redder the madder you get. The doctor says it will fade in time. Chuck thinks it would be great if all women came with a stork bite to make it easier for men to know when to back away.
Rae October 25th, 2007
I can honestly say recovery from this birth has been hard. 80% of that is having to deal with a 2 year old that doesn’t understand or rather understands too well that mommy can’t do much. The other 20% is the fact that I don’t know how to just relax and recover. I wanted my body back yesterday .. not a few months from now .. or a year. I keep comparing this recovery to the others, but have to remember that each had special situations surrounding them. I did get brave today and took my stickers (steri strips) off my incision. We will see if I hold together. It is tender even with out anything touching it. I wish I could relax in the buff with some heavy pain meds. Yet I need my sanity and the kids wouldn’t let me be for more then a min.
Rae October 23rd, 2007
Dance .. That is what I am going to do! I might feel like worn out poo. I might be slightly sad with baby blues. I might be stressed out because of bills. But when I press play and hear songs like Dance Dance it is almost impossible to stop my body from moving and shaking. No it’s not convulsions from brain damage. It is the best mood changing power on earth. Ever wonder why Ellen Degeneres is so popular.. well besides all the wonderful guests she has on her show.. it is the fact that she can let go and Dance.
So turn some music on and join me in a mood changing Dance. Don’t look at me that way .. just Dance.
Rae October 22nd, 2007
Chuck and I are sick. We started coming down with colds on Tuesday of last week. Over the weekend the gunk hit and we both felt like a truck hit us. Today Chuck called the doctor’s office to see about us getting in for some meds. Well our doctor is out this morning so the lady said she would put a note on our records that we need to be seen. Either they will get us in or call in a prescription for meds. Our children are starting to show signs of the same yuck. Only issue is that the state is still holding our insurance in a pending status. It has been one hard road trying to keep the kids covered under state health insurance. Something happened right as Mr. Bush’s brother Jeb was leaving office. The medicaid system was animated and regionalized. The whole thing has tossed a wrench in a system that was already only working half sideways.
I was on medicaid for Vincent’s pregnancy and now 2 years later I am on again for Chelsea’s birth. So why is it pending for the kids .. Well we re-applied for the kids after I had received the approved notice for pregnancy coverage. We had tried to keep them in the program and filled out all the paper work before their coverage was dropped. Yet again the system messed up and we fell through the cracks. So I waited until I was covered because I didn’t want to mess that up. I applied for them through the online service and guess what.. Now Chelsea doesn’t even have the coverage that is promised under my coverage. She was lumped in with our other two kids and a big fat Pending sits on our case. We have turned in everything and jumped through all the hoops that were sent our way.
What is bad is the fact that our kids might not get to go to their doctor’s because pending doesn’t cover bills .. pending doesn’t guarantee them medicine. Shoot I don’t even know if I am still covered or if it is messing up my coverage as well. Thanks Jeb Bush .. I see where your brother George gets the idea that we don’t need to help low income families get health insurance. George feels it is more important to buy bombs instead of taking care of people .. let’s blow them up. Ok I know I am getting into another soup box all together .. I just hate the fact that we get penalized for wanting one parent to stay home with the kids. If I would go back to work then we could afford health coverage. One last thought .. I believe women have the right to work but we should also have the right to take care of our kids.
*grabs the tissue box and heads back to the couch for another round of what’s on the tube*
Rae October 17th, 2007
This past two weeks has been a time of adjustment for us all. The kids are really enjoying having a new sister to play with. There have been toddler times that I will write about later. I am just glad to be home and enjoying my family.
Chelsea is a very easy baby. She weighed 8lbs 4 ounces when we left the hospital. Yesterday I took her to see the doctor for a 2 week check up. She weighed 8lbs 12 ounces. That shows us that she is getting enough breast milk. She has cleared up any jaundice that she had. Also her sugar issues are completely gone. All her newborn tests came back normal as well. The only thing the poor babe is dealing with is clogged tear ducts. I am having to put drops in her eyes three times a day to keep infection down. It is just an icky situation.
I saw my doctor last week to get my staples removed. The nurse had the doctor look at my wound because it was weeping in the middle. The doctor noted it but told the nurse to go ahead and put steri strips on. So I have stickers holding my belly together. Only problem is that the weeping has now turned cloudy and I worry about infection. Chuck and I are going to clean the wound with sterile water and re-do the steri strips so that more air can get to that area. We will then re-evaluate it tomorrow. Worse case I will be going back to the doctor’s on Friday. I would be going this moment but I am not running a fever so I hope that it isn’t worth worrying over. So for now we are taking time to recover and rest. I must add this is very hard with a 2 year old that doesn’t know the meaning of inside voice.
