Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Laundry

Dear Husband

It is not considered participation in household chores when you only wash your laundry.


Management

Ming Dynasty







We took G3 to the Art Museum to see the Ming Dynasty exhibit. He picked out a dragon at the gift shop. We read all the articles on the wall. When we were finished we used the museum book. We sat down in one of the halls and looked at the pictures in the book. After about 10 minutes I had a group of children sitting around me. They must have thought I worked for the museum.

G3 and the bear 7 months




Saturday, March 28, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009

Vacant uteri need not apply...

I have been feeling a little disgruntled lately with my doc. I suffer from endometriosis and have been experiencing extreme pain. Pain that makes you throw up. Pain that makes you sweat. Pain that makes you not eat. Pain that will not let you sleep. I have let the doc know this on several occasions and at multiple appointments. He gives me a script for ibuprofen. This is all nice, but it does not work. I asked him for something stronger. You would have thought I had two heads. He could not possibly prescribe a Narcotic. He must first do surgery and then we could talk about pain medicine. I understand that we need to know what we are treating. What am I suppose to do in the mean time? This leads me to have some other questions. Questions of why some docs are quick to prescribe meds without hesitation and without expertise.

During my pregnancy I was on a hormonal roller coaster. I called the nurse and told her that I felt " overwhelmed with emotion." She told me that she would speak to the doc. I received a phone call that they called in an anti depressant for me. The doc did not see me, speak to me or evaluate me. He felt comfortable enough to prescribe an antidepressant to a woman in a vulnerable state. Did he know that I wasn't suicidal? I did not fill the script. I just needed someone to tell me that it was normal to feel the way I was feeling. I talked to one of my friends and had a bowl of ice cream. All was good.

My second point relates to the Octomom. Why does it seem that anyone can get fertility drugs and treatment without having a psych eval? My doc and others are very quick to prescribe fertility meds.

Lets recap for all my sleep deprived sisters out there. Medical docs will freely give antidepressants and fertility drugs like candy to anyone who requests them. So we have all these depressed infertile women walking around jacked up on Lexapro and Clomid. This gives a " happy" and " full to capacity" uterus. But if you want a vacant uterus, it must be sad and full of pain. In other words vacant uteri need not apply.


That is all. Carry on!

The exersaucer

I Love the exersaucer!
Who stinks?
Daddy I have a present for you!


Why is it that every time G3 uses the exersaucer it has a laxative effect? He is always so happy in the exersaucer for the first 15 minutes. After the 15 minutes of entertainment.... we have a code brown.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Get out your highchair and jump around!

G3 is moving. It is hard to keep him still. He gets so frustrated that he can't just go where he wants. I think we are in big trouble when he starts moving independently.