Bad News, then Good News!

June 30, 2016

First of all, today is Julie's half birthday, she's 18 months old or 1 and a half years old. I feel so bad that feeling crappy has made me put off doing her 18 month photos, but soon soon, I'm going to get to it. Or try, since she's not too compliant with my camera anymore!

The bad news this week was that poor Jules had to get a procedure done at the Children's Hospital downtown to make sure wasn't having reflux in her urinary tract. It was so sad. Kara went with me as Mike was out of town for work. She had to be strapped down, which made her mad right away. And I had to leave the room because it was an X-ray situation and I'm pregnant. I could hear her screaming and I couldn't do anything. The poor thing. She had to have a catheter placed. Kara snuggled her as much as she could while it was going on, and surprisingly, by the time it was done and I could come back in. She was sitting up, fairly calmly and acting like "no big deal." She is such a good girl. For being a good girl during that mess, she got a stuffed sloth (dubbed Ping Pong) and some ice cream after lunch. You'd never know she had anything happen.

Good news, the doctor called later that day to tell me that the X-rays look normal. That doesn't explain the water on her kidneys from the last two ultrasounds, but HOPEFULLY that just means the issue corrected itself, as Kara said often happens. I hope so. I don't want her to have to go through any of that again.

But the REAL good news I got on Tuesday is that Angie is pregnant again! She was having irregular periods since after Ellie and though they were not preventing, she didn't suspect they'd have any luck with a new baby until after she got that figured out. But she's pregnant! The found out just a little while ago and after an ultrasound, it looks like she's about 7 weeks along... that's 2 behind me! Oh my gosh, I'm so excited! I know it's early for both of us and I need to realize that things can happen, but if we are due at the same time... it's so awesome. She'll have to have another c-section that should be scheduled. I hopefully can deliver whenever labor starts... it'll be a race to see who gets to have their baby first!

I'm so geeked.... lots of prayers everything goes well for both of us. Now maybe Kristin will catch another one soon! :D