I guess I just don't want people to fret, but hey, that's not why I'm writing this blog... it's my record of my life and that of my family.
first thing not mentioned...
I took my gestational diabetes test and failed. not miserably, but enough to be a fail and be diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I am now monitoring my blood sugar before and after every meal and it's been pretty well controlled anyway, but I now have the expense of diabetes monitoring supplies (which insurance isn't covering most of) and the extra expense of a diabetes specialist at the clinic.
when it gets really hot out and my body is extra stressed because of that, my blood sugar is a little bit high, but nothing that my doctor has been worried about. in fact they figure that once Summer is done and my nausea from being morning sick is completely gone it is likely that I will not really be classified as gestationaly diabetic anymore.
We have decided that we live in the swirly of life. yep a swirly, where you get your head shoved in a toilet and then it's flushed.
Tim's hours had been cut to 36 a week for a while because they just didn't have much work coming in. it has been a big stresser
and we have been dipping into the savings account to make sure everything is taken care of. a few of the things we've had to dip into the savings for are
- Tim's car needed new tires
- the water heater thermal couple has gone out on the water heater but our water heater has to be special and needs a very specific part to fix the thermal couple... we can't just go buy an $8 piece and get it over with... no, it has to be a $50 part and it HAS to be ordered online because there is not one single place in all of our area that has the part. We're still waiting for that part to finally ship and it should and better be here this week.
- the refrigerator kind of died. it stopped cooling properly and we had to throw a LOT of food away. it makes me ill thinking of how much that food was worth. but the repair guy came (it died on a Saturday morning and the repair guy was closed until Monday) and got it working temporarily. we are waiting on him to come again today with the part that he had to order last week and finally get it put in so we don't have this problem again in the near future.
- the next freak out moment was the Tuesday morning after our fridge died, Tim went out to go to work and he had a Seriously flat tire. yep one of his NEW ones. What the heck! so he put the spare on, flung the blown tire into the back of the van and went to work. after work he stopped at the tire place that he bought the tires and they did fix it for free so Tim is sure that it was a problem that they had caused because they didn't want to talk to him about it after they had fixed it. I'm sure they were embarrassed.
- and if that wasn't enough... the van died on the side of the road just the other night. Tim ended up taking Friday (all of it) to get it fixed. new battery and that didn't do anything. so we had to track down a fuse for the alternator. again, not a single place in town has the correct part. then he couldn't get the fuse out because he needed the right tool and it was a nightmare. he eventually got the right tool and got the part out and in the end he had to make due with the very generic fuse that we had found but doesn't fit properly under the casing.
and this isn't all of the horrible week and a half that we have had.
so now the question is what did I do so evil to deserve such punishment. because I can deal with one thing went wrong this summer but to have EVERYTHING crap out on us in less than a month!!! this isn't a life lesson from God, this is a punishment because now our savings account that is meant to get us a nice house and out of this dump is almost gone and I will have to start all over again.
more than a little discouraging.
but we did have our ultrasound and though we didn't get very good images because I have an anterior placenta, my OB says that everything is looking good. We found out the baby's sex, but we're not telling. because even though we saw (sort of) I still feel like the ultrasound could be wrong. plus the moment we tell, somehow that will make people think they get to give us some input on what to name our baby. (our baby, we pick a name whether you like it or not)
and despite my GD diagnosis I currently don't have to have extra appointments at the clinic (yet) and though I am considered High Risk because I am old and fat and have GD I am not so high risk that I have to be monitored weekly at this point and it's looking like the rest of my pregnancy is going to be just like any other pregnancy.
but we did have our ultrasound and though we didn't get very good images because I have an anterior placenta, my OB says that everything is looking good. We found out the baby's sex, but we're not telling. because even though we saw (sort of) I still feel like the ultrasound could be wrong. plus the moment we tell, somehow that will make people think they get to give us some input on what to name our baby. (our baby, we pick a name whether you like it or not)
and despite my GD diagnosis I currently don't have to have extra appointments at the clinic (yet) and though I am considered High Risk because I am old and fat and have GD I am not so high risk that I have to be monitored weekly at this point and it's looking like the rest of my pregnancy is going to be just like any other pregnancy.
one tender mercy
1 comment:
I'm so sorry that everything seemed to go wrong at once. I understand and feel for you! The air conditioning went out on Aaron's car, which normally wouldn't have been too big of a deal except he regularly travels to the cities for work and goes to the stake center at least twice a month, and to Fairmont twice a month, and in Minnesota during the summer he really needs to have air conditioning for all that travel. Anyway, it turns out that since his car is 19 years old it has the old AC refrigerant, which they don't make anymore, so we had to have the AC retrofitted for the new refrigerant. Then he needed four new tires. Then the side door on our van wouldn't work so we had to have the harness replaced, and the brakes checked out, and both vehicles needed oil changes. All in all we ended up spending $1164 on car repairs in a three day period. Our dryer is about to die, too, and it will cost more to fix it then it's worth. When things go wrong it always seems to go wrong all at once! PLEASE, remember that God doesn't punish. Who knows why this is all going wrong at once and it's put a HUGE dent in your savings, but Heavenly Father doesn't punish us. He loves you!!! And He's helping you with that sweet baby. Things could be much worse there but instead you're doing well considering the GD diagnosis! And, I'm here if you ever need to vent. Just call, email or FB me. I'm a good listener!
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