Learning Together with Love

On March 19th, I was in a panic. I’d had the flu for almost a week, with horrible night sweats, fevers off and on and horrible coughing. The worst thing about it was that my pregnancy symptoms had disappeared. Our OB agreed to meet with me if for nothing more than my mental health (her words.) Hubby drove me to the doctor and she performed a sonogram. We had thought I was 12 weeks pregnant, and this concerned her a great deal. She told us that if I was 12 weeks pregnant, she would guarantee I was going to miscarry – the fetus was only the size of a 6…

On March 22, I went in to the hospital to determine if my flu was simply kicking my rump or if my pregnancy-loss was causing health problems. (My insurance didn’t want a potential emergency like me going to a regular clinic…) The doctor assured me I wasn’t “septic” (what a word) and that I just had the major flu that is going around. They did my bloodwork -the second of two sets – to confirm my hormone levels were dropping – and they loaded me on meds to combat the flu. Lo and behold, my symptoms returned. I’ll spare you the details, but I knew what the symptoms were. Most…

The hubby and I have been trying to get our ducks in a row this year. We started off right… we paid off our debts & started saving for a down payment for a house. I started packing everything, thinking the home-buying process would be instantaneous or something – ha ha ha. We even almost adopted a second dog, but it turned out she doesn’t like children. We finally agreed we’d get a house, get settled, travel a bit, and in a few years try for kiddos again – or adopt – either way we weren’t going to make any more big decisions for a while. Then two of the…