Thursday, March 29, 2012

22 & 23 Weeks

Missed another week, oops!  It was pretty uneventful.  Jelly Bean's movements have scooted higher so I can see them now and occasionally I can see her knee as she rolls over.  It's been fun!  Monday I go in for my 24 week appointment and hopefully all is still fine.  I have some tired days and some heartburn, but otherwise I'm feeling pretty good now that I'm solidly into the second trimester.  I think my weight has jumped up a bit though... probably up about 12 pounds total now according to my scale at home but we'll see what Dr. B's scale says on Monday and whether she's upset with me!  I can say that I've had a bit of a sweet tooth but I've been trying to keep it under control. 

The other factor could be stress.  About once a week I have a meltdown about money and whether I should change jobs or not and all that.  I did have an interview for a full-time position at a veterinary office in Edgemont, about 25 minutes from home, which would've been a good job but they didn't offer it to me.  I decided that was okay, since I'll be taking maternity leave and will probably have trouble keeping up with a full-time job in the next town while breastfeeding a newborn.  If they had offered it to me, I might not have taken it anyway because of that.  Right now, it's hard enough taking care of B and myself and getting everything done that we need to do, plus helping Mom out while she has a marathon cold/asthma/bronchitis thing that happens to her annually.  I don't think I physically could work away from home more than I already am, considering how much I need to sleep on the days I'm not working.

B saw his surgeon on Tuesday and they decided it was time to do a referral for more surgery.  The drain should've cleared it up by now, but there's a hard clod in there that just isn't breaking up the way it should and they can't put a big enough tube in there to pull the bigger chunks out.  Dr. G is in the process of getting the referral paperwork together, but the doctor he was going to refer us to works out of a clinic in Denver that has no financial aid program and would require payment at the time of service.  No matter what kind of cash patient discount they would give, we wouldn't be able to cough up enough that day to cover a surgery like this.  This whole thing has stretched my parents pretty thin too so I've been trying to get ahold of Dr. G to get him to refer B to someone at a hospital that has a charity program of some sort so we can handle this.  No calls back yet of course, so Mom's busy researching every liver specialist from here to Minneapolis.

Mom's church is going to be selling cinnamon rolls at the local home & garden "Spring Fling" at the civic center here for our fundraiser.  That should help us catch up with living expenses a little bit, at least. :) In the meantime, I've decided to start spreading the word about my indiegogo campaign so that after the financial aid paperwork goes through we might be able to pay off the other clinics and avoid bankruptcy.  It's a shot in the dark to hope that enough strangers will contribute to keep us from having to file bankruptcy, but it's not the end of the world if we do.  It will be on B's credit alone since we're not married yet, so if we didn't get enough from the campaign to pay everyone off he'll file and we'll wait to have the wedding until he's through the process.  He has no credit to ruin, but I've been working hard for years to build and maintain mine so hopefully we can keep it away from my credit and we'll still have a chance of being able to get car or home loans when we need them.

I belong to an online group of other moms due in July and these ladies are amazing!  They sneakily chipped in together and ordered the infant carrier/carseat/stroller system I registered for on amazon.com!  I cried when I found out, that was so sweet of them to help us out with one of our big purchases! It's incredibly humbling when people step up like that.  I can't express my gratitude enough!

Hopefully I can keep my emotions under control a little better for the rest of the week.  Any bets? Ha!

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