Struggling...but surviving.

The last three weeks have been really rough for Mommy McCoy. It began early this pregnancy, at 5 weeks 5 days. Almost every day I spend a few hours with my head over the toilet. Oh the joy of baby making!

Besides my baby making skills, we have had a little scare with Noah. He contracted RSV, a virus that attacks the bronchioles and other parts of the airway. It is contracted usually by being around someone with a cold...as it causes a head cold in adults. Noah came down with Bronchiolitis and had to have breathing treatments to open his airways. Honestly, there was one bad day when he had problems breathing and we had to rush him to the Doctor. But with the breathing treatments he was acting normal by the very nest day. So the hardest part wasn't actually his sickness, it was giving him the treatments. The first two he fought with all his strength, he screamed, cried, shook, squirmed...etc. But by the third treatment, he gave up. It was almost worse seeing him lay there limp. He just didn't want to fight anymore. Each treatment got better and now he even holds the mask himself.

Today is the third day of fighting a migraine. I have refused to take Vicodin or Maxalt, though I am almost giving in. It is so hard to juggle my sanity, the risks to the baby, caring for Noah and taking REALLY good care of my loving husband. I don't see how I can put any of those things before the other. So it is a daily struggle to find ways to make everyone happy, spare my feelings for theirs, to take even one of my pre-natal vitamins, and fight for just a few hours of freedom from nausia and vamiting. Eveyone has given me suggestions, but nothing has really worked. Reglan gives me headaches, Zofran works "sometimes" and all the side effects (thankfully for me and none to the baby) are almost as hard to deal with as the symptoms. 

I guess my point in writing this is so that eveyone knows why I havn't been posting recently, to vent a little, and to ask for your prayers. I know GOD is GOOD. I know God is GOOD...ALL the time. Sometimes it is hard to see him in all this. But I know GOD hears and answers prayer so please pray the sickness goes away soon and doesn't last the entire pregnancy! PLEASE!

On a positive note, the GOOD days bring such joy and I try to have fun as often as I feel capeable. My friends Lisa and Courtney took our kids to Disneyland last Wednesday. It was such a great day with no crowds and lots of fun to be had. We'd never gone to the petting zoo before and the kids really liked it!

 

  

  

  

If you ever wondered what happens to the Thanksgiving Day Turkey that the President pardons each year...

 

...that Turkey goes to the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!