2.12.2010

Fast Approaching

The end of Logan's paternity leave is coming full speed ahead like a runaway train coming at my face. I am so nervous and full of dread. The girls are still "adjusting" to having a new baby in the house. Their "adjustment" style seems to be running around on hyper-adrenaline, being consistently unreasonable and demanding, as well as being completely un-disciplinable. (take away the toy? Don't care! Stick them in time-out? Don't care! They just sit there laughing about being naughty!) It's frustrating as all get out.

Add to this the fact that this recovery is so much worse than when I had the twins. (I was entirely unprepared for this one- Mom jinxed it by saying "You know, you are three years older!" Way to make me feel ancient, Mom) I don't know why my body isn't bouncing back. It's just refusing to. After the doctor ripped (yes, ripped) the steri-strips (tape holding my skin together) off, I cried for about two hours. I'm still in pain- 2 days later. And suffering from some type of random allergic reaction from the adhesive. Great. Why can't I just get better?!

Aaaaand... the baby refuses to just lay there and watch the world go by. He demands to be held most of the day. So I decided to indulge in some retail therapy and bought a sling... this sling:
I am picturing myself beslung with a newborn, wrangling two toddlers, hunched over in pain from the surgery, cursing the husband for leaving me alone. (He promised this would not be the apocalypse! He promised!)

Anyway, not a pretty picture. Please just shoot me now. I think I might need to get online and buy more stuff. Amazon, here I come!

(It probably won't be so terribly bad, but the drama and the scariness is just overwhelming when Monday is looming over all our heads!)

5 comments:

  1. My skin literally blistered and peeled off from the tape (I hope you weren't eating) Dr. told me to get Benedryl cream. It really helped. You will be into a routine before you know it- just treasure the time Logan is home while you can.:-)

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  2. Lucky, I have been thrown in full swing already...Nathan ventured back to work this week. Told me he would be home early (5 o'clockish) I haven't seen him before 7 all week. (oh wait, except for when he came home to take me to the Dr. because I was told I could drive until that appt) which was Wed. all I can say is 1. sorry recovery is harder this time round. I didn't have steri-strips just dissolving sutures and glue. LOL! But also I can say all three of my kids are also majorly hyperactive since Sophia's birth (I'm still wondering when it will wear off). I will also tell you it is getting easier as I establish a routine..

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  3. that should have been could not drive until after that appt.

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  4. Slings are all the rage here! I've been told they're life savers!

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  5. I feel for you....I had some skin samples taken a few years ago becuase melanoma runs in my family and the doctor covered all the samples with that type of tape. When it came time to tale the tape off I had huge blisters and welts all across my back...I'm severely allergic to that tape. I used the benedryl creme too and it helped tons! I now have a phobia of anythings that sticks to skin; i.e. stickers, bandaids, etc. ....LOL!

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