19 week belly shot

Here's a belly shot for week 19 - plus all the ones from my birthday post was 18 wks 6 days so I didn't really take any new ones with a particular shirt or anything. Each week that passes by I'm getting more and more lopsided - it's quite funny to watch. I'll have to take a picture like the one above from two different sides and the differece is huge. It cracks my husband up when he sees it - he thinks in a few more weeks I'm going to start walking lopsided or off balance as little girl Spot gets bigger. Sara the pregnant girl with the lopsided uterus and belly...that would make a good circus attraction at least, LOL!

I just realized that this is my third post is three days, wow you would think that I had something really exciting to say - but I don't and I think I must be bored. So thank you for bearing with me.

On a more exciting note: it's Farah's birthday! I hope she's having a great one, and getting lots of nice presents - or at least some rest.
Also my girl Tracy had some excitement up in L & D last night with the twins and had to get some of that nasty terbutaline - so go give her good thoughts for a more quiet evening tonight. Excitement is great - but not that type of excitement.

Most of the day I spent trying to track down a local compounding pharmacy in my area to continue to handle my p17 shots - especially since now I will be getting them more frequently. Most pharmacies in our area that used to help prepare them, like the one at our hospital, have consolidated into this one huge pharmacy nearby. So basically for a metro area of 5 million people there is one compounding pharmacy that does p17 shots. You can get them through mail order pharmacies like the one I used for several of my IVF drugs, but this one nearby that I am dealing with is much cheaper - surprisingly. Insurance companies have you pay out of pocket for most things compounded (including this) and then have you reimbursed. Sometimes you are not reimbursed for p17 shots from you insurance company if you have not had a previous second trimester loss or delivered a child prematurely before. Hmmmmm - kind of doesn't make sense to me, but I have known this for a few weeks now. I kind of felt like I was going through infertility treatments or an IVF cycle again with all the drug shopping through pharmacies and phone calling. Guess all that infertility training is good for something!

While I was phone calling around, I noticed that most of what was on the TV today either centered around the massive GM restructuring stuff due to the recent drop in their stock price and other things, or else the president was on talking about the economy, or the big drop in the stock market. I didn't really find any of this uplifting - especially with an engineer husband in the auto industry - so I opted for catching up on Weeds from last night and a Rachael Ray 30 minute meal episode I DVRed last week that looked good. I'm not a die hard Rachael Ray fan, but that particular food looked good. My only problem with 30 minute meals is that although there are a lot of great recipes - I have never in my life made one of those featured actually in 30 minutes. It's always like 45 if I'm groovin along at a good speed. Anyone else find that to be true? Maybe I'm a slow poke cook.

About half way through my day the phone rang and I noticed it showed up on caller ID as coming from the hospital that I work at. When I answered it was one of my friends from work (another CRNA) calling to say hi. She said she had something I might like to hear - I could tell that she was in the middle of one of the cases in the OR. Soon I heard a familiar bleep bleep bleep. It was the noise of our anesthesia machine and monitors and it was music to my ears! Now I know I'm strange and all - but so are most other CRNAs....because anyone who has been off of work for awhile actually starts to miss that sound. I may complain about work from time to time, but in reality I love almost everything about my job and miss it terribly. And that noise is one thing I miss. During a long case it is like this rhythmic background noise that can almost lull you into this peaceful state of mind. You get doing your job and an hour can fly by before you know it. So that was a really nice surprise to get today (even if you think we're all a little strange!)

Tonight Big Broth.er is on - whooo hoo! I definitely like several of the new members of this season's cast. I'm hoping that they explore the personalities of some of the female contestants a little bit more - the first episode last Sunday was mostly preoccupied by the male cast members and one outspoken female. Can you tell my life pretty much revolves around TV and food these days? I do read ocassionally :-) I have noticed outside of my couch potato bubble though, that something very strange is going on at gas stations lately. Not that I'm out and about much these days - but what is up with charging different prices for the same grade of gas if you use a credit card vs cash? Is this going on everywhere around the country, or just here in MI? Gas prices should be the same no matter how you pay for them, right? But if I'm missing something - someone please explain it to me so I can be clued in. I'm always open to learning new things.

I'm still contracting on and off - but all in all I have to say things are a little quieter. Little girl Spot probably enjoys not feeling like I gave her a home on the San Andres Fault line. Tomorrow I stop in at the office again to get another shot in the bottom and to touch base with my OB. Well, enough ramblings from my mushy brain. I hope everyone is having a great week and enjoys their "hump day" tomorrow. Hehe...I said hump day again and now I can't stop giggling!