I’ve been thinking about what happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. First off, FUCK THE POLICE that stood around and did nothing. I hope the shame of what they did (not do) crawls across their skin and into their mouths and chokes them. But I know some of them are fathers and their…
Home Selling – Realtors and iBuyers
It’s time to move to a better school district. I interviewed SO MANY realtors. And they are all the same, at the end of the day. They have a 5% service charge, a professional photographer takes great photos, someone plugs info into the MLS, someone populates form fields on contract templates, and the vast interwebs…
My Friend
My friend, I let our friendship lapse. So I am more of an acquaintance, that you might run into and say I remember you. Except I won’t run into you. There’s no time left. I will forever remember your friendship, that you offered me, when my friends are always few. Your smile, your laugh. Your…
Breast Abscess
I didn’t know how to spell “abscess” before I got one in my boob. Something like 40% of women breastfeed for at least three months. 10-20% of women get mastitis. 3% of those get an abscess. So, overall, I figure there was less than a 1% chance I would have one, and, yet, here I…
36 week ultrasound
Baby is head down, heart rate 140, measuring about a week ahead (fundal height), and estimated to weigh seven pounds. The “weighing” process is incredibly inexact, though. The doctor kind of scooped my belly and guessed. (I’m doubting more and more that the medical profession is thoroughly rooted in science.) I had been hoping for…
32 week appointment
The 32 week appointment happened at 33 weeks. The doctor walked in and said, “Wow! You are super pregnant!” I’m pretty sure that’s not standard office visit commentary. At least not something that’s said to the patient. I still like her, though. I got measured and heard the heartbeat and scheduled the next (36 week)…
28 week appointment
Everyone (strangers, acquaintances, friends) seems to think I’m ready to pop, but I have three months left. I asked at my 28 week appointment and the doctor says I’m measuring exactly on schedule. The 20 pounds I’ve gained are pretty much all belly. I started counting kicks yesterday when I got the kick count card…
20 week ultrasound
I had the anatomy scan, level II ultrasound, anomaly scan (it seems to have a number of names) last Thursday. The ultrasound/radiology tech narrated a bit as she went along – things like there’s the heart and its four chambers, the umbilical cord has three blood vessels – which was a bit reassuring. I had…
16 week appointment
Notice the title is not ultrasound. I feel like the appointment was a trick. They checked the heart rate and sent me for a quad screen, the results of which I have to wait for the State of California to send in the mail. No ultrasound. No measurements. I could have bought a Doppler at…
Have tears, not hungry
I get choked up over almost everything. Think about the fact that I’m pregnant? Read a story about how someone helped someone else out? Try to tell said story to the hubby? Listen to a sentimental passage in an audiobook? Watch one of those gooey holiday commercials? My eyes get big and I look away…