What a Week!

I have always been a little dramatic! Drama found me a lot in high school, but it seemed to have calmed down the older I got until.... I got pregnant! As I have stated before throughout my pregnancy there was drama, my delivery was drama, and now after delivery we have more drama! Yesterday, about 2:00 pm, my incision from my c-section started to bleed, and we're not talking drops, we're talking loads. So, I had to go back to the doctor where she drained it out and packed it. There was a blood clot that she had to drain out and an infection had set in. I was again running a fever. I hadn't taken pain medicine since 9 am so it was very uncomfortable. She explained that a c-section heals from the inside out and the part that is holding everything in has sealed up fine, but the top had gotten an infection and you have to pack it to keep the top part from healing over and leaving a big opening in the middle that could collect blood until it busted open and bled out! About 10% of c-sections have some type of complication and as my dad says if there's a chance of something happening...it will happen to us! So home health care is coming in twice a day to pack it until Robert feels comfortable doing it. Then they will just come and check on us. It could heal anywhere from 10 days to 4 weeks. Needless, to say my husband is taking off another week to stay home with me because I can't drive as long as I am on pain meds and I have to take those to handle the pain of the packing.

The doctor asked yesterday if the reward was worth it and I said oh yeah! I wouldn't trade Garrett for the world! He is so precious! Every time I look at him, I just love him more! For someone who really wanted a girl, I wouldn't trade my baby boy for the world! He went to the peditrician on Wednesday and they said he was perfect and he weighed 7 lbs. 14 ozs. ( a 5 oz. gain from when he was born).

My step-mom joked in the waiting room when I went back for the c-section that she wondered if I was telling them to just go ahead and tie my tubes. I said no, I wanted to try again. When people say that you forget the pain soon after, they aren't lying. I remember that it hurt and I wanted to scream and cry, but in the end it is gone and you are left with the most precious gift you have ever been given.

I told Corbin and Robert about my friend, Erica, saying she'd only seen pictures of Corbin, but that Garrett looked just like him and Corbin looked just like Robert, and my friend, Misti, asked where I was in the baby! Corbin loves to hear this! He loves it that Garrett looks so much like him. So, Corbin says when we have a baby next month...I said we aren't having a baby next month. Robert said remember we talked about how it takes 9 months for a baby to come. I said we're not having another baby in 9 months! So, Corbin says well, when we do have another baby, what if he doesn't have dark hair either? I said then I guess I'll have 3 boys who look just alike. He said no, four with Daddy and I said yeah, that's right. Then he tried to count the dog as he always does and I said no, Milo doesn't count!

We have been so impressed with how well Corbin has done with Garrett! His spelling story this week was about Garrett! When he gets it back next week, I'll have to post it. He loves to hold hm and he kisses him all the time. It is so precious! Garrett couldn't ask for a better big brother! His teacher sent me an e-mail saying that he had really improved the last few weeks and seemed to be really trying to do better! We have really praised him for this and told hiim he is setting a good example for Garrett! He reads his reading homework to Garrett at night!

Corbin's first baseball game of the season is tonight. Of course, Garrett and I will have to miss it since they suggest not getting him out for 4 weeks, so we have 3 more to go! Robert is the coach and this year they will be called the Hiddenite Wildcats. Their uniforms are nice! I will post pictures of this as soon as I get some!

So, keep us in your prayers and enjoy your weekend!