The Past Three Weeks…

The past 3 weeks have been a difficult one for our little family.  It all started with being a single mom for a week when Ichiro headed to CA for the his annual Apple Developers Conference.  It was a rough week, but spending a few days at my parents house really helped.  Ichiro got home from CA on Saturday complaining he wasn’t feeling very well.  On Monday, still not feeling good he headed to the doctors office.  Turns out Ichiro had the swine flu.  Now in MA they are no longer testing for the swing flu on a regular basis, however they decided to test Ichiro because 1. he had a young child at home and 2. more importantly he had a pregnant wife at home!!! Ichiro was immediately put on Tamiflu and my OB put me on it too.  Because Noby is a healthy 1 year old his pediatrician told us to just keep him 6 feet away from Ichiro at all time.  HAHA that was joke but we did our best.  The swine flu ended up just being a bad flu.  Ichiro had a fever for most of the week he was home, and a pretty back cough.  Poor guy had to wear a medical make around the house.

Last week had to be the most difficult of the three weeks.  Monday I headed to the OB for a check up.  She decided to use the office ultrasound to see if she could see the baby’s heartbeat.  She had tried the week before but said the baby was hiding from us.  So this week after not being able to see it again she decided she wanted me to go to the Burlington office for an internal ultrasound.  At this point I knew what was happening and the next day my fears came true.  The baby hadn’t developed properly and there was no heartbeat.  They scheduled the D&C for Thursday.

Thursday Ichiro and Noby took me to the Somerville office where they performed the D&C.  It was a long day and I was happy to get home to rest afterwards.  REST?? Not so much, we were leaving in 48 for a 2 week beach vacation and I had SOOO much to do….