My First Surgery

Dang it, Ryan didn't take a pic of me in the hospital all drugged out, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been very pretty so I guess its ok. I had to have a small surgery to get a polyp removed from my uterus which is not condusive to getting pregnant and would very likely cause a miscarriage if I did get pregnant, so our fertility doc recommended we get it removed so that we can do in-vitro. The hardest part of the surgery was the night before. My doc prescribed me some pills to take which were not to fun considering they weren't taken orally (i'll leave it at that) . They had warned me that there would be some cramping but I was not expecting to be as bad as it was, I had really bad cramps that 5 ib profens didn't even make a dent in. We gave up trying to sleep around 2 am in the morning and just watched a movie until it was time to "get up" at 5 am to go to the surgical center. I didn't ever really get too nervous for it, until I was at the hospital with the needles and Iv being inserted and even then I was mainly just nervous that for some reason even tho I had talked to our insurance and it was pre-authorized they are going to end up denying it and sending us a huge bill and then us not being able to afford in-vitro. I know I'm kind of pessimistic, but after years of having our insurance premiums get bigger and bigger and them not covering anything we actually need to use it for (can you tell I'm a little bitter that insurance companies will pay for preventing babies and not for helping make them). Anyways thats a soap box for another time. After surgery I was pretty loopy but they gave me some perkisett for the cramps and that was great. We got home from the surgery around 9am and just slept and layed around all day. Ryan was awesome at taking care of me, getting my prescriptions filled, snacks and drinks and movies. Ryan's parents brought us over some dinner and we ended the day by watching the bachelor, yes its back on! Today I have the day off too, although I'm feeling much better. I saved all the girly movies to watch by myself today since Ryan is back at work. I admit I was looking forward to the surgery just so I could have a couple of days off to be completely excused for being totally lazy:) I'm feeling like I'm getting too much accomplished by writing this blog so I better get back to being lazy!

Holidays

December is like the quickest month of the year, in some way the holidays go by so fast I feel like I barely have time to enjoy them but at the same time its kinda nice to get back to normal. Every year I say that next year I will prepare more (like buying gifts ahead of time) so that it takes out the pressure but I always seem to forget that. For our Christmas present this year we got our selves a really nice new camera so our pics quality on our blog will go up. We had both our work parties to go to, friend's Christmas party, saw Saviour of the world, saw the Tabernacle Christmas concert had our own little Christmas together where we ate at Texas Roadhouse, opened our Christmas presents and watched one of my Christmas presents Blue-ray dvd of the Princess Bride, family Christmas party with Ry's family before we went to Bremerton. At home in B-town we played lots of Canasta (unfortunatly I wound up on the losing team which was suppossed to go to the store with the fake mannican head and buy oreos- I bought some Oreos and I was leaving it up to my partner to do the rest which I am told never happened), Balderdash & mafia, listened to Penny's and Richard's original music numbers and watched Christmas movies & saw True Grit, played with my adorable niece and video chatted with my other adorable niece and sis & bro-in law. I felt like we were barely there before we had to leave again.

Me & Penny at the Saviour of the World, (Ryan was there too but he was a gentlemen and went and got the car while we were taking pics) Thanks for the tickets mom!

At home in washington...

Fam picture before leaving, I look like crap and we had some trouble transferring the one where Liberty is looking at the camera, we'll get that one to you soon Mom.
It was way too hard to go back to work the next week, luckily we didn't work too hard.New Year's eve we did a little bit of shopping, eating out, playing games and a frantic countdown where we realized 5 min till midnight we didn't have any thing to open our martinelli's with, we pulled it together in time to do the last 10 sec countdown.

New Year's resolutions forth coming....