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Happy Birthday to my oldest and saying goodbye to reproducing

May 1, 2007

This has been a super crazy week. My best friend had surgery last Monday. She was in the hospital until Saturday. Thankfully she is OK. I visited her once I wanted to go more but there was so much going on. Abbey had a friend coming over for the weekend and I had to do some cleaning. I did manage to go grocery shopping for her for food that she could eat. I have visited her several times she since got out of the hospital and she is doing great except, as I feared she is trying to do too much.

Abbey's sleepover was fun. A little girl from church came over and spent the night. When I drove to her house o pick her up I nearly died when I saw her house. It is HUGE. My house could fit in her kitchen/living room. The girl and her family are the sweetest most down to earth people I would never guess that they have a pool house almost as big as my house. The girls had so much fun playing that we didn't take her home until the next evening. Abbey has a best friend (my best friends little girl) and they are like sisters right down to the fighting. It was so nice to hear her playing with someone and not fighting about everything. 

When the friend left Abbey got packed and spent the rest of her weekend with my dad and sister s they went to a civil war reenactment. Dad and sis have just gotten started in this and try to get away to as many as they can. Abbey came home and talked about what a good time she had. She had a hotdog eating contest with one of the soldiers and out at him. It is one of her favorite foods. So they gave her the nickname of hotdog. She was so proud. She also got into a big discussion with a park ranger about rock strata. They are learning that in school. The park ranger was shocked that she could carry on such a "grown up" conversation. She wants to go back with them again. She is already searching for a dress.

While Abbey was gone I spent some alone time with Emmy. She is student of the week this week at the preschool and I had to take pictures of her in for the board. I realized I have very few pictures of her by herself.   I haven't had any professional pictures done in over a year. I feel like such a bad mom.

Abbey turns 7 tomorrow. I cannot believe 7 years ago today I was in labor. Which reminds me that I had to see my Gyno today. I had some serious pelvic pain two weeks ago and went to my regular Dr. the results from the ultrasound they did showed nothing wrong. I finally got into my Gyno today and he believes it was a cyst rupturing. But I mentioned that I have terrible stress incontinence and he said he wanted to do a pelvic to check out the ovary and see about the bladder. When he checked he said my uterus and bladder are prolapsed and that he thinks a hysterectomy and tvt Support the bladder is the best option. He has me seeing a female Dr. that he said he trusts her opinion and they will be doing the procedure together he will do the hysterectomy and she will do the tension-free vaginal tape procedure. I have been prepared for this for years. My family has a history for faulty reproductive systems. My mom had her hysterectomy at about 28 and my grandmother had one in her 30's and a great aunt and whatever. So I knew from the time I started having problems that this is what would happen. I am totally ok with it. I said funny you should mention that I was just going to ask about having my tubes tied. This is a little more permanent but truthfully I am done having babies. We kept Cady for a week and as much as I love her I knew I am too old to be starting over.  My friend laughs at me because she was 35 when she had her only child. I have talked to my husband about this and we trust the Dr completely he has been my sole Gyno for almost a decade and knows the workings of my body better than I do. So it looks like unless something changes I will be having the hysterectomy sometime this summer.  It is funny to be thinking about ending my baby making days on the anniversary of having my first baby but I am. I really think I am ok with this decision. As I was telling my mom my husband is adopted so I don't think of this as an end to having babies it's just an end to me giving birth which isn't a big deal to me anyway. I seriously hope that one day I am raising Cady as my own. Of course I hope she is a toddler when it happens because I don't think I can do an infant again.