So I woke up this morning, January 1 2008, and did not have to take my Zofran for the fist time in months.  I felt alittle nausous but didnt throw up.  And today i have so much energy I could burst.  I have cleaned up the house a bit and eaten pretty good.  I took a shower and didnt feel like i needed a two hour nap afterwards.  Kevin wanted to go out to eat today so i thought i would get alittle dressed up in my new pregnancy pants and a shirt that shows off my budding belly.  I even did my make-up for the first time in 3 months.  I feel like a woman again instead of a 150 year old criple.  My back feels great today and no leg cramps.  I could eat about 2 whole pizza's if Kevin would let me.  It's  a great feeling to finally look and feel alive.  I hope it lasts.  I go this Thursday for a check up at the doctors.  I get the results of my last blood test so it should be good.  And Kevin is well enough to go with me. He doesn't go back to school until 1-7-08.  He LOVES being a teacher!!!

And congrats to Lynette who just had heard baby on the 27th of December, 2007.  Miranda is adorable. 

Love, Lisa and Kevin and Baby Curtis.

About two weeks ago I had my second ultrasound (the first one was just at 6 weeks because I went to the ER with cramping, but everything was fine).  Kev was still recovering so i had to go by myself, which is fine.  I got to see what the baby looks like but didnt get to find out the sex of the baby yet.  It was so amazing to watch the baby move around in real time.  He/she was poking at my stomach and turning.  I was just in awe.  I was given two pictures of the baby to take home and i scanned them in the computer but i cant upload them cause they are too big. (problem solved...i learned how to do it through anothe program!  YAY!).  It was a really amazing experience though.  I should be able to find out the sex of the baby at 20 weeks. 

Kevin is recovering very nicely and moving around much more freely.  I am still throwing up and my stomach is getting bigger.  I can feel the baby kicking and moving around when i am laying down.  Most days I am nausous and just lay in bed because i dont feel well or have the energy to do much.  Every once and a while i am able to go with Kevin to the store, but that is about it.  I try to sit at the computer but my body is tired most of the time so i usually just stay in bed.  It's just how it is right now. 

Well that's it for now.

Love Lisa, Kevin and the baby

WOW...it's the only word i can find in my mental dictionary to describe the events of the past few days.  Nothing else fits...well other than Holy Sh*t, what a year this has been.

Some of you may or may not know, but Friday night I had to take Kevin to the hospital for an appendecta-whatever ya call it!  3:45 a.m. I'm asleep in my  make shift couch of waiting room chairs, when the doctor woke me up to tell me Kevin was awake and asking for me.  I was relieved to know he was ok, but if i thought something was really wrong before the surgery i would've been hysterical.  I was actually really calm and really deeply knew he would be ok. 

When i saw him, he said to me..."Take a picture of it".  Once a scientist, always a scientist!  He wanted to take the actual inflamed severed appendix to school, so he could show his students.  "It's gross.  They'll love it."  (I can tell...he is going to be a great father already!)  But the most "Surgery Bob" (hosptial staff) could do was to take 2 digital photos of it for him.  All i have to say is Yuck!!!!  Yuck!!! and Wow!!  that thing was about to burst.   LOL (I can only joke about it now because it's over.)

So he was in the hospital until today ,Tuesday 12/18/07.  They had him on Demerol through his IV and then tried Perceset but it made him throw up. Then they gave him Vicodin, but before we left the hospital, on the way home and again about an hour ago, he threw up whatever he ate/drank.  So right now he is pretty miserable.  He missed being home, but also misses the hospital bed because it was easier to get in and out of and was comfortable in the way he needs right now, but we're making due.  I have to share my Zofran with him until he stops throwing up...which i will do because i love him...and because i have refills!!!  (don't mess with a pregnant woman and her only source of relief from morning sickness.  That's warfare.  That's like letting a bull loose in a china shop.)

At least he is home before X-mas and his birthday.  He really would been pissed off then.  He'll be out of work all this week and then he has 2 weeks paid vacation, so honestly the timing could not have been better. He goes this Thursday to get the staples out so that'll be a nice holiday treat.  I go back to the OBGYN this Thursday as well for an ultrasound, blood test and maybe i will know the gender of our baby...but im not telling you guys here, because the preg pool has been started and that wouldnt be fair. 

As for me, I slept next to Kev the entire time in the hospital on this great little pull out couch for one person.  I had pretty good eatin's at the cafeteria which was ALOT...but for a very low price.  (maybe i will take Kevin back there for dinner and old times.)  

While in the room I threw up and had nosebleeds because it was dry as hell in the hospital.  A nurse walked in and i had my puke bin filled with bloody tissues and vomit, kev's ice pack on my face by my nose and a tissue shoved up it like an "I surrender" flag.  She didn't want to ask.  I could tell.  I said i have morning sickness and a nosebleed, but i wanted to crack a joke like, "He does it because i snore."  but that would've been just plain wrong to say.  So there was that, an the occasional wheel chair i had to use because the sciatica pain and back spasms nearly dropped me to the floor.  Any one of you women feel like getting pregnant still????  All i am saying is there is nothing that will prepare you and may you have a better experience than I am having.  And yet, there is just no way to describe the sheer awe you feel when you watch your belly get bigger, or you read that at 13 weeks, all the pain you are having and cramping is normal and it means your baby is growing.  There is something very exciting to know your body is producing another body within it that you will someday hold in your arms and call your son or daughter.  It really is life changing, heart warming...inspiring. 

So if you can deal with the smell of regurgitated food, the skin stretching, nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, best sleep you NEVER had…moments.....and those lovely Christmas red nosebleeds, than pregnancy...can be for you...for just one easy installment of $19.95 (plus belching and handling.)      

Hope you were amused by this entry.  I had a fun time writing it.  But all fun aside, please say prayers for Kevin's speedy recovery and healing.  He really could use them.  Thanks.

Love, Lisa and Kevin (and baby)

Hello!  I have been meaning to write an entry for a long time now.  Someone called me today and said she thought I hadn’t written on here because I had a miscarriage and was too depressed to talk about it.  Thank god that is not the case.   I've been really sick with morning sickness for weeks now and unfortunately even had to go the hospital to get rehydrated.  I am 12 weeks now and just went to the doctor last week.  The doctor said I am doing well and Kevin and I were able to hear the heartbeat twice!  It was amazing.  I am taking medication (Zofran) for the vomiting i had.  It was so bad.  4-5 x's a day and then nausea all day long.  I was getting to the point at times where i wished i wasn’t pregnant because it just felt so horrible.  I was tired all the time and just didn’t have the energy to do much at all but lay very still in bed, watch TV or sleep. 

Now I am starting to feel a bit better and for the first time in about 3-4 weeks i have gone out by myself to do errands.  It was nerve racking and unusually panicky for me but i made it through. 

I was not hired by anyway and maybe it was a blessing because I would’ve gotten fired with the severity of the morning sickness.  But this week I got an e-mail for a job offer to work from home doing customer service.  Since we only have one car and not a lot of money at all, it’s the best thing that could happen for me.  Not too mention i can still be a stay at home mom and make money.  So im pretty happy.  I felt like crap not being able to financially contribute to our growing family, so this is helping me to feel more useful. 

I am not able to resize the pictures to fit on here just yet, but i do have some i would like to post, just not sure if its possible so.... we’ll see.

Right now Kevin is doing better at the teaching gig and is a lot less stressed than when we lived in NJ.  He is an amazing man and husband and i really feel very blessed to have met him.  I bought him two books on expectant fathers (a book just for dad's to be) and he says now when i cry at a commercial..."I read about this”. lololol he is so cute!l

The other day i went food shopping for the first time with him in 4 weeks.  I was so overwhelmed by all the food that by the time we got the granola bar isle and he asked me if i wanted anything, i started to cry right there in the supermarket.  He just hugged me, and put the chewy chocolate chip granola bars in the basket and hugged me some more.  He is really amazing.  Shortly after that we went to the pickle isle where i was in a mad rush to find the "right" kind of pickle for me.  The last thing you want to do being pregnant is have a craving...and get it wrong!  That sucks mucho ass-o.  So i called my mother-in-law in nj for help on Kev’s cell phone (I got rid of my cell phone by the way).  Baby dill pickles.  That was what i "needed" and she helped me pick them out.  who knew there were so many to choose from!!!  She just laughed.  It was pretty funny.  So, im a typical pregnant woman! 

Im starting to show and i waddle already which sucks.  But i try to correct myself when i catch it happening.  It’s not good for the back.  My sciatic is killing me and the boobs keep getting bigger so it’s just messing my spine up a bit already.  Throwing my already off posture, off even more!  Ah the joys of bringing life into this world.  i think i will have some ice chips the day of delivery with a side of epidural please!  im such a wuss these days when it comes to pain and most of the time i can be found complaining about my newest annoying pregnancy symptom or the road map of breakouts along my body from the hormonal changes.  Thank god i am already married, i could just see my personal ads now for single mother looking for def mute to put up with my incessant bitching.  Must be a deep sleeper...because i do nothing but toss and turn in my sleep. 

So other than that...everything's GREAT!!!!!  Lololol 

Sorry if i am distant but for weeks on end i have felt like someone ran me over, backed up, ran me over and backed up again...and than ran over me...AGAIN! 

I will try to keep this more up to date.

Miss and love you!

Love, Lisa (and Kevin)