back from Michigan!
Actually we got back Sunday night, but I hadn't had the chance to post before now.
Okay, here is the encapsulated version of our news:
1. DH may be getting a really great job offer. He would be teaching music theory at a charter school which is a magnet for arts. It would be full-time, and would have full benefits, and the last guy who had the job used it to help launch him into a tenure-track gig at the University of Hawaii.
2. When we were in Michigan, FIL quitclaimed his old house to us because it's falling down, he hadn't paid the property taxes, and it was about to revert to the city. We're going to have to tear the thing down and rebuild it before we rent it out, but that's okay because the foundation is solid. An existing foundation cuts down on costs. And we'll have a lot of help. So now we own property! Albeit not anywhere near where we live.
3. I saved this one for last so that you would read the others too-- I am pregnant again! We found out two weeks ago. I'm taking Lovenox and aspirin and got those prescriptions/ recommendations as soon as I had a positive test, but don't actually have to see the perinatologist until August 23. I'm not feeling too sick most of the time, but I'm sleeping a lot. I also have a cousin (dad's side, in Atlanta) who is due the same time as me!
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Becky!
Congrats! Why the Lovenox and aspirin? I took the former after my blood clot and it's misery-inducing.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
Congratulations!
Great news, Becky!!
Well Well!
That's a mighty bunch of news! How wonderful. I'm excited for you on all counts, but especially the 3rd.
Shaun
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Fab news!
That's great news on all counts Becky!
Zillah
Wow, the three main things
Wow, the three main things all at once...new job,new house,new pregnancy! How awesome! Will you all relocate to Michigan one day and live in that house? Best of everything to you guys....
Heidi
Thanks all!
We may or may not relocate to Michigan at some point, depending on a million or so factors. Otherwise we might rent it out, or sell it for building cost to another family member.
The Lovenox (a low dose, 1 shot of 40 mg/ day) and aspirin are because there is evidence that late miscarriages like the one I had might be caused by blood clots during placenta formation. Lynn, what's the misery-inducing aspect? Is that yet to come? So far I've been doing the shots for 2 weeks without any problems. Or is the misery part the aspirin? Or the blood clots themselves?
Congrats
Sounds like a lot of wonderful things are happening in your life.
OH, hon! I'm so happy for
OH, hon! I'm so happy for you!!!
Congratulation!
I am so happy for you! On all counts!
Jana
best news I've heard all week!
Congrats to you both Becky. Nice to have some happier news from you, and a whole bunch of it at once too! Be gentle with yourself - don't do anything too radical.
Kerri.
Very happy for you Becky!
Very happy for you Becky!
Congratulations!
Such great news!
Such news!
1.) Whoo Hooo
2.) WOW!
3.) Hip Hip Hurray!
(Because one expression of excitement wouldn't be enough!)
I'm totally thrilled for you and your DH!!!
Blessings,
Lenora
"...if woman's work is never done, why bother about how much of it [isn't] getting done at any given moment?"
~ Claire Fraser in The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
if anyone could find something
radical left to do it would probably be you Becky. Or maybe Shaun!!
Kerri.
So Wonderful
Congratulations Becky!
{{{{{{{{{HUGS and HIGH FIVES}}}}}}}}}}}}}
-Jo
I don't think there's anything radical left to do!
Job change, pregnancy, taking on a house-- what's left?
oh, the shot itself
Well, the blood clots are no fun either, but the shots are what made me miserable. Maybe it was just that I had been poked within an inch of my life for a month (seriously, medical people would gasp when I'd roll up my sleeves when they saw the marks/bruises), but giving myself the shot and then the stinging of the drug going in, and then the intense bruising...it just all made me so miserable. If you're good with it, great! You're so lucky!
Fingers crossed on everything, dear.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
it kind of blends in
The shot and burning just kind of fade into the early-pregnancy nausea and heartburn, so I think that makes it a lot easier. Also I have a lot of extra skin on my abdomen from when it was swollen when I took prednisone and had malnutrition. It might be worse when I get to the second and third trimesters and am feeling better and the skin is more stretched out.
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