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And so that was Christmas but we’ve only just begun..

By hissychick | December 29, 2009

Those of you that endure my status updates on Farcebook will already know that Christmas 2009 chez hissychick was not quite the festive and relaxed affair that I had hoped for.

Instead, the husband decided to get out of Christmas lunch with the inlaws and opening/assembling any further craptastic plastic toys by developing pancreatitis and, rather scarily, drivibg himself to the hospital at 7am.  Leaving a certain heavily pregnant wife to deal with Santa present opening, car packing, getting the troops ready and doing the hour long drive to my parents’ place solo.  No mean feat.

I do not apologise for the fact that my children had chocolate and lollies for breakfast, nor for the fact that getting out of the house necessitated a lot of screaming and some tears on my part.

Anyway.

Long story short, mr hissychick’s gallbladder was found to be the cause of the pancreatitis (much, much less scary than the other possible causes), the kids survived and enjoyed Christmas Day blah blah blah fishpaste.

The husband was discharged yesterday morning after a three night stay….and his gallbladder removal surgery scheduled for next Tuesday.  The day before my due date.

Fast forward to today.  I woke at 5:50 am this morning after another totally relaxing late pregnancy night’s sleep (think waking three times between 10 pm and 12 am to go to the toilet, 1 am with night sweats, and everytime I needed to pee or roll over thereafter) and I felt….like I had dropped my bundle.

After a shower and managiing to nick my pink bits when I stupidly decided to give the ladygarden a tidy up sight unseen I sat on the edge of my bed and cried with exhaustion and frustration.  Perhaps it’s was the last of the adrenaline of the last few days leaving my body…but I don’t think it’s that.

Yes people, I’ve reached that point where abject fear of childbirth is outweighed by the desire to feel semi human again.

And it seems Bertramina is sympathetic to my cause.  OB checkup this morning revealed she is well engaged and good to go, with the lovely and calm Dr J reassuring me all was well and that he would be seeing me before the husband’s little surgical jaunt.

My feeling is soon, very soon. 

So on that note I am off to eat fresh pineapple and watch as many episodes of Mad Men as I can.

Until next time….smooches.  Scared smooches.

Topics: Going bogue, Labour and birth, Ouch, Unexpecting, mr hissychick, my charming husband, what to expect when you're expecting #3 | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “And so that was Christmas but we’ve only just begun..”

  1. I’m soooo glad you’ve updated. Have been thinking of you heaps.

    Hope hubby is feeling better.

    Labour vibes, peaceful thoughts for you my friend. Will be waiting for your wonderful update.

    Melissa’s last blog post..Starting the new year with positives.

    Posted by: Melissa on December 29th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

  2. Your comment on pineapples surprised me! But well…I already know what happened from Facebook! Hope everyone and everything is well now.

    Ann’s last blog post..My day yesterday

    Posted by: Ann on January 7th, 2010 at 1:06 pm

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