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Well for those of you who are wondering NO I'm not dead, altho I googled my name the other day, and, according to my MAIDEN name, I'm dead.....WTF?!?!?!?! Guess for some, that can be a good thing. lmao
I can't believe it's been as long as it has been since I last blogged on here, but all I can say to that is....I suck. lol
We left Fl. and headed back to Va. Aug. 1st after the final inspection on the house on base in Mayport. The inspection went great. Only thing we had to do was clean out the stupid trash can that the woman I had hired to clean the place had filled up.....dumbass. Got out of there around 1:30, and we were off. I had mom, Justin and Meeko, Jimmy had Allyson, Jasmine and Skiddles. (Footnote......got rid of Lewis, my long-haired Dachshund a week or so prior to us moving because I just couldn't take his pissing and crapping everywhere EXCEPT where he was supposed to and scrambling out the door and disappearing every time the damn door opened....way too stressful for me especially since I'm pregnant AND not on my Bi-Polar meds.)
It took 12 hours to get in to Va. Beach. Not used to it taking that long....9 hours tops was what it was when we were here before and traveling back and forth to Ga. But then, there was an extra 300 more miles, give or take, that was added so it worked out pretty good.
Got checked in to a hotel that we stayed at for 3 days, and then the fun started....lmfao
When we first got checked in, it was about 3 in the morning, after hunting for what seemed like forever for a hotel that wasn't charging an arm and leg to stay at, we went to sleep, well, everyone else went to sleep, I was sick with a horrible cough that caused me to actually break a rib.....go figure. And I'm NOT exagerrating, I actually had a cracked rib due to the violent coughing that I had for an overall count of friggin 5 WEEKS!!!!! Oops, getting ahead of myself.....I got up at 8 and met mom at the lil cafe' the hotel had and then got a news paper to check the want adds for homes to rent. Only found 3 that would work in to our budget, so I started making phone calls. One was already rented that morning, another one was just....OMG, I wouldn't have let my worst enemy move in there....FIRE TRAP. The last house, which was the furthest out, but was SO WORTH the drive(for Jimmy, rofl) we thought we had in the bag. Keyword....T H O U G H T...Keep in mind these places weren't being rented out by realtors, but by home owners. This asshat actually ran a friggin credit check on us because his son was in realestate. Due to some indescretions, Jimmy's credit score was too low and mine...well, lets just say there's a reason why everything is in Jimmy's name. (Damn credit, but I am slowly working on that....) anywho. We didn't get the house. This was on the LAST day we were at the hotel. So, we broke down and went to Navy housing to see what they had. Where we were staying, which was in Norfolk, we had to drive, or at least thought we had to drive, all the way to Va. Beach which was 35 miles away, and it was getting late. It was like 2, or almost 3, and with the Military, 2 is like 4:45, and they are outta there at 3. Got to where we remembered the Navy Housing office to be, only to find out that 3 months after we had moved away from here in 2005, THEY transfered the Navy Housing office to.........NORFOLK!!!!!! So, I hauled ass back to Norfolk in the hopes that we would get there before they closed. CHA CHING!!!! Got there with 20 minutes to spare. lol And we were sent right in, too. The lady we talked to thought she was going to have to call an ambulance for me due to the severity of my coughing but I told her I was ok, honestly. Altho I felt like shit. This was Friday, the 3rd of August. She informed us that we were totally lucky that there was 1 townhome opening up in Va. Beach at Wadsworth Shores base housing and it was a 4 bedroom and would be perfect. Only thing......It was the earliest they had opening and it wasn't coming available until September 5th!!!! A whole month and 2 days away. Keep in mind, there are 5 people, a 3 year old, 9 year old, 34 y/o guy, 64 y/o woman with body temp issues, and a 33 y/o PREGNANT woman who is off her much needed medication, oh and 3 animals that are having to share a 1 room hotel room, THAT, btw, we were going to have to find a new place to stay due to funds being depleted due to the cost of this place....Days Inn in Norfolk is a JOKE....We had to return to the housing office on Monday to sign the paperwork and what not, and then searched for another hotel to stay at that accepted animals....since we had the damn dog. (Skiddles) Finally found a place even farther away in Hampton....La Quinta. It was nice. No charge for pets, unlike the $50 a day charge at Days Inn....rip offs. And we were there for 5 WEEKS.......That was an experience I never wish to repeat again ever.....
While in the hotel, I called TriCare to change regions and get started, or so I thought, with my new prenatal care and what not and OMG what a bust. They set me up with the quack PCM, at a friggin PATIENT FIRST office which is like one of those stupid rapid care medical places, and the people there are just morons. I went in the first time and was told I would have to pay $165 just to get areferral for an OB since I didn't have a Virginia Tricare PRime ins. card....then to go back in prepared to pay that outlandish price so I could be seen by a doc, only to be told that I would first have to get a referral letter, taking 7 to 10 business days, and then wait 3 more weeks to be seen by an OB, and told by the PCM that the all intelligent TriCare gave me, that I could come back in to be seen as long as it had nothing to do with gynocological problems....IE. My pregnancy.....WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!?!
So, up until literally yesterday, October 1st, the last time I had been seen by an OB was July 25th!!!!! Had to run in to the ER/L&D 3x during our hotel stay....first time was for the cough/cracked rib, then I broke out in to hives only to be diagnosed properly as having a skin condition called PUPPPS....caused by, among other things a liver embalance only in prengant women....a nasty rash that pregnant women can get, breaking out in small bumps that itch like hell on forearms, thighs, belly, sides and back.....Granted it disappears soon after the baby is born but if experiences prove to be of a learning nature this one certainly is....aside from the fact I cant' take the proper meds I need while being pregnant certainly gurantees me that this is my last pregnancy, PUPPPS and everything else accompanied with this experience has proven to me that I am done procreating. The wolrd will have to settle for just having 3 of my offspring....lmmfao..Then the 3rd time I had to go was this past Sat. night after the whole family came down with a nasty stomach thing that sent me in to preterm labor. Throwing up and the other nasty thing on the other end from 7 AM till 8 PM....They hooked me up to all kinds of crap, gave me labor meds to stop my contractions as well as rehydrate me and stop the vomitting....then sent me on my way hours later, only to call me when we were still in the parking garage to tell me they need me back in the next day to measure the amniotic fluid and heart rate of the baby. So the next day I went in and that's when someone FINALLY took notice and actually paid attentiont to what I was saying. Dr. Watson, an awesome OB, saw me and she took over and said she was now my OB, and that she was going to take care of me. She set up an appointment for me to come in today in her office, and I can now say WOOHOO I have an OB!!!!! She wants me to come in every week now, which is good since I will be 36 weeks on Sat. lol Getting down to the wire ya might say. I've NEVER gone through this much hell before in my life and so help me I better not have to again or heads will roll.....Dr. Watson has even taken steps to get a consult in for me with a psychiatrist as soon as possible to make sure that the day I deliver, I get back on my meds as well as keep in check the management of the bipolar....which hasn't been done since Feb. or March.....I'm tellin ya, this OB is awesome!!!!!!
So on to moving in.....
September 5th finally came and we collected our keys, and, thinking ahead prior to us leaving Fl. we only had to wait for the mediocre furnature stuff to come 3 days later since we had rented a trailer to pull behind the Durrango that had our beds and stuff in. Unlike when we moved from Va. to Fl. and we had to wait 22 friggin DAYS for the furnature to arrive.....hmmm, which is worse....sleeping on the floor in a new house with flesh eating carpet bugs and ants in a new house for 22 days, or staying in a confined hotel room with 4 other ppl and 3 animals for 5 weeks......BLAH, it's a draw....dont' wanna do either again. lol
I have to say I love it here. The minute we got back in to Va. I felt like I was back home. Aside from the medical bullshit I've had to go through. There is just something about being here that makes me content. I don't even feel this way when I've gone back to Ga. THIS is my home. Griffin is just where I was raised. And now it's even better cause mom is living with us, so we don't have to go to Ga. so much now, if ever. lolololololol I know we will have to go there eventually because there are things we have in storage there that we need to sort through and all, but that's about it.
The due date, btw, is November 3rd, if not earlier, since being so sick this past weekend it caused me to become 3 CM dilated already, but still at -4 station which is awesome. Let's keep it that way for a couple more weeks, k? But the way things feel like they are going at this point....who knows. According to the U/S back at 20 weeks, wow that was a while back, lol, I'm having a girl. Keep your fingers crossed, if your still reading this and not bored to death with my rambling, that it is a girl. I love my lil man, Justin, but I want another girl.
The kids are great, btw. Allyson LOVES her school. They aren't at all mean to her like the kids at San Pablo were and the kids(most of them, not all) that she knew in Fl. And she just got awarded with an Outstanding Accomplishment Award request for all the hard work she's doing. She was tested in Fl. and was found to have a learning disability, and here she has a teacher she goes to for her special needs, but her regular teacher put in the request for her to be included in the ceremony on the 11th of this month for all her hard work that she has done in class. I'm so proud of her!!!!! Justin is growing like crazy. He's already in a 5T pant/shirt, and looking so grown up. I have YET to get his hair cut(gonna try to get a pic on here before I DO get it snipped) and he's constantly mistaken for a girl....but he looks so cute!!! Jimmy hates it. Says he's gonna buz cut him.....I told him he'd have to go through me and that ain't gonna happen. Plus, Justin is terrified of the noise so Jimmy would have to catch him first.....he's so me, just in a toddler body. hehehehehehee Still trying to potty train him, and it's going nowhere. I didn't have this problem at ALL with Allyson. She was trained in 5 days, at age 2. WTF. Boys, I tell ya.
Me and Jimmy aren't getting a long to well, but it's partly because I'm not on my meds and so his mere existance right now is just disgusting to me. Everything he does irritates the living hell out of me and the more he tries, the angrier I get....so I try to avoid him as much as possible. I pretty much stay out of everyone's path right now. It's best for everyone. But especially Jimmy. I just can't deal with him too much on a daily basis at this point. Hope it changes after the baby is born, but only time will tell. A LOT has come forth during all this and some serious changes need to happen for there to be peace and solace between us again. And I will leave it at that.
I will close for now. I think I've bored everyone enough but THAT is pretty much everything that has gone on. Hopfully I can get on here and update a lot more but I'm having to use my mom's computer because mine is a piece of crap now. I'll just say I will do the best I can.
I miss everyone, and thank you all for the comments you all ahve left for me. I will do my best to get back in to being social. Just be paitent.
Take care everyone and hugs n kisses!!!
~Tanya~
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