Sorry, been a slacker!

Hi there! Long time no talk to. Well, it's been so quiet in my life, I haven't had much to report (and I actually still don't have much.)

In school news, I'm just waiting for my professor to post the final exam so I can take that and be done (my other class finished last week.) And this past weekend, we had my DD's baby shower. It was beautiful and she was soooo happy. DH & I spent the night before the shower at her house and she was hilarious. She was so excited for her shower she was literally counting down the hours until the party started.

I just worked my last day of 2010 today...ahhhhh...I am now officially out of the office until January 13th! My holiday break runs through the new year and then my surgery break will run from January 3rd - January 13th. I may not need all of that time to recover, but better to err on the side of caution instead of thinking I'm superwoman and trying to do too much too soon (wait, isn't doing too much too soon the Kling way?) Those that know my family know that stubbornly doing too much is in our blood.

Anyways, I've read many other women's blogs and stories of their TAC surgeries and many said it took them a good 3-6 weeks to recover. Most said they were able to work after 2-3 weeks so I'm thinking 10 days is a good number of days to plan to be out of work. After that I can work from my living room anyways and I'll just make myself as comfy as possible. Like I said, the incision is similar to a c-section incision but they pull the bladder and uterus out of the way to put the loop around the upper part of the cervix. Then you just have to account for the fact that I'll be 13-14 weeks pregnant during the first week or so of recovery time so that may make things a bit uncomfortable (think expanding pregnant belly pushing against c-section like incision - definitely doesn't sound like the most pleasant feeling in the world.)

So yes, the internet is both a blessing and a curse. I've read story after story of women undergoing the surgery I'll be having and it's wonderful to read so many experiences (especially the many that had the same doctor I have.) I definitely still get nervous at the thought of the surgery but every story is reassuring. So while I probably didn't need to look at pictures of the surgery with the uterus pulled out of the c-section incision (when I realized it will soon be my uterus hanging out there I realized that maybe there really is such a thing as too much information) the stories have been wonderful to help me know what to expect before, during, and after the surgery.

Lastly, we got our home doppler so we could listen to the heartbeat every few days. Last week we tried, but couldn't really pick anything up (we knew it would probably be too early.) But this week we tried again and heard that beautiful galloping sound with a reading of 155. Hmm...baby seems to like that range of the 150's which is making some people guess that we're having a girl. I think a gender poll is in order, you think?

Thursday we go see Dr D for an OB check and will get some more details about surgery prep & surgery day. Hopefully we'll get an u/s peek at our little gummy bear too. We'll be 10 weeks on Thursday so there should be lots more to see. But I'll post after that appointment to let you know how it went. Until then, thanks for putting up with my slacker ways.