All Better!

I got my last two drains out today! Yea! It feels so good to have them out! I feel like a normal person again!

I found this in my dryer the other day. . .



That's right Baylee melted 1 pound of butter in my dryer! I heard her open the door to the dryer so I went and turned it back on. I had gotten the butter out earlier because I was making treats and I didn't notice it was missing from the counter. At least I was just washing towels and they seem to be fine they don't look greasy!

Random pictures in random order!

These are the flowers my mom's office sent me! I thought that was really nice of them. They have heard my mom tell my c section recovery horror story over and over again!
The other day baylee turned on the water and just climbed in. She's out of control!
Owen asleep! Yes he has to sleep on pink blankets sometimes. . . I guess that's what happens when you have a sister.
When Baylee saw him in this outfit she said, "His shirt is so cute!" Lol
My little guy!
Owen looks like Mark!
And so does Baylee!


When I took this picture Baylee insisted on having the bar on the bouncer. I tried to take it off but she put it back on.
I love that sweet face!
Even their feet look alike!
Baylee ready to go swimming!
Owen came to visit me at the hospital. (So did Baylee we just didn't take a picture)

At my mom's house! I was asleep when Baylee got there! I was so excited to see her again!


Update: I still have my drains in. I had a CT scan on Monday and the doctor said their was a decrease in fluid but he still wants me to keep the drains in longer. I have an appointment with him next Wednesday so we'll see if he says I can have them out or if I have to have another CT scan first or if he'll make me keep them in forever :(
I guess I just need to learn patience or something. I've already had them in two weeks what's another week or two? I guess it's good he's being cautious because I really want to make sure all of the infection is gone because I sure don't want it to come back!

1 down 2 to go!

Well after a week in the hospital I'm out and doing a little better! The day after I was hospitalized I had the drains put in my abdomen! Which is much better than surgery but still hasn't been that fun! I had three tubes coming out of my stomach and I still have two of them. The first one came out today so that is progress. . . right?????

This picture is pretty much what my drains look like. The white part actually goes in my stomach and I found out today when they took the one out there is a nice little hole in my skin! Weird! I was surprised at how much of the tube was actually down in there when he pulled it out! Then the clear part of the tube hangs out and then that little bulb thing is connected to the tube and it is wear the fluid gathers. I have to flush out the drains three times a day with syringes full of saline! My mom made me a nice little pouch to wear around my waist where I put the drains so they aren't just hanging out of my clothes!

I have a tube on my left side below my ribs then there is one in the middle just below my belly button and then there was one on the right side below my ribs but that is the one I had taken out today!

I got out of the hospital at about 10:30 Monday night. Instead of going home we came to my mom's and are spending a couple more nights here! It's been nice to be out of the hospital and to be able to be with Baylee and Owen. I still don't do much though my mom, brother, and Mark pretty much take care of them! :)

When I first had my c section I told Baylee I couldn't carry her (you're not supposed to lift anything heavy for 6 weeks) so now everyday she asks me if I can carry her or she'll ask if I can carry daddy or grandpa or grandma! She also asks me, "Are you feeling a little bit better?"

Owen is doing really good he's a pretty content little guy most of the time so that is good!

I go to the doctor tomorrow but I'm pretty sure I won't get anymore of the drains out until at least Monday. I have another CT scan scheduled on Monday then I think if the other abscesses have gotten smaller they will take the other tubes out. A radiologist put my tubes in so I went to the radiology department to get the one taken out this morning. A nurse took it out but before he did he had a radiologist look at the last CT scan I had while I was at the hospital. The nurse said that the radiologist thought that the one on the right and the left were small enough that they both could come out but the one on the left is still "producing" fluid so it has to stay in. But he said the abscess in the middle is still pretty big so it will probably be in for awhile.

I figure that by Monday I should be feeing better because I'll have finished my antibiotics and hopefully I'll be getting my other two drains out. Then I'll just need my insicion to heal back up and I'll be all better!

This really has been the craziest thing that has ever happened to me. On Monday morning a doctor that works at the same clinic as my doctor was doing rounds for my doctor so he came in to check on me. He said that out of his practice my doctors practice and another doctor they work with they have never had anything like this happen! He said that is out of about 30,000 patients. So I guess I'm just lucky????

Really though through all of this we have been so blessed to have so much support ane help from friends and family! We are truly blessed!

Back in the hospital!

Well I'm back in the hospital! Crazy!
I went in for a doctor's appointment yesterday and I really wasn't expecting to be hospitalized but I'm glad that they are taking this seriously and hopefully we'll be able to get it taken care of and when I go home I'll finally feel better and feel like I can take care of my two sweet kids!
I had a CAT scan last night and they found 3 pockets of fluid in my pelvis area so they are deciding this morning if they can poke my stomach and drain them somehow. If not then my doctor said he'll wait a couple more days and let me stay on IV antibiotics then he will do some surgery and open me up and clear it out. So I'm hoping the drain will work so I won' t have to have surgery again!
Anyways this has been crazy! I'm so grateful for my parents and my brother and my in-laws for taking such good care of our kids!

Baylee and Owen Pictures

Owen is two weeks old today!

And what a crazy two weeks they have been!
Owen is such a sweet little guy we really could not have asked for a better baby! He sleeps really well at night for a 2 week old! He hardly ever fusses and calms down really easily.

Baylee has been such a good big sister! She loves him and is soooo sweet to him! I think over all she is taking all of the changes really well.

Mark is my hero! He has been the BEST the last two weeks! As he said in his blog post I have been pretty sick since we've been home and he has been amazing! He's taking care of me, Owen, and Baylee!

My family has been awesome! Especially my mom she's been over a lot to clean and help with the kids! Brian has come over to play with Baylee a few times and he's been a life saver! Same with my dad and steph! Marks parents have also been so helpful by taking Baylee over to their house to play so Mark and I could rest when we have needed too!

And as I already said this little guy has been amazing!


Now for the gross stuff. . .
Ok so here is the whole story. As you know I had to have an emergency c section when Owen was born. It wasn't what I wanted but I was already kind of mentally prepared for it because he'd been breech before and I was worried something like that would happen.
After my c section while I was in the hospital I really felt pretty good. I was encouraged to eat a lot and I did eat quite a bit and didn't really have any problems. I threw up a few times at the hospital but they gave me an anti noshia pill and that seemed to help. When we left the hospital on Sunday my stomach was still pretty big and the nurse was concerned I might have a blockage in my bowel. The doctor that released me wasn't worried so I went home expecting every thing to me fine.
On Monday most of the day I was really uncomfortable and bloated so we called the doctors office to see what we should do. They told me to take this stuff to get things flowing so I did. But after that I started having diarrhea. Then I started vomiting which was the worst! I threw up everything! It was really weird and I was pretty sure it was stuff that I had eaten in the hospital and had just been rotting in my stomach because my bowels weren't working properly. I had a slight fever and just didn't feel good. I called my doctors office they told me it was normal but I might want to come in the next day for an IV because I was probably dehydrated. So I was thinking ok maybe I just needed to get all of that junk cleared out of my system and now I'll start to feel better.
I went in for the IV last Wednesday and it hydrated me but also made my diarrhea much worse! (gross I know!) My doctor looked at me and said I seemed fine and he didn't think I had an infection because my fever wasn't very high.
By this point I was so exhausted and my milk had never really come in because of the lack of food and water I could keep down! So I had decided that if I was going to get better I just wasn't going to have the energy to breastfeed. Especially because I would nurse Owen and he'd still need more and we'd have to get him a bottle right after. So it was turning into extra work.
On Thursday I was in bed taking a little nap and Owen was sleeping in the pack n play by my bed. He started to fuss to I got up to get him a bottle when I felt a little blood clot come out. I yelled for Mark to get Owen a bottle while I ran to the bathroom. I was having bright red blood again which I hadn't had in a few days! I called the doctors office and they said if I filled more than a pad in an hour call them back and they probably have me come in. When I hung up the phone I realized I was filling up a pad an a matter of minutes and it wasn't going to take an hour. I ran to the bathroom and blood was getting everywhere. Mark called the clinic back and the nurse put him on hold while she went to talk to the doctor. I was standing in the bathroom trying to keep Baylee out so she wouldn't see all of the blood. Finally I passed a big clot almost the size of my fist and the bleeding slowed a lot. I was calling people in our ward trying to find someone we could take Baylee too while we ran to the doctors office or the er. Mark gave me his phone so I was on hold with the nurse and he started taking baylee out to the car when the nurse came back on the line. She said that the doctor said it was normal and my uterus was just contracting. So we didn't have to go anywhere! It was a pretty crazy few minutes!
Then on Friday I called the doctor and told them that my lochia was kind of foul smelling which I hadn't really realized before because I thought it was just because of the diarrhea. So they didn't have me come in but they gave me a prescription for an antibiotic. Now I thought I would finally be getting better! I just had a little infection and now the antibiotic would take care of it. I had also noticed a swollen red lump above my incision but I figured I'd just see if it went down over the weekend since the doctors office was closed anyways. The antibiotic seemed to be making me feel a little better but my red lump wasn't going away.
So Monday morning I called the nurses line at the doctors office right at 9 when they opened I told the nurse about my lump so she said she's talk to my doctor about it and call me back. I've always really liked my doctor but since I've been home from the hospital this time I've been really frustrated because he just doesn't seem to care that I've been miserable for the last two weeks. I guess post natal care isn't as important to him or something! So about an hour later the nurse called me back and said of course they didn't want me to come in and just to watch the lump for the next week or so and see if the antibiotic would make it go away. But she said if it got bigger then to call back in. Of course!
Yesterday was the first day Mark went back to work since Owen was born and my mom was going to come over a little later in the morning to help me. Baylee had woken up and we went downstairs and she wouldn't eat breakfast so I just turned Curious George on for her and gave her some milk and apple slices and went back upstairs to get Owen. I gave him a bottle and was sitting down in a chair. I lifted Owen up on my shoulder to burp him and I smelled this really nasty smell! It was really strong and I thought what in the world that couldn't be coming from Owen's diaper could it? So I stood up to change him and a realize I have pus coming out of my incision!
This is where I'm really luck Owen is suck a good baby because I just laid him down in his pack n play and he just laid there looking around! He's such a happy little guy!
So I called the doctors office but the nurses line wasn't open yet so I had to wait until 9 to talk to them. I called my mom and she dropped everything and ran out to my house with my brother who thank goodness is home from school for the summer and doesn't have a job right now. So they got to my house in about 20 minutes. Before they got there Baylee had come upstairs looking for me at first she didn't really seem to notice all the goo on my shirt and pants and she just started brushing her teeth and pulling out all of the floss. After a few minutes she looks at me and goes, "mommy what's on your shirt?"
After my mom and brother got there I was able to get a hold of a nurse and they said my doctor was not in the office but I could see another doctor at 10. So I changed my clothes and cleaned up a little. My oozing had mostly stopped by this point. We went to the doctor and he said that I did obviously have an infection and that the antibiotic I was on probably just wasn't strong enough. He said it was a good thing I wasn't breastfeeding because then they could give me a better antibiotic. He also said that they would have to open up the top layer of my incision and clean out the infection and just leave it open and pack it with gauze. So that's what he did yesterday. I actually feel much better. It's easier to get up without all of the pressure from that lump!
So I figure now I'm officially on the mend! My doctors office actually even called ME today to see how I was feeling. I've felt like I've been driving they nuts calling them like some crazy person for the last two weeks. I guess now they care that at least makes me feel good!
Ok well this story has gotten way long and I haven't even touched on how amazing Mark has been! He really has been so good! I think that is experience has brought us closer together as a family and a couple and I'm really grateful for that!