48 Hours(give or take a couple)

For some reason I couldn't sleep this morning(wonder what that could be?).  I was wide awake a little before 6am.  That's highly uncharacteristic for me.  So, I decided to get out of the bed and get the day started, instead of lying there making my back hurt.  What is it that I decided to do?  Why Facebook and Blog of course.  Is there anything better at 6am? I didn't think so.

I just a few short hours we will finally be having this baby.  I'm so beyond ready.  I'm ready more than any words can express.  I know that I'm not prepared for everything that is going to transpire on Friday, but I am ready to not be pregnany anymore(for a little while at least).  I'm ready to feel like myself again, and not like an alien has taken over my body and is refusing to return it to me.

Yesterday I had my final OB appointment prior to the c-section.  I can not express how much I love the OB that I use, and his office staff.  They are absolutely wonderful.  I was also afforded the opportunity to tell our story to a med student.  Even though this is not the path that we would have chosen for ourselves, God chose this path for us, and we are fortunate to have had our lives forever changed because of Trisomy 18.  This med student will also be observing Jo's birth, and I would assume and hope some of my/her immediate care.  As you know, I think knowledge brings power, so I was excited when Dr. H asked if we would be willing to meet with her.  There's not a lot of information available about T18, other than the grim statistics.  Hopefully it will help her in her future practices to put real people with a diagnosis.  I also got my H1N1 vaccine yesterday.  Am I super cool or what?  I thought you would be jealous about that one.  I am now innoculated against all strains of the flu, both foreign and domestic.

After the OB appt I had to head over to our hospital to pre-op for the c-section.  Pre-op is not a big deal, it just takes absolutely forever.  Or mine did anyway.  I was fortunate enough to pre-op with the actual nurses that will be handling our case.  They wanted to get introductions out of the way before everything goes to crazy town on Friday.  I have to go back in the morning for some final lab work, but other than that I am FINISHED with MD appointments.  Hallelujah.  Even though the pregnancy itself(and not Johanna or her T18) have been completely normal and without complication, I feel like I have been at the OB every single week since March.  That's obviously a stretch, but I am ready for an MD break.  And they're probably ready for a break from me.

The rest of the day was pretty normal.  Work and home.  Some amazing friends of our brought us dinner last night.  They have a 3 1/2 year old little girl, so Clayton finally had play mate.  Neither one of them are used to being around other kids very often so it took them a long time to warm up to each other.  Once they decided that sharing was better than getting a whipping things went great.  They chased and played ball and laughed for a long time.  They left just before bed time and Clayton was so tired that he didn't fuss at all when Chad changed him into his PJ's(that may or may not glow in the dark) and laid him down.

Today is my last day at work until late December.  Today is our usual half day, so that makes it even quicker.  I really hope it goes well, and is mostly uneventful.  When you work for an MD, you can never tell what is going to happen.

Tomorrow, Chad and I are going to get a thing or two finished up around the house, and then head out to dinner tomorrow evening.  I love spending time with the hubs, and love it even more when someone else cooks and cleans up for me.

This is gonna be my last large post until Friday.  I have something simple planned for tomorrow.  I am taking the lappy with me, and of course the Crackberry on Friday. I hope to either post at some point or have my SIL do that for me at some point during the day.  I have tried to figure out how to Twitter, but for the life of me I just get confused.  Hopefully I can work on that a little more today and that might me the mode of transportation for Friday's events.  If I can out smart Twitter, then I will put the link on the sidebar.  For my real life peeps, I am going to try to Facebook some.  Don't hold me to anything, but I am going to try.  Ya'll have been such an encouragement to me along this journey, that I want to make sure you are included in the big day. 

I think that's it for now.  And it's getting close to time to start getting ready for work.  I hope your day is great.  Thanks for taking this journey with us.  I hope you've learned, loved, laughed, and cryed along with me.  Trisomy 18 has been the biggest challenge of my 27 years.  But I can now say with 100% confidence that I am thankful that it is forever a part of my life.  I wouldn't take it away or change it, for that would be changing my daughter and what God created her to be. 

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14