September 15th, 2010

new term of the day: shoulder dysplasia

I’ve actually had a pretty good streak of luck (karma? god?) lately.

I received a ticket for going 60 in a 45 (in a tunnel, on the way to the airport, with my mom in the car), but the officer filled it out wrong (or purposely did) and so it was considered void. Which was nice, because it could’ve been $367. That was part of the issue—it didn’t have an amount in the $ box. And his handwriting? SO BAD. Plus he walked out in front of my car to wave me over. Hi, dude almost went over the hood of my car.

Today was the last day for the Chop to work at his full-time job. We’ll be adding them to our stable of contract clients, and now he’ll be home all day — doing the work that has been making us have late nights for months (hello midnight, I see you SO often). The dog will be thrilled beyond belief and frankly so will I. It’s painful to work flat-out all day long and still have to share what I didn’t get done with him for the evening. We’re hoping that with two of us, we can go back to regular hours (until the baby comes, YES I KNOW). 😛

We’ve managed to launch two massive projects that have been taking up hours and hours of time. The last one went live today and I am so happy it’s live. I think the baby might’ve been hanging on until we were done because he knew I would go insane otherwise.

On the other hand, I AM STILL PREGNANT.

Tomorrow marks 38 weeks of pregnancy, and if you wanted to know, 38 weeks hurts so much more than 35. I don’t know what I was complaining about before. He has somewhat dropped (this is what the doctor said, very encouragingly) and so now the pain in my pelvis is even more excruciating. My cervix is still closed (of course it is), but he has also gained some more weight… and now they are talking scheduled C-section. Apparently he is long and big and I have a small pelvis, meaning his shoulders could get stuck and they’d have to do an emergency C-section or he’d suffer from shoulder dysplasia. I have an ultrasound on Monday and then they confer and decide what to do. From this point, it looks like we schedule it at my due date (although I am thinking October 1) and if I come before, we give regular delivery a go.

Not. enjoying. life. right. now.