Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Car and baby update.

Whew, it has been a rough couple days. Yesterday I spent all day either throwing up anything I ate or drank, or I spent it sleeping. I slept more of the day than I didn't yesterday. I was really bummed David didn't get that civilian job at Maxwell AFB this summer, but now I see it as one of the tender mercies of the Lord that he's been around to play mom AND dad here recently. I felt so awful yesterday and had felt awful for so long at one point I just burst into really pitiful sobs and tears and lamented about if I'd ever feel good or normal again. Sara Katherine came up to me and started giving me kisses all over my face and Ethan came up with a kleenex and started wiping away tears. I have wished and wished and wished that I could be a woman who wasn't so sorely affected and afflicted while pregnant early on, but that is just not my lot. My mom said she felt great through her pregnancies and only threw up one time with both of us. How I wish I could have inherited that. All I can do now is hope all this ickiness will go away sooner than the 16 weeks it took with Sara Katherine and Ethan. I am so ready to feel good again.

I found my mom's camera so I'll post a few pictures of the van. The other insurance company is still jerking us around trying to figure out if they're going to pay the claim or not. It's maddening. What they're saying is the girl's mom didn't authorize her to use the car, so they don't know if they have to pay it. I told the adjustor that hopefully it would be worth it to them to just settle the claim instead of have my husband the attorney take them to court. I told her it was an eleven year old van with 158,000 miles on it. We're not asking for thousands of dollars, here. Just do the right thing, and pay the claim and stop being a jackass. (Well, I didn't say exactly that). Hopefully we'll know something by the end of the week. We already owe the wrecker service/yard $400, and that goes up by $20 every day. If they end up not paying the claim, hopefully the wrecker yard will just accept the van as payment.





And in baby news, we went to the doctor on Monday. They did a whole bunch of stuff, including an ultrasound. They did not do an internal ultrasound as I thought they would, which would have for sure answered our twins question. She only found one sac, so she said if they are twins then they are identical. She only found one heartbeat, but she said since it's so early that they've been surprised before. I feel like there is only one, and I was relieved that there appears to be only one. They won't do another ultrasound until closer to twenty weeks when we find out what it is.

9 comments:

Doug, Jessica & Nixon Anderson said...

So did the lady that hit you have her child in the car too?!? How dumb of her to drive like that for all those different reasons!

So why did you guys think that you were having twins? Where did all that come from?

Aubrey & Cheyenne Martin said...

Do you have twins in your family? Your van looks nice, by the way. I think you should buy a trailer on a gravel lot off the highway to match it. Hope you start feeling better!

Jeni said...

Jessica, yes, the lady had her baby in the car. She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And David thought we may be having twins because he dreamed it three nights in a row.

Cheyenne - Yes, there are twins all over our family. We both have cousins that have twins, aunts and uncles have had twins, etc. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we wound up with a set if we keep having more kids, which right now, I'm calling it with this third baby! (But, I'll forget and I'm sure we'll have more).

tracyp said...

Jeni, I'm glad that all is well and hopefully your van will be taken care of. Just a gentle reminder that being sick for weeks on end and having your baby at home is definitely better then having a great pregnancy until you deliver early and then you don't get your baby in this life. I wish I had your pregnancy problems and then was still able to deliver. However that may not make you feel much better now. :) At least the kids are willing to give kisses and wipe up tears, they have certainly learned love from a great example.

Jeni said...

Folks, please don't think me to be insensitive because I share my pregnancy woes on my blog. This is pretty much my personal journal as well as a way to keep in touch with everyone, but I have to be able to write what I feel. I count myself very blessed to be able to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver children with ease, but these first months are very, very difficult for me, emotionally and physically. Of course it is always worth it the end, but it still is no fun for me to walk around now feeling like I have the flu all the time and still have to function. I've never had to struggle with feritlity issues, miscarriages, or stillbirths, but what I feel and experience in these early months of pregnancy I can only describe as depressing, even though I wind up with my miracle in the end. Just know it is never or was never my intent to hurt anybody's feelings, k?

Rachael M. said...

You are funny - Most people say they forget the horrible labor pains, but HOW DO YOU FORGET THAT YOU THREW UP FOR 16 WEEKS!

sweetpotato said...

Sorry you're sick, David didn't get the job and your car got totaled. I think you have all three covered now, though, so you should be good...hope so.
Good luck!

Melissa said...

Congrats on the baby! How did I miss the announcement?

Natalie said...

so i read your blog today and cried. i cried b/c i've felt the same thing all day today. i had 1 task to do today (not including jackson) and i didn't get it done until 5:00! i'll be watching your1blog for you to feel better cause i'll know theres light at the end of the tunnel!