POPpers are back from POP 9/29-10/6 and made GREAT friends!Chat until next trip!! Part 3

[scrappinmom]

Chris everytime i see your avatar and look at your lil one i am amazed at hoe she looks eXACTLY like you!

i want a clone child!! haha! you and CAt both have one!!! me too me too!

hahah That must be why we don't get along 50% of the time!!! Yes, My Miss Grace is a whole lot like me....which could explain why my parents only had ONE child

 

[julsmom]

no, it's ok...He was born with severe scolosis of the spine. Which we didnt' know in utero - I had one u/s at 20 weeks & dr didn't see anything (moron). The scolosis was so severe that it not only curved, but twisted his spine, which then protruded his lungs. So his lungs grew weird, they were only at 70% oxygen capacity. They really thought he was going to live, be on a ventilator his entire life, but live none the less. Well his lungs kept filling up with fluid & they kept draining them over & over again. finally mike said he's had enough & made them take him off all the machines, & let him sit & hold him. It took only about 20 minutes to him to pass. At first I was so mad at mike for doing what he did, but now in retrospect, its ok, I know my son is happy and not in pain. What kind of life would he have had? How would that have changed Casey's life...she was only 4? Yes I still wish every day that he was here, but not like that. After 8 1/2 very long years I'm ok with the way life has turned out. I really did become a completely different person after he died, for the better I think.

thanks for asking Mich -

sorry if it's a huge downer for everyone! Please don't let it be. Patrick taught me more about life in 36 1/2 hours than I would have ever learned all on my own. It's ok really

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

no, it's ok...He was born with severe scolosis of the spine. Which we didnt' know in utero - I had one u/s at 20 weeks & dr didn't see anything (moron). The scolosis was so severe that it not only curved, but twisted his spine, which then protruded his lungs. So his lungs grew weird, they were only at 70% oxygen capacity. They really thought he was going to live, be on a ventilator his entire life, but live none the less. Well his lungs kept filling up with fluid & they kept draining them over & over again. finally mike said he's had enough & made them take him off all the machines, & let him sit & hold him. It took only about 20 minutes to him to pass. At first I was so mad at mike for doing what he did, but now in retrospect, its ok, I know my son is happy and not in pain. What kind of life would he have had? How would that have changed Casey's life...she was only 4? Yes I still wish every day that he was here, but not like that. After 8 1/2 very long years I'm ok with the way life has turned out. I really did become a completely different person after he died, for the better I think.

thanks for asking Mich -

sorry if it's a huge downer for everyone! Please don't let it be. Patrick taught me more about life in 36 1/2 hours than I would have ever learned all on my own. It's ok really

okay i'm really crying now and not b/c it's a downer b/c of your last line. It's amazing what we learn in life. you are an amazing woman Chris.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Jul is a total mini me. I just wish I could clone her for another one!!!
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hahah! autumn acts EXACTLY like me right down to being Hot headed! but that's it! she actually looks like DH! haha! but Gabriel...WOW! everyone calls him Little Sal, he's like a replica! haha! I KNOW he's goign to grow up hating hearing how much he looks like his daddy!

I'm an EXACT match for my father, it's actually kinda wierd, but i loved hearing it! to this day i still do!
my dsis looks JUST LIKE MY MOM! from their baby pictures you can't decipher which is which! it's eerie!! but she HATES hearing it!

Maybe the next one would look like me??? hmm..anyone want to raise a baby until they are about 4and give them back???

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

CAT:

is it difficult raising Teenage boys?? i'm worried i will be soo clueless!

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

no, it's ok...He was born with severe scolosis of the spine. Which we didnt' know in utero - I had one u/s at 20 weeks & dr didn't see anything (moron). The scolosis was so severe that it not only curved, but twisted his spine, which then protruded his lungs. So his lungs grew weird, they were only at 70% oxygen capacity. They really thought he was going to live, be on a ventilator his entire life, but live none the less. Well his lungs kept filling up with fluid & they kept draining them over & over again. finally mike said he's had enough & made them take him off all the machines, & let him sit & hold him. It took only about 20 minutes to him to pass. At first I was so mad at mike for doing what he did, but now in retrospect, its ok, I know my son is happy and not in pain. What kind of life would he have had? How would that have changed Casey's life...she was only 4? Yes I still wish every day that he was here, but not like that. After 8 1/2 very long years I'm ok with the way life has turned out. I really did become a completely different person after he died, for the better I think.

thanks for asking Mich -

sorry if it's a huge downer for everyone! Please don't let it be. Patrick taught me more about life in 36 1/2 hours than I would have ever learned all on my own. It's ok really

 

[julsmom]

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

okay i had 2 of those cafe lattes and now i have the shakes!

 

[julsmom]

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

I wish it were March already!! i wanna get together!!!

we will post lots of pics of the meet for you non-chicago peeps!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Double Post!

 

[julsmom]

I do too. I wish it were April b/c that was when it started to get nice out. I cannot wait for summer break with Jul. I am so nuts.

 

[julsmom]

Today is bathroom cleaning day but I do not want to do it. It doesn't take that long once it's going though, but still.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

okay this is wierd!

I miss my DH alllll day long and we IM and e-mail and talk on the phone while he is at work and yet when he is at home he drives me crazy! hahah!!

absence really does make the heart grow fonder!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

i can't wait for Spring! i just want to start going to the parks and the arboretum again!!

 

[julsmom]

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

ughh bathrooms! can't do them! the tub i can handle, but the bucket stops there!! Dh takes over!

 

[julsmom]

I want to take Jul to st. louis zoo, chicago planetarium, lincoln park zoo.

She wants to go to AGPlace for her bday in May.

 

[CathrynRose]

I absolutely agree too. After Patrick died, Mike told me, that he was struggling so hard to breathe, Mike was holding his little hand, Patrick squeezed his hand, Mike said he told him it was ok, that we'd see him when we got there, that he didn't have to wait for me (I was still in the other hospital). Makes me cry just to type it. But to answer your question Mich, I totally believe it. Maybe she's just hanging on to hear someone say it's ok to go?





Everything bagels!!!! With light cream cheese, toasted!!!

You have your bagels EXACTLY how I like mine! WOOO HOO!! YUM!

And - you made me tear too.