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	Age: 27 Country: IE Province/region: - City: - Partner: Jay - the best thing that ever happened to me. Children: Yes, 1 Pregnant: No Due date: 20 Jun ,2008 Occupation: Legal Advisor
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This is my first pregnancy. It's all a bit strange and frightening to me at the moment. My husband is thrilled and excited, and is already shopping for names. It's dangerous I know, as we've only just had the home test (No Doctors until Monday??) and according to the site I'm only going into my fifth week now. I'm really excited, but terrified. We're immigrants here, and I have no family other than my husband here for support. The rest of my family is scattered between South Africa and Australia. I can't wait to have it confirmed so I can tell my family and friends - what an amazing (if somewhat unexpected) gift! I can't wait to go through this amazing experience, despite my fears. I guess everyone is scared their first time!

XX

Monday, 22 Oct

Well, I've just gotten confirmation - I have my Doctor’s appointment at 17:45 tonight. I know it will probably take a couple days to get formal results of blood tests etc, but I’m so excited now, I can’t wait to get the news so that I can tell the people who are so important in my life. I really can’t wait to tell my parents and my sister. It’s terrible to have my sister telling me how proud she is that I’ve quit smoking, and not being able to tell her why and that she’s going to be an Aunt ;)
Anyway, will keep you posted!

Tuesday, 23 Oct

So I had the pregnancy confirmed last night, which is wonderful! Due date around 22 June 08. Scary stuff! DH is a bit wide eyed now that it's definite - I can't really blame him LOL. So now it falls to tell the family etc, can only hope everyone's as happy as we are :)So hard telling everyone, as can't spend a fortune on phonebills - and email is so impersonal :P

Wednesday, 24 Oct

I told my side of the family last night (only immediate - mom dad and sister) and they're ecstatic :) big relief, as I think sometimes you still feel like a kid, and are waiting to get into trouble for this! LOL. It looks like my folks are going to come out from SA earlier next year in June - they were only meant to come in August, but my dad seems adamant about being here for the birth of his grandchild, which is so sweet - he's never been the most emotional man. My mom is thrilled, and of course, being an RN is FULL of advice - very useful! My sister cried, it was so sweet. She's coming over to us for Xmas, so will hopefully have a little bump to show her :) Now just to tell J's mom and stepdad, and dad and stepmom... I get the feeling we're going to be inundated with relatives next year!!

Thursday, 25 Oct

Well, mostly everyone knows now. I know it’s early, but I can’t contain the excitement, and in the dreaded (knock on wood) event that something does go wrong, I really think I’d rather have my people know of it, so that it’s not something we have to face alone. Got a call from my father in law in Australia this morning, he is absolutely thrilled and is quite emotional about the whole thing: my due date falls on the birthday of his late father. Quite a coincidence! Mind you, my dad-in-law is a bit of an odd one – he KNEW when we were engaged before we even told him, and said this morning he knew last week we’d be giving him a grandchild. LOL. Sheesh. Maybe a slim psychic streak… how do you ever surprise someone like that? Jay is becoming really excited again. We’re both ardently hoping for a boy, although as they say, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s healthy! He goes to sleep every night with his hand on my belly, which I find very endearing, even though there’s nothing really there for him to rest his hand on, yet! He’s off shopping for DV-cams to record the belly as it grows, and we’ll hopefully be able to pick up a pregnancy journal this weekend, although we’re swamped, visiting family in the North. Perhaps on Monday when we get back.

Just wanted to say a sincere thanks to all of you who’ve been so ready with friendly and helpful advice, support, and congratulations. It really is so amazing to me that so many of us can share this incredible connection across the world, despite not knowing each other, and yet be so ready to step in and help when needed. Thank you!

Tuesday, 30 Oct

So we’re back from the weekend away, and I’ve never been sorrier! I’m so exhausted now, I don’t quite know what to do with myself. Morning sickness has also kicked in with a vengeance. I’m nauseous almost all the time. It’s sometimes hard to see the positives here, when I haven’t even had a scan yet, so the only changes I can see are negative ones – nausea, over emotional, exhausted and sore. I’ve nearly burst into tears about 3 times this morning. I can’t understand this. I’ve had to take to sleeping with a bra on at night, as I’m too sore to sleep without one. Every magazine or book I read seems dead set on worst case scenarios and what may go wrong, and just seems to want to turn what should be a very beautiful and natural experience into rocket science – right down to measuring grams of food, which is driving me insane. It’s stressing me out to such an extent that I’m actually physically ill even doing small things in preparation, like pricing cots/prams. I’ve resolved not to buy/read any more pregnancy mags. I have my book, and I’ll stick to it. If things are as bad as they say, it’s a wonder that the human population is so high! I refuse to be turned into some neurotic mother before I’m even a mother. I’m still scared, but I want to enjoy this, and I’ll not have some silly magazine panic-mongering at me. LOL I know I sound angry, but at least I’m not in danger of crying my eyes out any more. Less angry, more determined… sounds more like me ;) Bring it on *GRIN*

Monday, 5 Nov

Ho-Hum, monday again. All is well... morning sickness seems to have subsided already (apart from maybe a very mild twinge every now and again)? In any event, I'm quietly grateful, as I really wasn't having much fun with it!

A mere 5 'sleeps' and we're on holiday - Yes, we're flying to Rome for a week on Saturday morning, and I'm so thrilled! I'm kind of put out that I won't be able to indulge in some good Italian wine, but will make a point of buying the best bottle I can find for the end of the PG LOL.

Doing well, mild aches and pains, struggling to find motivation to exercise... which is awful as I know I should be getting fit, and that exercise will help minimise weight gain, which I need to be careful of, especially as I am an overweight pregnancy. Will really have to kick my own arse and get a move on!

Am meant to be calling to set up my antenatal care with the OB/GYN, but I keep missing the clinic hours, and it's hard to call from work (especially as I haven't told the rest of my office)... yet another thing to get a move on about.

Busy busy busy!

Sunday, 18 Nov

ARGH - hey all, back from Rome, had a WONDERFUL time, will catch up with you all soon, thank you SO MUCH for all your comments while I was away... problem is the layout on my page is stuffed, everything overlaps, so I can read nothing, I hope the problem will be fixed by tomorrow... but promise I'll message soon!

Monday, 26 Nov

heavens, it's been so long since I updated I'm not sure where to begin. First things first, I have my first midwives' appointment on 13 Dec at 08:30, which I'm super excited about.

I'm getting more and more excited about little one, and so is J... it's terrible, we're already referring to it as 'he'... we have such a strong feeling it's a boy. Boy, (no pun intended) are WE going to feel like idiots if it turns out to be a girl.

My dad is out for a week from this thursday coming for a funeral, but I'm so excited as I've not seen him in 2 years!!! He's apparently bringing clothes for his 'grandperson' which my mom got... early, but so sweet and endearing. Their enthusiasm for their grandchild makes me wanna cry!

In bad news, my healthcare has said that they will not pay for antenatal or natal care here, as I'm a relatively new client and thus cannot get any benefits for a year. *SIGH*. Anyway, we've decided to go on our own steam - fortunately it's not TOO expensive, but will hurt just a little! Has not put a damper on our excitement at all!

Lastly, just a thank you to all you ladies out there for your friendly words, kindness and support :) I love this site.

All the best to all of ya!!

XXX

Tuesday, 27 Nov

hey all - having a bit of a down day today - I know the web says this is all normal and whatnot, just wasn't expecting it to be this bad... hope tomorrow will be better.

Friday, 30 Nov

Having a wonderful day today. My dad is over to visit from overseas, having a wonderful time spending time with him. I’m so excited and happy about all this today – it feels like nothing can bring me down!

Mom, of course, packed dad’s clothes to come over, and has all-but sent him over with one shirt and one pair of pants… the rest of the suitcase was all baby clothes (strictly neutral colours) and baby blankets… two amazingly soft blankets, and one little security blanket with a really soft little lamb’s head on the top which is a rattle, too. Too cute! It really hit home last night, seeing the tiny little baby clothes. I can’t stop smiling!

I’m just sad my dad will only be here for a week, and then it will be almost a year before I see him and my mom again. I’m so lucky and really blessed to have such wonderful family. An amazing husband, great parents, a wonderful sister, and a really supportive extended family. I may be extending a little more in the waistline than I should be, I think, but what’s important is I’m eating right, and healthily, and am making sure that I get everything that the two of us need (and sometimes just want, because we can!)

I did end up taking yesterday off work, being almost unable to walk for the pain in my hips and (TMI) backside… mom reckons it’s ligaments. I’ll take her word lol.

All in all, a great end to the week, and looking forward to the weekend! 11 weeks today!!

Friday, 7 Dec

12 weeks today, and I'm becoming more and more excited as time goes on - I love this little ticker which has the baby bouncing around in that bubble... It's almost a way for me to keep track of and commune with my little one while we wait for the scan and confirmation next week that everything is ok.

I think (despite some extra padding) that I'm beginning to develop a roundness to my lower belly - my too-big suit pants are now too tight round the waist/hips...

I'm tentatively (I've always been a closet pessimist and am therefore terrified of something goin wrong) beginning to feel like a mom, and while I've only dreamed about my little one twice, I have constant visions of holding that tiny hand soon that bring tears to my eyes. I see a child with black hair like its father, with dark eyes, maybe green like it's mom if the gene comes through right... sex will not matter. I'm over a quarter of the way there!

Beginning to feel very protective of my peanut... will be interesting to see how much stronger that instinct becomes when he/she is born!

Thursday, 13 Dec

Well, I didn't sleep a wink last night, so today I look like I've been hit by a bus! Combined with a nice hormonal skin break out - Sheesh! good thing I have no meetings today, or I'd scare em off!

Got up at the proverbial crack of dawn to get to the hospital - we were almost late, with the traffic... Met the midwife who took my full history, then went for bloods - I thought they were going to drain me...!! LOL Wasn't sore at all though, so wasn't a problem.

Then off we went to get our scan... what a singularly amazing and heart-wrenching experience. I have.... a frog! Little one was so precious, so ACTIVE the u/s technician struggled to get a good pic, but eventually succeeded, so I have a whole REEL of them! LOL. It spends most of its time pushing itself off the one wall with its feet, and braining itself on the other side... It was all I could do to keep from laughing long enough for her to take the pic.

Baby is perfect, is growing perfectly - all legs and arms accounted for. Dated at exactly 12w6days, 6.01cm CRL, it looks like little one is trying to be a textbook baby.

I just can't get over how funny it was watching him/her bouncing all over the place - first face up, then face down, sideways... it's like it was dancing a jig!

Jay was thrilled, I think a bit shocked, especially when we listened to heartbeat - 161 bpm - SO LOUD!! LOL

i have never been this happy in my life, and typical pregnancy, all that means is that I want to go home, curl into a ball and cry my heart out.

I truly am blessed.

Tuesday, 1 Jan

So I `ve been sick as hell for the full two weeks of my holiday - I had fears I would spontaneously abort with the force of the coughing, but we `ve both pulled through okay! Today is the first day I feel okay despite still having a mild cough, and despite catching a stomach bug from hell this last saturday, which saw me unable to keep anything but a bit of coke and a few almonds for the last 3 days... I `m so stiff around my midsection from heaving... DH caught it too, so our new years was spent, just the 2.5 of us at home, chilling, trying to keep fluid down, watching the fireworks from our balcony over the whole of Dublin... which suits me just fine. I `m not sure I would have enjoyed being out in the crowds.Our next appointment is on 29 Jan, and I can `t wait to find out what my little one will be and to see him/her again to make sure this illness has not hurt my angel :(I hope everyone had a magical and beautiful New years, as beautiful as each one of you is ;)X

Wednesday, 9 Jan

Wow, I `ve not updated in forever! All seems to be progressing just fine, no issues, my illness has passed, and aside from some mild sinus issues, I feel like a new person... well, two new people, given the growing bump I have LOL.I `m so overexcited since I checked my ticker and it says I may feel little one move soon! I find myself freezing in arbitrary positions, on the off chance I MIGHT feel something! Sheesh, talk about obsessive. I still have my moments of fear and doubt, wondering if I `m truly ready for this, ready to be a mom. Then I read some of you wonderful ladies ` pages, and I know I `ve got nothing to worry about. There are AMAZING girls out there who are much younger than me, or less lucky in life than me, who are doing this on their own, and under infinitely more difficult circumstances. Yet we `re each blessed with the same gift, and I know that these wouldn `t be given to us if we weren `t capable of making the right choices for these little angels. I am lucky enough to be in a position to be able to keep my baby, and each day that passes ends with a night where I dream of him... her... it doesn `t matter ;) I know we `re going to do just fine, and I can `t wait and can `t believe that there is still 5 months to go before I start preparing in earnest from home to meet and greet him/her ;)I also (and this may well be temporary)have no fear of the labour. I know this will probably turn on it `s head when the time comes, but this site and my own research has just reinforced for me what I already knew. We are designed for this, and barring something going really wrong, I should be able to do this. I `m going to put an option in my birthplan to opt for pain relief if I have to later, but if i don `t have to do a caesarian like my mom thinks I will, I `d like to try the natural route. God, I must be mad. LOLAnyway, that `s where my head `s at right now. I may look like crap, with my B-Bump, and my skin breakouts etc... but I FEEL like I `m glowing, and that `s all I need.Jay has been the most amazing pillar of strength to me. I worry that he wants a boy so desperately and it turns out to be a girl... but the other evening he said to me, `It doesn `t matter, baby. If we have a girl, I `m still going to take her kite-flying and fishing, and hiking `... I just wanted to cry ;) He `s shopping for tiny hiking boots and wellies already LOL. Asks me every evening where his fishing-buddy is, and that I must hurry up now! LOLThis has been a great sense of relief to me... I don `t know if I `m the only one, but I `ve sometimes felt like he was quite distant from the whole thing, and having this reassurance from him has just made this whole experience so beautiful.I `m the luckiest woman alive ;)Gawd, sorry for the essay LOL

Friday, 18 Jan

18 weeks today... and I `m grinning like a total idiot. I took my first belly-pics last night, and I `m a lot bigger than I thought I was... I don `t have full length mirrors in my house (I `m VERY uncomfortable with my body), so I hadn `t been keeping much track, aside from looking down every now and again. I have the CUTEST little bump.And then to top it all off, I got up at around 4am to go to the bathroom for the umpteenth time, and I guess when I sat on the edge of the bed to get my bearings, baby was unimpressed with the sudden change of position, because I GOT MY FIRST KICK!!!! Two of them, one after the other! Really distinctive, and pretty strong. I wasn `t really expecting it, so I nearly fell clean off the bed with initial fright, but I `m just so happy to know that my little one is alive and well in there and ready to give mom grief already.What an amazing day :)

Friday, 1 Feb

Week 20 today and I `m so thrilled to be halfway through this pregnancy. I `ve been so blessed with so few symptoms, and my little angel is kicking up a storm, although most of the time it feels like it `s playing roly-poly in there. I long for the day that I can feel it from the outside, so I can show Jay ;)We went for our first consultant `s appointment on Tuesday 29th Jan, which was great. I was pretty impressed by the speed and efficiency of the service, although got carried away and giggly, and totally blanked out on my 2000 questions for the consultant. Oops. Have even typed them all out now and keep them in my handbag for next time.We had dearly been hoping to find out the sex of the baby on that day, but alas, alack, it just didn `t happen that way. We did get to see our beautiful baby `It ` though, as they scanned for the heartbeat and size of the baby... on a machine that looked like it dated circa 1953. Baby is beautiful and looks just like a little person... behaves like one, too. He/she was doing backflips before we went in, and then got camera shy, or tired, by the time we were in there... In any event, by the time the Doc scanned, he/she was sleeping on it `s belly, and didn `t really move, except to swipe at the U/S.Anyway, the Doctor said we would not be able to see the sex, and booked us in for an anatomical scan on the 19th February at noon... I `m so excited! We had booked that day off as a `rest ` after we got back from our holiday in Iceland... we `re due to land home the day before. Talk about your perfect timing! I `m so thrilled to have the day off after we find out, instead of having to go to work after and try and concentrate.I `ve also interviewed and chosen my replacement for my maternity leave, and am so excited! A mere 16 weeks and counting.I `m also pretty sure I had my first BH contraction this morning... which is both exciting and worrying for me, I don `t even WANT to start that - we `re far too prone to premature babies in my family... Will take it one day at a time, and take it easier.Looking forward to the weekend, and to a good relax... I `ve got a bottle of non-alcoholic wine/punch stuff, bubblebath and facemasks... Jay is off to a concert tomorrow night, and I `m SPOILING MYSELF. I have some of my Favourite movies lined up, and a BIG BAG of biltong – cured, dried beef – a traditional delicacy in South Africa (my biggest craving yet) – there is someone up here who’s started making it… I can’t wait! Have a super weekend all, and will update with more belly-pics and news next week!

Tuesday, 19 Feb

IT `S A BOY IT `S A BOY IT `S A BOY!!!We had our scan this morning and he `s PERFECT, I even got a pic of the little boy parts! LOL Pretty well endowed for such a little person.so we `re at 22w4d and he `s measuring 23w1d. Doc says he `s going to be very tall like his dad. Jay even got to scan him himself for a bit, although he says it freaked him out a bit LOL. Structurally perfect in every way - even got to see his little face - has his father `s mouth! It was WONDERFUL to have such a long scan and see EVERYTHING - every vertebrae, his face, his little hands and feet... I just wanted to cry.We are THRILLED.In a good and bad way, I get to score an extra scan. It turns out I have a low-lying placenta. While it `s not covering the cervix, the risk is there of developing a placenta previa, so I `m due a scan at 32 weeks to see where the placenta is and whether I `ll require a caesarian. I `ll be really upset if I need to have a c-section, as I was hoping to go natural (as far as possible), so fingers crossed that the expansion of the womb will pull the placenta UP away from the cervix, rather than onto it.We `ve also just gotten back from Iceland, which was AWESOME!! What an amazing country! Alas, no northern lights, but we saw everything else, and really enjoyed it! Spoilt baby by buying an Icelandic children `s story book, and a baby blue blanket with handpainted butterflies (we must have known somewhere inside that it was a boy).Anyway that `s the update for now - now have to do frantic washing etc before work tomorrow, but making a good old SA prawn curry, Cape Malay style, with a bottle of non-alcoholic bubbly to celebrate tonight!It `s a BOY!!!!XXX

Monday, 25 Feb

23 weeks and 3 days…Baby boy hasn’t stopped today, I think he senses restlessness. I had a really bad night last night: totally broke down for the first time in this pregnancy after DH had gone to bed, and I guess it’s probably been building up for a while, since I can’t even bring myself to come on this site for any great length of time, haven’t bothered to reply the great friends I’ve made on here, and am just generally feeling down and sorry for myself. I’m trying to pull it together, but today that just seems so daunting. Am so tempted to smoke. I had one last night in fits of sobs, my first one in what seems like ages (smoke, and sob for that matter). Couldn’t help myself, just needed to calm the nerves a bit. I don’t even know what it is. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve put on close on 15kg with this pregnancy and am having a hard time feeling or looking like anything other than a whale, which is not helped by the fact that I have to rock myself to get out of bed, the fact that I’m starving ALL the time, or the fact that I have so little energy to exercise. Or the fact that my confidence is not helped any by the fact that my husband hasn’t even looked at me in “that” way for about 2.5 weeks, or that when I make advances, I’m usually turned aside with some pathetic excuse, but he’ll never say no to getting some “attention” as long as it doesn’t mean having to reciprocate in any way. What really doesn’t help any of this is the feeling that I can’t talk to anyone about this, because they don’t understand. Whenever I’m upset about something all I get is “ah, but be so grateful you’re having a healthy baby, and this is the most wonderful time of your life, and what’s your problem?” I AM grateful, and I love my son more than anything in the world, but the Problem is right now it DOESN’T FUCKING FEEL LIKE IT. And you get looked at like you’re being so selfish, and then I sit back and think that nowhere in the last 5 months has this been about me, everything is done with a view to the baby, this is the way it’s going to be for the next 4 months, and after he’s here, it will really be about him, and is it so wrong to want to be a little selfish somewhere along the line and go “Hey, guys, what the FUCK about me? I’m more than just an incubator!!” I just really needed to fall apart last night, and got so wound up about it all that I did the worst thing imaginable… For a second, just a second (that will live with me for the rest of my life), I wished none of this had ever happened. That the baby didn’t exist. I regretted it instantly, but that of course leads to other thoughts, like if that’s what I can think about my first child before he’s even here, what the hell kind of mother am I going to be?? Bottom line is I spent the night on the couch with my mind racing 180mph, and have barely slept a wink. I’m jittery today and on edge, and am not sure how I plan on making it through the work day… All I know is I feel like a complete freak.

Friday, 29 Feb

24 weeks today, only 112 days to go until I meet my son… was reading up on vaginal birth today, which is what I hope to do, and got totally freaked out! The cervix dilating to TEN centimetres?? That’s almost HALF of my pelvic width (on the inside) at the moment! Geez. Doing a bit better today… it’s all been in successive little baby steps the last week, coming down from that insane rage… I’ve had amazing support from the women on this site, and it’s really done wonders for restoring my head and helping to ease the noise in there a little! Thank you so much, my dear friends, and also to the ladies who messaged me for the first time. I can’t tell you what it means to know that you’re not alone. It was definitely a low point, but now I think I’m set to find a new high all over again. Much has happened over the last week, which has pulled things back in to perspective for me… We have booked a place in an AMAZING crèche for baby for when I go back to work (yes, you have to do that early here), I’ve negotiated to renew our lease in our current apartment, and the landlord has given me the okay to remove the spare bed and set up the nursery, the cotbed arrived last week together with my rocker-nursing chair, and I’ve decided to get back into cross-stitching and will be making baby his own pictures for his room, because I’ve had a look at wall art for nurseries and I can’t stand them. I’m hoping to do a bright and colourful celtic weave which I think will be quite stimulating (for me and him) and will do him a little name plate for his door with a little character, and another one with maybe a marine scene… I’d best get busy, time is growing short already! We’re off for our 24 week check up today, and I’m terrified if the Doc weighs me. I know I’ve put on weight like crazy with this Pregnancy, against all my efforts… and can’t wait to see the raised eyebrows… *SIGH*, but at least I’ll get to hear my baby’s heartbeat again! Have a super weekend ladies – will catch up over the weekend!

Sunday, 23 Mar

27w2d: Today marks the second anniversary of us landing in Ireland. It `s really incredible to sit and think back over the last two years, and how far we `ve come since then. I remember how wide-eyed we were, afraid. Newly-weds (only 2 weeks!) Living out of hostels for our first 2 weeks, being able to afford to feed only one of us a day, working beneath my qualifications just to survive, sometimes being so hard, I wondered if our marriage would survive. Two years, and now we have great jobs, a beautiful apartment, have managed to save money, have taken some amazing European trips, have a car, and are finally making it happen, with a baby on the way... I `m so grateful for everything we `ve endured - it `s only served in the long run to make us stronger, and has forged a bond between us that will never be broken. I could never have done any of this without J nor (he says ;) ) he without me. I can `t help but know in my heart that if this pregnancy had happened even a year ago, I would not be on this site, and we would not be as happy about it. Things happen when they `re meant to, and for a reason, and it seems that our little angel-boy knew exactly the right time to grace us with his presence, to make it a 150% happy event, instead of another source of stress. Jay has been my strength, my best friend, even my opponent at times, pushing us to better ourselves. He `s my everything and the love of my life, and I love him more every day.Our little one grows stronger every day - evidenced by the HUGE kicks I `m getting - I watched my belly bounce while he threw a mini `tantrum ` in utero yesterday... Jay kissed my belly, talked to his son, and put his head on my belly last night - and got rewarded with a kick in the side of the head LOL. He says that `s his son, alright! I had an U/S last Tuesday and got to see my baby `s face again - his little cheeks are filling out now, and I feel so content. I love my life, and am grateful of everything we have, and all we `ve worked so hard for since we `ve been here, and know that everything we `ve done is in preparation for his arrival, whether or not we knew it at the time. In another year we will look into buying our own home, because our boy WILL have a dog or two, and a garden, as we did as children, and everything we can possibly give him.Happy 2 year-new-life to us ;)

Tuesday, 25 Mar

Grief, just shoot me. I `m getting sick for the second time in two weeks.. first a headcold... now this... my husband has the same symptoms and has finally caved and gone to the Dr... now I `m informed he `s been booked off for a week with upper respiratory infection & sinusitis, with what the Dr thinks is flu... I thought we were meant to be healthy in PG... I `m so not going to deal well if that `s what I have, except I `m not sick enough to take the time off work, and with only 8 weeks left...I don `t think I can!! I `m wayyyy too swamped at work to take a week off :(Baby boy is as busy as ever today though - feels like he `s playing with his toes - subtle little movements, but all the time. Somehow preferable to having my spleen kicked out through my navel! LOL

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