{"id":6692,"date":"2014-04-15T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:06:26","slug":"2014-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2014\/04\/15\/2014-april\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 – April part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month had an interesting start to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryia was in a LOT of pain. We took her to Urgent Care who referred her to the ER. At the ER it was determined that she needed to have gallbladder surgery. Whaaaaaaat?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, she would need to stay in the hospital for a while to recover as well. That means that I would need to take some time off of work and stay at home with the baby. I ended up using most of the vacation time that I had saved up so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would return to the hospital each day. It was quite an ordeal having a newborn at home. As we did not expect something like this to happen, we also didn’t have a bunch of breast milk saved or anything – so for a little, if Arabella got hungry at home she had formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guess who was worried? Yeah – that one cat we have. Jake would kind of sit there and stare at me – like hey! Where is mom? Ended up marking Maryia as a fall risk after the surgery too. She was not enjoying her time away (which I can’t blame her for).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were finally given the all clear and mommy was back at home with her baby. She was pretty tired from the whole ordeal so she did a bit of sleeping – Arabella didn’t seem to mind. I even was holding Arabella at the hospital once and she fell asleep in my Blazers jacket. Oh yeah – I’m totally rasing this girl up as a Blazers fan (as if there was EVER any doubt about that)! She looks good in the red and black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We won a contest from Huggies and ended up getting a YEARS SUPPLY of diapers. Yeah, not kidding. This is a HUGE blessing and something we really needed. See above for the photo of the wall of diapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A random photo for you: the 50-year anniversary of the Mustang this year – with that they recreated the event on the Empire state building (which I thought was pretty cool).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’ll leave you with a photo of the cat that wanted to cuddle. He came over and cuddled me when Arabella started to cry with me. There are many times when I try to hold her and she just screams and wants her mommy. In this instance, Jake saw and came over to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just Pray<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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note: this post was published on 09\/28\/22 but moved the publish date back to the middle of April 2014 to keep chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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