One Week...7 Days...39 Weeks!!!

The end is near!!! Either any day now...or in 7 days or at the most in 10 days we'll meet our little one!! I can't wait. We are so ready.

I am off to the Dr in about an hour...hopefully there will be news. But I am not holding my breath. I still feel exactly the same as I have the past few weeks. So if that is any indication, there is still no baby coming any time soon.

Update: The Dr's was yet again uneventful. Since my regular Dr is still out of town and I was seing another Dr, this Dr had nothing to compare this visit to...but he still said that everything is still a no go for a baby any time soon. And after tonights vet visit, it is a good thing that a baby is not coming any time soon...see below...

On the other side of things...my baby Mack hurt himself yesterday. We went on our normal Sunday hike at the park. About 2 minutes in Mack was only walking on 3 legs. So both Jimmy and I took a look at his foot, leg etc. We both moved it around, bent it different ways, etc. and nothing. He didn't cry flinch or anything. But he still wouldn't walk on it at all. It didn't really stop him at all while we were hiking through the woods, he was still running fast (on 3 legs) and going full force.

We decided to give it overnight, give him a little buffered asprin and see how it went. And as of this morning he is still walking only on 3 legs :( So soon after my Dr's appointment we will be taking him to the vet....and I am assuming to get some xrays. :( I really hope it is just a pulled muscle or something, but I have a feeling it is worse. We'll see. Keep your fingers crossed that he is ok.

Update: Well my fears were right. Mack either has a partially torn or fully torn cruciate ligament in his left knee. Which means surgery. So we called the surgeon we had used when we lived in Northern Virginia for both Tucker and Mack's prior surgeries...and he himself is having surgery tomorrow. So the first time they could get us in with the other Dr in the practice was next Tuesday...surgery on Wednesday and then pick him up on Thursday. Since I could possibly have a baby before then or will be getting induced on Thursday this won't work. Plus it is over an hour away from here...so if we got him there then I went into labor or something we'd have a very hard time trying to find someone who could pick him up for us.

So our vet recommended 2 surgeons at a local surgical referral practice. So we called them tonight and they had no appointments until next Wednesday!! But I explained our situation to the lady on the phone and she told me to call back at 9am tomorrow morning to talk to the office manager and explain our baby situation to her and see if she can get us into one of the Dr's "emergency" slots...what Mack has is not considered an emergency, but she said they might let us in that way. Hopefully they do...because if we can get the surgery done before the end of the week and him back home, that would be so great!! I just want him back home and well before the baby gets here. I will keep you posted about what happens when we call tomorrow.

Ok...I'll be back later with Dr and Vet news...hopefully both good.

Until then...

Adios :)