an update? (heh, what a title!)
Yes, I'm not a good LJer... Anyway, what's been goin' on... I'm 21+ weeks preggy, and, it's another girl on the way!
So far it's been fine - the first trimester I was so tired, I sorta somehow carried myself through it - classical preggy stuff. Aside from being so tired, my home computer is in a really sad state... it's time to admit that it's passed its time - once *the* state of the art, now it's basically old... it's slow, the disk is full, and I so wish for a new one... I didn't dare reinstall photoshop on it... I wouldn't be able to open it and I miss it so much. I can PS a bit at work, but I'm very very busy so that's practically a luxury...
So anyway, my 1st trimester tiredness and the computer sadness basically put all my previous PC life on hold... it's mostly forum browsing, a bit of emuling... I stopped downloading torrents and am behind with everything... sigh.... but it's not that bad, too busy to complain that much...
Once I entered my second trimester (week 14), it was like a miracle and so by the book - I suddenly regained my life back - I could stay awake beyond 8:30 in the evening! I can do things! Go around - buy stuff, meet people, talk on the messenger till late, watch some TV shows... Wow! I was so amazed! *snort*
The only snag so far is that I was found to be a carrier of a genetic disorder called "Glycogen Storage Disease" - basically my sister was found to be a carrier, and so I had myself tested and it's a family thing. The baby could be at risk of having this disease if both parents are carriers, so Roy had to be tested and it took forever to get the results - in the meanwhile I had an amniosythesis - in Israel you get this for free if you are over 35... and I'm gonna be 37 in a few weeks (yikes!)... I still haven't gotten the results (brrrrrr)... but found out the procedure is painless! We almost had to test for the Glycogen Storage Disease within the cells taken from the amnio cause the results took too long to come - we got them at the very last minute.... like some action movie or something - Roy tested negative and thus we are in the clear... it does mean that Gal, and future sister, will have to be tested once they plan to have children someday....
As for Gal - she figured out that I was carrying pretty quickly... when I was just 8 weeks preggy, she patted my belly and announced that I was carrying a baby girl! Who needs ultrsounds when you have preschoolers, eh? She is totally involved - kisses my belly daily, watches all sorts of birth/pregnancy proggies with me and is very excited. Still, I know it will not be an easy process moving from being the only child in the house to having to share us with somebody else... and to add to all the stress, the new one will be arriving just as Gal will be starting a new kindy and there's nothing we can do about this, despite the fact that it's not recommended that we have too many changes when a new baby arrives... but it just so happens that the new school year starts on Sept. 1st and our due date is August 27...
I also have no idea how we will manage two - and we still have no arrangement for the new one cause the woman who took care of Gal at that age has stopped working.... sigh...
MY boss, OTOH already wants to know my plans.... bahhh, and is thinking of finding a temporary replacement for me.... I don't like the sound of this cause I'm always worried the temp will want to take over my job, or will be better than me... temps tend to try and take over the jobs of people they replace if they have no other job. Previously the guy who replaced me tried to badmouth everybody so that he will stay .... didn't work.... luckily... apparently he wasn't that great at what he was doin'... so basically I plan to take the minimum time off if I can help it.... just to make sure my workplace is safe...
OK.... how's that for an update, eh?