I’m crossing things off of my to-do list everyday, which brings be closer and closer to my actual delivery date! Last week it was the dance recital and soccer games. This week it was more soccer games, the piano recital and yesterday my two older boys had their art show! I’ll be posting some of the pictures from that. So the end of the school year winds down, and our new baby’s impending birth looms so close!!
On Wednesday I took everyone but Calvin with me to my OB appointment. Calvin is just simply overloaded with this birthing stuff. If you want to teach your teenager about abstinence – have a baby!! It’s a great visual aid!!
Anyway, my OB, (who we chose mainly for his surgical skills and not his bedside manner) was pretty cool around the kids. He let them hear the heart beat and then he arranged for them to actually see their sister via ultrasound! That was pretty cool.
I had some trepidation about going back into this particular ultrasound room. This is where I first saw my Raphael, so the memories weren’t good ones. But I didn’t mention this to anyone as we entered. The kids were fascinated with the machinery but what they REALLY liked was the goop the technician put all over my stomach!! In fact the boys were much more interested in the slimy goop on my stomach than the baby on the t.v. screen!! Still it was fascinating to see her. She is head down, which surprised me because walking isn’t as bad as it has been in previous pregnancies. She is still rather high though. We saw her backbone and her face and head. She is NOT presenting like a little lady either – so it was no problem to verify that yep – she’s a girl!!
My long-time client finally sent me a note about why she wasn’t going to use my services like before. I am definitely a victim of the poor state of malpractice litigation in Ohio. Her malpractice went from around $5000 in 1999 to over $28,000 today!! So it’s a cost cutting measure. I certainly can understand that. On the other hand I think having readable documentation would be very important should a case ever come up and it disturbs me that if a cost had to be cut, transcription with the independent contractor would be the first thing to go! She mentioned that she would understand if I had to find another client to fill in the gap – glad I have already partially done that- back in April!!
Since I started having kids, God has worked things like this out in my life. A client would come when I needed one, and go when it was too much (like when I started homeschooling). I’m thinking that perhaps God decided that the drive twice a week out to this particular client’s office (36 miles round trip) was too much with the children I have and the ages they are. Or perhaps He has some other plan for us and he needed to clean my plate up a bit.
Interestingly I heard Donald Trump (not exactly the voice of God but he did have a good point yesterday)on the radio. He was talking about how Tiger Woods didn’t make it into some tournament. If you remember, Woods just recently won the Master’s Tournament, so this wasn’t about diminishing skills or that he wasn’t able to get into this tournament, but for some reason it just didn’t happen this time. Trump had two points. One is that you can never get complacent. Even if you are the best in the world you have to keep honing your skill and not taking it for granted. After almost 15 years with this client, maybe that was me. I know I certainly didn’t expect to lose this client in my last trimester of this pregnancy this year! Trump also said though that sometimes no matter what you do, or how hard you work, or how much effort you put into something, sometimes it just doesn’t work out. And that made sense to me too. I had been a loyal worker. Twice a week, every week, 15 years, through rain and snow storms many times at 6:00 a.m. Sometimes running out important reports with a baby in the middle of the day (before I had a reliable fax program). But sometimes even extra effort, consistency and loyalty aren’t enough and it just won’t work out. I don’t know if Donald Trump was supposed to be my prophet this week, but I’m glad I heard that message on the radio!
I’ll be writing sympathy cards (to Uncle Sam’s daughters) and thank you notes (to friends who have sent baby gifts) this weekend, and trying to get myself ready for this new baby. I’m going to try to hit confession today, and then I think I’m going to last for the anointing of the sick, just because it is a C-section and I want to be ready. Luckily at my size, I don’t have the energy or inclination to run up a multitude of sins between this week and next!! ha ha…
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