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another post that is not *entirely* about my kid
Recall that in August I got my IUD out and resumed taking a triphasic birth control pill.
In the event, that post-IUD extremely heavy bleeding continued right up until I would have expected my period to arrive based on the pill timing. Which meant I was bleeding for 18 days and haaated it. But the next period after that was pretty normal, and the one after that wasn't too bad - although it did have a surprise!bleed-through episode one day at work that I wasn't wild about. The super-plus tampons are just too big for me, especially when there's no way that I've yet identified to anticipate when I'm going to use up a regular one in less than an hour and a half. And the way the using-up is happening, I can't tell until it's too late. Sigh.
Anyway, this week is the week off, and today is Wednesday, so I'd have figured I'd get my period this afternoon or at the latest tomorrow morning. But for what I thought were unrelated reasons, I had a splitting headache when I went to bed last night; it was worse when I woke up this morning, along with some lower-digestive symptoms that made me think let's try to get out in front of it this time, so here we are. And I'm comfortable (ha!) filing this type of excruciating headache as my current PMS symptom. Coffee and ibuprofen took care of it in a couple of hours. If today hadn't been a telework day I'd have made it in to my office even given how miserable I felt. So there's that. Now I guess we'll just see if I can keep it clean for the next few days. (Hm, late update: Tampons are coming out clean but there's bright red blood in the bowl and on the TP. So apparently I've got some bleeding hemorrhoid situation happening. Nothing hurts, but I guess if this keeps up I call the advice line.)
When I first filled the pill prescription, I Was at the pharmacy in my doctor's office and they gave me three packs of pills, which I expected. But my prescription insurance has finally joined the 21st century and allows me to refill online and send me the meds in the mail - a hundred times easier on a number of levels. So I did this as soon as the scrip was eligible, just as I was coming to the end of the second pack. Refill arrives and I put it aside because I have the third of the original packs still to go. Eventually I get to the point where I only have one pack left at all, which puzzles me a bit, worrying that it's too soon to be all the way down to just one pack - did I mistakenly toss a full one when I meant to toss an empty one? Did the cleaners clean something too aggressively? Hrm. In any event I order the next refill, and it comes the next day - and has only two packs in it. /o\ Of course. The mail-order has a 60-day limit rather than 90. It's fine.
Meanwhile, the prince. When he was tiny, I used to sing "Chim Chim Cher-ee" to him, but I hadn't sung it in many months until a couple-few weeks ago he asked for it and I didn't even know what he was talking about. His dad figured it out. So now he asks for "Chim Chim" in among the array of other songs he asks for sometimes, before bed or at naptime, and sometimes he tries to sing it himself. Which is adorable. "Chim chim, chim chim, chim chim, lucky be. Chim chim, chim chim, ooo - happy crew." All the words he sings are in the song and in the right order, but it's fascinating to me what he sings and what he leaves out. He has previously sung "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" more or less accurately and "If You're Happy and You Know It" ("happy, know, clap hands; happy, know, want show, clap hands"), and the other day without any heads up he sang "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" from start to finish - which we have never known they were playing at day care, so we had no idea he'd been exposed to it yet, but in fact he sang every word and even carried the tune pretty well. O.O And in the past couple of days he has begun saying "ashes, ashes, we all fall down" when he plays with his buddies (stuffed animals) by throwing them in the air and dropping them on the floor. :-)
OMG ALSO. On his birthday, during his bedtime routine, he paused before handing me his bottle of iron drops and held it up and said "What that says?" Same question with his vitamin D. And he'd asked similar questions a couple of times during the day, though not as clearly. So I mean: He's had the stories in his books memorized for a long time, and he knows how they go and what words go on each page based on what pictures are on that page. But now this is me marking the calendar: I don't know how long it's going to be before he learns to read, but the day he turned two is officially the day my kid grokked that text is a thing.
In the event, that post-IUD extremely heavy bleeding continued right up until I would have expected my period to arrive based on the pill timing. Which meant I was bleeding for 18 days and haaated it. But the next period after that was pretty normal, and the one after that wasn't too bad - although it did have a surprise!bleed-through episode one day at work that I wasn't wild about. The super-plus tampons are just too big for me, especially when there's no way that I've yet identified to anticipate when I'm going to use up a regular one in less than an hour and a half. And the way the using-up is happening, I can't tell until it's too late. Sigh.
Anyway, this week is the week off, and today is Wednesday, so I'd have figured I'd get my period this afternoon or at the latest tomorrow morning. But for what I thought were unrelated reasons, I had a splitting headache when I went to bed last night; it was worse when I woke up this morning, along with some lower-digestive symptoms that made me think let's try to get out in front of it this time, so here we are. And I'm comfortable (ha!) filing this type of excruciating headache as my current PMS symptom. Coffee and ibuprofen took care of it in a couple of hours. If today hadn't been a telework day I'd have made it in to my office even given how miserable I felt. So there's that. Now I guess we'll just see if I can keep it clean for the next few days. (Hm, late update: Tampons are coming out clean but there's bright red blood in the bowl and on the TP. So apparently I've got some bleeding hemorrhoid situation happening. Nothing hurts, but I guess if this keeps up I call the advice line.)
When I first filled the pill prescription, I Was at the pharmacy in my doctor's office and they gave me three packs of pills, which I expected. But my prescription insurance has finally joined the 21st century and allows me to refill online and send me the meds in the mail - a hundred times easier on a number of levels. So I did this as soon as the scrip was eligible, just as I was coming to the end of the second pack. Refill arrives and I put it aside because I have the third of the original packs still to go. Eventually I get to the point where I only have one pack left at all, which puzzles me a bit, worrying that it's too soon to be all the way down to just one pack - did I mistakenly toss a full one when I meant to toss an empty one? Did the cleaners clean something too aggressively? Hrm. In any event I order the next refill, and it comes the next day - and has only two packs in it. /o\ Of course. The mail-order has a 60-day limit rather than 90. It's fine.
Meanwhile, the prince. When he was tiny, I used to sing "Chim Chim Cher-ee" to him, but I hadn't sung it in many months until a couple-few weeks ago he asked for it and I didn't even know what he was talking about. His dad figured it out. So now he asks for "Chim Chim" in among the array of other songs he asks for sometimes, before bed or at naptime, and sometimes he tries to sing it himself. Which is adorable. "Chim chim, chim chim, chim chim, lucky be. Chim chim, chim chim, ooo - happy crew." All the words he sings are in the song and in the right order, but it's fascinating to me what he sings and what he leaves out. He has previously sung "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" more or less accurately and "If You're Happy and You Know It" ("happy, know, clap hands; happy, know, want show, clap hands"), and the other day without any heads up he sang "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" from start to finish - which we have never known they were playing at day care, so we had no idea he'd been exposed to it yet, but in fact he sang every word and even carried the tune pretty well. O.O And in the past couple of days he has begun saying "ashes, ashes, we all fall down" when he plays with his buddies (stuffed animals) by throwing them in the air and dropping them on the floor. :-)
OMG ALSO. On his birthday, during his bedtime routine, he paused before handing me his bottle of iron drops and held it up and said "What that says?" Same question with his vitamin D. And he'd asked similar questions a couple of times during the day, though not as clearly. So I mean: He's had the stories in his books memorized for a long time, and he knows how they go and what words go on each page based on what pictures are on that page. But now this is me marking the calendar: I don't know how long it's going to be before he learns to read, but the day he turned two is officially the day my kid grokked that text is a thing.