I didn't forget my blog...

Wow, it has been quite sometime! I did not forget my blog...we have just has a lot going on. A REAL quick recap of the past 10 1/2 weeks for you...

Ethan screamed pretty much the entire time he was awake for the first 8 weeks of his life. We FINALLY figured out that he had acid reflux AND a milk allergy. We started him on Prevacid and I had to stop nursing. While I was not excited about stopping nursing so quickly it was a no brainer after I saw the way he responded to "special" formula...aka...very expensive stuff! He transformed into a normal happy baby. When baby is happy everyone is happy! We thought for a while there that we were going to lose our minds.

Once we got Ethan happy we got really bad news about me. During my c-section delivery with him my ob removed a good sized cyst from my left ovary. They sent it to pathology just to make sure that is what it was. Well, seven weeks went by and I had somewhat forgotten about it. I went to my ob for my follow up and he informed me that it was not a cyst, but a very rare tumor. A tumor that he had never seen in his 31 years of practice. Needless to say this is when I started freaking out! Thankfully my dad personally knows just the specialist I needed to see at MD Anderson and sent him an email with all my test results. That next week I was at MD Anderson having just about every test you can imagine done to see what we were dealing with. He told us that there is probably less than 100 cases ever reported of this tumor worldwide...that is how rare it is. The good news is that it typically does not spread and in my case it hadn't. The bad news was that there was still something in my ovary and no test could be done to determine what it was. So, the decision was made to remove my ovary and last Wednesday that is what we did. It was a relatively quick and easy procedure and they let me come home that day. I have been sore, but after having a c-section this was a walk in the park as far as recovery goes. Hopefully in a few days I will be back to "normal".

All this being said is the reason there has been no time for my blog! Maybe now that will change. I can happily say that everyone is doing well physically and emotionally now and we are just enjoying our time with Ethan. I have one more week left of maternity leave and then it is back to work I go! :)

Here is a picture of our little man! Enjoy!