Tagged!

OK- I was tagged. These are so fun to me- if you are reading this and you have a blog- consider yourself tagged too!

1. What is your occupation? Homemaker- mommy & wife!
2. What color are your socks right now?  barefoot 
3. What are you listening to right now?  The windchimes blowing outside the window- other than that, complete silence. Everyone else is asleep, because it’s 11:30 pm!

4. What is the last thing that you ate? Dinner- apple, cheezits and pepperjack cheese.

5. Can you drive a stick shift?  No, but I think I’d be cooler if I did know how.

6. What color would you be if you were a color?  Depends on the day…yellow some days, blue on others…

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?  David

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yep

9. How old are you today?  31
10. Favorite drink?  Lately it has been Cherry Limeades.

11. What is your favorite sport to watch? Football.

12. Have you ever dyed your hair?  Only a few hundred times…and a few different colors.
13. Pets?  None.

14. Favorite food?  Chili Rellenos

15. Last movie you watched at a movie theater?  Horton Hears a Who…until Sam had to go to the bathroom during the last 10 minutes of the movie.

16. What do you do to vent anger? Say too much and then regret it.

17. What was your favorite toy as a child?  The mud-I was always making mud tunnels or mud pies.
18. Cherry or Blueberry? Cherry

19. What is your favorite fall or spring? Definitely Spring!

20. When was the last time you cried?  Today.
21.  Favorite smell?  Orange vanilla.

22. Plain cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese

23. Favorite cat breed?  Not a cat person.

24. Number of keys on your key ring? 3
25. How many years at your current job?  3

26. Favorite day of the week? Probably Saturday when we all lay in bed together and watch cartoons and David makes “super duper” pancakes.
27. How many states have you lived in? Just TX!

Update on Jenn

Hello all! I am so sorry that I haven’t updated this until now! The internal echocardiogram (transesophageal echcardiogram) had great news. The internal echo is much more accurate and showed pressure in the pulmonary artery to be a “high” normal- but the word that we are focusing on is “normal”. My lung function is fine, and they find no evidence of holes in my heart, or enlargement, or clots. I do have Mitral Valve Prolapse, which is a very common heart disorder. In most cases, this is a harmless disorder-which doesn’t shorten life expectancy or require treatment. However, that, along with my rapid heart rate may have caused the first two echos to be inaccurate- hence the internal one that we finally did. 

The other thing that I continue to have is a rapid heartbeat (running about 100-140 bpm). The Drs feel that this may be pregnancy related due to the increase in blood volume that you have when you are pregnant. They have me on a beta blocker medication that will help control blood pressure and slow down my heart a bit. We did have an appt with a 2nd cardiologist to get another opinion- he looked at my file and assured me that he felt I am fine. We do have another follow up echo scheduled for May 12.

I will be seeing a high risk baby Dr twice a week (just to monitor Max-he’s been fine through all of this) and my OBGYN once a week until Max is born. I also will see a cardiologist one more time (the May 12 appt), and the lung specialist once more before Max is born.

So, here are my prayer requests:

1)Pray that Max develops normally- the medication that I am on can cause lower birth weights.

2)Pray that the birth goes well- and that Max and I are safe.

3)Pray for me with this rapid heartbeat- it can be a bit unerving when you heart is going so fast!

4)Pray that my heart rate will return to normal- either now or after Max is born.

5)Pray for Max as I breast feed him while I am on this medication, that it will have no negative effects on him.

6)Pray for wisdom for the Drs.

7)Last, but certainly not least: Praise God that the news we have received is not at all what we initially were looking at!