Shingles have set in, Friday, July 14, 2006

Picture - Saturday, July 15, 2006...ready to go!

On Thursday, July 13, 2006 three postcards arrived in the mail from Hadi. Two for Jessica and one for Bruce and I. Beautiful beaches and an awesome sunset from the land of paradise. He is very excited and can't wait to hear when the girls have arrived.

Jess found a bit of a rash on her back so we went over to see Dr. Carla Eisenhauer about it. We found out that she has "Shingles" now...so what's next! Jess said something to the effect of "I must have been mean to someone or something cause there just seems to be bad Karma here". She is to take 4 pills five times a day of Acyclovir (which cost her $125.78 - adding insult to injury!) and she is on them for 7 days. Dr. Carla called the anesthetist to see if this would interfere with her being induced on Tuesday but he is away until Monday, so she will find out on Monday and let us know. If so, she may have to wait until Friday to deliver, which just happens to be my birthday. That would be nice, but we would like them to arrive earlier so they have more time to be with us before we take them out to B.C. on the houseboats. Right at this moment though, they are content where they are I guess.

I just took the picture above, Saturday, July 15, 2006...guess that will be the last "every two weeks" photo shot. Jess's bags are packed and she is "good to go"!

July 12, 2006 Dr. Appointment, etc.

On Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Nadine brought over the "Nursing Pillow" that she had designed and made for Jessica, along with 3 extra covers for when washing needs to be done. She is so talented, she did a great job!

At 8 a.m. sharp on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, Ninette Denis (from ELRP) was the technician who performed the 1 hour ultrasound on Jess at RUH. There were not any weights done during this test, it was a "Biophysical Profile" on the babes to check out their movements. Unfortunately, all Jess had eaten before going in were a few strawberries, so the girls were too laid back and Ninette had to "alarm" them to wake them up to perform the ultrasound. We then headed across the hall to have another non-stress test done on the babes, their heartrates were right around 150 and 135 for most of that test. It was actually alot better having the non-stress test done at RUH because they have a twins monitor so Jess just had to sit there 15 to 20 minutes instead of at Dr. Martel's office where she had to sit there for 30 to 40 minutes...it was quite uncomfortable. From RUH it was over to Dr. Martel's office for a check up. She told Jess that she would book her in to be induced on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 if she doesn't have them before then.

Later on that day Tami Turner came by with a basket of "goodies" the she and her mom had put together for the babes since she is heading out of town this weekend, just in case they decide to arrive while she is gone. There were all kinds of great surprises in there!

July 10 2006 Video of Laser Surgery Arrives!!!

Picture - Jess tries out the medicine ball...

On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 we toured over to Auntie Jeannie's so Jess could get 2 inches trimmed off of her hair before she has the same "hair raising" experience like she did at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Lesley's fiance Paul's parents were away from July 6-9 at a wedding at Elkridge, so Jess and I went to stay at their house for the weekend, they have a very "dark, cool and quiet" basement where Jessi could sleep to help her to rest better than she is able to at the condo. There will not be any more trips to the lake now until after the babes are born so this was a nice escape from the noise of construction.

On Monday, July 10, 2006 we finally received the Video and CD from Mt. Sinai Hospital of Jessi's laser surgery that was performed on Thursday, March 30, 2006. Now we can prove to people that they really are identical twin girls that Jessi is carrying...it is so awesome to have.

Jessi is ready to the girls to "vacate the premises" so on Monday, July 10, 2006 Lesley lent her medicine ball to Jess to see if she could "bounce" them out...no, it didn't work!

July 3, 2006 Dr. Appointment

Picture - July 1, 2006, Auntie Milly talks to the babes and gives them a "love tap"...

One of Jessi's best friends, Laura Dixon's dad was the one who performed the ultrasound on the babes this morning and he gave us two copies of the picture of the babies heads for their baby books. Yes, both are head down, must have been all that movement last week. Lesley, Bruce and I all joined her for the ultrasound. The measurements were for Twin A - 5 lbs. 1 ozs. and Twin B - 4 lbs. 10 ozs. Jessi has gained just about forty pounds as she weighs in at 169 lbs. Again, the stress test said only that they are "happy babies" which is a good thing. Dr. Martel told Jess that she didn't think she would make it any more than 10 days from today. So, in less that two weeks we will finally hold those bundles of joy and Jess will be able to try to deliver naturally, yeah!

Lesley has to work every day this week except the 5th which is her day in the "Baby Pool" so she is hoping they will arrive on her day so she can take part in the delivery process too. Lesley and Paul also have to attend a wedding up at Elkridge by Waskesui this weekend so she hopes the babes won't decide to come on either the 7th, 8th or 9th...good luck with that Les. Like Jessi has been telling everyone, it's not up to her, it's up to them when they will grace us with their presence.

Don't worry, we will keep you informed of the progress as it happens!

Last visit to Emerald July Long Weekend

Picture - June 29, 2006 Jess & Grammi play Dr. Mario...

Dr. Martel told Jess that she could continue to go to the lake until she reached her 36th week. So, off we went to the lake on Thursday June 28, 2006 for the long weekend, even though we would have to go home Sunday night as her next Dr.'s appointment and ultrasound are on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 8:40 a.m.

There wasn't any golfing this weekend, just a bit more relaxing - if you can call playing Dr. Mario (Nintendo) relaxing. Jess even got Grammi Wilson involved in Dr. Mario...even though she plays at a lower level and speed, I find it quite incredible that this woman of 81 years of age is still willing to learn or challenge her grandchildren to a game. Of course, Jess has proven to be the "Queen of Boggle" since she plays us and lets us win the odd game, otherwise she ruthlessly checks any words she's unsure of in the dictionary for us!!!

We enjoyed "goodies" from Kami's ice cream store at the beach...that's about as far as a walk would get to this weekend. Brad gave Jess a tour around on his golf cart to save some energy. We even lit up the campfire so we could have "bush pies" for supper before we headed back to the city Sunday night, yum yum.

A Flu Bug June 26 2006

I was off to work on Monday, June 26 when at 8:10 a.m. I got a call from Jess saying that she felt like she was dying...a bad flu bug! I took her into emergency, they checked her over and filled her with 1 1/2 bags IV and gave her some gravol. They performed a stress test on the babes but all seemed fine with them, thankfully. Jess was able to come home at 2:30 p.m.

Jessi noticed that there was quite a bit of movement at the beginning of the week and I noticed that she seemed to have dropped. She started to get phone calls, like on June 28th which was Auntie Deb's day (also Deb and Guy's Anniversary) in the "Baby Pool", she got two calls from Deb to see if anything was happening. When she told Deb "not much", Deb asked her to put the phone to the babes and she tried coaxing them out, but it just did not work. Oh no, they already aren't listening!