Before I start my blog for the week, I just wanted to say thank for the comments y'all leave me!! I don't comment back, but I do read them and I do appreciate them!! And thanks for the continued love, support and prayers!! They are always welcome and greatly appreciated!!
Jeff donated blood this evening at my school's blood drive. He was so nervous and anxious. His stomach was in knots and he was so freaked out!! Afterwards, he told me that he felt so good mentally knowing he just saved three lives, but he felt like such a weiney because it hurt and he felt out of it. He said, "Gosh babe!! How do you do this?! You get these needles twice a week, getting all that stuff pumped in you and you walk around with a needle in your arm for five or six hours! I could never do that!"
Yes you could. All of you reading this blog could do it. I'm not any stronger or any braver than any other mother or father. It's simply a question of what would you do for your child? Would you take a bullet? Would you walk on glass? Would you have needles shoved up your arm and endure all the nastiness if it kept your baby safe and free from pain? Yes!! You would!!
How do I do it? Everytime Becca, my nurse, shoves the needle in, I just think to myself that I can handle the stinging and burning for a few minutes if it means Samuel can live. I can handle laying on the couch getting the medicine while I watch my shows that I DVR every week.
Honestly, anybody can do it!! Look at your kids!! What would you NOT do for them!! Hell, all of us have been puked on, peed on and pooped on!! Blood products can't be that much worse! I will take an IV over spit up in my mouth any day!!! Haha!!!
33 weeks tomorrow!! Treatment #24 tomorrow!! Only eight more after that!!
The only thing I'm really dreading is when I have to go donate my platelets before delivery. Those are big needles and my veins are horrible now!! But again........what wouldn't I do?!
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agreed! we do it because we love them. there's no other option. had you considered getting a PICC line? my veins were nonexistent...no seriously. and that thing made it sooooo much easier. it was definitely a pain to care for, but it was my only option.
ReplyDeleteWe will see how today goes!! I've been using my AC veins but they are getting hardened from scar tissue. Yuck!!
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