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Month: April 2016

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post-sinus surgery

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 spokanemamma

On Friday, I had sinus surgery again, my third. So it turns out that if you have allergies, that causes inflammation, and your body responds to chronic inflammation by creating these polyps. Anyway, there was a walnut-sized polyp in one of my sinuses, and then another polyp was blocking the upper (ethmoid) sinus, and when… Continue reading post-sinus surgery

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this is going to be my son!

April 11, 2016April 26, 2016 spokanemamma

  This is totally going to be my son. He loves his baby sister, but he loves annoying her more than anything, I think. Right now, she can't speak, so she just wails whenever he does something that aggravates her, which is often, ha! But as soon as she starts talking, I'm sure it will… Continue reading this is going to be my son!

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busy but good day

April 9, 2016April 26, 2016 spokanemamma

The hubs is not sentimental about stuff: his motto, like my mother, is "Get rid of it!" Even if something once had sentimental value to him, if it was in our storage shed, it got tossed or donated to Goodwill today.

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children’s ER

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 spokanemamma

It's Sunday, so we must be at the Children's Emergency Room. The dedicated professionals make it easier to go, but still, it sucks having a sick baby. This was her third day of having a fever, so the hubs and I decided to take her to the children's ER. We didn't wait at all: they… Continue reading children’s ER

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feverish daughter

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 spokanemamma

There are few things in life worse than a sick baby. When they are feeling awful all over the place, they just want to be held by mommy. And who is this needed mommy? Me, of course: selfish, overdriven, got-stuff-to-do me.

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