january 18, 2008

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3:09pm

M has a cold and i hope to god i don't get it!

tomorrow his parents come for a short visit.

this coming tuesday my mom goes in to surgery for her cancer :/
it is stage 2 which is better than they had thought previously, so she doesn't have to have the chemo and radiation beforehand, she can just go straight to surgery so....
she's going in next week and hopefully then that will be that and they will get it all out.
she is so nervous, understandably.

afterwards i might have to go stay at her house for a little while to take care of her because it will be major abdominal surgery and she won't be able to lift anything over 5 pounds for several weeks.

god, i really hope it all goes ok.

i miss my dogs.

everything else is going a-ok in my life.

i'm just sleepy and sore and ready for winter to be over with.

it's like zero degrees here.

 

strangely (or not), when lili was first diagnosed with T21, i thought "i wonder if there are/were any cultures who worshipped people with T21 as gods (due to their "buddha nature")". i googled this but could find nothing.

today i was reading unringing the bell and she wrote that she is on a mailing list that someone wrote this to:

"In lieu of a meeting tonight I am going to relay a little known fact. George (my husband) just came back from a guys' trip to Mexico. Being a history buff he took a trip to the ancient Mayan capital of Chichenitxu (sp). His tour guide was a Mayan named Antonio.

Antonio evidentially was a wealth of Mayan history - gets good here - the Mayan people worshiped people with DS, thought that they were gods. Their philosophy was that the gods came to earth in these bodies because only gods were pure love. All people with DS were revered. They attempted to "breed gods" by breeding people with DS and as that was difficult began inbreeding family members and so on. That was the beginning of inbreeding for the Mayans.

Amazing! And - George never told anyone on the trip that he had a daughter with DS - this info is part of the standard tour - one of the greatest civilizations ever worshiped our "gods". Antonio says that when any tourists with DS visit they are still treated as gods."

i don't know how much of that is true...but it makes sense to me that this would have happened somewhere/someplace in time along the way on earth.

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i'm glad i found this:
http://urbanmamas.typepad.com/urbanmamas/2007/02/postpartum_join.html

because i ache ALL over badly and i wanted to know if this has happened to anyone else.
now i feel like there is hope for me to get my body back on track somewhat because it's not abnormal for me to feel this way 5 1/2 months postpartum.

it's not totally my joints, tho, it's my ligaments and muscles and well....everything.
everything on my entire body hurts.

gah.

someone says in the comments on that page that there are supplement one can take to specifically strengthen bone and soft tissue.
i wish they would have said what those are because i want to take them!

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yesterday we let lili taste the tiniest amount of oatmeal but she had no interest in it whatsoever.