Today it hit me that Nadia drinks warm milk (whereas people usually drink cold milk), and she eats cold food - even things like mashed potatoes. I don't think switching to eating food warm will be a challenge. Not everything is backwards. Most people do eat cold yogurt and cottage cheese. :-) I think though getting her to drink cold milk is going to be a challenge. First we need to keep working on that sippy cup. The fast flow nipples don't work for her on the bottle - milk just spills out all over the place. Well hopefully in the next couple of months she'll get the hang of it as I know they don't like babies being on a bottle once they hit one year old.
Last night I skipped choir rehearsal. The first reason was because tonight there is a Maundy Thursday service which I planned to attend. The choir is singing two songs. However I was forgetting that the earliest Paul gets home on a Thursday is 7pm, and that's when the service starts, and the church is 12 minutes from home plus of course the choir has to be there earlier than that. Since that's Nadia's bed time and they probably won't have a nursery, it just didn't seem like I could go. So because I won't be singing tonight or Easter Sunday (because I'm doing special music at my previous church), it didn't make sense to go last night since rehearsing the 4 songs for tonight and Easter would take up much of the time. The second reason was because I was exhausted. I put Nadia down at 7pm and was asleep myself by 7:30pm. She woke up around 6am, and that's when I woke up too. I was obviously very tired!
The nurse asked me last month what my main side effects were from Lupron the last two times I was on it, and I said exhaustion and headaches. She said the most common one is hot flashes. Nope. I've felt rather chilly lately. If I remember correctly, this exhaustion didn't last forever. I think it took a week or so for my body to adjust. Until then I think I'll be going to bed soon after Nadia each night. That's another good reason not to go to the service tonight although I know I would have enjoyed it. In light of my headache and exhuastion, the only thing on my to do list today aside from caring for a sweet little girl is to write a final exam for a new course I'm teaching this summer.
When Paul gave me the shot this morning he made some comment about making sure he didn't get any female hormones on him. Well it's true that the other shots I'll take starting next week are female hormones, but these aren't. In fact Lupron is primarily used to treat prostate cancer. It says "oncology" on the box. So actually more men come in contact with this drug than women do. Isn't it weird how a drug used to treat a form of cancer only men get can be used for fertility reasons for a woman? Go figure.
2 comments:
I will be guilty and admit that both of my two kids still want their milk warm. If they will drink it, I don't care. Tyler will not drink his unless it is warm enough.
Jaco and Sofia still drink their milk warm and I don't see a problem with that (In Italy it is very common to drink warm milk). In any case, if you want to help her transition, I recommend warming it up for progressively less time so that she won't mind.
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