Wow, I literally felt my eyes take a gigantic sigh of relief when I returned to this homepage! (See the old-school email I sent out to understand that statement!!)
I decided to add to this posts' appeal with pictures, just to illustrate the point I made in that email! These are a random selection from our last big Atlanta get together (it only allowed six). Aren't you impressed that I managed to repress the urge to only post pics of Will (and maybe Coen)?!! That last one of Gene and Danny was taken at night in the pitch black (no lights even on), believe it or not! I still can't get over how strong my flash is!Anyway, I'm overdue for a nap but just wanted to give a (tiny) information update based on the appointment I had with my neurologist this A.M.. Although he can do nothing to help me now ("Sorry but, I think we unfortunately agree that Junior comes first these days!"), he did ease my mind a bit regarding how those few weeks of medication may have impacted the baby. According to him, all but maybe one of the medicines I was on are really just "potentially dangerous in theory". The lab rat tests are always done at ridiculously high dosages, so negative findings there have to be taken with a grain of salt. And as far as the evidence from human experience goes, there really just isn't any. At least none recorded in a controlled scientific study. So the real issue isn't that they've discovered evidence pointing toward the danger of these medications, it's that they have NOT found evidence pointing to their safety. In the absence of proof that something won't hurt a baby, and if the medication is one that can potentially cross into the placenta, the safest thing to do is consider it a threat. And because no one in their right mind would choose to make their child a guinea pig, many perfectly safe medicines will forever remain unavailable to pregnant women like me. Ironically, that one medication I was taking which is definitely considered potentially harmful was found to be so only after having initially been "proven" safe. The fact of the matter is, one never knows----so less is always best! At least I now feel like there's a higher chance of having NO medicine-related issues than I was thinking before! (Oh, he also said that most of my medications' potential threats involved miscarriage rather than birth defects. And because the baby weathered that exposure period, and I no longer have the meds in my system, that threat is happily a thing of the past!)
Okay, off to take my nap! SANDY
PS----Emily, I'm thinking maybe the reason we're the only ones blogging has more to do with our home-oriented lifestyle than anything else. But I agree that while I enjoy hearing from anyone, it's disappointing to ONLY hear from the people I already have on my cell phone's speed dial!!!!! (Not that I necessarily use that phone often enough!) Also, Dr. Seiden mentioned having just seen my sister, and I told him that you shared his little "easy sister" compliment with me. You should have seen how red his face got while he told me you weren't ever supposed to tell ME that!! It was pretty funny! I assured him that our relationship is such that jokes like that are always well received!!
