April 8th, 2009
What a Ridiculous Day
My day started out sucky at 2 a.m. – and it has only gotten worse. I must have done something bad for the universe to be this pissy with me.
Sucky Incident #1 – 2:00 AM: The only three times in the last year that I have gotten a decent stretch of sleep (and by decent I mean 4-5 hours) I have awoken each time with a plugged milk duct. The second time, I got mastitis, which is something I honestly would not wish on my very worst enemy. The strange part is that I can easily go 6-7 hours between pumping when I'm awake without even getting all that engorged. But g*d forbid I get an ounce of sleep. I have come to think of plugged ducts as my punishment for getting a tiny bit more rest than the universe apparently wants me to have.
So last night I woke up at 2 a.m. with a rock hard wedge in my right breast. I poked John and told him to go get Julesy so I could nurse him. Well, after Julesy drained the rest of the breast, the rock hard wedge was just that much more pronounced. I went to look in the bathroom mirror and I could actually see it then. My boob looked half deflated. I went back in the bedroom and told Huz to feel it and as soon as he touched it he jumped back and said "Holy crap!" So, I jumped in the tub and started trying to work it out, like I did the first time this happened (the time I didn't get mastitis). Luckily this time I knew exactly what I was looking for, and I located the little white sliver right away. It only took a few seconds of squeezing and it popped out, then the geiser of milk flowed behind it. The most insane thing happened next — it KEPT shooting out. I wasn't milking myself at all, I just cupped my breast on either side and watched it shoot out a stream of breastmilk halfway across the tub for 8 or 9 straight minutes (I was watching the clock.) Imagine if you filled a water balloon and stuck a tiny pinhole in it. It would shoot out a little pin-sized stream of water until he was completely deflated. That's exactly what my breast did. Man, these are some weird-ass parts we females have.
After the geiser died down, I got out of the bathtub, pumped 5 more ounces, then laid in bed for another hour and a half unable to sleep.
Sucky Incident #2 – 7:30 AM: When I woke up with Julesy this morning, I realized his eye was almost swollen shut. It was looking kind of bruised yesterday and the day before, but we thought it might just be an irritation from allergies, and decided to keep an eye on it to see if it got worse. Well, this morning, it was much, much worse. He looked like a boxer. So we rushed around calling the doctor, seeing what could be done, then getting him ready to go to the doctor with Grandma while we had to go off to work.*
Sucky Incident #3 – 9:00 AM: I get to work, open my backpack, and realize I don't have my laptop with me. My company-issued, only-computer-I-have-at-work laptop; the laptop that I absolutely must have in order to complete any work at all. I was so distracted by the puffy-eyed baby that I completely forgot to put my laptop in my backpack. Since I'm all the way downtown, I know it will take me a few hours back and forth (dependant on the train schedule) to go home and retrieve it. Crap!
I called MIL to see if she was already on her way to the doctor, thinking she might be able to bring it to me. She was already on her way, but offered to turn around and bring it to me. Since I knew she was already running late for the doctor, and since I didn't want to make her drag the kids all the way downtown, I decided just to tell my boss about the missing laptop and see what she suggested. Luckily she'd had the same thing happen to her some months back. She told me that our technical center had loaners they could give me for the day – so that's what I'm typing on now. Of course I'm missing some files I need to get some things completed, but all-in-all I can live without my own laptop for just one day.
It's 11 a.m. How much worse could it get today? I have a midterm tonight. Perhaps I'll bomb it and wrap up this day on the same sour note it started on.
Wish me luck…
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*BTW, it turns out Julesy's swollen eye is from an ear infection – the infection spread from his sinuses, into his ear, and caused the fluid to build up behind his eye. crazy. Some antibiotics have been prescribed to treat the mess.
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Sorry to hear about your sucktacular day. Good luck on your exam!
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I am so sorry your day has been so sucky and I feel badly for laughing so hard when I read about your plugged milk duct. Have you ever read the book “The Milk Memos”? I just finished it and they have some pretty funny milk moments in there. Good luck with the rest of your day.
~Melissa
http://www.nursingbirth.com
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Wow–boobs are amazing, freaky things. 
As for the rest of your sucky day, I hope it gets better. It sounds like one of those shitty days we all get from time to time–when we think someone is surely shitting on us.
Poor Jules! I hope he gets better asap–ear infections suck!
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No, I’ve never heard of “The Milk Memos” but I definitely want to read it now.
Plugged ducts are kind of like pimples… you don’t want to get them, but they’re strangely satisfying to pop, which makes you want to get them just to pop them. Gross, but true.
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Wow, I hope your day improves… How is the weaning going?
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I won’t start the weaning until May 16th (his 1 year birthday) but with last night’s events I’m now even more scared to start the process. I have to wean him AND my own boobs. This is looking to be quite complicated.
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