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I haven't really had much to blog about lately. Everything has kind of been at a stand still from when I last posted. Matt still doesnt know anything about his job. The Army likes to do things on their own time. So its a waiting game. Really is a bummer when it comes to "my" life. School is on hold until we know where we are going and what we are doing. We dont know if we are getting our house ready to sell or rent...or hanging out in it for a little while longer. On another note, Matt should be here for all of the doctors appointments we have lined up for the next coming months.

To start with...Cohen was born with a birth defect called Hypospadias. I think ive mentioned it before in my blog...but i cant remember off the top of my head. Anyways, quickly it is a birth defect of the penis. Typical the hole is at the tip of the penis and Cohens is slightly off a bit. Not too serious...seeing that sometimes it more extreme cases it can be on the underside of the penis. He looks like he was half circumcized at birth, but he was just born that way. He will have to have this surgically corrected. So after moving and moving...we think we are finally settled to have this surgery done. I finally got his referral info in the mail from our insurance to see a specialist. The thing with doctors and insurance they dont pay attention to little details. Cohen is a child...he needs to see a PEDIATRIC Urologist. They always want to send us to a regular one, and they dont mess with children. So i called the doctor they set us up with yesterday...gave them all of our information for her to then ask what he was being seen for. When i said Hypospadias, she said Im sorry we dont deal with those. Okay, off to the Tricare website to find my own doctor. I was having a hard time finding Pediatric specialist in the area. So i got to thinking about the Childrens Hospital in St. Louis. I googled them and found the names of doctors that worked there and their specialities. I found a couple of Pediatric Urologist and noticed they accepted Tricare. Went back to the tricare website and checked to see if their names were on the list. They were! So I called to see if they were accepting new patients and got all of that set up. Cohen has a doctors appointment on April 7th in St Louis. Its about 2 or so hours away, but he will be getting some of the best medical care and thats whats important to me. His doctor was voted one of the best doctors in america in the st louis times in 2009 and is one of 150 doctors in the US to have his certification. So that makes me very happy.

Then there is me and my doctors appointments. Cohens of course are way more important to me, but I have a doctors appointment on May 11th for a consult with a plastic surgeon to see if i am a good candidate for a breast reduction. A little background...I dont even remember when I first started wearing a bra. I swear I was born wearing one...lol. The smallest I can ever remember being was middle/high school wearing a 32DD bra. I was pretty consistent of wearing the same size up until I was an adult and got pregnant. I was dreading the whole pregnancy and big breasts. I gained a total of 50 lbs with Cohen and I think half of the weight went to my boobs. After Cohen was born I was wearing around a 34F. Letters I didnt even know existed in bra sizes. They never went down. I never breastfed either. So after 6 months I contemplated getting a breast reduction then. I talked to a doctor in Germany and a plastic surgeon there and was going to go thru with the process but decided to wait b/c we were thinking we wanted to have 1 more baby sometime in the future. So we went ahead and started trying to have another. Not too long after, I was pregnant with Connor. Gained another 50 lbs with that pregnancy. And again, more weight to the boobs that wasnt going anywhere anytime soon. After Connor was born I was wearing a 34G or so bra. I started losing weight and trying to get back down to my pre-pregnancy size. And i eventually did. I now weigh what I did when i was in high school and before either pregnancy. I am back to wearing a 32DD/E bra. But b/c of a lot of weight loss in my breasts, I have a ton of extra skin that makes up a lot of the reason why i wear a bigger bra. I HATE the way they look. My shoulders kill be along with the upper back and neck area. Clothes dont fit...I have to pay so much more to order bras, b/c you just cant buy things in this size at a typical store. I would happily like to be a large 32B or a small 32C. would make me a very happy girl. So i get to talk to a plastic surgeon in May to see if I qualify by insurance standards for a reduction.

Thats really all thats been going on lately. I dont live the most exciting life. = )