It’s been a busy year in our household! Here are a few of the highlights:
January: I had just graduated from graduate school and was enjoying doing nothing but being pregnant. About halfway through the month I learned my delivery plans were going to change pretty drastically. My grandfather passed away after a long battle with cancer; his funeral happened while I prepped for my c-section.
February: At the beginning of the month we welcomed Menininho. It was a complicated post-delivery, one that I hope to never repeat. We moved to California and I made my first silly new mom mistake.
March: I learned of the losses of two Marfan friends. Menininho was blessed and formally given a name. Our family came to visit. Mark was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
April: A pretty boring month, but I did blog about some of my baby “must haves”.
May: We started using cloth diapers and won’t go back! Mark officially graduated with his MS. I also had the stress test that started a chain of events.
June: Mark and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. I also started a series of posts about my life with Marfan.
July: My Life With Marfan posts continued and I prepared for the annual National Marfan Foundation conference.
August: Menininho and I flew solo to visit my mom and sister. I finished up the Marfan series and went to my 4th conference, where besides working with the teens I was also one of the closing speakers.
September: My cardiologist discovered a problem with my heart and I decided to wean Menininho early in order to start a new medication. A few weeks later Mark was diagnosed with Celiac disease.
October: We had a mishap at the pumpkin patch, and then better success. I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress.
November: I relived some childhood memories with MamaKat’s Writers’ Workshop and we got to spend Thanksgiving in Ohio, seeing all of my and Mark’s extended families.
December: The inner breastfeeding advocate in me wrote a post about a woman’s right to breastfeed and the inner patient advocate in me wrote a post about being an empowered patient. We bought a tree, spent too much time in the ER and had a failed Christmas tradition.
I want to thank all of you who read my blog, who give me feedback. I am humbled that you take time from your day to read what I have to write. I look forward to getting to know more of you and your writings in 2010!
~ Maya
December 29, 2009 at 7:45 am
Sounds like your year really had some ups and downs especially for all of you health wise. Hopefully this year is better for you guys in the health department!
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December 29, 2009 at 10:30 am
Maya,
I really enjoyed reading your entries and getting to know you, Mark, and your baby boy much better.
Your Marfan history and information and support group is incredible. I had no idea and I really learned a lot.
My fiance has type 1 diabetes for about 13yrs now. I just got diagnosed with thyroid disease called Grave’s.
I think you are an amazing mom and advocate for breastfeeding. I cried too when my baby girl weaned.
What a YEAR you’ve had! Thank you for recapping and letting me catch up.
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December 29, 2009 at 10:58 am
Wow, what a year! What triumphs, challenges, celebrations, and heartbreaks. I hope the New Year brings you and your family much happiness, good health, and only joyful surprises.
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December 29, 2009 at 11:40 am
Maya – this is a great post. I really enjoyed the summary and also catching a few posts I’d missed early in the year. I hope you don’t mind my copying your format and doing a “year in review” of my own.
BTW, when will you know whether the medication you had to wean M for is working? Girlie weaned on her own at almost seven months and I had mixed feelings – relief because pumping at work had been very challenging, and sadness that such an intensely close bond would no longer exist with her and I would not likely have the opportunity for such a bond again. I wish you a year of health, peace and joy.
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December 29, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Wow, what a year!
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December 30, 2009 at 5:45 am
What a year you’ve had! Thank you for sharing and I look forward to following more of your journey.
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