Pascale LeBrasseur

This was unexpected and really appreciated! I have been blogging for just over a month and although I find my posts interesting, I am never sure what the people reading are thinking….!

So this “Lovely blog award” is great!

Thank you to Miss Fanny for nominating me!

You can check her blog here:

http://missfannyp.wordpress.com/

I’ve discovered her blog at the beginning of my journey and really enjoy reading about her life and family. You should check-out her blog when you have a minute!

Here are the rules of the Blog Award:
1. Add the “One Lovely Blog Award” image to your post – Done!
2. Share seven random things about you – I will do that next
3. Pass the award on to seven nominees – This will be hard cause I could pick more than 7
4. Thank the person who nominated you – Done!
5. Inform the nominees by posting on their blogs – As soon as I am done writing this!

Seven random things about me!

1. I grew up in Quebec, Canada and my mother tongue is French…

2. I am a great cook but need to be inspired to get going! One day I will have the kitchen of my dream which will help inspire me!!! I LOVE FOOD!!!

3. My 2 favorite Disney characters are Mary Poppin and Dopey

4. I have moved my family 3 times over 5 years to pursue my career. I have a great husband who will make sure we are ok every time we move. I don’t have to worry about anything.

5. All of Emily’s cousins are boys… my brothers have 3 each and Melanie has 2… Here are some of the boys!!!

6. I LOVE SHOESl!!!

7. Andrew Zimmern has my dream job. Traveling the world and tasting strange local food!

Home

Now to nominate fellow bloggers! Here are my picks in no specific order

http://ingloriousmotherhood.wordpress.com/

http://theconnorchronicles.wordpress.com/

http://journeyintothespectrum.wordpress.com/

http://dragonmommie.wordpress.com/

http://5kidswdisabilities.com/

http://raisingtcks.com/

http://mydanceintherain.org/

I am now posting this and will get on the informing my fellow bloggers that I nominated them. Here is to hoping they enjoy receiving the award as much as I did!!!

Summer 1999!

Our family doctor finally agreed that Emily was not developing properly. It took us a year to convince her of such.

Next, we saw our pediatrician (which had seen Emily before) and she suddenly agreed that Emily needed to see a neurologist…

We saw the neurologist who agreed that Emily needed a series of tests to determine what was going on. There was such a long list of tests to do… We had to decide if we were going to do the tests separately or all at once.

We lived away from the hospital so to go once or twice a week for a couple of months to get the tests done would have been really difficult. So we decided to wait and do all the tests at once… in September.

Waiting we did…

And while we waited, we or should I say “I” imagined many outcomes…

I had such a great imagination…

I worried, cried, cuddled my baby, Emily was crying and vomiting a lot which made me worry even more…

All the worrying got me in the hospital… Appendicitis!!! Emergency surgery!!!

After the surgery when I was waking up, I had so many emotions coming at me all at once that I panicked… The poor nurse was telling me to breath deeply, that the surgery went well, that everything was fine…

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I lost it!

Nothing was fine, my daughter wasn’t fine and I wasn’t fine…. I panicked. I started crying, forgot to breath deeply and fell back to sleep…

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When I woke up again, that poor nurse was gone. I was released to go home and started my 4 weeks recovery…

I kept worrying and crying but eventually made it to September and to the testing.

Testing was difficult, blood work, scan (which Emily needed to be under anesthesia) heart, lungs, kidney and everything in between…

We did it… Or I should say, Emily did it…

Eventually, we got the results and the diagnosis… It is easier to know than to not know… Not knowing made my imagination go to worst case scenario!!!

Have you ever really made yourself sick worrying??? How do you manage stress???