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lack of energy

Author Fanny SuraPosted on Leave a comment

May 29, 2019

Pictures you end up with when you ask an old French lady
who doesn’t speak a word of English to take a photo of you and your husband.
I ended up with 201 pictures when she thought she took 2. These were the best 2 hahaha 😀 

Once again, I’m just sitting here waiting for a call or a message from my doctor. Will I go in for another treatment or not? Has my level gone down a little bit or completely? Or maybe not at all? My guess is that she will contact me in the afternoon today. Hoping for good news.

I was so tired yesterday, like really exhausted after 10 am. I was on the couch for a bit around lunchtime trying to nap, but couldn’t. So when J came home from work I was almost sleepwalking to the car to go to the grocery store. After 8 hours of sleep, I still woke up exhausted this morning and I can barely keep my eyes open right now. I also can hardly breathe and my body feels heavy so I wonder if I’m about to get sick. Another cold sore showed up on my nose yesterday (or, actually I’m not sure if it’s a cold sore or just a weird mosquito bite), so it could be that my immune system is off. I might take a hot shower, go for a walk with Thor and then try to nap after posting this. In case I have to go to the ER later today it could be good to be both clean and rested:) 

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George’s Baby Shower

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May 27, 2019

Today is Memorial Day here in America. Jim is off work. I took Thor out at 6:20 and then sat on our terrace with coffee for a couple of hours just reading my book. So nice that it’s finally summer and we can enjoy the outside more!

Yesterday was a really good and productive day. J and I went to have breakfast next door at 8am, then I scrubbed the bathroom, edited a Paris video, did some more laundry, showered and got ready and Jim drove me to Daniela’s Baby Shower. 

It was so cute with light blue decor, little lambs and lots of food. Most of D’s guest were Brazilian (she’s also from Brazil) but there were a few of us who did not speak Portuguese as well. It was nice to go to a party where I didn’t actually know anyone other than the one inviting me:) Daniela was so cute too, her belly is getting bigger and baby George is doing just fine in there getting ready to join us this summer♥
When the shower was over, I tried to get an uber for myself but there was no reception out there. I tried to communicate with Jim who was with Gareth, D’s fiance, and I guess they ended up deciding that they would come pick us up. So out of nowhere the guys showed up at the house. We packed all their gifts in the car, help to clean up and D & G were nice to drop us off at home. J and I did nothing for the rest of the evening, just listened to music, took Thor for a walk and went to sleep. 

I am so happy for my friend. I knew they were trying and then in January when we had decided to tell our friends our big news I kinda knew they would have something to tell us as well. We stood in front of each other in our apartment, with our men by our sides, announcing our pregnancies at the same time. She was one week ahead of me, she’s due in end of July and I was due in beginning of August. So crazy. I was just so happy to hear their news and I was so excited that we would experience this together. And then, as you know, shit happens. But my happiness for them hasn’t changed of course, I couldn’t be more excited for their baby boy to come whenever he is ready. 

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Happy Birthday Erik Nilsson

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Happy Birthday Grandpa🎈
He would have been 90 years old today.
He was just a kid himself when he started what’s today a big organization that helps children all over the world. He was born with hemophilia and spent lots of time in the hospital. He knew there where other kids out there being sick just like him so he started to send them letters and gifts.
He died when my father was 7 years old, I never got to meet him, but he has always been a part of all of us and the organization is still doing wonderful things for so many people in our world ♥
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Check out Erikshjalpen for more info on their work
(the website is in Swedish, but there is an option of google translate)
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exciting weekend coming up

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May 7, 2019

Kauai, January 2018

Good Evening everyone! Tomorrow is a very exciting day. Jim and I are flying to Paris!! Ok, we don’t land until Thursday so I guess that’s the exciting day:) 
I have since my early 20s been thinking that one day I want to do a romantic trip to Paris with the man I love before we decide to have a family (obviously didn’t know it was going to be with Jim then). Paris was never on the top on my list of places I wanted to visit, but the thought of a romantic weekend was, haha, ehm..ya, whatever.
After J and I had our baby talk almost exactly one year ago, I mentioned my thought about Paris before a kid. We actually started to look into it then, but we didn’t find a good time for it that summer or fall because we had other trips planned, people to stay with us and things booked and planned. And then we got pregnant. I thought “oh well, whatever, we can go in the future and have a baby sitter or something”. 
Almost directly after losing the baby, we booked our tickets to Paris. We didn’t know about the cause of this pregnancy loss then and what it would mean for me these past three months. But the closer we got to this week and the lower hormone level I got the more I thought that this would be our celebration that we can move on, start over, kinda. But I’m not done yet unfortunately. Apparently my level went up on my last test and my doctor asked if I wanted to do the treatment on Monday this week or wait and do another blood test next Monday when we are back and do treatment then if level doesn’t change. Her suggestion was to wait since she knows that we are going on this trip and she want us to enjoy it (so sweet). It would suck to have side effects to deal with on vacation. 
So this trip is not quite a “celebration that we can move on”, but we can get some quality time together and be romantic anyway. I have cold sores in my face and can’t kiss him at the moment (my hormones went up and the lady-week is coming up so that probably triggered cold sores to break out) so that’s not very fun, but whatever, we can hold hands and stare into each others eyes 🙂

Aahh, I’m so excited! Of course we want to do all the tourist stuff, but I also kinda just want to relax for once. We’ll see what we have time for. Right now I’m just hoping for good weather. Looks like it’s going to rain a lot. But if it does, we’ll just hang out at the Louvre. 
Woohoo! Paris!