Author Archives: Jessica@Team Rasler

>Jealous Much?

>I’m going to cheat a little bit for All About Me Monday… …and link up to a post I wrote last fall about this very topic. http://teamrasler.blogspot.com/2009/11/taming-green-eyed-monster.html What I’m jealous about changes a bit, but my struggle with this issue remains, much to my dismay, fairly constant.  Maybe if we write about this again in…

>Medically Uninteresting

>Two years ago (or was it three?), I had a problem with my eye.  It was kind of gross, so I won’t go into details now, but the point was that I was referred to a specialist who was captivated by my condition.  It was not a sty like my family doctor thought, he told…

>Tot Spot Café

>I never had a chance to write about last week’s Friday Field Trip with everything else going on. {Note:  I should find out today whether I have gestational diabetes, but at least I discovered that I could handle the four blood draws yesterday morning more or less calmly.  Whew.} Anyway, my good friend and I…

>Anxiety

>For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a needle phobia. And I’m trying not to freak out about tomorrow. I cannot watch people getting shots on television, and you can imagine that ER was never my favorite show.  I refused the standard IV when I was in labor.  I’m fine with blood and…

>Wanted: Sleep

>I’m already having one of those days, and it isn’t even 7:00 a.m. yet.  I am exhausted, and I’ve learned that sleep is the key to pretty much everything else related to my physical, mental, and emotional health. I don’t remember being this tired when I was pregnant with Sebastian, or at least, not until…