The calm before the storm...Ike is in the Gulf...

9/12

Schools and businesses have been closed for the day in an effort to give people time to prepare/evacuate for Hurricane Ike who is fast approaching in the Gulf of Mexico. I was supposed to have another visit with Dr. Haddad at HFI this morning, but arrived to find that the building was closed. I called the office phone number and spoke to a nurse who had the calls transferred to her home that said they weren't meeting with any patients and to please call next week to reschedule my appointment.

Now I'd have to spend the whole weekend afraid of what the change in pressure and the effects of the hurricane would have on my pregnancy. I read somewhere online a while back that said several women in their third trimester went into early delivery during natural disasters, especially hurricanes due to the changes in air pressure. Great. What did this mean for those of us in our first trimester? Could it lead to a miscarriage? Only time would tell...

When I returned home from an empty HFI building, Robert, Myrna, and I packed up the truck and headed to Brian and Kellie's for the weekend. Robert's brother and his family live in Magnolia, Texas and we felt that moving North sounded like a good idea. The fact that they live in a home built to withstand 125 mile/hour winds made us feel pretty safe too.

We spent the evening watching TV, getting all of their animals in, and preparing for the storm. Peyton(7) and Avery(4) also took the opportunity to give me a princess make-over! I got glitter lip gloss, pink eye shadow, and purple nail polish to go with my crown!

We had fun but knew the storm was just around the corner...