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*St. Patrick’s Day & Embracing “Luck” 🍀 3/20/25*

Welcome to the Twentieth Issue of The Super MOMs 24/7 Club Newsletter!

Great Day, SuperMOMs!

It’s Thursday, March 20, 2025, and in this week’s edition of The SuperMOMs 24/7 Club Newsletter, I welcome you all to the SuperMOMs 24/7 Universe!

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🌟Here we will share 2 Super Ideas, 4 Super Quotes, and 7 Super Questions for you to ponder until you receive your next issue!🌟

In addition, there is a bonus section of a SuperMOM short story!

A new addition is a short survey to make this newsletter even better!

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2 🌟 Super Ideas of the Week

1. Lucky Family Jar 💛 – Each day, write one thing you feel lucky or grateful for and share them together at the end of the month.

2. Green-Themed Family Fun 💚 – Plan a “Green Day” with green outfits, green foods, and a fun nature walk to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or any day or any color!

💬 SuperMom Quotes

• “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” – Tennessee Williams

• “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Gary Player

• “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A.A. Milne

• “A good mother is worth a hundred teachers.” – George Herbert

1. 🍀What’s something in your life you feel lucky to have?

2. 👼How do you teach gratitude and appreciation to your kids?

3. ✨What’s a simple way you make everyday moments feel magical?

4. 🌈Do you have any fun St. Patrick’s Day traditions?

5. 💛What’s a way you bring joy into tough parenting days?

6. 🎉How do you celebrate the small wins in motherhood?

7. 🍀What’s a lucky moment you’ve experienced as a mom?

I HATE NEEDLES! !…(Continued from issue 18)

Yeah I said it!

I HATE NEEDLES!

But if this is what I have to do to care for the baby that is growing inside of me then that is what I will do! Because I took on this responsibility no matter what.

What number are we up to now?...

Keep stress levels low because I am pregnant but…

First, I had the morning sickness which was stressful.

Second, there was all the talk of the world coming to an end due to Y2K.

Third, I was bleeding vaginally.

Fourth, MS made me a paraplegic.

Fifth, my heart rate went above 200 beats per minute.

Sixth, my husband had to be called back to the hospital because the doctors wanted to STOP MY HEART!!!!!

Seventh, my baby could die so we could save my life!

Eighth, why am I still in the hospital?

Ninth, complications for the baby just to do a test?

Tenth, waiting for the results from that radioactive isotope test!

Eleventh, what’s in the bag?

Twelfth, Oranges and needles?

Thirteenth, Do I have diabetes too?

I was finally released from the hospital with instructions to take injections daily as well as finger pricks to check on blood sugar levels. Oh yeah and to limit my calorie intake to 1300 grams per day.

Can I tell you that I was the skinniest pregnant woman I knew?

I wasn’t allowed to have a daily milk shake like I thought I would be doing before I got pregnant. Instead I was eating a measured out portion of rice crispies with a measured out portion of milk for breakfast. But before I could eat I had to prick my finger for a drop of blood to test my blood sugar levels.

At least that was what I was told to do before I left the hospital.

Oh yeah I also had a home nurse/aid to check on me to be sure I was doing all this correctly.

I still had the question in my head – do I have diabetes now too?

The first day my nurse came to repeat the instructions that the nurse from the hospital had told me and to witness that I could do it by myself.

I did NOT do this by myself. I had my mom and husband there to learn as well just in case I couldn’t do it myself.

Picture this…

I had my mom and husband watching the nurse fill the insulin needle to be ready to inject me with it.

I was told to get oranges to practice with too – but of course I couldn’t have oranges because I am allergic to them so I was just the Genea pig for my everybody to practice with.

The nurse showed me how to check my blood sugar levels which I could easily do. Then she injected me with my first insulin shot on my butt.

My mom just watched and was sure she could do it later in the day when I needed my second shot. My husband asked if he could practice before she left. The nurse came with saline vials and extra syringes to be able to do this.

Apparently my husband is good with sticking someone else with needles but becomes faint if someone sticks him with a needle like when he was tested for life insurance and the person had to get a vial of blood from him. LOL

Before the nurse left, she was positive that everyone could assist if I couldn’t do the insulin shots myself. BUT the question now is do I have diabetes?

The nurse took out her paperwork on me. In this paperwork it said that I have MS and Asthma but did not say that I have diabetes. The reason for the insulin shots and the limited diet was to keep my body in check so that the baby could grow despite all that I had been through while I was in the hospital.

That paperwork was the first time I had seen that said for sure I have Multiple Sclerosis. For years all the other paperwork said MS suspected not confirmed.

For the 10+ years since that first time I suddenly became a paraplegic at 16 years old to this time at 27 years old every doctor said there is no way to confirm you have MS so just continue as normal as you can.

Talk about stress. Yes, I knew it was always a possibility but now it is confirmed that I definitely have it.

What do you do with that kind of information?

Back to that in the next newsletter…