Monthly Archives: March 2010

Last week, the hubs submitted our claims to the insurer for Baby’s hospitalization stay for a urinary tract infection incurred in January 2010. I hope that this time the insurer will approve our claims. Since Baby’s kidney reflux problem is already fixed, the UTI that she had recently should not be classified as congenital. Anything that is non-congenital should be claimable. I hope the good Lord will help us get this claim approved as it’s a big amount at over RM2k. We have already given up hope on our claims for Baby’s 2 surgeries in May last year amounting to over RM50k. The hubs will be switching insurance agent as our current insurance agent isn’t doing much to help us with all these claims. He cannot even give us an accurate term life insurance quote.

I almost bought a treadmill a few years ago but the hubs prevented me from doing so. His reasoning was that there ain’t much space in the house to place the bulky treadmill. Fortunately I listened to him because we soon moved to a condominium that has a gym. The gym at our condo has a good range of fitness equipment that were newly purchased. The irony is that I don’t work out in the gym very often. I still prefer to run in the open and breathe in fresh air.

Ever since I left the corporate world in search of maternal pastures, I have made many sacrifices. I have learned to skimp on shopping for clothes, bags and shoes for myself. I’ve also learned to purchase cheaper range of skin care products. From a 4-star range of skin care products, I have downgraded to a 1-star to probably no-star skin care products. Thank God my skin is still flawless and I actually find no difference using cheap skin care products with expensive ones like Neutrogena skin id, Lancome or Kose. Do you use expensive skin care products or cheap ones?

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Of late, the hubs has been having pains and aches on his body after his daily basketball session. Last week, he injured his second finger badly during a basketball match and the entire finger doubled up in size! He used to be as fit as a horse but age is definitely catching up on him. My dear hubs, he is growing old and even needs to pop the best joint supplement for his joints and bones. He may look huge but he is not as strong and fit as he used to be.

I suffered from a very bad bout of morning sickness or rather all-day sickness when I was pregnant with Alycia, my first born. I could not stand the smell of food, any type of food, not even fruits. I even felt like puking when I watched cook shows on TV. So during the first 16 weeks of my pregnancy, I had to hide in the room whenever my mil watched cook shows on TV. When I saw certain dishes that she cooked on the dining table, I had to go somewhere so that the food or smell was no where in sight or in smell! Popping my bunch of pre-natal vitamins was another torturous time every morning. I had to pop them near the bathroom, just in case I puked! If you are pregnant and want to find out more about pre-natal vitamins, you can hop over to www.prenatalvitamins.org to have some good reads.

We were planning to make a trip up north this school holidays but had to ditch our plan when Baby’s pee smelled and looked suspicious (of UTI) just a day before the trip. The girls have been disappointed that they cannot see their grandparents and spend their holidays in Ipoh. I am disappointed too that the long-awaited trip had to be called off. Oh well, there is always another time. Who knows, the hubs might even bring us all for a Branson vacation during the next school holidays!