A Rough Week!

This past week has been pretty rough. Instead of doing my normal errands like grocery shopping, paying bills, etc during my lunch, I take naps in my car. I’m exhausted, which is different than tired. When I think of tired I think of needing more sleep at night. That is not my problem. My problem is that not only could I literally sleep all day, the thought of even getting dressed, hair done and make up on exhausts me. Most people I speak to say this is normal and it will pass. I hope so! No wonder they refer to ditziness/forgetfulness as pregnancy brain – it’s because it takes too much effort to think and remember!

On Friday this past week I could barely keep my eyes open. My husband really wanted to play tennis and that was the furthest thing from my mind. Thankfully we got an invite to have dinner at our friends house. But by 9pm I was telling my husband that we were going home and I promptly went to bed. The next morning I woke up to run some errands in anticipation of my 12 yr old sister and 7 ¾ yr old cousin coming over for a slumber party. I didn’t want to leave the couch – I was feeling a bit nauseas. But I couldn’t disappoint the girls so I got my woozy self up and did what I had to. I picked up the girls and we had a good time. Although I really wish they were content to just watch movies, they of course wanted to be entertained. It was quite an effort on my part but I really don’t think they noticed and I hope we built good memories. (Well my memories were primarily cleaning non stop [making boboli pizzas and cupcakes are messy!] and watching Hotel for Dogs and Hannah Montanna the movie)

The next day at church I warned my sister’s Sunday school teacher I may be pulling her out of class early. Sure enough I had to leave about 20 min early. I was feeling sick and my eyes were closing. Then I had 1.5 hour drive ahead of me. Thankfully I had skittles and crackers in my purse and I survived. And after I got home, instead of watching the Seahawks lose, I took a nap.

Monday came and man that was bad!! I made it about 1.5 hours at work. One trip to the bathroom (thankfully didn’t lose my cookies) but I knew there was no way I was going to survive. I went home took a 3 hour nap with the hopes of returning to work. Nope, I subsequently took two more naps. But I forced my way through Tuesday at work and I think I impressed my boss. Although I was completely useless!

Then Tuesday night at 715pm I get a call from my little brother, Lee who is a wreck, telling me my mom’s been in the hospital since 2am ( I won’t go off on how pissed I was at that). My brother wasn’t even told which hospital she was in. Thankfully, my first try at googling hospitals in the Marysville area was successful. But when they tried transferring me to my mom’s room, she didn’t answer three attempts at reaching her. So I started panicking thinking she may be in surgery or something. I got through to the nurses station where somebody walked to her room and woke her up. Apparently she was so drugged that she didn’t hear the phone. I talked with her for about 20 minutes and she was able to tell me what was hurting, but not why. She couldn’t move her left side because from her big toe to the top of her head she had shooting pain, which she described as the worst pain like at the height of labor – thanks mom! I went to see her yesterday morning and she sounded better and looked better than what I expected. I had to help her wash her face, brushed out her hair and braided it and helped her change her shirt. I can’t believe they don’t have anyone at the hospital to help her with this. She had been in the same sweaty clothes for 36 hours. Anyway, I felt better after seeing her and knowing that she was wasn’t going to be leaving us anytime soon. But they are going to hold her for a few more days until they can figure out what’s wrong with her.

Thankfully as of yesterday I was feeling a lot better, although I thought I was going to lose my cookies because of the hospital smells. I think instead of having gnarly morning (all day) sickness, I really think I had a bug. Which I am perfectly okay with, because that means I’m not going to be feeling like crap every day! Oh and yesterday I got the results from my blood tests back. Everything came back great and I don’t carry the gene for cystic fibrosis. The only thing they found was that I have a slight bladder infection. No worries!

As of Monday I am at my 8 weeks. My body is changing shape and my boobs are heavy! It’s the craziest thing. They’ve gotten bigger and I had to buy a new bra. Unfortunately it has little straps and due to the weight of these things, those straps are digging into me. I’ve never had that problem!! I’m lotioning like crazy in hopes of preventing stretch marks – wish me luck!



Thankful Thursday 9/24

Today I am thankful for:

~Not feeling so sick
~ Bonding time with my baby sister and cousin
~ Netflix
~ Nap time