warning: contains some yucky information... if you wish to not be scared of parenting or pregnancy do not read. it's a bit gory.
so this week has been bitter sweet because we've had the best case scenario of the worst case scenario of everything.
monday i'm not feeling great and i call the doctor and they say i need to come in, for fear of bowel impaction or obstruction or toxicity, a side effect sometimes of the medicine i take to not barf 8 times a day, zofran/ondansatron. (did i mention to avoid this side effect i've been eating supper healthy lots of fiber and water, no foods high in fat, sugar, dairy, processed or fast food for the past month, at least as much as i could do with out telling the world i'm pregnant and constipated.) so i go in and the nurse practitioner can't find a heartbeat for like 5 minutes. boo. so we go in to do a ultra sound and immediately the babies legs are wide open and it looks like a boy, at 11 weeks and 6 days. so we'll see but that made me happy, and then the baby proceded to do like 20 flips and push move kick, everything, it took her like 4 minutes of really trying to get the heart beat because the baby was acting so crazy, it was awesome (but i'm also dreading this kids terrible twos already- so active, and it's been like that for all 4 ultrasounds). the heart beat was a perfect rate, but she said my bowels looked supper obstructed and were off placing my uterus, so she would call me in the next hour to let me know if i needed to go to the hospital...joy. i didn't have to go but i had to go on a prune juice diet, among other much worse things (enima-ew). honesly a million times less horrible than what i read about on the internet. story over. things got better and i still have to take a stool softener (which i had to take my whole last pregnancy) and eat right etc. but i think that story is over.
tuesday our car broke down. no surprise. unfortunatelly it was the day tyson's parents came and they were staying with his sister so we were not allowed to see them their first day visiting, did we mention we bought pizza for the whole family, papa murphys--no worries because we'll just eat it tomorrow rght? haha. so we were halfway to tysons sisters about 15 minutes from the house and it dies in a gated community with NO WHERE to park. grr. a nice man and a police officer helped us push our car to a turn lane where we waited for 2 hours for my dad to come get the car with his truck. like 4 people stopped to jump us and no one could, tyson cleaned the battery and worked on a few things, abby was supper mad because we had neglected her to clean our house all day with the promise that she would get to play at aunt jojos and see her long lost grandma that evening, neither of which she got to do. and it was too mudy to walk around the neighborhood from the tornados and hail recieved that day. luckily my dad comes and does exactly what tyson's been doing for 2 hours and it starts right up, so we're glad we didn't have to tow it, but mad. so we drive it to the car place and it ends up being only 45 buck the next day to replace the wires that connect the battery to the rest of the car, it still dies but now it restarts. we were going to get a new car with our tax return but now tyson needs that money to go back to school AGAIN, because the two jobs he got after he finished fell through and there's no other way to continue on this path. just a one month program this time. to get to be a flight teacher CFI.
wednesday our oven breaks. how do we know, from our ruined pizza. burnt on top dough on bottom, boo. did i mention everyone came over to our house and was very hungry because we had just gone to the dallas aquarium, no one will ever want to come over again. luckily it was just a coil and my mom had it fixed by friday.
i had to follow up with my doctor and everything seems fine, and my stomach was soft again, which is a good sign-no rocks. yay.
abby had a fever for 4 days and then it got way bad, after lunch it was over 103 and she was throwing up, so we gave her a cold bath and took her to the emergency room. they gave her the max dose of motrin and that helped but the fever would not go below 100.5. then we waited for like 2 hours and she was seen and got chest x rays and they wanted a pee sample and said since she wasn't potty trained they'd have to do a catheder, boo. but i at least tried to have her pee in a cup and thankfully she did!! (yes it was messy). i guess that's a sign we should start the potty training, oh boy. verdict, she had a really bad UTI. poor baby. so they gave us a rx for an antibiotic (which she has basically been throwing up or spitting out about half of each dose (like that doesn't worry me) so she mostly on an all cranberry juice diet (plus food) (not really her fave, so we've been mixing drinks). her fever still lasted 3 more days. but now she's doing a lot better... and hopefully it doesn't come back when we're done with the antibiotic.
thursday was mostly normal. we had fun at the stockyards but of course right when we get there and walk for like 5 minutes i have a little bit of pink discharge so i know i need to take it easy, not walk a lot and not push the stroller, so i spent most of the time sitting on a bench as much as i could, and i called and asked my doctor if i needed a rhogam shot because of my rh factor, and they say they'll call me and let me know and they never do... i honestly love my doctor but i think the issue is the receptionist not telling the doctor when people call, i give her a piece of my mind next time im there. so we went swimming and celebrated tyson's moms birthday.
Friday i probably did way too much walking but we went to the mall and i was so excited because jordan and i were getting some maternitty clothes and tyson's mom was getting me birthday presents, oh ya i turn 23 soon, weird. did i mention my sister in law who lives 30 minutes away is due 3 weeks after me, we hope we both have boys!
saturday we did a little more shopping while the boys golfed (and tyson got a bad burn because he didn't take the sunscreen i put by the door)and i was feeling a little exhausted. after lunch we were at home debating going swimming and abby had just found all her easter eggs with way too much candy (which i had been using to bribe her to take her antibiotic) and i thought i peed my pants, i was like "dang it" (abby's new favorite phrase, hmm). so i go in to the bathroom and gratefully i havent lost controll of my bladder, it was ONLY a huge gush of BLOOD! enough to fill 2 pads. i start freaking. i'm 12 weeks and 4 days. not normal so i call my doctor emergnecy line for a different doctor on call and she calls me back 20 minutes later and says i need to go to the emergency room and get a rhogam and a pevic exam and a sonogram. so i get a blessing and we head to the hospital. they get me in a room in about 5 minutes and they preform about a million tests, i was relieved to see the baby moving a lot. i did not enjoy the iv and pelvic testing, he was obviously not an obgyn, grr. after about two hours they told me part of my placenta broke loose from my uterus wall, and apparently it shouldn't risk anything- (doubt it), weird. so then we have to wait till 1130 pm for the rhogam because it's not something they have at the pharmacy, they have to use my blood to make it so we wathched like 6 episodes of psych, got my rhogam and left, but of course i'm like on bed rest and can't lift abby.
did i mention tyson's phone is broken for good, and our trusty xbox dead..... just one of those weeks....
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