No picture this week. I have had a long week physically.
My illness began on Tuesday with another pregnancy migraine. WHY! I ask, do I need to be in the small percent of women whose migraines get worse during pregnancy. This is very uncommon, most women with migraines pre-pregnancy have great improvement during pregnancy. There was a point that my neurologist even joked with me about getting pregnant because he swore it makes migraines go away. Not for this woman.
The next morning I woke up not feeling very well. I had really bad heartburn the night before. I have never had heartburn, so I chalked it up to pregnancy and went on with things. By noon things were not good, I had a fever and the chills. Because I am pregnant and paranoid, I immediately called the my doctor who told me to come in that afternoon. Daniel lovingly drove me to the doctor, who was actually the nurse practitioner because the doctor was busy. She told me I had a virus. So, she could do nothing but monitor me.
The next day, another sick day, another fever. At this point I had not eaten in 24 hours due to a bad stomach. When I called in to the doctor, I got an upgrade, I got to see my actual doctor. Thank you Jesus for insurance. We left with more meds and the same bad news... it's a virus. 5-7 days would be normal, maybe longer thanks for my weakened immune system. But the meds, they were worth my copay. The anti-nausea medication completely knocked me out for six hours at a time.
Today is day four of the flu of death. I was actually able to eat some soup today. That's a big deal.
The baby has been wiggling around the last two days, so I am making the assumption that he's doing just fine. But we'll know for sure in two weeks when we have our next ultrasound.
My illness began on Tuesday with another pregnancy migraine. WHY! I ask, do I need to be in the small percent of women whose migraines get worse during pregnancy. This is very uncommon, most women with migraines pre-pregnancy have great improvement during pregnancy. There was a point that my neurologist even joked with me about getting pregnant because he swore it makes migraines go away. Not for this woman.
The next morning I woke up not feeling very well. I had really bad heartburn the night before. I have never had heartburn, so I chalked it up to pregnancy and went on with things. By noon things were not good, I had a fever and the chills. Because I am pregnant and paranoid, I immediately called the my doctor who told me to come in that afternoon. Daniel lovingly drove me to the doctor, who was actually the nurse practitioner because the doctor was busy. She told me I had a virus. So, she could do nothing but monitor me.
The next day, another sick day, another fever. At this point I had not eaten in 24 hours due to a bad stomach. When I called in to the doctor, I got an upgrade, I got to see my actual doctor. Thank you Jesus for insurance. We left with more meds and the same bad news... it's a virus. 5-7 days would be normal, maybe longer thanks for my weakened immune system. But the meds, they were worth my copay. The anti-nausea medication completely knocked me out for six hours at a time.
Today is day four of the flu of death. I was actually able to eat some soup today. That's a big deal.
The baby has been wiggling around the last two days, so I am making the assumption that he's doing just fine. But we'll know for sure in two weeks when we have our next ultrasound.
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