***For those that followed my wedding blog you may remember a post on having the stomach flu... well that was my 5th blog... and now here I am surviving a terrible stomach flu and writing my 5th blog on this countdown!!***
Talk about a CrAzY week! It all started on Tuesday morning at 4:30 AM when my little Lucy woke up from a bad dream and came in my room. As soon as she snuggled in next to me I could feel the heat off her body and knew she had a fever! I scooped her up and carried her back to her room, took her temperature, gave her some Tylenol and then I stayed with her til she fell back to sleep(by that time it was pretty much time for me to get up for the day and get ready for work). Cary woke up also not feeling well so Lucy and Cary both stayed home for the day and I went in to work. The next day was almost like ground hogs day because again at 4:30 I hear Lucy opening our bedroom door so I got right up and met her as she was walking in to take her back to her room so she didn't disturb Cary. I laid with her til she fell back to sleep and then again was in the position where I might as well just get up for the day.. Lucy was still running a very high fever and luckily Cary's parents were able to come in and watch her for the day while I worked and also went to the doctor which I will talk more about later.. As Wednesday went on Lucy got better and better and by the time I was off work she was full of energy and her usual orneriness so I was pretty sure school would be in her cards for the next day. Thursday morning, 4:30 AM, I hear crying coming from her room and slowly getting closer to my door. I again meet her at the door and find a very upset girl because she had just pee'd the bed (probably from all the fluid we had her drinking all day Tuesday and Wednesday). I get her cleaned up, pulled out her little mattress(we had this under bed from when she was first getting potty trained so if she pee'd the bed we wouldn’t have to make up her big bed in the middle of the night) and got her back to sleep before stripping her bed and starting the laundry. Again, by the time that was done it was time for me to hit the shower... I tell you what, 3 days of getting up at 4:30 had me pretty darn tired, but that was nothing compared to the tiredness to come...
On Monday, Alyssa, her friend Hailey, my mom, and me decided to make plans to see Breaking Dawn at midnight on Friday and I went ahead and bought our tickets online... no backing out after you buy tickets! Without knowing the week I was about to have I didn’t think it would be a big deal, but had I known the lack of sleep I was going to experience I definitely wouldn’t have bought myself a ticket! Anyway, it was too late for that kind of thought and Thursday came and I was exhausted, but I stayed up with the other gals and it was a GREAT movie! When Friday morning came I woke up feeling like complete crap, but figured it was just from being tired so I got ready for work and went in. BY 10 AM I had been sick 3 times and decided enough was enough and talked to my boss about going home. (I had planned on taking my half day for the week anyway so I only left 2 hours earlier than I had planned) When I got home I got sick again, and then laid down and fell asleep to wake up about two hours later to horrible pain in my stomach. I ran to the bathroom and started throwing up and knew I wasn’t just tired, I had the stomach flu! After doing this all day I finally called the OB doctor and asked if I could do anything to help myself or if all this throwing up could hurt my baby and she assured me that I wasn’t hurting my baby, but needed to get some fluid back into my body.. However my inability to keep ANYTHING in my body was worrisome and she thought a hospital stay with an IV and drugs to reduce my nausea were my best bet for keeping my baby hydrated... I asked her if I could try anything else first (ER + Hospital stay = $$$$$) and her being so awesome and smart prescribed me some drugs I could take from home to reduce my nausea so I could attempt to hydrate. Being as sick as I was I had no way of getting to the pharmacy... I was already so weak and sick I couldn't stand up because of dizziness so I had to crawl to the bathroom every time I had to throw up because every time I threw up the other end(SORRY!) had an equal reaction, so I had to be on the potty and throwing up into the trash can.. (Again, sorry...TMI, I know, but hopefully only understanding women or men who have a strong stomachs are even reading this!!)... Anyway, Cary was off from work at 5 so he was able to pick up my drugs on his way home and by about 7 PM (after the meds took affect) I was no longer crawling to the restroom every 20 minutes and was able to drink some 7UP, a little Gatorade/water mix, and I ate about 5 saltines. This seemed to stay down til this morning and while I am still not throwing up I cannot get very far from my bathroom or be on my feet for more than a little bit at a time due to being queasy and dizzy I at some toast and drank some Gatorade and neither took long to get rid of... my body isn't quite ready to let in much..
It is hard to believe what the flu can do to your body in such a short amount of time. On Wednesday I went to the doctor and was weighed and had gained 8 lbs since my first OB appointment and this morning I had lost 10... My pregnant belly looks all shrunk down and I miss it :( I know that it'll only take a day or two of being able to eat normal and it will be back, but right now I just feel so blah... Ok, enough of the poor me sob story and back to my Baby Co. Everything at the doctor on Wednesday looked good and normal, I had some blood drawn for the Quad Screen test, peed in a cup and listened to the heartbeat :) All was good and the best part of the whole appointment was the end when Cary and I got to go out to the receptionist and schedule our Ultra Sound!! It will be our 20 wk ultra sound and we will get to find out the sex of our little one and we are so excited! It is only about 2 1/2 weeks away and on December 7th, assuming I can get a hold of all my sisters, brother, and both set of parents I will be making the announcement on what we're having!! I am carrying high, my love handles are (were) big, I am craving salty food over sweet, the ring test is going in a circle and one chinese birth chart says girl and the other says boy... anyone want to make a guess?!
Til next time!
-Lexi
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