~~ MIA ~~

I know I've been away for awhile, so this may be a long post - I guess I will start with the good news....

Last weekend hubby went up north to get fire wood so me and his mom went shopping, it was a good day and we found lots of things I liked. However I didn't want to purchase anything until my hubby saw them and also agreed they were nice. So the only thing we purchased that day was fabric for the diapers and my MIL bought a "bouncy chair" for the baby, it is the jungle themed one with a waterfall for baby to look at (very cute). So on Sunday I took my hubby back to all the stores that we had went to and showed him what I wanted to purchase, of course he agreed and we ended up getting a bunch of stuff at Sears. We bought the stroller - a four wheeler one that was super easy to collapse and also fairly light weight, a booster chair that reclines so you can feed baby (instead of having a high chair), a change table pad, some receiving blankets and washcloths, a teddy bear, hairbrush and nail clipper set and a baby monitor with a motion detector - so if baby stops breathing it will sound an alarm. It was kinda like a starter kit they had put together and if you bought it all as one you saved $100!

Sunday night is when all the bad stuff happened -- after dinner I started having stomach pains, high up in my diaphragm area - it almost felt like there was an elastic band wrapped very tightly bellow my boobs. So I figured it was indigestion or gas and took a bath to try and relax but after my bath the feeling was still there and it started to get worse. I felt like I was too hot, hubby thought I had my bath too hot but I don't think t was any different then before. Hubby finally went out and started the car, we were on our way to emergency! Luckily we do live fairly close to a hospital so it didn't take long to get there and the waiting room was empty so we got in fast. I think they thought was having a heart attach cause they hooked me up to oxygen and got out a ECG (?) machine to see what my heart was doing. By now I had broken out into a cold clammy sweat and could not get comfy for the life of me. think it was the nurse's first day cause she had a hard time working the ECG machine thing and she couldn't get an IV in. My hand is all bruised where she poked me 5 times! She also had a hard time knowing what to look for when listening for the babies heart beat, she had it and it was nice and loud but she kept saying "oh that's not it" ! ? WTF ? They put some morphine and gravol in me and we waited a few more hours till I started feeling better then they told me I could leave, by now it was 1:30am ! Needless to say I called in sick the next day but the misery didn't stop there!

Monday seemed to be going good, I had no pain .... till after lunch! All I had was vegetable soup but about an hour after I ate it the pain had come back, I called my hubby at work to tell him the pain was back and he told me to either all his mom to come get me or just head to Emergency again. So I drove myself there (I figured it would be faster) - I kinda pushed my way to the front of the line cause they were really busy and I was able to get in right away. They took blood tests and asked if I wanted more morphine but I refused, the pan had seemed to not be as bad as when I first got there. After waiting about 3 hours they finally took me for an ultrasound to see if I had GALLSTONES, sure enough there they were - looked like lots to me!? The only good part was that I got to see a sneak peak of baby!! It was so cute, I could see the little heart beating away and she said everything looked good with baby so that made me happy. Then about 3 hours later they told me that they were going to admit me!! And they were considering surgery!! Which I guess is apparently safest in the 2nd trimester but there is still risk of loosing the baby. Finally at 1:30am I got my room, on the surgical ward so I was still unsure if they were considering that as an option!? I was on a "sipping liquids" only diet for the first 2 days, I ended up having a mild cause of jondous (sp?) cause my liver was inflamed but that cleared up and I was finally able to have food again on Thursday! They decided not to give me surgery and to just pump me full of antibiotics and IV but as soon as I have this baby I will have to get my gallbladder removed!

While I was in there I had lots of visitors, which was nice - the days went by faster. My girlfriends brought me this book to read "Belly Laughs", which I have heard good things about and was super excited to read, so after everyone left that night I read the whole book! It was great, so funny and just quick short reads so if you wanted to put it down you could ... but I couldn't!

So now I am on a strict Fat Free diet! So much for being able to eat what ever I wanted to cause I'm going to get fat anyway!! :( I have a doctors appointment on Tuesday with my regular doctor and then I will probably be going back to work on Wed (depending on what she says). We also have our ultrasound scheduled for Friday so maybe they can see if I might have 'passed' the stones cause that would get rid of a lot of my worry! I'm just so scared to eat, I mean I had an attack off of Fat Free Vegetable soup so it makes me think that it could happen at any time ... Fat Free or not! ? I now take my time eating meals and what would once take me only a half hour to eat now takes over an hour cause I'm so scared of feeling that pain again! Now I just have to deal with this for another 21 weeks (or so) and then after baby is born I will have the surgery to remove my Gallbladder! That should be fun .... dealing with a newborn, had just given birth and I have to recover from surgery!! ! :( Have I mentioned how much I hate being pregnant lately!? This better be a healthy baby!! ;)