So much for my weekend! :(

So all my weekend plans were thrown out the window at 4:05pm Friday!! It was almost quiting time and I started to feel kinda funny, almost like you would on Christmas day after you ate way too much turkey!? I started sweating like crazy and then I knew ..... I was having another attack! I told my boss as I was dripping in sweat, called my hubby to come get me cause there was no way I was driving and waited for him to get to my work. He actually made it here pretty quick considering it was rush hour, normally it is about a 20 minute drive and he got here in about 12! We went straight to the hospital which is another half hour away, so by the time I got there I had been having the attack for an hour. I blame the attack on popcorn, Fridays at work they make theatre style popcorn and I think I had too much!? Since I am further then 20 weeks the emergency nurses didn't even bother examining me and called for a porter to get me to the maternity ward. All I wanted was a shot of morphin and graval to help with the pain!? I ended up getting admitted because my white blood cells and liver enzymes were high. I felt better after being in there a day and figured I would be able to go home by Sunday but they wanted to see how food sat in my stomach and kept me there till Monday. I don't think this attack was as bad as my first one cause I feel good today and I'm back at work. The doctors gave me a prescription this time for some antibiotics that leave a funny taste in my mouth (apparently one of the side affects). I think I started ignoring the fact that I'm 'sick' and need to watch my diet, I was feeling good and kept pushing my limits with the fat intake. I thought that since it was OK to eat 8g of fat then I pushed it too 12g, I guess now I have to pay more attention to the diet and stay below 8g. I also think that when I over eat it reacts with my gallbladder and might cause an attack so ... less fat ... smaller meals is what is in store for me for the next 16 weeks! The doctors even said that I will probably have another attack before baby is born, sometimes it doesn't matter how close you watch your diet!? :(

On the plus side ... I got to hear the babies heart beat everyday from nurses that knew what they were looking for and not surgical nurses that didn't even know how to find the heart beat! And I got another ultrasound (no pics ~ but a sneak peak at baby), this time the technician asked me if I knew what the sex was and I told him that we didn't ask last time but I think I know because of the last sneak peak I had at the hospital. He asked me what I thought and told me what the right answer was .... I didn't expect him to confirm the sex but he did so now I have to try and keep it a secret from my family! I think I can, it's fun to not know and have people guess. So I just have to make sure that every once and awhile I refer to baby as he or she to keep people on their toes guessing!! ;)

Yesterday after I got home I really wanted a nice warm bath, so after that I did some laundry and felt bad for hubby so I made him some chocolate chip cookies. He has been really good through all this hospital crap, making sure the house is clean and helping whenever I ask. I feel like he has been working really hard at trying to get the basement finished and doing other jobs to make money for us! He's been very busy and I feel like my sickness maybe adds a little more un-needed stress to his life!? Chocolate cookies is the least I could do! ;) I also made a veggie casserole for my lunches and took the dog for a walk to get milk. I copied down the recipe for Turkey Soft Tacos but I think this post is getting a little long so I will post that recipe tomorrow.

Lack of posting !?

So you may be asking yourself "WTF - I come here everyday and check for updates an there is nothing!?" But I must tell you that my life really isn't all that exciting... really and how much do you really want to hear me complain about my aches and pains?! AND I also have another blog that I haven't told those readers about this blog yet - they don't know our secret so I still have to post on that blog as well! Well I think this weekend I am going to spill my beans totally and post my POAS pic on the other blog and let my secret out! Then I will only have one blog to worry about posting on, my life just isn't exciting enough to keep up with two blogs! ;)

I had a weird dream last night - something about me getting on the scale and it said I had gained 10lbs!! :o Which I'm sure will happen eventually but just not at 6 1/2 weeks! So you can probably guess what I did this morning! he he I have gained a slight bit but it's like under a pound so it doesn't really count (probably just cause I didn't have a BM) ;) Yesterday was a pretty good day symptom wise, I felt pretty good for most of the day. I feel like my lunches are getting less and less nutritious and more "filler food". But if that's all you can stomach I guess it's better then nothing at all!? Lately I have been having those Lunchables (cheese, crackers, meat and dessert) for lunch which seem to be going down good. I know you aren't suppose to eat deli meat when you are pregnant but I think everyone does? And it's not like I'm eating tons of it? Toast has also been a good afternoon snack (1/2 whole wheat bagel lightly buttered) and fruit is still OK - especially apples! Oh - and we bought some Arrowroots when we went grocery shopping and they also seem to be going down really good! Maybe in my 2nd trimester I will be able to eat salad again!?

Letting the cat out of the bag

We decided it was just too hard to keep our secret from our family, originally I thought we would wait a little longer then one day to tell them but we just couldn't wait. Friday after I got home from work my hubby was working on typing up a letter to give to his parents. You see his Dad is a real jokester that likes to play games, so we had to get him back! Originally we thought that something like the A&W commercial would have been perfect (give him a Grandpa burger instead of a Papa burger) but he would have expected that so we had to come up with something else. My hubby thought it would be fun to write up this letter to his parents and make it look like it came from a law firm. The letter stated how they were not allowed to leave the country between June and July of 2008 and it said something about an addition to the house and if they don't attend this unknown date they will revoke their rights as Grandparents! LOL His Mom got to the Grandparent part way quicker then Dad so he was a little confused when she started jumping up and down and yelling how they are going to be Grandparents! he he It was pretty funny! ;)

So this morning I woke up pretty early and headed out to St.Albert, my first stop was my brothers work. I asked him if he was ready to be an Uncle yet? and he said Yeah why? I just stared at him and after about 5 seconds he clued in and asked Are you ? Really ?? Then he was happy and said his congrats. Next stop was my Moms, we sat and talked for a bit and then she went to get me this bracelet she bought in Vegas and I told her I had something to show her too, so I passed her the digital pee stick with the word "pregnant" right on it and she got all excited. Then asked what end I pee'd on!? LOL Then she brought out some onezees that she had purchased from Vegas last year, they are super cute little M&M characters so when it's on the baby it will look like "Red" or "yellow peanut" and they come with matching hats, sooo cute! Next was my girlfriend Denise's, I had told her hubby the day before that my BBT temp had dropped so I didn't bother testing cause I expected different news (AF). I just didn't want him to know before her, so when I walked in she said "So I hear you're temp dropped?" and I said "yup - but it didn't matter." She caught on pretty quick and gave me hugs, she asked me if I wanted to borrow her book "What to Expect when Expecting" so I said sure cause I was thinking about buying it. She told me that it was a little "dry" but a good book with lots of info and after flipping through the first 100 pages or so I can definitely agree with her .... very dry! Nothing like "The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy" which was so funny and witty I barely put it down! :) I only had one stop left after Denise's, and that was my Dad's. He was pretty simple to tell, I just told him that I had to congratulate him and he asked why? So I said on becoming a Papa again!! He was shocked at first I think and asked Really? Just like my brother. So that is it for telling people, for a little while at least! I think we will wait a few weeks to tell the Grandparents and then a few weeks more after that to totally let the cat out of the bag!