So, my battle with morning sickness has continued. As of last week I was still a mess and barely keeping stuff down. Total I have missed 2 1/2 weeks of work, thankfully my boss has been understanding. Finally last Thurs. they switched me from phenegran to Zofran. This was after the nurse told me I had 3 options.
1. Go to the ER for IV
2. Start home IV therapy with a nurse coming to my house giving me meds / hydrating me.
3. If my insurance permitted it, try Zofran.

Well of course I went for Zofran. She said it is the strongest stuff they can give me safely. It’s used for Chemotherapy patients for nausea. She said very few insurances cover it because it’s expensive and boy was she right. First they had to find a pharmacy that even had some in stock. Once Patrick went to fill it, the pharamacist told him “I wish I had your insurance”. For 14 pills, it was $340+ but cost us $18 with our insurance. They didn’t have enough to fill my full prescription so I have to go in today for the rest of this weeks doses and then I can get refills again later if need. Luckily, this stuff doesn’t make me sleep like the other BUT i’ve been using the other for nightime to help me sleep. It is working and I can at least get out of bed.

I go back for my 2nd ultrasound this Thursday. I’ll be just shy of 9 weeks so hopefully it’ll be a better looking blob this time! I’m kind of thankful that I get to see so many ultrasounds but i’m sure once we get me through the first 12 weeks they’ll clear me from this high risk situation and i’ll get to see them less.

Today is my first day back at work and i’m coping pretty well for the most part. I’m pretty spacey and lightheaded plus have the nausea that never goes away. At least i’m done throwing up for a little while, I hope. I am a mess first thing in the morning before I can get the meds in me. I know some people have asked/told me “morning sickness is normal and why do you need drugs?”. Well for some people, aka me, morning sickness can become unhealthy where hospitalization/drugs/iv’s are needed. If I could just get through the days with no drugs I sooo would.

My best friend Raeann (rain) and Patrick’s best friend Koby came into town this past weekend. I was thankful I finally got some drugs that worked so I could enjoy their visit. I actually left the house and functioned! I did crash hard yesterday after they left though, think I may have overdid it a bit.

Friday we met Patrick for lunch and then went out that evening in Reno to Dinner with Patrick’s brother before seeing “40 Year Old Virgin”. It was really good actually. Saturday was our Lake Tahoe afternoon followed by Chicken Fajita night and Cranium. Rain bought us the game and it is hilarious. The boys beat us *sighs* twice but it was only because they kept getting the trivia and we were stuck on spelling type ones over and over. I rocked at sculpting with the clay though! If you haven’t played the game, you have got to get it!!! Sunday we headed to Virginia City to walk around, get lunch and then headed to the airport. It was a nice weekend with them and I miss Rain like no other. She brought some pics from our younger years, I’ll post them up later.

Well~ off to get this prescription filled.
~heather

Being prego is very humbling in some senses. On Monday, I called the doctor’s office at 6:30am and left a message with the answering service for my Nurse/Dr. to call me as soon as they got in. 3 messages later and 1 phone call to the receptionist I finally got a call back around 2:00ish. This is after stating very clearly that i’ve been puking since last Thurs. night unable to get out of bed for most of that time and then bleeding on Monday. I was pissed, as was my mother in-law, hubby etc. When the nurse did call they didn’t want to see me in at all, nope, just call in a prescription for my nausea. On top of the fun of throwing up, I now got to take Phenegran um and not orally. Can we say how embarassing (somewhat) it was to have my in-laws (because my hubby couldn’t go get it) pick up my lovely suppository prescription. JOY JOY JOY. Not to mention the fun I’ve had of having to take them to keep just popsicles down. I’m down 7+ pounds now and still having major nausea but at least I can drink / eat popsicles and did put down some mcdonald’s french fries last night. So over the past few days, I haven’t been able to leave my bed much for a break here or there to sit at my computer, which I feel lucky that I can sit here without throwing up all over the keyboard but I need a break from the bedroom. I couldn’t even take a shower yesterday but today I managed to stand long enough to wash my hair.

That brings me to today, I woke up sick but when I went to the bathroom I noticed some more red blood and got upset. I called the doc office again and 4 hours later I get a call telling me not to worry and that I have my ultrasound appt. tomorrow and that if I start gushing blood call them. Well I live about 35 minutes away from the nearest hospital. Pardon me if i’m upset they didn’t see me on Monday when I should’ve been. I’m upset that i’m told to “not worry” when yah, I may be fine, but my past history has me worried. God forbid? Then I found out that my appt. is in 2 parts tomorrow. They had a conflict so now I go in at 11:45 for my ultrasound and then back at 2:45 for my doctors appt. I’m not sure how i’ll make it with my nausea through both of those especially when it means i’ll drive all the way home sit here for a little while and drive back.

Sooo, that brings me to the decision. After my doctor appt. tomorrow i’m switching doctors. Patrick got # from his boss for his wife’s doctor (she’s due in nov.) so i’ll be switching.

I asked some family that are in the medical field and they can’t believe that no one has wanted me in sooner with my past history and the fact that i’ve been bedridden since last Thurs. I know morning sickness is common yah yah yah….but on Monday I couldn’t keep anything down nor could I barely move to the bathroom since pretty much Thurs. night. My husband and mom’s thought I should be taken to the ER if the doctors office didn’t get back to us and we were ready to do that. I almost think we should’ve just so I could have some reassurance and see an ultrasound instead of having to wait 4 days before a doctor would look at me.

Anyhow, hopefully all is well and this is all a good sign of me being healthy. I pray that it is and part of me truely thinks it’s ok but i’m just frustrated at the approach the doctors office has given me. Instead of trying to reassure or make me feel at ease they brush you aside and put off calling you for 6+ hours.

/end rant

~heather ..back to the bed

Ok, any ideas at this point are very welcome. I’ve been nauseous since 4 weeks and progressively getting worse. Well this week I hit 6 weeks and BAM almost overnight it went from tolerable to “I can’t get out of bed or stand up for too long”. I threw up at the post office over my lunch on Wed. so didn’t go back to work that afternoon. Luckily, I pounded out this urgent assignment for my boss first thing in the am. (she was out of the office wed, friday and again this monday). She came in Thurs. and asked me what progress I had made before I left Wed. and was thrilled I got the stuff done before bailing for the afternoon. I told her i’m trying to cope as best as I can and she was very supportive, told me just keep her in the loop if I need help on these projects etc. Anyhow, Friday I called in again and didn’t leave the bed much but a few minutes here and there until today. It’s not always throwing up but it’s definitely NON-STOP ALL DAY and NIGHT nausea. It makes me all lightheaded to stand up for too long or to walk to far. I get the burps like I’m going to throw up and instead I burp up liquid. I’m “trying” to eat but today is really the first day that i’ve eatten that much.

I made my hubby buy me B6 last night even though i’ve been taking a B complex vitamin with my other stuff. Supposedly B6 helps if you take it 2-3 times a day. Then I had him today run and buy me the “Sea Bands” Pressure things for motion sickness that supposedly help with morning sickness also. I also had him pick me up lemonade since I heard that helping, frosted flakes and capt. crunch berries (because I saw a commercial on tv with them on it this morning during cartoons and thought yummy), bagels w/ cream cheese, english muffins for jelly, more oranges (i LOVE LOVE oranges while being pregnant, did last time too) and velveeta cheese for nacho rotel cheese dip, tomatoes for homemade salsa. I found that I love salt atm, mcdonalds french fries, tortilla chips…mmm salt. Thank god I have such a wonderful hubby to run out oh 3 times in the past 2 nites to get me stuff to help me feel better. Pretty much if I need anything he’s jumping for me and running off to fix me something to eat or bring me a drink or make the 11-12 runs to the store for B6.

Anyhow, I feel somewhat alive atm but I don’t know how long it will last or if these sea band things actually work or if the capt. crunch made me feel better. Hell if I know but I still feel borderline death.

I’m thankful I have it - typically it means healthy pregnancy BUT man …it needs to let me function!!! I can’t miss work like this and think i’ll be calling the doctor on monday to find out what he can tell me because really …me missing work (even though i’ll gladly do it to have a healthy pregnancy) isn’t a good thing. I have these “Child Death Review” projects going on. I can’t say much about them other then to say I basically read the quarterly reports and do a bunch of analysis, charts etc. for presentation. One such presentation is August 19th with even the Administrator of Child & Family Services attending and presenting my materials. I can’t exactly slack on these but I can’t go to work sick like this either.

*sighs* I’m actually quite happy despite it all. This morning I was near tears because of this but really i’m thankful that things seem to be going well so far. Ultrasound is this Thursday!!!! I can’t wait. My in-laws will also be here this week and I’m in no mood to clean the house, it needs it badly since i’ve been icky. We were planning on going to see Macbeth up in Tahoe at the Shakespear at the Lake thing but i’m not sure how i’ll be feeling. Hopefully i’ll be ok.

Back to the bedroom
heather

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So, I’ve been having the fun of morning sickness for over a week now. It started nice and early this time around 4 weeks…MY GOD!  I wake up every morning sick to my stomach and then spend most of the day on and off being nauseous.  The only saving grace so far is that I’m not throwing up from it yet.  I just get the horrible burps that make me feel like I should be throwing up and then of course heartburn from hell.  I’ve been really behaving on eating good and trying to snack through the day on fruits, bran bars and drinking oodles of water.  Of course, since last time I couldn’t keep down prenatal vitamins, I’m on the Flintstones kick J which I just add a B complex with and I’m getting my folic acid that I need the most.  The doc recommended this since prenatals either make me sick or constipated or both.  FUN stuff.   I am getting ansy as all hell to go to my ultrasound appt. next week.  I’ll be a day short of 7 weeks (if I’ve got things right).  Patrick will be going with me to this one since he didn’t go to my early appts. last time.  So far so good I keep telling myself.  No spotting, no cramps just twinges here or there.  I so am having baby window shopping”itis”.  I of course won’t buy a single thing until we are way out of the clear on things though.  I however, can research things so maybe I’ll make a post later of wish list items (if work is boring). 

Visitors:

We have Patrick’s parents coming into town the week of August 8^th  (next week) for pretty much the whole week.  They’ll be staying with Patrick’s brother since the cats bother Hank too much when he stays the night for long period of time.  

The week after that we have my best friend from junior high aka my maid of honor coming to visit.  Patrick’s best friend aka his best man is coming to visit too.  They hit it off really well shall we say, at our wedding.  Over the last year they have emailed, talked on the phone and kept in touch despite each of them having significant others.  Raeann (Rain) broke up with her boyfriend, which we all knew was coming.  Now if Koby would stop being chicken and break off things with his girlfriend!  They truly need to finally just hook up and get over this.  LOL They obviously have a connection if a year has gone by and they are still yapping, flirting, whatever!  She is crazy about him too and he thinks she’s hot etc. 

House:

Finally~ my in-laws took pics of the house lot this weekend for us but it doesn’t look any different then before other then the house behind us has their fence up so you can see a better outline of how big it is.  I think they are just a little excited about us moving up there!  We are looking over and over the option list for the house.  Basically we are trying to stay within a certain $$ limit but we are pushing over that way to easily.

Item list so far:

Upgrade kitchen appliances to stainless steel

Upgrade cabinets from 30” tall to 36”

Corner cabinet upgrade to glass front with glass shelves.

Hi Low kitchen stainless steel sink

Pull out shelves in all bottom cabinets.

Brushed chrome door hardware in whole house

Brushed chrome “botanical” from Delta bath accessories whole house

Brushed chrome lighting pkg. whole house

Surround Sound in Great Room

Jetted spa tub in master bath

Closet organization systems in all closets – wood not wire shelves.

Fireplace, mantle with built in cabinetry in great room

Built in cabinetry office for loft upstairs

Utility room cabinetry and sink.

Wood floor throughout dining, hallway and kitchen.

Upgrade countertops in kitchen

Wine bar in hallway built in

AC System

Security prewire

Ceiling fan prewires for bedrooms/great room

*sighs* Needless to say the list is bad and we are dreading this but yet the Design Center is the most fun of building your own house. I’ll be taking oodles of pics of our options when we go! It’s really cool to go in and pick the carpet you want or the tile you want.  I’m not sure when we’ll get the call to make a flight up there for a weekend to get this done but the next few weeks are insanely busy with family and friends visiting.  I think the only weekend we could do it would Aug. 26^th.  I’m really hoping they break ground at the very latest September and that’s pushing it.  I’m due the end of March and well….6 months building time, if all goes well,  starting in September = February!!!!! Month before I’m due we’d be moving in? YIKES are you kidding me!! I would have only a month to decorate a nursery!! *cries*   Guess it’s the price we pay for having a “family” home.   Not to mention, I think we are going to try to take 10k out of our equity from our current house to buy our new bedroom set, new living room tables and ladder bookcases from Pottery Barn etc.  I sooo want time to decorate.  I told my mom I may have to fly her up just to do my nursery if it comes down to the wire LOL.

Sorry for the long update ~ this lj is being gay on letting me cut things so I give up.

Type this in the morning but just now getting to post it ~ gay gay lj!

Heather