30 week appointment

I told P that I wanted to sleep in this morning. My appointment wasn't until 10:15 and I purposely set the alarm clock and everything. Yeah right. He woke me up asking if he could turn on the TV. I told him he was ugly.

I am NOT A MORNING PERSON. Ask anyone who knows me. I'd rather kill you than look or speak to you in the morning. I wake up mentally no earlier than 10am. Period.

Then he asked me to make him breakfast. He's got pretty big balls huh? I only did because I was hungry. I made poached eggs on toast for myself and a cheese and egg omlette for him. My first piece of toast tasted great. My second piece had one of those nasty ass egg stringies in it. WTF is up with those. I wish they would just cook out in the whole process. I get one of those, and my meal is ruined. Hudson got the rest of it...I'm sure he enjoyed it. Took a shower and off I went.

Do you think it is ok to come to almost a complete stop in the middle of a road, speed limit 45, because you can't drive or have no idea where you are going? If you answered yes, please go under your sink and find the bottle of Mr Clean and chug it. Yes, I had one of these morons in front of me today no less than 5 minutes into my 10 minute drive. My horn got a workout. I didn't even look to see who was driving.

Got to my appointment, read some of FitPregnancy (which is actually a good read). It had good articles and not too many ads. Nurse called me in and did the normal routine. Made a comment about P not being there...he has been to every one of my appointments. Urine specimen and weight check. I didn't ask the weight but last time I weighed at home I was 262, which brings my grand total to 22 pounds gained so far. Nurse also said that I had protein in my urine and if they were monitoring me for that. Shouldn't you know that already?

Dr. came in after 20 minutes of yacking it up outside with co-workers. She listened to the heartbeat which was good. She asked if I had any questions. I had 4.

-When/if do we get another ultrasound? No, only if I have some problem that needs to be monitored

-When should I get my glucose results? Probably not until next week.

-Should I be concerned about the protein in the urine? No, but she'll send off for a UA to see if I have a UTI.

-Can I eat bologne? No.
-Not even if I heat it up? No.
-But it tastes good. No.
Insert middle finger gesture here. It's because of the listeria.

It was weird though because after I asked her she came and rubbed my back and said you can eat all the bologne you want after she is born or something. Like she felt my bologne pain. Still, she didn't need to rub my back to get that point across. You can have the same affect from across the room. She left and closed the door behind her like someone would do if you were to stay in there. Didn't understand that either, wtf was I supposed to stay in there and do, twiddle my thumbs? Went to the front desk and set up my next appointment in another 2 weeks.

Got out of there, went to my insurance company and met with the lady I've been talking to via email for the past year and a half. She was nice. We shot the shit for about 15 minutes. I made a comment about job searching and she started to tell me about this side thing she is doing and she starts telling me about this nutritional product. She gave me one of her cards and said "you can make over $100,000 in less than a year. Ok...number one I can guarantee you pyramid company. Number two, why the hell are you talking to me if you can make $100K in less than a year. Your ass is still working here.

Next headed to tire place to get a front alignment done. They were slammed. End result, I have to get up this morning to drive the truck over there. Girlfriend at the desk was feeding her face and talking to me at the same time. I know you work in a garage sweetheart, but there are two of you at the desk. Go smack your food in private.

Got some gas...paid $3.69 I think..may have been $3.59..grabbed some Lemon Propel (which expired Dec 07 which I didn't realize until 3/4 of it was gone) and TUMS and headed home. I ate some potato chips with ranch dressing (yes, trying to keep it healthy) and a bowl of cereal, then took a nap. P finally got home, we went and ran a couple of errands and grabbed some dinner...Mexican food...lol. I waited too long to eat though, and felt nausiated and got a headache. :(

And now it is 3am...I got woken up by a random cricket in our bedroom and kicks to my bladder. All good things I suppose... Isn't a cricket a sign of good luck in the chinese culture? Something to Google I guess.

Sorry to be so long winded tonight. All that made me a little sleepy. I gotta get up in the morning anyhow.

Sugar sugar

Had to get up bright and early Thursday for my appointment. They started at 8am, so it was pretty much the same as any other day during the week. Roll out of bed at 7, and hurry to get ready. Got there a couple minutes early (gasp), signed in and sat down. Another woman came in obviously PG, said her OB (like mine) had told her that she just needed to come in w/out calling. She had no lab orders, and they told her she was SOL. I felt bad, but at the same time not so much. I did my homework honey.

They took my blood a total of 4 times. The first time at 8:17, then I had to drink the lovely tasting concoction...flat orange soda that tastes 10x sweeter than normal. They gave me 5 minutes to finish it but I downed it in under a minute. Why nurse it??! After that, every hour on the hour.

I look like I shoot up. The areas where they poked me (in both arms) are all black and blue. My veins kept collapsing (that makes you feel healthy...having collapsing veins) so they had to dig around quite a bit and break out the butterfly needle.

I had 2 different nurses pulling blood. The 3rd draw one of them yanked the tape right off. I told her she almost got slapped. She laughed.
The 4th and final time her friend pulled my blood, she used alcohol wipes to ease the tape off. I thanked her for that and said co-worker wasn't as nice. She hollered to her and teased her for doing that.

She said she was sorry and said to me "At least you're nice, we get some people in here that are just miserable" and walked out of the room.

Nurse said, "you'll have a nice, good tempered baby" (this made me LOL inside)

I replied "don't be fooled, I'm usually a bitch!". She was rolling.

Hey... just being honest.

Finally got out of there and headed to work. Made a stop at Taco Bell. P loves the fact I am feeding our child grade K beef. He doesn't understand why I would rather eat that than authentic Mexican (since I got PG, going into most Mexican joints makes me nausiated, especially if I think about the one food there that starts with an "E"...yeah, just gagged).

Work went by fairly quickly, knock on wood. It felt good walking out of there knowing I had today off.

Holy heartburn

Make it stop!! Most people would say, pop some Tums. After the kidney stones episode, I went to kidney america or some credible kidney related site, and read that "calcium based antacids can contribute to kidney stones". My one jar a month has dwindled down to the small packs and I use peppermint and gum more often. I just don't want to go through that again. So I deal!

Last night, she was so active. Everytime I see my stomach morph into an unrecognizable shape, I smile. I'd have to say that it is my favorite side effect of pregnancy. Her strength is amazing. Americas next gold star gymnast, right in my stomach.

Tomorrow is my 3 hour glucose testing. I failed my initial one last week, with a count of 159. I have to be there at 8am...not exactly looking forward to being there that early, but crossing my fingers for good results. Friday is a normal checkup at the OB. I love seeing how much weight my fat feet have gained.

One thing I never had a problem with pre-PG is having a bowel movement...well I shouldn't say that. I never had a problem with it after my fissure surgery and before getting PG. I went at least 2 times a day. This trimester is filled with sporadic poops, at all hours of the day. I ate a 10 pound Jasons potato filled with broccoli and cheese soup which normally tears me up. I got nothing out of it. Very odd. Baby seemed to like it as well.

The other thing I found out last week was I am anemic. I've always had low iron but was never classified as anemic. It may be a mental thing since hearing it, but I have been incredibly tired this week, even taking the extra iron pill. I don't expect this to subside until after she's born.

Lastly, my biggest annoyance today: SNOT. I won't go into detail about it because it will make me nausiated, but I should invest stock in Kleenex. Absolutely ridiculous.

Not too much else to report for today...I'll be on tomorrow to discuss my appointment.

First blog

Hi all. I have a few friends that keep a blog...figure it is a little more environmentally friendly than using the notebook like I have been. I think I'd keep up with this more than I would writing as well.

Not sure where to start, maybe with an introduction of myself? 26 years old, living in Georgia, originally from Upstate New York. Small fish in a big pond. I've been here for 8 years this July. I've grown to hate it. Traffic sucks, weather sucks, people suck, etc. You get the picture. I own a chow-husky mix named Hudson and a cat named Bobbie (shown on my front page). They are our babies. Newly married as of July 21st to the greatest man in the world. I'm very lucky to have someone like him...I don't know that I could find anyone else who would put up with my shit so I'm not going anywhere...lol. Just kidding P.

We are pregnant with our first child, a girl. Made this discovery March 3rd after having a late period by a few days and a random throwing up the week before. Definately were not trying, but had been off the pill for 2 1/2 months when it "happened". So here we are. I'd have to say I'm definately not in the place where I wanted to be when I had my first, but I suppose everyone has those feelings/thoughts at one point or another about their first. Still, we are definately very excited and feel very blessed.

The pregnancy overall has not been so bad. My first trimester was filled praying to the porcelain god...not being able to keep anything down. The second tri, at 21 weeks I got kidney stones that put me in the hospital for 2 days. We just recently got into the third trimester. It's fine so far, with the peeing all the time, getting out of bed every two hours to both use the bathroom and regain the feeling in my hip and leg depending on which side I am sleeping on. It's been a trip...I can't believe how fast time is zipping by. This week I am 30 weeks, only 10 more to go.

Yes, we do have a name. No, I will not be telling what it is until the big day. ;)

I'll close with the bout of heartburn, kicking of the bladder and my gut.