Health update

I just got out of the hospital after 3 days there. The so called hiatal hernia turned out to be a bowel obstruction. I've had one before and had to have 6 inches of my intestine removed, so we were worried I'd need surgery again. This isn't fun when you're 7 months pregnant. I can attest to that as I had my appendix removed when I was pregnant with Mason. Anyway, just want to thank everyone for their prayers...it worked. I didn't need surgery and they were able to get things moving again. The pain is better but my ribs are still pretty sore from all the pressure that was on them. Glad to be home with Ro and the kids, glad to be eating solid food again, glad to not be tethered to an IV pole etc. Lots of things to be grateful for. Malia stayed active through the whole ordeal. They expected her to fall asleep with all the morphine and demerol they were giving me. But she just got more active, which was encouraging to me. Anyway, that's the health update for me. More coming soon regarding our living arrangements. :)

I need to complain

I'm grateful for the 4 weeks I felt great during this pregnancy. Luckily during that time we got to go to Hawaii. So awesome!

Anyway, the first 20 weeks of pregnancy were full of nausea, vomiting, and severe headaches. Then I had the 4 week break....and now I'm in the preterm labor phase. I was on bedrest for 2 weeks because the contractions were softening my cervix starting around 23 weeks. Then I was put on medication to help control that, so I'm up but have constant contractions whenever I walk, climb stairs bend over etc. Kind of hard to avoid that kind of movement when you have 2 busy kids and a house to take care of.

Then there's the insomnia I get from the contractions keeping me awake. 2 nights ago I went to the ER because I felt like my ribs were broken and whenever I laid down the pain became unbearable. They did an EKG, x-ray, blood work and a CT scan on my chest. Everything looked fine, so they doped me up on morphine and sent me home.

I went and saw my regular doctor who quickly diagnosed me as having a hiatal hernia. I guess the baby pushed my stomach through my diaphragm and into my esophagus. Yeah, weird huh. Hurts like crazy! So last night I spent crying uncontrollably because of the morphine hangover headache I got and the severe pain that shot through my ribs everytime I tried to lay down.
We're going to borrow a recliner from my in-laws so I can hopefully get some desperately needed sleep.

So there, I got it out....complain complain complain. BUT, I am so grateful that I'm pregnant and will be having a sweet little girl in 2 months or so. It's hard going through this but I know it will be so worth it. Unfortunately, Munro has banned me from EVER getting pregnant again! Oh, on a positive note, I DON'T have gestational diabetes. I had it with my last 2 pregnancies and was on insulin. But I've been taking my Xocai healthy chocolate consistently now for a year and it has done wonders at controlling my blood sugar. I was quite shocked but happy when the test came back negative. Yay for miracles! Of course the Lord doesn't want to spoil me by making things too easy, so I guess I'll just have to endure till the end for now.