Well it's been quite a while since I was able to update this thing... but I'm gonna give it a shot!
Well on June 1st Daniel decided to give us a scare of a lifetime!!! I started hurting Tuesday night (May 31) and had the stomach bug... which you know is always a lovely experience. Well i called the dr and they told me the same thing they always do.... take a warm bath and tylenol (to help the pain) and benadryl (to make me sleep) and try to wait it out to talk to my dr in the morning.
Well at 4 am Wednesday morning (June 1) I couldn't hold down water and I couldn't move I was in so much pain. So I called the Dr back and they told me to go to St D! I woke Michael up and he got dressed, we called Nanny and scooped Bella up still sleeping and dropped her off with her Nanny.
The drive to the hospital was horrible... I must say, we need new interstates... they are ridiculous!!!! We got to the hospital and got checked in. They told me I was contracting every 3 to 4 minutes and was extremely dehydrated from the stomach bug as well as had a bladder infection. They started me on IV fluids, anitbiotics, and giving me shots to stop my labor. They also gave me pain medicine (Thank the Lord) because I was in so much pain I couldn't even answer their questions. All day was the same thing... IV fluids, antibiotics, and shots to stop my labor. Well the shots didn't work and neither did the fluids... I had even dialated a cm!... so they started me on Procardia pills to try to stop my labor. we did a few doses of that and still nothing was slowing me down. They explained to me that the last option was a Magnesium drip... there are a few pitfalls like your stuck in the bed... it makes your muscles weak... and you can only be on it for a certain amount of time and if it doesn't work then we'll just have to have the baby. We agreed that we would do what it takes to keep him in so they started me on the Magnesium. We stayed the night and more of the same of all the IV mess and lots of pain medicine since the contractions were still coming every few minutes. Well Thursday (June 2) I finally started slowing down the contractions. They got to about every 10 minutes apart and they were so proud of me they brought me Jello instead of just the ice and clear liquids I had been drinking!!! I was so excited even though I hate Jello I ate a few bites of it! lol
Well by Thursday evening I was only having 1 to 2 contractions an hour so they decided to let us go home... on STRICT bedrest of course. and taking procardia every 4 hours. so we were discharged. Thursday night went good and Friday went fine. Michael had to go back to work friday night so Bella and I moved up to Nanny's. I was fine till about 10 and I started hurting again. so i took a warm bath and some Tylenol PM and tried to bed down. well that didn't happen! by 3 i was in so much pain i called the dr and they said come back in to St D! so I called Jen and she headed over to get me so Nanny and Bella could stay home.
Once again... we need new interstates! but Jen got me there and got me checked in and kept me company till after Michael got there! Bless her heart... I was in so much pain with no pain medicine I probably made her never want to have kids!! What a great friend though I must say!!!! Well I was contracting again so they kept me on my procardia and started giving me tributaline shots (however you spell that! lol) on top of the pills! well after about 6 hours on both medicines I slowed back down and they let me go home again taking the procardia every 3 hrs which is as often as you can take it and staying on strict bedrest with LOTS of fluids!
I was in a lot of pain but we made it through the rest of the weekend. Monday I went back to the dr for a check up and they took me off bedrest with the promise I would take it easy and could only work half days.
I went back to the diabetic dr and got a great report on Daniel. He's about 5 lbs and growing great! even though I did lose 4 lbs with the stomach bug so I'm 1 lb less than when I got pregnant!
I went back to work Wednesday (June 8) working from 7:30 to 12 worked 2 days and had to take off Friday cause the bladder infection had moved to my kidneys and had me in severe pain. i went back to the dr thrusday for tests and they called me in an antibiotic yesterday (June 13). So the days between the 9th and the 13th were pain filled and torture! But my hubby was amazing through it all! I'm feeling a little better today after starting my antibiotics so hopefully things are looking up!
We went Saturday night (June 11) to get Daniel's carseat. Bella got sick in target and threw up everywhere including on her daddy! then in the car and at home! it was lovely but she's much better now.
Sunday we went and picked up Macey and Tyler... as soon as we got home Bella got stung right by her eye by a red wasp!!! scared me half to death!!!
Her eye is still a little swollen but looks great now! She was so pitiful, all night she kept saying "bug got my cheek!!" I'm so glad it wasn't her eye that it got. Uncle Tyler killed one nest for us. Then last night her daddy found the nest that probably housed the one that got her and killed it! So hopefully we won't have to fight with this any time soon!!! well i know this one was long but like i said it's been a while so thanks for reading!
