On Wed, I had my 32 week visit with the midwives. I was supposed to have a visit the week before, but due to scheduling conflicts and a winter storm, things had to be rescheduled.
This visit, the kids all came with me for my visit with Debbie. We talked about the usual stuff, including the stress of finding out Reuben has to have surgery on March 18th (second one this pregnancy), and just general concerns. Little Foot was LOP (not good), and was still a little difficult to find with the fetoscope. Because of his position, my belly measurement didn't change from last month.
Reuben had a good time "helping"...
Then, Wednesday night, I started to get sick. It first started with shortens of breath, cough, and some burning chest pain. Thursday things got a little worse - and the cough turned productive (it was very .... Colorful). Thursday night was miserable. I was coughing so much and choking on the sputum. I ended up refluxing a lot and almost vomiting.
Friday morning I had had enough. I texted my backup doctor, Dr. Brad Bootstaylor. He offered to call me on antibiotics, but I requested to come in and be seen. I saw Nana Friday afternoon, and she was pretty convinced I just had a bad cold. I almost cried in the office. I just felt so bad, and didn't feel like it was a cold. But I decided to follow her advice and see where that took me.
Today (Sat), I stayed in bed most of the day. I sent Joel for Tylenol this morning because my throat, ears, chest, and face were hurting. We are ibuprofen people, so we don't even really keep the stuff in the house. After I took the first dose, the pain eased up (yay!), but I also noticed I got REALLY sweaty. Like soak all the sheets sweaty. Hmmmm.... That happens when I've had a fever.
Around 4 PM, Dr. B texted me to see how I was feeling...
I sent Joel to pick up the meds and will start them tonight. In the meantime I'm using Tylenol and sudafed to make it through the evening.
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