Ok, so I know this is rare, but I'm posting twice in one day. You know, when you get pregnant, you know the basic stuff but you don't get told some of the other stuff. Apparently this is just - if you knew, you'd think twice about it.
I haven't talked a lot about being sick, but I have been. I thought I was getting better after the hell that was the week of Thanksgiving. In fact, I was determined to be positive and just soldier through this part. And things were going well, until yesterday.
No one likes to throw up. And I'm lucky that it's been limited to the confines of my house. Sunday started ok, but when it came time for lunch, the thought of eating food wasn't appealing (never a good sign). I ate anyway because I have to and immediately knew I should have just eaten toast.
I laid on the sofa waiting for the feeling to pass. I wound up falling asleep and that normally helps. When I woke up I was ok. Not necessarily great, but I didn't feel the need to jump up and run into the bathroom. Around dinner time, I decided to just have soup.
I had to go back to lying down, immediately. The feeling progressively got worse. I'm not sure why I fight it at this point, but I still do. I took a bath and got in bed. About 10 minutes after getting in bed, I knew I couldn't fight it anymore and I spent 15 minutes reliving my dinner AND my lunch... oh and all the Tums I'd eaten in between.
I won't get completely graphic but let's just say it was bad. Skip ahead to 10 minutes ago when I pulled out a mirror to look at something I thought was in my eye. I noticed it looked like I had a rash around both of my eyes and then it hit me.
Leslie had mentioned it a while back as we compared our sick stories. Apparently, I'd given myself two black eyes by popping the blood vessels around my eyes from the force of getting sick. So I emailed her to tell her and this was her response.
"And now I will officially welcome you to pregnancy, but instead of some nice welcome gift, you get black eyes, permanent throw up taste in your mouth, an absent mind and countless wonderful other things that will last for a while. But, your welcome gift won't last and at the end you'll have a beautiful baby with no sleep."
At least from far away they look like lots and lots of freckles... not really, but that's what I'm telling myself.
2 comments:
No pressure, but it's almost Jan...you really should think of letting us think you're 1/2 way together by changing the header :-)
On a happy note, we really are enjoying the comedic standpoint of watching what we already know. Ha!
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