Morning sickness all the sudden decided to triple it's efforts in my 13th week ( knowing full well that I am supposed to be ending all that business by that time). I could literally not get off the couch because of the extreme nausea. I didn't leave the house for 6 days. Steve has been traveling a lot for work and was in Vegas for the the first half of the week so that didn't help. I was so sick I had to have my dad come over to help with Aubrey most days and Steve even had to come home from work later in the week to help out.
My OB called in medication for me to try but it just gave me all the side effects without the help, so she pulled out the big guns and gave me Zofran (anti-nausea medicine they give to chemo patients). She said if that didn't help the next step was hospitalization to get some fluids into me and to monitor my weight loss more closely. Thankfully, the Zofran did the trick and I felt human for about 2 days before I got sick again.
Yes, the consensus is that I have H1N1. Fun stuff, and I passed it on to Aubrey and Steve. Once again I've been down and out and after about 6 days of trying to convince myself it was just a chest cold, I decided to call my doctor and they put me on Tamiflu. Steve's still in the contagious stage so he's stayed home the last few days, although he hasn't felt that terrible yet. The first day he was just home to help with Aubrey and I, and then he started having symptoms himself. He went to the urgent care today and is on Tamiflu as well.
Poor little Aubrey spiked a temperature of 104.2 ( it was still going up but she wouldn't let me keep it in there any longer), and we were going to take her in but it was after hours and our pediatricians urgent care said they were booked solid. It took them 4 hours to even call us back to talk to us about bringing her in. Luckily, she made it through and after a rough 24 hours her fever broke and she has been soooo much better. It was completely an answer to prayer. It is so much harder to have your little be so sick. I hate seeing her like that. So, she just has a cough now and has been more irritable, but otherwise is her busy two-year old self.
Anyway, that's where we've been and where we are! I basically have been house bound for the month of October and this being sick thing is really getting old. Hopefully, just by the fact that I'm able to sit up long enough to write this post, I am on the up and up. ; ) Church callings, work, and toddlers don't stop for sickness, that's for sure! So, I'm left with a wreck of a house, a piled up to-do list, and a hefty dose of prescriptions, but hopefully we're coming to the end of it all : ) So, how has your October been?
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