Uhh, I dont feel so good
So yesterday I was at work and lately I feel like I need to urinate about every 30min from my uterus pressing on my bladder so I am not a big fan of drinking as much as I probably should be. Well on one of my frequent trips to the bathroom I all the sudden get this sharp pain on my left side along with a nice combo of nausea and faintness. I walk back to my co-workers apparently looking very pale (which living in Ohio for 2 years will do to you anyways) and tell them I don't feel so good. Being nurses they love to jump on possible exciting cases so they throw me on a stretcher and make me go to the ER. Now just lying down I feel a lot better and if I was at home I am sure the crisis would have ended there. The pain had basically gone away and it feels nice to be flat in bed. In the ER they drew lots of blood, urine and did an ultrasound. Here I was of course happy to get an unexpected check of the baby (HR rocking in the 160s). The ultrasound showed a small kidney stone and some fluid on my kidney. So they gave me a liter of IV fluid and I got to watch TBS for 4 hours until they deemed me fit to go home. My instructions are to rest, drink tons of fluid and check with the base OB doctors and see if they want to follow up at all with me.
In unrelated exciting news, Dan and I are going shopping for a new car/truck/SUV type thing with 4 doors since neither of our cars have 4 doors and we think that would be helpful so we don't kill our backs with getting the baby in a car seat.
5 comments:
Wow! How dramatic. Bonus on the ultrasound. Maybe you can volunteer to help someone in the hospital who needs to practice their ultrasound techniques? Feel better soon.
Hope you're feeling better.
LOTS and LOTS of fluid. How about cranberry juice?
Car shopping for 4 doors brings back some memories. I recommend (a) getting a hatchback or the like for ample baby stuff space and (b) not signing the paperwork a week after the baby is born (going home from the hospital in a 2-door was really not fun).
What a bummer! At least your appendix is ok. :-)
Congrats on the second trimester!
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