On Thursday afternoon I noticed that my body started to ache really bad. I felt like I had a really bad fever but my temp kept coming back as normal. I left work early and went back to the doctor (I should just call that place my 2nd home) and there weren't enough symptoms for the doctor to diagnose anything. I was really frustrated because it obviously wasn't a virus since I had nothing else wrong with me but I just ached so bad! Well, turns out one of the side effects of my antibiotics for my UTI is muscle pains (and may I say 'not very common side effect'). That explains it! So I've been popping the Tylenol for a couple days now and praying that I never have to use this antibiotic ever again!
Since I'm in constant pain all over all the time I haven't been sleeping well. When your entire body hurts like that you tend to be temperature sensitive, cold one minute and then sweating the next. On top of that I've been putting Josiah in our bed when he wakes up at 5:30 a.m. so that he sleeps longer, and therefore I sleep longer, but he takes up so much room that I'm literally hanging on to the edge of the bed. So looks like no sleep for mama.
I'm also seriously "on the edge of hurting you" Lady Gaga because your new song has been running through my head all week and I can't fall asleep! It's been rough going.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
UTI
I'm not usually one for sharing too much personal information, but this was probably the most interesting thing that happened to me all week so I thought I'd share.
Last night I woke up and felt a little crampy in my gut, you ladies know what I mean. I haven't had my monthly visitor for a year and a half now because of 1. being pregnant and 2. breastfeeding (thank you Jesus for that wonderful break!) but my midwife told me most mothers get it back after 6 months. So for the past month and a half I've been waiting and waiting for it to come. Well, last night I got up to go the bathroom and saw blood all over and assumed that my monthly visitor had returned. I was so excited that I even woke Andrew up and told him because lately I've been very emotional and I thought Andrew would want to know that it was the PMS. Boy was I wrong! I woke up this morning and there was so much blood and burning (making me realize that this was not really my monthly visitor) and instead was a urinary tract infection. I went into Urgent Care and the lab tech couldn't even test my "sample" because it was pure blood (not so cool!). They assumed that it was just a UTI and put me on antibiotics. The nice thing is that after that first dose, I no longer had any issues! I'm so glad it wasn't anything more serious!
Last night I woke up and felt a little crampy in my gut, you ladies know what I mean. I haven't had my monthly visitor for a year and a half now because of 1. being pregnant and 2. breastfeeding (thank you Jesus for that wonderful break!) but my midwife told me most mothers get it back after 6 months. So for the past month and a half I've been waiting and waiting for it to come. Well, last night I got up to go the bathroom and saw blood all over and assumed that my monthly visitor had returned. I was so excited that I even woke Andrew up and told him because lately I've been very emotional and I thought Andrew would want to know that it was the PMS. Boy was I wrong! I woke up this morning and there was so much blood and burning (making me realize that this was not really my monthly visitor) and instead was a urinary tract infection. I went into Urgent Care and the lab tech couldn't even test my "sample" because it was pure blood (not so cool!). They assumed that it was just a UTI and put me on antibiotics. The nice thing is that after that first dose, I no longer had any issues! I'm so glad it wasn't anything more serious!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Major Update
We've been living in our apartment for almost 4 weeks now and I am still not unpacked. I've got living room decor covering our couches and boxes sitting all over the floor, tubs of unpacked items sitting in our entry way, a coffee table with no place to go, and our storage room is a complete mess. I honestly do not know when I will find time to put everything away, which explains why I have been so stressed in trying to make this place actually feel like home. I also have not deep cleaned anything since we moved in! However, in these circumstances you have to just make do. Working a full time job, having a husband who currently works 60 hour weeks and a 7 1/2 month old boy means you just have to do what you can to get by!
On that note of Josiah, he has been sleeping through the night! Wahoo! Well, lets not celebrate too much...we may have had 3 successful nights of him sleeping all night long, but he likes to wake up at 5:30 a.m. again and last night was an awful night! The poor little guy is on his 4th infection this year! This particular infection is on it's 2nd round of antibiotics, which means he's been fighting off this infection for about 3 weeks now. We've tried EVERYTHING! Going to the chiropractor, using breast milk drops, using garlic oil drops, cutting out dairy and nothing works with this child! Our Memorial day wasn't so "Memorial" it was more like "Memori[ILL]al" (if that even makes sense) because we made a trip to the ER. Josiah had pink eye in both eyes, a throat infection, and an ear infection. This poor child!!! Unfortunately if he gets a couple more ear infections, or if he still has this same one when we go back to the doctor in 2 weeks, then he will have to get tubes. In some ways I am all for getting tubes because I know it will really help him (especially from having to take all of these antibiotics!) but I am a little nervous. We will just pray that this is the final infection and God will heal his little ears!
With everything that's been going on lately I've been going through some depression. Now that it's summer Andrew is working around 60 hours a week, which means I spend my evenings home alone with Josiah. It's a struggle to find time to relax after working a full day at day care, coming home and getting Josiah fed, bathed and put to bed plus getting myself dinner. No wonder I don't have time to unpack or clean! It's been hard but we are praying about some sort of job change that would allow me to stay home more with Josiah but still provide for us financially. Now...I know what you may be thinking (how many times has this lady changed jobs???!!!) and I completely agree. My hope isn't to quit where I am at, but instead to go down to part time (along with Josiah being at day care part time) and to clean houses in the afternoons. It pays really good plus I would be able to bring Josiah along with me! I could also have a flexible schedule so I could stay home 2-3 afternoons a week with Josiah. That sounds AWESOME to me! We are going to take some time to pray about this for a few weeks and see what we think God is calling me to do, but it would be so nice to get Josiah out of day care a little more. Maybe that would keep away the ear infections!!
On that note of Josiah, he has been sleeping through the night! Wahoo! Well, lets not celebrate too much...we may have had 3 successful nights of him sleeping all night long, but he likes to wake up at 5:30 a.m. again and last night was an awful night! The poor little guy is on his 4th infection this year! This particular infection is on it's 2nd round of antibiotics, which means he's been fighting off this infection for about 3 weeks now. We've tried EVERYTHING! Going to the chiropractor, using breast milk drops, using garlic oil drops, cutting out dairy and nothing works with this child! Our Memorial day wasn't so "Memorial" it was more like "Memori[ILL]al" (if that even makes sense) because we made a trip to the ER. Josiah had pink eye in both eyes, a throat infection, and an ear infection. This poor child!!! Unfortunately if he gets a couple more ear infections, or if he still has this same one when we go back to the doctor in 2 weeks, then he will have to get tubes. In some ways I am all for getting tubes because I know it will really help him (especially from having to take all of these antibiotics!) but I am a little nervous. We will just pray that this is the final infection and God will heal his little ears!
With everything that's been going on lately I've been going through some depression. Now that it's summer Andrew is working around 60 hours a week, which means I spend my evenings home alone with Josiah. It's a struggle to find time to relax after working a full day at day care, coming home and getting Josiah fed, bathed and put to bed plus getting myself dinner. No wonder I don't have time to unpack or clean! It's been hard but we are praying about some sort of job change that would allow me to stay home more with Josiah but still provide for us financially. Now...I know what you may be thinking (how many times has this lady changed jobs???!!!) and I completely agree. My hope isn't to quit where I am at, but instead to go down to part time (along with Josiah being at day care part time) and to clean houses in the afternoons. It pays really good plus I would be able to bring Josiah along with me! I could also have a flexible schedule so I could stay home 2-3 afternoons a week with Josiah. That sounds AWESOME to me! We are going to take some time to pray about this for a few weeks and see what we think God is calling me to do, but it would be so nice to get Josiah out of day care a little more. Maybe that would keep away the ear infections!!
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