I haven't had an ultrasound done since I was 10 weeks along and now I am 1 day shy of being 14 weeks pregnant.These past two days have been some of the better ones during this week that's for sure! 3 days ago I attempted to go "out" for a little bit. I managed to walk through Wal Mart for all of 10 minutes..long enough to pick up Colace for my lovely side effect, SEVERE constipation. Gotta love being pregnant right? :) I started getting really crampy and dizzy in Wal Mart and I had to sit down on a bench for a minute or two. Then Matt gave me the car keys so I could go sit outside in the car and him and our daughter proceeded to the checkout. This trip was very disappointing.
After dinner we decided to take our daughter to Dairy Queen for some ice-cream. I stood in line for about 5 minutes staring at the menu and then started feeling very hot, sweaty, dizzy and crampy once again so I decided to go sit in a booth. Our daughter loved her ice-cream and I got my little cookie dough blizzard fix so I was pretty happy myself!
P.S. these bibs from IKEA are the best thing in the world! Natalie can eat whatever on earth she please and I don't have to worry about her pretty little dresses getting stained and ruined! A 2 pack was only $4.99 and I definitely recommend buying them! :)
\The next day (being yesterday) I had more energy. Natalie went with my In-Laws to D.C. for the day so I was lucky enough to have a little break to 'rest'. Instead of resting I decided to bleach the bathroom and super clean Nat's bedroom. Matt was even nice enough to shampoo her carpets for me since I can't vacuum/ shampoo carpets. Trust me I tried to vacuum about 2 weeks ago HORRIBLE idea. I had cramps for about 2 hours afterwards.
Today I would say I've had the most energy I've had in the past 4 weeks since I had my bleed. I find this surprising considering I was up all night at "Urgent Care" with Matt. Funny story: Natalie and Daddy were rough housing on the floor and kicking their feet up and rolling around being goof balls before her bedtime 2 days ago and she kicked him square in his boys! He of course made the squinting I'm going to barf face while he held himself in pain...you know the usual reaction guys make when they are hit/ kicked in their goods; and then he went back to playing with her like nothing ever happened.
WELL: yesterday he gets out of the shower and is freaking out about to have a panic attack. He tells me he has a lump on one of his 'boys'. So of course being the Fiance I am the lucky one that gets to examine it -___-. I asked him if it hurt and he said YES. I said GOOD that means its probably not cancer. I said does your abdomen hurt? He said yes...I said Mmm it could be epididymitis (which is really just an inflammation of the epididymis that is usually cured with an antibiotic). Then I told him it could just be a spermatocele or something minor like that...and of course he is freaking out and in panic mode thinking that his "THING" is going to fall off.
So anyway, to make sure everything is okay with him we go up to urgent care but of course it just HAS to be a Saturday and he couldn't have gone to the doctor all day. His insurance plan has a $1,000.00 co-pay to whoever goes to the E.R. first in his family too so he definitely is holding off going to the E.R. Luckily, our insurance has a 24 hour facility that is kind of like an emergency room and it's about 40 minutes away so off we were to check out his lump situation.
I will never let him live down his visit either. You know how us, women always have to strip down and put on that little white paper skirt/ blanket thing and hope our butt isn't showing. Then we have to lift our legs up and spread eagle for the doctor...and all the while our hubby's are sitting in the chair a few feet away staring at us. WELL ladies let me tell you it's a great feeling watching your hubby be tickled with a little bit of discomfort every once in a while since we have to deal with is quite often with pregnancy/ birth.
Matt: "Do I have to take my underwear off?"
Me: "Duh, why else would they give you the white paper thing..."
Matt: "I don't want to....."
every time he could hear somebody walking outside of the door of the little room we were in he would cross his legs and start shaking his leg with nerves. I was cracking up! Finally the doctor came in. She was a really nice woman. She examined him for about 10 minutes and asked him to stand up and sit down and cough...she asked him all of these questions. Finally her answer, "Well it's a bruise!"
So the lump will go away as the bruise heals and she told him to expect it to turn all different colors within the next 4 weeks...she said it's a pretty decent bruise so it will take some time to heal.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed making fun of him I am glad there is nothing seriously wrong!
THEN: Later last night when we got home he was still in a lot of pain. Which I find this interesting: Guys who have pain in their testicles will also have a shooting pain in their abdomen because their scrotum while in the womb was far up in their abdomen. When it descends there is still a tendon connecting it so pain shoots up when something is wrong. VERY INTERESTING. Anyway, I offered to give him one of my Percocet's from when I had a kidney infection about 8 months ago. I saved them just in case I ever had a horrible migraine or anything like that...but I honestly hate Percocet. It makes me so sick to my stomach.
So he takes a Percocet and then about 20 minutes later we are laying in bed and he is scratching my back and he begins talking and talking and talking....I think I fell asleep before he ever stopped talking. It cracked me up because when I had Natalie via C-Section and I was drugged up on Percocet I was the same way but 1,000,000 times worse.
BACK TO TODAY: So although we didn't get home until about 1:30 in the morning I still managed to feel well rested and tackle the day! I woke up in a kind of grumpy mood. Then decided to go visit my parents. I had enough energy to walk to the pond behind their house so Matt and I could throw rocks in the water for the first time with Natalie. She LOVED it. :) I stood up for a while outside too while she played with her giant bouncy ball. I also managed to come home and prepare Natalie's lunch and play outside with her some more. Even better: for the first time in almost forever I actually had the energy to stand up long enough to cook dinner without having ANY cramps. It was amazing!!! I even cleaned up the dinner mess and all of Natalie's toys earlier this evening. I just finished giving her a bath and putting away a load of her laundry. That is more than I've done in a while!!! Usually I get awful cramps if I stand or sit up for longer than 10 minutes.
I really hope that this energy means my subchorionic hematoma is getting better. I am starting to feel like my normal self again! I have just been listening to my body and the second I begin cramping I chug a glass of ice water and put my feet up! My doctor told me I don't have to be on pelvic rest but I've placed myself on it anyway. Wish me luck! I'll update you all on the news!
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