The not so great weekend

On Thursday afternoon, while I was still at work, I started to feel pain in my middle/lower back on my right side. I figured it was some minor muscle pain that would go away and attributed it to recent travels and lack of sleep. Well by 6:00 that night the pain had increased so I took some tylenol, put a heat patch on my side and took a nap. I woke up to more pain several hours later and decide to call my doctor to see if they had any recommendations. I had a kidney infection 10 years ago and the pain felt relatively similiar which led me to believe that this is could be what I was experiencing. The on-call doctor questioned me for awhile about my symptoms, I think she thought I was exaggerating my pain. I was really worried about the baby, but the doctors said that this shouldn't effect the baby. That's the real reason I wanted to make sure everything was ok.

I decide to go to the ER and see if they could figure anything out. About 2 hours after being admitted I finally got results and pain medicine. By know I had thrown up multiple times due to the pain and the pain had increased to a 10. The doctor diagnosed my with kidney stones and admitted me for the night. I didn't get any relief until the middle of the night and it wasn't much.

Every time I needed pain medicine the nurses had to call the doctor to get permission to admintister the medicine. In the morning I went 5 hours without any pain medicine and it was 5 of the worst hours of my life. I went in for a sonogram of kidneys and they poked and prodded my sides for almost an hour and a half. It was torturous. Not to mention I was feeling nauseous the whole time.

When they finally took me back to my room and gave me pain medicine I felt like a new person. The urologist came in to see me a few hours later and told me they still felt like I had a kidney stones but weren't able to see any. My right urethrea was enlarged and my kindey wasn't draining properly, so they planned to keep my overnight. Saturday morning I saw my OBGYN (who just happened to be on call) and he told me he thought I could go home later that night. I slept most of the day on Saturday a waiting word on my discharge. As it would happen my white blood cell count went up and they didn't want to send me home. So I spent another night in the hospital watching the Elite 8 games. Sunday morning brought more confusion. I was told I could go home, then that I would need a stint put in, etc. Finally the OBGYN gave me the go ahead to leave, but I started having increased pain in my back.

What frustrated me the most was when they gave the discharge order, I had a hard time getting a nurse to help me when I was really in pain. They basically wrote me off before I left. I hope that isn't an omen for what it will be like when I deliver there.

Back in the Running Habit

I haven't run since last November when I completed the San Antonio 1/2 marathon. Shortly after that I found out I was pregnant and decided that I needed to take a break from exercising. I was tired, then came the holidays, then the cold, etc I was never short of excuses for not running.

Finally David and I decided that we would start working out after our babymoon. That would mean that today was the day we started exercising again. I already had my excuses planned out for why I couldn't run today. I have a JL meeting after work then our apartment building is hosting BINGO night, so I wouldn't have time to fit in running.

BUT as luck would have it I was wide awake at 4:00 am this morning. Apparently no one told my body we weren't in Spain anymore. As I laid awake for an hour praying exhaustion would overtake my body and force me back to sleep, the hubs rolled over just as wide awake and suggested jokingly I'm sure that we should go running. I said ok, but only if we weren't asleep in 20 minutes. As you might guess neither one of us was able to go back to sleep so at 6:00 we got up and went for a jog. The beautiful weather also made a great case for running outside. It was nowhere near the pace or distance I'm accustom to, but it did feel good to get back in the habit.
We'll see how sore I am tomorrow.

It's about time

Most of you know this already, but I'll go ahead and make the "BIG" annoucement on here anyways...We are expecting a beautiful bundle of joy this August. We are super excited!! I broke down and told my bosses last week. I'm not going to be able to hide it much longer. I'm undecided if I'll post anything to facebook or just updates on here. More weekly pictures to come.