Nice Little Visits!!!!

Well we had the nice pleasure of having Dustin’s Mom and John come stay with us! They came out for a week to visit his Grandma and we got to have them stay with us for the weekend! Friday after the ultrasound we headed out to San Tan Flats for Martha’s Birthday! We met up with Malisa, Jensen, the kiddo’s, Aunt Cathi, Zac, Britney and Nathan, plus Dustin’s Uncle Dave and Aunt Lynn met us there too! We had so much fun! We really do love that place and the kids had a good time! Brinley hung out with us and had a nice time, but crashed as soon as we got in the car! She loved the dance floor, of course!

Saturday we got up and enjoyed breakfast and the Red Mountain Café (Mine & Dustin’s reminder of Show Low) with Martha, John and the kids and they headed home! Having to determine which route to take back to Oklahoma due to road closures from snow wasn’t nice for them! But they left and made it home safe!

Since my mom and Grams are also down, they stayed at our house on Tuesday til Sunday and we sure enjoyed their company! Uncle Matt also came over Sunday afternoon and we all hung out! I have to say I love love love having my Uncle in town! I love his visits, he always makes them fun! I wish he could visit more often, well I should go there too! I love how well we get along and I can tell him anything! I think my mom really liked spending time with him too! We watched movies and made dinner each night! I love cooking with him…he always has some great recipes to make!

Monday, Uncle surprised us by putting up some shelving in our garage that’s been sitting there for a while, because Dustin didn’t know how to put it up! Hahah. It’s sooo nice now and saves a lot of space! You can believe those are coming with us when we move (hopefully soon)! Mom got the rest of the paint needed to finish painting the house and some nice trim to spice up around the windows. The house hasn’t been homey since we moved in, but I think it’s coming along nicely! We did a neutral color on the walls with white trim! I love it! Katrina and I did some Cricut sayings for the walls and of course I’m taking those with me too! I love them!

Saturday we were invited to Uncle Brad’s for a shin-dig celebrating his birthday…which one was it….ummm….35th. Yeah, I think so! Hahah…they made rolled tacos, beans and rice with some yummy dessert! Everyone sat by the fire and had a good time. I of course was running out of steam from painting that morning! The sun was down and when I looked at my mom and said “you about ready, it’s pretty “late”…but noticed it was ONLY 7:30pm!!! Hahah…as Me, Mom and Grams made our way out the door, I called shotgun and Grams proceeded to climb in the back! Needless to say, she’s a safety girl and needed her seat belt! Well I don’t know if it was the fact that all 3 of us were tired, or what but this started a laughing frenzy amongst the 3 of us! Grams couldn’t get her seat belt on, so as we are pulling down the road, we pull over I hop out to help Grams, get it fixed and hop back in. We went no further that 2 feet when she STILL couldn’t get it clipped in! We stopped again….by this time laughing because Grams is having so many issues putting her seat belt on! I pulled out the part to click in the seat belt, hop back in the front and off we go. Another few feet we stop again cause she STILL can’t get it buckled!!! She gets frustrated and moves to the middle….still unable to hook her seatbelt my mom stops AGAIN and gets out this time. Now we are laughing so hard we are crying and Grams moves from the middle to the drivers side….Mom is laughing sooo hard she can’t help her buckle her belt! Finally, she buckles her in and off we go! We must have laughed and stopped-started for a good 15 minutes! It was hilarious!!!! Maybe you had to be there to enjoy the good laugh, I sure did!!!!

Sunday, everyone left me and went home. I felt lost without my family….granted Dustin was there, but it’s not the same when you miss your Mom! I’m going to clean and do some laundry! Hahaha…

8 Weeks & Counting!!!

So…on Friday we went back to our OB for our 2 week follow-up at 8 weeks, for our first ULTRASOUND!!! Dustin’s Mom and Stepdad are in town from Oklahoma so we invited them to join us for the exciting visit to the doctor! Since my Mom, Grandma and Brinley are also in town, they met up with us there too! Brinley was suppose to be going to the Renaissance Festival with her mom but told her she didn’t want to go, she wanted to go to the doctor to hear the baby’s heartbeat! So there we were….all 10 of us in the waiting room!!! They finally called me back and once the tech was able to locate the baby and verify a heartbeat, everyone was able to come back and enjoy this happy time with us!

It’s sooo amazing the little blob on the screen is OUR BABY! While Dustin was amazed and said “that’s it, that’s our baby”…the tech said “Yep, you better take care of it”! We all laughed! She verified that there was ONLY ONE baby in there, with a good strong heartbeat and everything looked well! I’ll try and get some pictures from the ultrasound on here….even though it’s hard to tell what it is! Haha. We were able to hear our baby’s heartbeat and it was soooo loud! It was about 176BPM which is VERY fast, but is a good sign that our baby has a strong heartbeat! I am 8 weeks and 1 day, however, on ultrasound i'm measuring 8 weeks and 6 days, but since it's in the same week my due date doesn't change. 

It was nice to have my Mom, Tanya and Brinley there and I’m sure Dustin loved having his Mom there to experience this with us!  Afterwards we saw the PA, Abbey Coppenhaver; http://www.azmomdocs.com/Providers/Abbey_Copenhaver.aspx .  I was a bit apprehensive on seeing a PA since I was assured we would be seeing our Doc today…but Abbey was just what we needed! She’s very upbeat, outgoing and very very knowledgeable!!! She answered all our questions, plus some! We decided to do the blood test for Cystic Fibrosis since it is on my Mom’s side of the family. We were given information about The First Trimester Screening for Neural Tube Defects, which we opted to do. This will test for Down ’s syndrome and other Chromosomal disorders along with some cardiac defects as well. This will be done between 12 and 14 weeks. Although Dustin didn’t want to have these done, I want the piece of mind knowing our baby is healthy.

I’ve been feeling really sick all day after I take my prenatal vitamins whether it be in the evening or morning. I’m not liking this feeling at all! We talked to Abbey and she told me to start taking Flintstone Vitamin’s that it’s better to not feel nauseous all day long but still get the vitamins in my system! Thank goodness! They make me feel sooo horrible! Aside from sleeping the days and nights away, I’m feeling pretty good. Bathroom breaks and snacks are a MUST about 10 million times a day! Hahah. Things are good and I will come back next month for another check!

So, since the last post….lots has happened!!! I was feeling better after much needed sleep! Was told I had a kidney and bladder infection, got pain meds and some antibiotics and sent home. I filled the antibiotics, but since I was feeling much better and hate taking medication, I told the pharmacist to throw away the rx for the Percocet. BAD IDEA. Since I was feeling better, Christa invited me to road trip with her to Show Low for the weekend! Since I’ve been feeling a little home sick I thought this would be perfect, so I packed and waited for her to pick me up about 4:30pm and off we went. Well we stopped in Payson for food and I couldn’t take it anymore. I was in soooo much pain, so much pain I was crying uncontrollably and Christa’s smelly KFC wasn’t making it any better.

Poor Christa, I made her pull over because I didn’t think I could make it to Show Low. Tylenol wasn’t helping and since Christa has never seen me in this much pain, she called my mom! Haha. I managed to call the Walgreen’s Pharmacy that I went to earlier and had them dig through the trash for my prescription for that Percocet I really could have used about now! Since it’s a narcotic, Dustin had to pick it up then on his way he was to be with me so Christa could go on to Show Low. My mom told Christa to take me to the ER and how thankful I was for that! We walked in the Payson ER about 7pm and they got me started on a shot of Morphine and a dark room! Dustin arrived about 8pm and Christa was able to get to Show Low. Two shots of Morphine, a shot of Delotid, more pain and moaning….then some running to the bathroom in between tears of pain sick to my stomach….I finally got some rest. Next came some more Percocet!

The doctor was great and told me the kind of pain I was having was that pain of a Kidney Stone! WOW….this pain was intense!!! I’ve since been told that Kidney pain is the worst pain a person would ever experience….well they weren’t lying. I don’t wish this sort of excruciating pain on my worst enemy! The doctor in Payson knew what he was talking about…(not surprised anymore that the Payson docs are better than the Phoenix ones, since this is my 2nd time as a patient in Payson). He gave me meds to relax my bladder wall so I could pass the stones he thought was in there. Apparently, the first sign of stones is blood in the urine, that means they are moving around. Since now I only experienced the pain and no blood, that means it’s stuck between the kidney and bladder wall. Just great.

About 4:00am I was wheeled out to the truck and pretty much was out! Got home and fast asleep in pain…slept until about 3:00pm on Saturday, enjoyed some company from Tanya and Dustin. Fell asleep again about 8:00pm until finally coming out of a coma about 8:00am on Sunday. Finally feeling better but still sooo exhausted. The reason for all this pain made it’s way out on Saturday afternoon….2 kidney stones! No bueno! Apparently, kidney stones are VERY common in pregnant women, and are caused from dehydration! Well I know now how to prevent them! Lemons help too!!!! Feeling much better and choking down the water since NOTHING tastes good these days!

Trip to the ER...What a Joy!!

So last night I hung out with Tanya and then watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice...then I headed to bed.  Out of a dead sleep i'm dealing with this aweful abdominal and kidney pain on the left!  I thought maybe it was gas or indigestion or something, so I held off from 11:30pm to 1:30am until I couldn't take it anymore!  I woke Dustin up and off to the ER at Banner Gateway we went.  We got there, waited for what seemed like eternity, got back in a room, waited over an hour til the PA came in and saw me.  Got started on Morphine, Zofran for the Morphine and Benadryl just in case I had a reaction since I'm allergic to Lortab.  Ugh.  I got some IV Antibiotics which I was immediately thankful for!

Then the waiting game began.  Blood in the urine...generally not a good thing.  Then blood draw and 3 ultrasounds.  Finally 6am rolls around and they finally let me go home!  Sooo not fun.  I'm hungry, loopy and still in some pain!  Bed was my best friend until about 115pm today!  Finally feeling better, got more antibiotics and i'm praying everything with this crap goes away.  This MAY explain the cruddy feeling i've had the last week or two.  Who knows.  All I know is this infection stuff is soooo not my best friend.

Hope it goes away soon.

Our 1st OB Visit!!!!

Well today we had our first OB visit!!!  Got an intense medical background; met our doctor Dr. Laurie Allen with Goodman/Partridge OB/GYN http://www.azmomdocs.com/Providers/Dr_Laurie_Allen_DO.aspx . She’s very nice but a little too shy for Dustin and I. She seems to know her stuff though which is OBVIOUSLY a good thing.

My official due date is OCTOBER 28, 2010!!! I’m 6 weeks today! I was given an array of blood tests to get done and a nice little welcome bag with A LOT OF INFORMATION ON WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT EAT! Not happy about that! Hahah. I come back in 2 weeks for the 1st ultrasound! How exciting!!!!

It Starts.....or Continues from the Spokane Trip

Ugh….sickness! So today is a good day; more energy than yesterday, which isn’t saying much! For the last week or so I’ve been EXHAUSTED!!! Exhausted to the point where over the weekend I did NOTHING! I woke up Saturday at 7am, and laid around the house all day. Slept the day away and didn’t shower and get dressed until about 4pm! Sunday, the same thing! I was in bed until about 1pm! The only reason I got up was because I invited family and friends over for dinner at 5pm and my house needed to be cleaned! Haha.

Cleaning or anything that required energy just drained me even more! Haha I picked up a good read “Belly Laughs: The Ugly Truth About Pregnancy & Childbirth” by Jenny McCarthy. Boy am I hoping that half of the stuff she talks about DOESN’T happen to me! I’m praying and praying this pregnancy goes well and there is NO morning sickness. So far so good, just exhaustion; no appetite (although the last 2 weeks I couldn’t get enough food in my belly) and really funky dreams. I’m not sure they are considered dreams because I find myself constantly tossing and turning and waking up with my mind racing 90 mph!!! Maybe that’s why I’m so exhausted when I get up….but I can’t remember what I was tossing and turning about! Haha.

Hoping that the morning sickness that I haven’t experienced yet stays gone! I’m 6 weeks and will start my 7th on Friday! Time is already flying by! I’m ready to start shopping…..look out!!!!