blegh!

There is nothing worse than being sick. Except for being sick AND pregnant.

Friday I had what I thought was the worst case of morning sickness ever. I was nearly crying at work I felt so sick and nauseated. Two pukings later, my boss sent me home because I was pretty much useless. I barely made it home without throwing up again. I realized then that maybe it wasn't morning sickness afterall. I called my doctor and they phoned me in some anti-nausea medicine. Nathan had to drive me to Walgreens and on our way back he had to pull the car over so I could throw up on the side of the road. Next thing I see---blue flashing lights! It was the police! They thought I was drunk!!! So Nathan explained to them that I was pregnant and sick, Im hunched over on the side of the road miserable, and they are laughing at me! I could have just rolled over into a ditch I was so embarrassed.

So, for the next 10 hours or so, I threw up every 15-20 minutes without stop. The medicine would only stay down for about 10 minutes. Of course it was mostly just dry heaving b/c there was nothing in my stomach. I finally called my doctors office after hours line again and they said I should go to the hospital, it had been since lunch the day before since I had anything to eat or drink and that is really not good when you are pregnant. So I had to wake Nathan up to take me to the ER. We were there about 4 hours. I got an IV of fluids, they took blood and gave me more anti-nausea medicine. They told me I probably had food poisoning or some kind of stomach bug. (Gee---you think?!) Im sure it was worse for me because my defenses were down due to being pregnant.

Anyway. Im feeling much better now. My stomach is still pretty sensitive, and my abs feel like Ive been doing crunches, but Im not throwing up anymore so I consider that a huge improvement!!

Being that sick is scary though....all I could think about was if the baby was okay. Is the baby getting the nourishment it needs? Is this making the baby sick? What would I do if something happened and it was because I got sick?? It is a very helpless feeling on top of feeling miserable.