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Monday, August 2, 2010

Back from the dead....

That's what it feels like today, back from the dead! I feel like I've come out of a coma. Well, about 70%. What I thought was a cold turned out to be much worse. Last Monday, I woke up with a sore throat and body aches and I couldn't go to work. By Tuesday morning, I couldn't swallow, drink, eat, sleep or talk because of my throat pain which spread to my ear. I couldn't get out of bed until Thursday morning when I finally went to see a ENT specialist. The diagnosis was tonsilitis with mild strep. I've struggled with my tonsils all of my adult life and it rears its ugly head when I'm exhausted. I think I had a pretty tiring weekend last week because it came back. The odd thing to me was that I had my tonsils taken out 3 years ago and gosh, was that painful! I do not recomend tonsil surgery as an adult. The pain is excruciating. So I was more than upset when I found out that tonsils which I don't have, is inflamed again! Apparently, the soft tissue left from where the tonsils were taken out can still get inflamed. Yikes. When I was pregnant with Avery, I had similar symptoms and was treated with antibiotics. After I had Avery and was recovering from c-section, I was also treated with antibiotics for the similar symptoms. I guess it's something I'll have to deal with for a long time!

My regular ENT doctor who was about 80 years old the last time I saw him has since retired so I had to call about 10 doctors before someone would agree to see me on such short notice. The problem I had this time was that the ENT doctor I saw refused to give me antibiotics without the consent of Dr. Bohn, my OB-GYN because I'm pregnant. The wires were crossed with Dr. Bohn and I wasn't able to get a prescription until Friday afternoon which made me very frustrated since I was in so much pain. I finally decided to take Avery (poor Avery was such a good sport, trying to leave her mommy alone for a week) and retrieve to my parents' house for the weekend... I needed my mommy to take care of me! I felt like if I went to my parents' house, my mom will magically make me feel better... Which ended up being true, but it was probably the antibiotics that did the trick...
By Sunday morning, the antibiotics were finally working and I was able to eat a little. I had lost about 6 pounds in the last week which was 6 pounds less than my pre-pregnancy weight. I was so afraid that I was starving my poor baby in my stomach. I have my 3 month check up with Dr. Bohn tomorrow so we'll make sure the baby is safe and healthy. I am so lucky that I have such good support system. I'm so thankful to my parents who unconditionally take care of me at all costs, to Paul who has been so understanding and supportive while I've been recovering, to my wonderful nanny for keeping Avery away while I was in bed and to my darling Avery who has been such an angel even though she wanted her mommy all the time.... By Sunday, I can see in Avery's face her frustration of not being able to play with mommy. She'd come to me, sit on my lap, hold my shoulders and try to get me up and say "umma, up up"... then she'd crinkle her nose and look so frustrated when I couldn't get up. That made me cry all the time...

Today, I feel much better and I am excited to eat and see Avery later to play with her. I'm on a mission now to eat eat eat!!! We finally took a picture last night of my belly. This is my belly at 12 weeks and 3 days. Finally, we're in second trimester!!!!


Below is a picture we took this weekend of our little munchkin and her cousin, Minji, wearing matching outfits that grandma got them. Aren't they so cute???

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