I'm back baby!

I am at work today.. I am really only putting in an appearance as i have approved sick leave till i finish on monday. I popped in on Friday as well and did things like apply for sick leave and empty out my desk...

so .. hhmm what has been happening.. well mostly lying around in bed and vomiting lots.. it really has become a bit of a saga...

hhmm lets see.. we started with gastro.. nice.. the Dr said that would go away (I thought the mornings sickness had started early) and he gave me an anti nausea prescription just in case it did start... so some of the gastro things went away, but the nausea stayed and then progressed into the vomiting.. so we got started on those nice pills... thats when things turned unpleasant..

2 days after that I was trying to get to sleep and couldn;t get comfortable .. I caleld in Phil to discuss that I kept wanting to turn my head.. weird.. back to bed.. but still my head kept moving to the right.. the strange thing was taht I wasn't making it move, it was doing it all on its own.. so Phil looked at the little brochure that comes with pills and found a section about uncontrolable muscle spasms in the face and limbs.. we decided that must be it.. then the brochure moves on to say, stop taking the pills and head to the emergency room immediately.. just as well CLaire was having a sleep over at the grandparents..

so we wandered on down to the hoospital.. i was a little scary.. cos its like hhmm, this could be some strange brain thingy.. anyway it progressed to a more twitchy thing and I had troubles walking as I couldn;t see where I was going.. we waited for the nurses to assess me and they decided taht I should go straight in and have a llay down.. so then we waited for the next nurse and then the dr and then the anti dote shots to make the crazy head shaking (which had also progressed to include a shaking arm and shoulder) go away. an hour later the dr passes by and says 'ohh, still twitchy, you can have another shot' so wait for the next shot and then after taht I could finally put my head down on the pillow and it would stay there.. we then had to wait around to be observed and at about 2am we got to go home.. oohh it was a big night..

so as you can imagine no nice pills to take to stop the vomiting.. so by monday there has been lots of vomiting.. and we head back to the dr's.. he says 'oohh i don't know what to prescribe, you better see the obstretition' so we go home and phil calls him.. and off we go to another hospital and get checked in and a nice drip of fluids gets pumped into me.. ahhh lovely.. but more lovely is some nice drugs to stop the vomiting.. while there i had a huge number of litres put into me and i was able to drink and eat and drink and eat.. it was really lovely.. till i went home..

so it was a struggle workign out how many of these new pills i should be taking.. the OB gave me a speel about taking them only when absolutely needed and talked about things that might happen (scary things ). so I was a bit scared to take too many.. It took about a week and a bit to get sorted.. I tried to have a day of no pills.. and oohh dear.. that didn't work.. after vomiting about 9 times in the day I couldn't get to sleep at cos I was still dry retching.. awful.. so i quickly started taking more pills.. hoorah! once that was all sorted i was only vomiting at max twice a day..

but by then 2 weeks had gone by and i hadn't had a bowel movement.. so off to the dr's again.. and he organised a plan of attack that involved working on the bottom end for a few days with supposortories and then onto the laxatives.. my gods!! awful.. and cos I am continuing to take the pills that cause the constipation i have to keep taking these laxatives.. eww.. then a few days later back to the dr's again for hemaroids.. yep and then some more creams.. Phil has been spending a fortune at the pharmacy..

I think this will be the last baby.. I know I said last time that I wasn;t doing it again and meant it but this time I really mean it..

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