Urethra Franklin

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Yesterday was quite the eventful day.  We began the morning at the midwives office for our 28 week appointment.  All is fine.  Suki-Dot is still breech – which isn’t too much of a concern at this point but just something to notice.  As the day wore on I had to travel out of town…  I noticed an increasing problem going to the bathroom.  It felt like I needed to go constantly and when I went – nothing came out. At 2pm I called the midwife who double checked my urine sample from 8am’s appointment – no infection.  Her guess was that I had stressed myself out over it and my bladder had clamped down.  

She made a suggestion and then said to call back in two hours if I wasn’t better.  I sat in a meeting slowly cringing into a ball 1.5 hours from home.  I don’t think they caught on that my entire bottom area had begun to cramp.  At 4pm the meeting was over and I headed to my car.  I called the midwife – she had left for the day but the nurse said she would call her.  By 4:30 the decision was made that I needed to go to the emergency room.  I’m still driving – but have made up a considerable amount of time.  I finally get in touch with Amber and at this point I am sweaty and yucky feeling and driving in traffic.  Amber and I met up on the interstate and she follows me to the emergency room.  

I was preregistered so we got whisked right in.  I gave a urine sample and popped on the most gorgeous backless gown – I think it was an oversized gown to make room for the belly so it kept falling off. After not too long they came back with the verdict – a ferocious urinary tract infection.  Amber nicknamed the infection ureathra franklin…  (laughing while sick is helpful and we have a tendency of naming our illnesses) Since I was 28 weeks I had to go to the Labor and Delivery Ward to monitor the baby and confirm that I wasn’t in preterm labor.  So – A and I got a tour of the hospital and got to meet the nurses.  They monitored me for contractions (none) and we listened the suki-dot’s heartbeat for a good hour or two.  I even got my first catheter – Amber did a great job coaching me even saying at one point that this was practice for labor – like the 5k and labor will be  a marathon…  that really did fall on deaf ears at that point as I was still pretty uncomfortable.  All in all, I was fine enough to move to my own bed.  By 9pm, I limped out of the hospital and headed home with lots of instructions and nothing but tyle.nol for pain relief.

Today I took medicine, drank cranberry juice till my eyeballs turned pink and napped intermittently.  

O – and in other news I passed my glucose test last week – but I flunked my anemia test…which was actually a relief as it explains some of the lethargic, sleepiness that seems to have crept in the last month.  So now my morning pill regime is prenatal vitamin, fiber pill, flax seed, cranberry pill, an iron pill, and the newest addition – an antibiotic. 

I’m glad I’m fine and looking forward to regular pregnancy woes instead of emergency room trips and medicine.

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