Long time no post...some tmi

hi guys, I am currently writing this from my hospital room on day 10. It’s almost 4 a.m. and theyll be in to do the millionth blood draw it seems this week. I’m sick of the hospital. Haven’t updated in a while as a lot has been going on. So I thought I’d take these few quiet moments and update on at least status of baby. A lot of changes taking place and a lot of things family wise are unknown at this point so I can’t speak too much on those but they are quite upsetting and stressful but I am praying for strength to navigate through whatever may be ahead. It is lonely and it is scary. But for now I can’t elaborate.

Back to baby. For any of you who have followed or read about any of the events leading up to this update, thank you for your love and comments and prayers. I thank you for the support and promise you do not know how much it has been appreciated and used and read in weak moments. Nearly 4 weeks ago I began a fun battle with a bladder infection or what they thought was a bladder infection. I was dealing with a ton of lower abdomen pain on my right side. From my belly button to my right side that would cramp badly into my lower back. This was usually accompanied with nausea and just the overall feeling of not feeling well. Like the fatigue and overwhelming blah like when you have the flu but without flu symptoms such as fever etc. just pain, cramping, and some nausea. I was told to go to l&d; because when you’re pregnant that’s where you are sent even if you have a hangnail. So I went. Monitors, drs, tests, pee in a cup (because this is our art when the word pregnant is everrrrrrr mentioned....the cup magically appears out of thin air....sample please....it’s apparently what we’re good at). So white blood cell count elevated. Pain, white blood cell count up = must be a bladder infection. Alrighty then 10 day macrobid prescription and culture sent to lab. 3 days into macrobid OB office calls says no no no culture came back macrobid won’t clear sent 5 prescription for keflex to pharmacy, that’ll get rid of it. Nope! Day 5 meds some. Pain is just as bad as before I took anything. Call OBs office. Should I be in the same exact pain as before I took any meds? (Of course I know better but seems like you have to ask these questions some days depending on who you get on the phone🤦🏻‍♀️) no, no you shouldn’t! (Miracle, someone gets it🙌) they say go to l&d.; Barely able to walk I make my way to the car, to the hospital to l&d.; They put me on strong iv antibiotics, a strong iv pain reliever and fluids. I stay for 6 hours. Pain meds are crazy they make the tv in the room look like it’s scrolling up and down the wall, fluorescent lights on the ceiling start circling and then they say have someone pick you up because you can’t drive. Good lord I hope not! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Pain meds work beautifully first time out of pain at that time I’m 2 weeks. I go home. I go to bed, still no pain. It’s a miracle. I wake up hello pain antibiotics did NOTHING. Even worse than before omg. I can’t manage many steps. Nausea ensues. Over the course of this 2 week span I am literally able to eat like 2 bites of food or maybe a few teaspoons to drink at a time and violently vomiting it all up. What is going on?

I call and end up back at l&d.; Im sick of l&d.; Triage sucks. Monitoring takes forever. Tests take forever. So you hurt and you vomit and you wait. Lovely. This time the pain is so bad I am contracting, I am throwing up nonstop. I have shortness of breath because the pain is knocking the wind out of me to nearly passing out. L&d; send me to ER....why? Because yes I’m pregnant and therefore fit l&d; but I have shortness of breath and l&d; doesn’t address shortness of breath so I have to start in the ER. Perfect. About that time the fire alarms are going off elevators are on lock down l&d; is 3rd floor, Er is 1st floor back of the of the hospital...pain, nausea, vomiting, and 3 flights of stairs and barely able to walk I have to make my way back down 900 miles to ER. Great. More tests, more monitors, more everything. Ultrasounds, CT scans, heart monitoring etc, labs. 3 nausea meds, throwing up nonstop every few minutes for 4 hours.

They get done, they send me where....up to....l&d.; Surprise surprise! They give me fluids, run the antibiotics again, monitor until 3 a.m. decide my pain must be round ligament pain. I again tell them my symptoms, in great detail. I explain I have quite honestly never felt this bad in my entire life. Something isn’t right. They say hopefully the fluids help. Vomiting nonstop in front of them for another 4 hours. Discharged again. They leave me with “if you’re still feeling the same or worse tomorrow call on call at your OB and they’ll advise whether to come back or what to do.” Miserable and sicker than ever I drive home, in pain. I go to bed at 4a.m.

By 6 a.m. I am back up vomiting violently. I cNt keep anything down still. By 11 I’ve thrown up 4 times to the point of bile and small strings of blood in it sorry for tmi) I call on call at OB office at 1 I explain. She has the doctor’s midwife call me I explain. She says go back immediately. I go back. They immediately admit me in l&d.; This is last Saturday. From Saturday until Thursday it is spent running and rerunning tests, labs, scans, ultrasounds, everything imaginable and giving me tons of fluids, nausea meds, pain meds, and monitoring baby and finding nothing.I’m getting worse. They checked my kidneys and gall bladder, spleen, appendix, lungs, all the baby detail with mfm perinatologist scans, cervical length, every single thing you can think that would cause me pain in my lower center to right abdomen. Nothing. They say we can’t find anything. I insist something is not right. They want to start from scratch and recheck it all by Thursday just to see if something got worse between Saturday to Thursday that stood out more. So they do all of it again. Nothing. The only thing they find is that on Sunday I had some hydronephrosis in my right kidney and that caused some inflammation in the tubes but that’s common in pregnancy but can cause pain. It had become worse. Dr comes in and says it’s all we found but it’s common. It should get better as baby gets bigger and moves up and that will stop the compression on your kidney or you may have it your whole pregnancy it just depends. So you can manage the symptoms with Tylenol and nausea meds like Zantac (been on it), Prilosec, unisom etc. these all treat different nausea factors. And we’ll discharge you tomorrow. They leave the room. That’s not it, they’re missing something otherwise I should feel better. I’m not crazy. I know what I’m feeling isn’t right.