Craziness

I can hardly keep up with everyone's blogging lately. For a while there, I thought it was going out of style because I never had anything new to read, but now I can't even keep up! It's great though. Keep it coming! :)



Warning: This post has to do with getting sick. I tried to make it as vague as possible, but if you don't like hearing about people getting sick, don't say you weren't warned.



I had a strange week. Apparently I have this bad habit of filling up glasses with water and then never really drinking any of it. All along I thought I was drinking plenty of fluids, but not much of it was actually making it into my body. So Wednesday I was out all day running errands and shopping. I stopped and ate lunch at Sonic while I was out. I had to teach my piano lesson at 4, so I got groceries as fast as I could and made it home around 3:45. I was feeling kind of ill by then so I tried to find a snack to eat before I had to teach my lesson. When 4 came, I was lying on the couch feeling really bad. I thought I could stand to make it through the 30 minute lesson, but as soon as my student got there and started playing, I felt terrible, so I told him I had to go to the bathroom. I didn't really know what I was feeling when I was in the bathroom but nothing was happening in any form. I just wanted to curl up on the floor, but I knew I had to go back out there and take him out to his mom who was waiting in the car. So I went back out and told him that he was going to have to come back another time. He didn't want to leave without getting his weekly "prize" for practicing, so I told him to hurry and pick something. He took forever, and I was waiting for him by the door telling him that I needed him to hurry because I was really sick. It finally hit me there and without giving a lot of details, all the nausea that I haven't had much of so far in my pregnancy finally caught up to me as I ran back to the bathroom. After that, I came back out to take the poor traumatized kid to his mom. I was so embarrassed, but of course she was very understanding. I thought I was better after that, but I got sick again and spent the next hour or so in emergency bathroom usage. Anyway, needless to say I must have eaten something bad at Sonic.



So the reason that I mentioned the not drinking enough water thing is because after my little spell Wednesday afternoon, I unknowingly became very dehydrated. I didn't realize how bad it was until Thursday morning. I woke up at 5 am, and I thought my head was going to explode. Our bedroom was dry and cold because we had the window open and fans blowing, so I got some water and went to our guest bedroom and watched tv because I couldn't sleep with my headache. When Brock got up for work, I went downstairs to get something to eat and some tylenol, and I smelled the worst smell of leftovers coming from our refrigerator. I had to run upstairs to the bathroom because it made me sick again. I understand that this is normal for a lot of pregnant people, but for me to go my whole first trimester without getting sick and then to suddenly be sick 2 days in a row at 14 weeks, I didn't know what was going on with me. To make a long story short, I had that headache all day Thursday and woke up again Friday morning feeling terrible. I called the nurse at my doctor's office and she said to take tylenol, drink gatorade, and rest. So I drank 5 bottles of gatorade yesterday, and by the end of the day, I felt great. I even had so much faith in the gatorade advice, that I drove to Lexington that morning to visit Aubrey and Celeste with my terrible headache and hoped that it would be better by the time I got there, and it pretty much was. So basically, I'm saying drink gatorade, it's really good for you. :) I'm just kidding. I know it's not that great for you, but it was really good for one day of replenishment. I just need to drink more water.