I was very grateful to mother nature for the most part of this summer, but it looks as though she is going to plague my last few weeks of pregnancy with insanely hot weather. And the a/c in my car has not yet been fixed so even a short trip to the grocery store left me covered in sweat! It’s got to be almost 100 out there! Yuck! I guess I should be glad it wasn’t like this all summer. But still…..
Well I spent most of the night being miserable and sick. But I managed to get myself up and to work since I was the one scheduled to open the office. So I got there and had the nurse check my bp and it was pretty high, so I worked til the other girl got there and then made my way home to bed. The frustrating part was I called my dr’s office at 8:30 and got their answering service that said that I needed to wait til 9 because it wasn’t an emergency. So at 9 I left a message with the nurse and she did inform me that there wouldn’t be a dr in the office til the afternoon. So knowing how backed up it would be, I figured not to get an answer until close to closing time at their office, which happens to be 4:30. Bankers hours I tell ya, 9 – 4:30, I am glad they may schedule my birth because I would hate to have to try to get through to them if I had a real emergency. Their line is always busy! So I called back and was the nagging little patient, only to find out that I just need to rest and take it easy, well that is all fine and dandy, but I informed the nurse that I am scheduled to work at least a 9 hour shift at work tomorrow and she said that’s not good, and that she will check with the dr and see what he thinks I should do about working. Apparently since they knew I was home today they thought I was not working anymore, but I told her I came home today to rest but am scheduled to keep working. So that changed things, or so she said, so she is supposed to call me back. I hate to be such a pest to them, especially knowing how it works at a drs office and knowing that I am one of those patients the staff knows by name and that my chart is probably always out. I mean I hate it when patients call back to check on the message they left, it gets annoying, but I think being pregnant makes it different, or at least that is my excuse. Like all the books say, don’t hesitate to call your doctor if….even if it’s nothing, so I figured high blood pressure isn’t a little nothing, but then again I am a worry wart. But the nurses at work did tell me to call my ob, but still, I know the office staff at my ob’s office probably dread my calls. At least they are nice to me about it though, some of our nurses get mean to patients who are persistent.
I was glad to come home today though, I was so exhausted from being up all night. I was so worried about disrupting Dean’s sleep but today when I asked him about it, he said he was comfy and didn’t even realize I was up and down all night; which is good cause he needs his sleep. He has been so sweet lately, and especially cuddly! I think he enjoys me being pregnant, I mean knowing that I am going to have our baby, and all; not necessarily my being sick though. But he is so protective of me lately, and I must say we’ve had a great few weeks. No doubt because we’ve had the time without working on a play, but none the less we’ve found things to do and have had some really fun “dates” lately.
Tonight our small group is meeting at our house, so I am glad I was able to come home and rest because I would no doubt want to come home and sleep had I worked all day. Then tomorrow Dean does have to head to the theater to get ready for a reading of a play on Thursday night. And if I go to work, I will probably work late, so tomorrow is out for quality time, but hopefully Dean will be going to my ultrasound this Wednesday. I really hope he can, I know he loves it, and well there may not be that many more. I was thinking about that today, I may not know which one is my last one, and I really do enjoy seeing Caleb on the screen, I take it for granted I am sure. I am sure there a lot of women who don’t get near as many ultrasounds as I”ve had. And I know it’s not for a good reason that I have to have them, but it does help reassure me that he is doing well when I see him every week.
I hope Hillary is doing well today!!! Babies, babies and more babies. It sure is strange just how many I know of that are being born soon, or that have been born recently. And our little Caleb will be just another. I was watching the Baby Story on TLC today, and I cried so bad at the end. And of course there were two episodes on today, so I subjected myself to both. But I was glad I had, the one girl had an almost perfect labor and the other had to have a c-section, and I felt much better about a c-section after seeing the one today. The one we saw at childbirth class made it look terrible. But I would still rather not have one. Well, I’ve written enough for one day……..
