Ivy Tied Up |

Well for the last couple of weeks i’ve been suffering HORRIBLE migraines that are leaving me unable to do anything. This week took the cake though! Tuesday morning at about 6:15 my headache hit.. It came on suddenly and VERY Strong.. I tried tylenol immediately.. It didnt help so i tried warm compress.. Didnt help.. Tried cold compress.. Didnt help. So i laid in the tub for 2 hours it helped a tiny bit! Then I got up.. Took a tylenol 3 the dr had given me and laid down hoping to sleep.. Didndt happen.. My head was killing me.. I was in tears and by that point my vision was gone.. I couldnt see.. All i could see was dots everywhere.. Like when you look up at the sun and then look away how you see the spots from it.. like that..
I called dh several times at work asking if he could come home.>i couldnt function. i was vomiting because it was so bad.. He was in the middle of a big job and couldnt leave.. When it got worse I called my drs office. They sent me into Labor & Delivery.. So dh had to leave work to take me in because I couldnt see to drive..
I rode the 35 minutes to the hospital with a blanket over my face and tears rolling down because the pain wouldnt stop.. They hooked me up to all kinds of monitors and determind the baby is fine and my blood pressure was fine. They were concerned my blood pressure was causing the vision to go blurry.. But all was fine..

I was there for 3 hours. They gave me a shot in my bum and it hurt!!!!!!!!!!!! But it was worth it.. very worth it.. I started feeling better with in 15 minutes.. Went home. Ate and laid down.. Didnt sleep too well because the med made me feel like I was on a boat.. I finally dozed off when the med wore off.. I figured that i wouldnt get another bad one like that.. Then I woke up at 3 am this morning! Full blown headache.. Im now waiting on my drs office to call me back. I cant keep dealing with these headaches.. i cant function. I cant see.. I cant keep food down.. And I dont have anyone else to watch my kids for me! There has to be SOMETHING that can be done!!!

Well anything but slow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week is going to be crazy.. Contractors coming to work on the house.. Then Bug and Sugar have dentist appts on wed.. And I have a dr appt on thursday..

Ive done nothing lately but lay on my bum. I’m feeling massively useless and tired all the time.. 7 weeks left until my csection!!! 7 weeks!

I’m delighted lately! My mom has purchased most of my kids school supplies.. They go back August 10th.. I’m flipping because I dont know wehre we are going to get the money for the kids clothing and the new baby! I have NOTHING for the baby.. Im starting completely over and he will be here in 7 weeks.. Truth.. Its scary! But I cant tell you guys how much it means to me that my mum has decided to purchase school supplies.. It takes aload off!!! the school supplies this year though. the list is much shorter than it was last year.. that surprised me !

I hope everyone is well! I’ll make my rounds soon!

I’ve left some things out lately. A lot has been going on and I haven’t had much time to do anything other than vent.

So first and foremost..

My oldest turned 7 on June 18th. We had her party on July 1st.. It was a very difficult party for me as I couldnt do anything (read down below i’ll explain why). But the kids had a BLAST!!! It poured rain that morning and that evening.. And even sprinkled some during the party.. But they were outside playing in a kiddie pool and on a slip and slide.. OH! And hubby’s aunt and uncles and cousins.. They all pitched in and bought diva a water slide.. Damn thing cost like 140 to 150$.. You know something she really needed!!!!! LOL.. It was the light of hte party!!!
MOF the kids didnt want to get off of it to open presents or eat cake! People started leaving and presents still were not open! The party started at 2.. At 5 we still had guests.. I finally said we had to leave at 6:30 because I was exhausted and hurting and just couldnt take anymore.. There was STILL family there at 6:30.. Overall she was thrilled with her party.. I was glad it was over!

Now and update on the pregnancy..
Im 29 weeks.. Will be 30 weeks on friday.. My last drs appt was last thursday. At the office I almost passed out. I’m not sure what happened or why. I just didnt feel real well and it got worse suddenly. I got hot and couldnt cool off.. And then i almost passed out.> Thankfully the dr was right there and in the room when it happened. He made me lay down.. My blood pressure was only slightly elevated. Not enough to cause that. Ive been having really horrible headaches for 2/3 weeks now. And ive been having horrible pelvic pain. My pelvis is literally coming apart.. Its shifting and it hurts like hell! Ive never felt anything like it before.. It gets worse..Not better..

I can hardly sleep due to the pain. I cant walk. Standing for any amount of time is pretty much next to impossible with out having extreme pain. sitting is better than laying because when i sit.. the area down there aches and kinda has a strange numbing feeling but the pain isnt as bad.. Standing or laying the pain is bad.. its worse than an ache… So i find myself trying to sleep sitting up.. Which doesnt work too well..

The dr seems to think that the headaches are from the stress with the pain. Which could really be it because thast about how long ive had the headaches.. They got bad when the pain got bad.. Not much they can do though. Other than give me mild pain meds to try to cope with the pain so I can sleep and put me on bed rest. Right nwo im on restrictions. Im not to lift anything or do anything. Next is complete bed rest.. Right now though im suppose to take it easy.. And so far thats what i’ve done..And my house is starting to show it..LOL But nothing I can do about it..I’ve had to make the kids start helping out more. And I sleep when dh is home to watch the kids and i can have my bed to myself so that i can find a comfy position. Its been trying..

My c section date has been moved from Sept 7 to Sept 1st.. Thats a friday.. As of this friday i’ll have 8 weeks left!! OMG 8 WEEKS!!!!!
I must run now.. In my next post I have to tell you about a friend of mine and her current adventures that makes me so proud of her!

I can not figure out our local hospitals here.. Frankly im appauled at the level of care they are able to provide.. It really makes me nervous to go into one to have this baby!

My son got metal in his eye over the weekend. So I call his peds office to see what I need to do.. If i can just bring him in on monday morning or what. They said to take him STRAIGHT to the er and have them remove the metal. So i do just that! Thankfully they were not too busy.. However they look in his eye and confirm yes there is metal in his eye.. But here is the bad news! They do not have the resources to remove the metal! No. A HOSPITAL can not remove the metal.. The EMERGENCY Room can NOT remove the metal.. I’ll have to take him to a opthamologist and have it done..

Okay so I spent 2 hours on the phone trying to find one open who can do this.. And am told they havent a dr who can do it because its a holiday. Take him to the er.. The ER said they co uldnt do it!!!! SEE THE PROBLEM??????

Oh but all agreed he needed it removed IMMEDIATELY! The one place that was open.. Wouldnt do it because they dont accept his insurance and they want cash for hte procedure up front.. I dont have 250$ up front cash!

My biggest issue.. Is how the hell can a hospital/emergency room handle a trauma situation is they cant remove a small piece of metal from someones eye?????????????????????? The procedure isnt that difficult.. Ive seen it done about 50 times as my husband is a welder.. It doesnt take a brain surgeon to remove the metal.. But it does take someone who knows what they are doing. An emergency room SHOULD be able to do that!!!!!!!!!! They SHOULD be able to remove the metal..

So until Wed when the opthamologist offices open back up.. My son has to keep metal in his eye..Which BTW is NOT agood thing because the eye heals quickly and it covers the metal.. making it harder to remove..We may be taking him to galveston tom morning and seeing if their hospital there can do it. Since our hospital ER s here cant seem to get doctors have their heads out of their asses to remove the metal.. Galveston is the level 1 trauma center for the entire area here.. They cover 9 counties.. if they cant do it.. IM MOVING TO SOMEWHERE THAT has the resources available to handle something more than a cold or the flu bug!

Its really ridiculous! How can these hospitals handle an emergency if they don thave the resources for something as little as this?????????????????????????????