In home care....

So I started in home medical care yesterday.  I have an IV attached to my left hand for fluids for the next 5 days and I have proton pump attached to my hip for anti-nausea meds till April 4th.  I don't have to be hooked up to the IV all day, just need to make sure that I at least empty one bag of fluid.  The anti-nausea med seems to be working.  I'm starting to feel better and able to eat more food! Yummy!!! The fluids are giving a lot more energy, so I don't feel like a total drag.

As far as the upper ultra sound it came back negative, so they still are not sure what is causing the pain in my stomach, but with these meds that I'm taking now I don't seem to have that problem much anymore.  Which is weird, cause the anti-nausea med I was taking before but in a pill form. The only thing new is fluids and the anit-nausea med is now fluid as well.  HUUUUUMMMMM!  So confusing!  Anyway, all that matters is that I'm feeling better and hopefully on the road to recovery!

My next ultra sound is scheduled for March 18h, so we will hopefully get a good picture if it's a boy or a girl!

New Ultrasound Pic 13 weeks

Well here is a new picture of the baby!  Healthy as can be.  Went in for my upper ultrasound yesterday.  They checked everything under the sun, and she got ultrasound gel all over me.  I hate that. A towel was tucked into my pants and she still managed to get it in my pants!  Oh well! Anyway, should know the results by Monday.  But just wanted to share the latest picture with ya'll!

Dr Appointment

Ok, so I went to the Dr. and they don't think my esophagus is torn.  Kinda hard to diagnose that without a scope.  I may get a scope later, who knows.  But for now I have an upper abdominal ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow.  They want to rule out gall bladder disease and sludge in my stomach.  I guess it's common in pregnancy.  Who knew!  She doesn't think that it's my gall bladder but just wants to be cautious, since I describe some of the same symptoms.  

Anyway, she diagnosed me as Hyperemesis.  But we will know more tomorrow after the ultrasound.  I hope anyway!

Ok, I found this on a website.  Kinda gives a little more detail of what Hyperemesis is.  Ok, bare with me I had to type this whole thing.  Wouldn't let me copy and paste!

General Discussion

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a rare disorder characterized by severe and persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that my necessitate hospitalization.  As a result of frequent nausea and vomiting, affected women experience dehydration, vitamin and mineral deficit, and the loss of greater than 5% of their original body weight.

Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP), more widely known as morning sickness, is a common condition of pregnancy.  Many researchers believe the NVP should be regarded as a continuum of symptoms that may impact an affected woman's physical, mental and social well-being to varying degrees.  Hyperemesis gravdarum represents the severe end of the continuum.  No specific line exists that separates hyperemesis gravidarum from NVP; in most cases affected individuals progress from mild or moderate nausea and vomiting to hyperemesis gravidarum.  The exact cause of hyperemesis gravidarum is not known.

So did you all get all that.  Hope it makes sense. Not sure how they are going to treat me, but I'll keep ya'll updated!

Well as most of you know now..... i'm pregnant!  Just about on my 13th week, so i've finally completed my 1st trimester!  Which I have to say has been completely, utterly miserable!!!!  No JOKE!!!  I started getting sick the before Christmas if you you can believe that!  Go figure!  So I mustered thru like a trooper, just begging for the holidays to hurry so I didn't have to see anyone or do anything!  I pretty much stayed in my house the month of January, only leaving on paydays to get groceries and to take Kaden to school.  I've been so violently sick I pretty much went from bed to couch then bed again.  Not a pretty sight, I'll tell you what!  Had a little scare about 8 weeks.  Started bleeding so I thought I was having a miscarriage again.  I was not to happy about that.  Well they ran an ultrasound and baby had a strong heartbeat!  YEAH!!!!  That's what the picture is from, my 8 week ultrasound.  Looks like a peanut!  Anywho, I went on my merry sick way home with the good news!  I've been having severe stomach pain cause I have Acid Reflux disease and vomiting of course is not helping. So I've been thru every kind of anti-nausea medicine there is and of course I'm taking my Acid Reflux pills.  Still to no avail my stomach is just wrenched with pain.  I'm thinking we are in the 21st century here, there is got to be something they can do.  I'm mean geez ...... it's not 1920!  So ended up in the ER again with severe stomach pain and they presume to guess that I have a tear in my esophagus.  They don't know for sure but that's what there guessing since I've been vomiting a lot!  I suppose they could of done a scope just to make sure, but not sure they really wanted to since I'm preger's and all, but if it's going to help find the cause I say lets do it.  Well no!  Anyway, they gave me an IV shot some pain killers in me and Zofran (anti-nausea) waited for blood work and sent me on my way.  I was feeling pretty good from the pain killers!!! :-) So I guess I have a tear in my esophagus, that's what they say, gave me some pain killers and Zofran for home and told me to follow up with my Dr.  So here it is 1 week later, I think I've only vomited 3 times, which is really good and I have a follow-up with my Dr. tomorrow!  So I guess we will see what happens then.  I've been feeling pretty good, not much pain, a little but manageable. 

My children have been completely amazing thru this last month.  They are pretty good at keeping themselves busy, so when I was in bed I would turn the cartoons on and Kohen would come lay in bed with me for about 1 hour.  He did positively wonderful!  Kaden is such a big boy and so loving he would come check my head for a temperature and give me hugs and kisses in hopes that it would help make me feel better.  What a good boy!  He called himself Dr. Kaden!  Of course I can't forget my wonderful husband, Ryan!  He has been taking care of all the household stuff and working, I am so thankful to have such a wonderful husband! :-)

So now that I'm almost 13 weeks I'm hoping I'm on the road to recovery!!!! :-)