Bre: Hands down- this has been the hardest week of my life. I didn't think it was possible for my physical and mental health to hit this all-time low while pregnant. I've been sick for 5-6 weeks now, and on disability leave from work for 3 weeks. On Monday night I was vomiting hourly and could not keep even a sip of water in my body. Tuesday morning we went to the doctor and they placed another IV (which was one of the last available veins in my arms) and started fluids immediately. I was down 5lbs by then and my blood pressure was much higher when standing because my blood was lacking water. They called over to the hospital and had me admitted by that afternoon. Once at the hospital, they started me on 4 different medications and found a vein in my hand from which to draw more blood. Miraculously the fluids and the drugs were working to keep a small amount of food and water in my body on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Wednesday at 8pm they discharged me from the hospital because I was showing progress. That night however, we were back to the drawing board. I woke up for my 3am meds and by 3:10am I was vomiting everything back up again. What the !@&*!(#^!^$?!?!!? Now, in tears and feeling absolutely helpless....well, I've been in tears daily for weeks but this was the breaking point. What was my body doing to me? At this point I just went back to sleep, physically and mentally exhasted. On Thursday the doctor told us to go back to the hospital if the vomiting continued. After the 3am episode I stopped taking all the medication because I didn't feel they were helping. The drugs were making me extremely drowsy and dizzy which wasn't helping the nasea. Depression hit hard on Thursday as I didn't want to go back to the hospital. I wanted to stay in the comfort of my own home and have my family there for me. However, they were all very worried about my condition. How could it get this bad? I've had what people would classify as the "flu", severe flu-like symptoms, for about 34 days. Who the hell can survive a 34-day flu? Think about how horrible it is to have the flu for 2 days.
Ok, so my mental state is not back to normal, as I'm very sad one moment and pissed-off the next, but at least I've stopped puking. I'm planted back on the couch instead of the bed, still off my meds and not vomiting as of Saturday afternoon. So, today is a decent day. I'm 10 weeks pregnant and they say I should feel a little better in the next 2 weeks.
Just 14 days and counting....
