Piggy Flu yuckiness

Its been forever since I wrote a blog update! We have a very good reason though, or should I say multiple reasons!?

Last Monday, I went all over town looking for baby things for his room... I was looking for big stuffed animals that stood up, like lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, etc... So I could make his room like a safari type of atmosphere... I was thinking about hanging vines from the ceiling etc etc... Anyway, that Monday, I was off, so I set out on an adventure looking for anything that I thought I could use somehow... I felt great when I woke up!!! I went to Michaels, AC Moore, Walmart, Target, Pier One, Babies R Us, Several Dollar Stores, and even Sams... My aunt told me to check Sams, and I am so glad I did! I found the cutest lion that stands up... he is about 2 feet tall and baby boy can sit on his back until he is probably around 2 years old, so he is the perfect addition to the room plans! :) You would have thought I was a weirdo if you had seen me grabbing him, when I saw he was the last one... It wasnt a bad price either, so I was ecstatic to find him! I found some other things at Babies R Us and the palm tree I've been looking for at Michaels... But, the only thing I purchased was the lion... He rode in the very back of my CX-7 very happy to know he had a new home :)

So when I finished on Monday with shopping and errands, I was so tired, I went home to take a nap... I had no clue that by 10:00 that night, I would be laid out, and done with feeling good...I started feeling achy and I went from no sore throat to a terrible horrible no good very bad sore throat within hours that night... Tuesday, I went into work thinking I could make it through and maybe I could get to feeling better, but by mid day I felt like I had been hit by a bus!!! My throat felt like someone was stabbing it over and over... I coughed so much I couldnt talk, and my head and body was aching like crazy!!! I left work and ran to CVS to buy a thermometer and took my temperature... after seeing it was over 101, I called my OB... She immediately called me back and said it was definitely swine flu and that I needed to get home and lay down... She called me in tamiflu and said for me not to even pick it up, to make Zack go get it...

After Zack hearing over the phone that I could hardly drive home, much less do anything for myself, he left work early and rushed to get my prescription and take care of me... He came home with allll kinds of soups, tea, honey, frozen noodle dinners, and said he would take care of everything. I was so out of it, that at the time, I just nodded and tried to sleep... When I got to feeling better a few days later, I took a picture of how he had laid out a little of the stuff he had bought for our sick week... haha!

As you can see, he had no clue how long we'd be sick, so he bought the store out of soups, haha! The green tea was yummy and the honey was to sweeten it with, since honey has good antioxidants in it for your body :) What a thoughtful hubby! :)

By Tuesday morning, Zack felt the same way I did the night before, he was soooo sick. He ended up having swine flu as well and got tamiflu to treat it... We were a sad sickly pair of people... Our kittens thought we were dying Im sure, because they have never seen us stay in bed for more than 7 or 8 hours at a time... We were literally in bed for 5 days straight... On the 4th or 5th day, we were able to get up and walk a bit, but we were still so weak and sick that there was no going out or no getting anything done that needed to be done on projects around the house...

See, our floor in the dining room hadnt quite gotten finished, so our house was a total wreck still. The floor wasnt done because we found a leak in our back door as we were ripping up old flooring and ended up having to get a brand new door as well... which is mighty pretty I might add :) I will post pics of that adventure later on...

Anyway, we started feeling somewhat better by the weekend, but we were so sick of soup by the end of it all! Our fevers both had broken by around Thursday afternoon to Friday, so we were glad about that...

This Monday, Zack went back to work after missing almost a full week and I went back half a day just to ease into it.. I didnt quite feel as well I thought I should, But I wanted to push through...

By Tuesday of this week, my throat had started killing me again and I thought I was relapsing... I wasnt sleeping because I was coughing so much and my chest was killing me! I could hear the raspy crap in my chest and got worried, so I called my OB yet again, and she said I had pneumonia... oh yay... She said more than half her preggo patients that had swine flu had ended up with pneumonia or an infection in their lungs... (where it goes into the chest because of being pregnant and having a lower immune system at the time)... Anyway, she prescribed me a strong antibiotic (or as strong as she could), and today (Friday), I am starting to feel more normal... I cannot believe how sick I have been. For a while, I was worried I would never pull out of it! I was also worried I was going to end up in the hospital because my breathing had gotten rough before she put me on the meds for pneumonia... yuck!

I think my kitty felt bad for us, I told my mom I thought he had piggy flu or kitty flu at the same time... doesnt he look sad? Little schnookems!

Anyway, I am so looking forward to working on some stuff this weekend... I am still going to take it easy, because I want to keep my immune system up, but we plan on finishing the 20% of the floor thats left to do, and paint the baby room! I am so excited about painting the baby room, because then I can start decorating and Zack can put together all the little boogers furniture! WOOHOO! I am so grateful for all the prayers people have sent our way and all the support people have given over our week-2 weeks of illness. I am SO glad we are over it for the most part, because I am so looking forward to the shower Ann and Megan are throwing next Sat, the 7th! I will definitely try to post more pics of stuff before then, like our floor reno, and the baby room project :) Not to mention our first halloween in our new house :) We bought lots of candy to hand out! eeeeek! :)

Hiccups and kick mommy day

So, I've started feeling him kick more and more, but this week has been a real whopper of a week for movement! I will be 24 weeks Saturday (6 months), and it seems as if he doesnt stop moving around lunch time 12-2 ish... and after 8 pm, he moves constantly until bedtime... Last night, he kicked and kicked, and I thought he would never stop... the little booger! Zack hasnt been able to feel it yet, but Im sure in the coming days or weeks, he will be able to feel the kicks on the outside of my tummy... he has been trying to catch them for days now! Im hoping so, because he looks at me like Im crazy when we are sitting there watching TV and all of a sudden, I go "ow!" or "woah"... LOL! Such a sweet little baby in there!

Today, I was driving and singing a song I love on spirit FM and all of a sudden, he flipped around in my belly... His head was up and his feet were down, causing him to kick my lower abdomen, but when I started singing, he turned upside down and started kicking under my ribs... it was so weird feeling, LOL! It was awesome, but kind of funky too alllll at the same time. I wouldnt trade what happened next for anything! He started having the hiccups... It was very apparent that they were, and everytime he did, my whole body shuttered... For a solid 15 minutes, he hiccupped good and hard. It was so funny! I wanted someone else in the car with me to witness it, because I would literally shake everytime he did it! He flipped back around a bit ago, so Im happy... because I'd rather him kick me in the lower stomach than up high, because it kind of hurts above the belly button... But, I would rather him kick me and hurt me than not feel him at all, thats for sure!
My friend Megan had the swine flu this past week and missed a few days of teaching her second graders. Poor thing! I prayed every few hours that everything would be fine and nothing would come of it, and she is good to go now! She is back at school and feeling much better. Praise God!

I need to write about our floor saga this past week/weekend, but Nathan is here with me and bugging me to play with him, so I must go play with the nephew for a while, then tomorrow, I will write about the lovely floor adventures... We are going to Blacksburg tonight to eat with Ryan and Jamie, yay! We look forward to seeing them, because they are darn funny and great to hang out with.

P.S. I am soooo glad its the weekend! Hope everyone's week has gone well!!!

My hubby is a sweety :)

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Last week, I enjoyed time with my girls at Olive Garden... First we went shopping a bit and then went and ate salad, pasta, and pumpkin cheesecake! I cant tell you how happy I am to have such wonderful friends! They are such a blessing! I love all three of them and it is so much fun to see them and hang out, even if we do only get to do it every once in a while!!! :)

So, this past week, I have been as sick as a dog!!! I have been feeling so great with this second trimester thing, but this past Tuesday, I came down with something that took me out for days... That same day, we were supposed to pick up Flip Flop from being fixed... oh boy, what an ordeal. I already wasnt feeling well and I got a call that poor bunny had lost a lot of blood and they had to open him BACK up and re-do some of the surgery! I was super worried about him and they kept him a little longer than expected... but all in all, he is doing much better this week. When we finally got to bring him home, he had to wear a cone around his head... Pic below :)

Isnt he pitiful? Behind him is a tiny bail of timothy hay, not poo! I promise!!! LOL

We couldnt let him out of his cage for a few days, and the kitties really missed playing with their brother bun bun... He was so miserable that I dont think he cared... We tried to give him extra carrots to make up for his sad little bunny face though!

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, I was so sick, Zack left work to come home to me... I didnt have a fever, although I felt as if I was 150 degrees! I was super nauseated, had a headache the size of Texas, my stomach hurt like crazy, my neck hurt.... and of course the muscle aches all over... Im guessing it was just a bug, because Thursday I felt a bit better. I thought I was over it, then Sunday (yesterday), I got to feeling bad again... UGH! The doctor yesterday said it was probably just a bug, but if I had it again and had any type of fever to call Asap... P.S. The thermometer I was using while sick kept saying my temp. was 97.2, so finally, Saturday, Zack tried it just to see what it said... and low and behold, it said 97.2 as well... Needless to say, Zack went to CVS and bought a lovely new thermometer.

So, finally an explanation as to the title of this post:

After a week of feeling horrible, missing some work, and being very overwhelmed (because my housework got behind while sick)... Zack surprised me Friday night with a new peice of jewelry... I have always wanted one, but never thought I would indulge or spend money on it for myself... cause I just dont like spending money unless I have to hehe!

Here is what he gave me:

I was so excited! I cant wait for our little one to get here! But, I AM enjoying being pregnant... I feel him move every once in a while and it is so great to know he is in there hanging around with mom... LOL... The doctor let us hear his heartbeat yesterday and said everything sounded good. She also went over signs of pre-term labor... way to make a girl nervous! But, I know everything will work out fine and God will keep us ALL safe!

I can't leave without posting a few pics of my fur babies... Snipps has come to love it when we have the back door upstairs open with the screen pulled. As you can see below, he is quite mischievous! Hope our little one isnt as crazy as this cat!!!

Piper, on the other hand, loves to stay calm... She loves to read... I have proof! When I walked into the living room last week, she was sitting with these books that Nathan left in the floor by accident...She is such a smart kitty!!!

"No David No" is what she just finished (under her), and she had already finished "The Stinky Cheese Man" and "Skeleton Hiccups"! How Intellegent she is!

We didnt have a sonogram pic this time, we wont have another until about 32 or 36 weeks... I am at 23 this coming Saturday, so over half way there!

Hope everyone is having a great week!