My Hospital Welcome to the 3rd Trimester

Yes...I spent 3 1/2 long days in the hospital this past week. So 27 weeks in started out a little rough...and now I am already 28 weeks!! 12 more to go...unreal.

ok, so now I am sure I have you all wondering why I was in the hospital. First and foremost, let me tell you the baby is OK. The baby was never involved in the reason I was in the hospital and has been strong and healthy all along. Well I guess I can't say the baby was never involved in why I was in the hospital...he/she was probably the root of the cause...but then how can I get mad at such a little baby :)

So Wednesday morning I woke up with a little back pain. No biggie...I have been sleeping like crap and usually wake up with one ache or another from the weird ways I have been laying when I sleep. So I think nothing of it at all and get up and go to work like usual. So a pretty normal day at work...until about 3pm, when I start to feel warm...kind of like hot flashes and chills and just weird. I was really hoping that I wasn't getting the flu or something. Then when I got up out of my chair to leave to go home, the right side of my back hurt really bad, like a pain I have NEVER felt before in my life.

So on Wednesdays I go and referee an adult sports league and this was my last night, playoffs. So I had to go...I knew the guy who ran the league would be there, and if I still felt bad I'd tell him and go home. So I drove to the arena and got some breadsticks on the way there, because I wasn't really hungry, but I knew I needed to eat. So I ate a little and then went to work. When I got there I felt fine. I was there for about 20 min and my back pain came back in full force. I couldn't sit or stand...nothing felt comofortable or made the pain any more bearable. So I told Mike and I left.

I went home and took a warm bath since that usually takes the back pain away. That didn't work. I tried to sleep, laid in bed, couldn't get comforatable any way I laid. So 1030 rolled around and I called Jimmy at work and told him he had to come home and take me to the hospital. He freaked out of course, thinking it was the baby, though I told him it wasn't and knew it wasn't. The baby was kicking up a storm, not helping the pain much, but all the same it was great to still feel him/her knowing they were fine.

We got to labor and delivery at about 1115pm and I got into a room at about 1125. Those 10 min were the longest and most excrutiating of my life. I was pacing in the waiting room...thinking over and over again...what did I get myself into?! This is unbearable. Well to make a long story short...3 tests later (including one ultrasound where we got a little glimpse of the baby...it is SO BIG!) and about 3 hours later, I was in a room in the anti-partum wing with an IV and pain meds and was feeling A LOT better. Come to find out after they got back a bunch of tests by Saturday morning before I got discharged, that I had a kidney infection and 2 kidney stones. eh.

I wish this upon NO ONE. It was the worst pain I have ever felt. Luckily after I got my IV that was the last I felt of that pain. The nurses kept telling me that having kidney stones was worse then having labor...I don't know if I consider that a good thing or not. But at least when I come to the hospital to have the baby, they will know that is what is going on and I won't have to wait 3 hours for pain medicine!!!

So that was the end of my last week and most of my weekend. Pretty eventful, until I got admitted to the hospital...then it just consisted of watching TV, lying in bed and eating nasty hospital food.

I am heading back to work tomorrow after taking today off to get done some of the stuff that I didn't get to do over the weekend. Not too excited to go back to work, but then when am I ever :)

I hope that everyone else had a great weekend. Here is to week 28 being a lot better then week 27!!

Adios :)