It's football season!!!

Not that I really pay attention...but Justin does. I just thought it was an interesting title.

I'm glad it's football season but it has NOTHING to do with football. I'm happy that cooler temperatures are around the corner. I'm glad the holidays and yummy food will be here before we know it. Our anniversary is coming up. I'm glad my pregnancy is progressing and we've made it to the second trimester. (15 wks)

I've met with my oncologist and surgeon. I have to go to Atlanta to Emory for an ultrasound on my lymph nodes on the 10th. Pending the results we'll probably delay surgery until after baby is here. 

My oncologist wanted me to go out on medical leave to reduce the stress level with my blood pressure and all. Getting baby here healthy and hopefully full term is our goal. I'm going a little crazy stuck at home since family doesn't want me driving. I do go to the store and my MIL's down the road though which helps.

Next week I see my OB on Friday. I'm concerned now that my appetite still has not picked up so we'll see what he says...

HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!

(Note: picture was last week when we went to the surgeon's office at 14 weeks....I still just look fat not pregnant.

Crazy life!

So much has been going on! I've been battling one thing after another. 

Justin has been in Oregon since July 31st fighting wildfire. He flys home on Friday. He's gone off like this before but this time has seriously felt like he's been gone a lifetime!!!

I think it has felt like such a long time because I have not been doing so well. When he left I was taking antibiotics for a UTI. I'd had such a relatively easy pregnancy up to that point. Those antibiotics made me so sick. I was throwing up day and night! It was so awful! 

I also had experienced dizzy spells where I couldn't even hardly stand for about two weeks. Through this time I tried to work but there were days I didn't feel safe in driving. I had called my OB and my nurse told me it was normal during pregnancy to be dizzy and not a big deal. I'm not sure that she understood that I knew something was wrong. A few days later while having another of my dizzy spells...I went ahead and went to my regular doctor's office just to let them check me over.  Turns out my blood pressure was high. Very high, at 170/100...so of course my OB was contacted and I have been put on medication to regulate it. 

I went yesterday to a maternal fetal medicine specialist and got to see my baby for the second time. My mother in law, Ann was there as well. I sent Justin pictures but its just not the same. He didn't get to see how much baby was moving around in there. Or hear the precious heartbeat. 

This specialist says that I need to have ultrasounds to monitor baby's growth every month because I am at higher risk to lose the baby late in pregnancy if my body can't keep up. This scares me but I'm trying to focus on the positive and that is that there is this healthy baby in there now who needs me to be strong and get through this for them. I cannot let the bad worries and fears take away the good things that I have.

I'm currently doing a 24 hour urine for the specialist to try to rule put protein in my urine and in turn preeclampsia. I am very early in my pregnancy at only 12 weeks to have that and so my fingers are crossed that it will come back just fine.