So.  I’m finally… starting… to understand… what… everyone… was talking about… when they said… the first… trimester… was… exhausting… *snore* Yeah.  The steroids have left the body, and I’m full on into zonked-out mode.  Can I just sleep for the next 7 months?  Please? In more amusing symptom-watch news, I have developed the silliest pregnancy [...]

Yesterday’s nausea spilled over into the evening yechs, and kept me from really eating dinner.  Started on leftover rarebit, gave it up as a bad deal.  Started in on toast, but the toast tasted funny.  Needless to say, Nellie wishes every day was a blechhh-for-dinner day.  She got a lot of bread and cheese last [...]

I am so happy to be coming off of prednisone.  It made for an interesting day yesterday, what with the vision fading in & out and the dizziness and the lightheadedness.  Made it a bit difficult to fill out the insurance forms since instead of black and white, I was getting the technicolor sparkly version [...]

First off:  All is well.  Afternoon appointment, so I just got home. SuperStarOB is great.  I really like him and his assistant and his receptionist.  I think we’re going to do just fine together.  He’s funny and compassionate and kind and while I was waiting for him, a previous patient came in and it was [...]

So, I’m still feeling pregnant.  Still bleeding like I’m NOT pregnant, but I’m doing my best to ignore that.  Napped yesterday afternoon until the blech went away, and was happy to do so.  I love days off.  And then, the boy did a double take when I got undressed last night – “Your boobs are [...]

So, assuming that there’s still a live Sprog in there somewhere, this is the farthest any of my pregnancies have progressed. And yeah, FUCK YOU, Fates – I said it out loud and I AM assuming there’s a live one in there, still.  I think we made it past the hump, despite the bleeding that [...]

So in my self-analysis of the last few days I realized another reason for my tend-towards-panic of the last few days.  It’s quite simple, actually. The Boy is out of town. Which really isn’t that big a deal, I mean, I like my space, I enjoy having the occasional weekend where it’s all about me [...]

Got a reality check from a homeless man yesterday.  I was walking to the store to buy dinner fixin’s and he was mumbling along on his way – scavenging tape from a telephone pole as far as I could tell.  He made eye contact, then called after me as I walked past, “Hey, pretty lady? [...]

Happily, I spent much of yesterday afternoon feeling green around the gills.  Which had the desired effect upon my mood.  Unhappily, this forced me to confront how very neurotic I’m getting about this pregnancy.  I was trying to explain it to my mom, and actually stumbled on a decent comparison: I tend to suffer from [...]

Ok, the terror is really getting out of hand.  If my old RE worked Monday or Tuesday I’d be at that door bright and early, begging for a scan.  As it is, I’m seriously considering “interviewing” a high risk OB just so I can “interview” their high tech US machine. Maybe, after what’s happened this [...]