Last Monday, June 22, I was walking around my kitchen/dining room and slipped on a placemat that was on the floor and basically did the splits and felt this stabbing pain in my groin area...have you ever slipped on ice and tried to keep your legs together? I did that snowboarding once, but it didn't hurt THIS bad! It's because I already have pelvic pains due to the pregnancy and so that didn't help. Just when I was starting to feel much better too!! So for the past week I have put myself on "bed rest", it's actually "couch rest" since I spend most of my day downstairs. The first night I was unable to even go up the stairs to my bedroom, so I spent the night on the couch and that was very uncomfortable! My back hurt, my pelvis hurt, my leg fell asleep, but I didn't! I think I finally sat up at 6:30am after enduring it for about 5-6 hours. So the next few days I was walking to and from the bathroom using my kitchen step stool as a walker. It helped me get around but then my palms started getting sore from the stool handles. I have been using my maternity belt around my hips to kinda hold them in place. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Soon I will wear out the velcro on it cuz I have to take it off when I sit or it just compresses everything down "there". I wanted to get as much rest that week since that following Saturday was the girls' piano recital and our friend's children's birthday party. By then I was no longer using the step stool but still in a lot of pain walking. Tylenol has become a staple in my diet, next to fruits and veggies. Saturday came and I was feeling just ok. I got dressed as soon as I woke up so I won't have to go back upstairs and off we went. That day just happened to be the warmest day of the whole month of June so far! Luckily we were able to get front row parking at the Library where the recital was being held. I made it to the room and immediately sat down. Once the recital started I noticed I was starting to get hot flashes...I get those frequently now out of the blue. I started fanning myself. As the recital continued I was starting to get increasingly hotter and irritated and my butt was hurting from the hard seats. I started getting teary eyed at being so uncomfortable but had to just tough it out till all was done. It was about an hour long. Come to find out the A/C was not working!! Everyone was allowed to walk around and start getting their plates of food afterwards. I just kept telling Andrew I'm hot and couldn't move. I started feeling light headed and dizzy. Andrew and my mom started fanning me. I was able to drink some cold punch and that seemed to help. Again I was teary-eyed at how uncomfortable I was feeling. Finally I started feeling better. I put some food in my stomach and after a little while we left. We went straight home and there I was back on my favorite couch to relax. I stayed there the rest of the day and evening. We never made it to the park for our friend's party, but then again it was about 97 degrees outside. Sunday I skipped church and just relaxed.
Today, Mon June 29 (which is our 15 year anniversary of when we first met), I went to my 36.4 week check up this morning. Oh my gosh was that a PAIN...literally...For some reason, my hip/pelvic/groin pain seemed to be a lot worse today. I got the girls up and dressed so they can go to their uncle's house. And was teary eyed yet again just getting into the van driver seat! UGH! How painful it was to gas and break! So I didn't even get out of the van when I dropped them off. I let them out and had them run to the front door themselves and off to the dr I went. Of course the only parking was the last row the farthest away from the entrance! I limped, hobbled, wobbled my up as quickly as possible so I could go and sit down. They checked my blood pressure, which didn't raise flags but I am sure it was elevated at this point. They took my weight, which darn it, I gained another 4 lbs in 3 weeks! So I hit the 29 lb mark...still good but it should be slowing down now. I went to the room and got prepared for the internal exam. heh heh. Not fun. So I mentioned to the dr that I slipped and he pretty much ignored me! So I'm left to grin and bear it till the baby is born. Hopefully it'll be back to normal afterwards, but from what I read it can take month and in severe cases, years to be pain free! So the dr checked and I'm only 1cm. Nothing changed. He said he felt the baby's head but that it's still pretty high. Meaning she's not making her way down yet. All this week I have been playing the "guess that bump" game to figure out if she was head down or not. If she wasn't (and was breech till labor) I would have to have a cesearan and I really don't want that. Talk about prolonged healing. I have enough problems in that department! So now I have another appointment for the following week to be checked again. To help make labor start we are supposed to walk...HAHA. How funny and ironic huh? So now I am not even sure if she will be as early as my last (which was 10 days), since I can't do much to help labor along. So all I can do it pray!
Alright, time to eat and then go back to my favorite couch again. This computer chair is hurting my bum!! Until next time...