Sickies

Eleven weeks down and I still feel like I am going to die.  I'm writing this from our bedroom while Tom is cooking downstairs.  I had to leave the main level as soon as the cooking smells reached me.  I bolted upstairs sssoooo fast and shut the bedroom door even faster.  I even stuffed a towel under the door to prevent the smell from leaking in and threw open the windows to get some fresh air.

 I'm exhausted and nauseous and chubby and my face is breaking out and my emotions are all over the place and I feel like I can't do this anymore.  I cried at my desk today when I was helping a customer with a brochure order for babies with cleft palates. On Monday, I got really light headed and nearly passed out while I was in the shower.  Tom had to help me up from the bottom of the shower and get me back into bed.  A glass of orange juice later, and I was back on my feet again. Now I am eating breakfast in bed before I get up every morning to make sure I don't get dizzy and fall over again. Ugh. It seriously feels like I've had the flu for, oh, six weeks or so. I'm more than ready for the second trimester to get here and bring me some relief from this incessant nausea and perpetual exhaustion. The first trimester really is the pits. At least, that has been my personal experience with both of my pregnancies. As my OB/GYN put it, "The first trimester is the survival trimester.  You do what you have to do to get through it." 

Weston went to the doctor today to get his cough checked out.  He has had a cold for weeks (months?) and has a cough that will not go away.  Many of the daycare kids had the same cold. A couple of the kids developed pneumonia and one was even hospitalized. Even though Weston was acting pretty normal and didn't have a fever, we thought we'd take him in just to be on the safe side.  It turns out he has a sinus infection so he got a prescription that will hopefully help clear it up so it doesn't keep lingering on and on.

Tom is fine, thank God, because we need at least one healthy person to care for the sickies!

Is anybody else really ready for spring?