Survival Mode

So I've been slacking in the blog department, but I have a good excuse, really I do. I've pretty much been in survival mode the last 2 weeks. It all started with a trip to the E.R. because I was having what I thought was really bad heartburn. I was having a lot of pain in my chest and stomach and back and a couple of vomiting spells and nothing would bring relief. So here I was in a lot of pain and discomfort in the middle of the night and nothing I could do about it. I finally decided to go to the E.R. and found out that I had gallstones. We think there was a stone stuck in the bile duct somewhere because I was in so much pain for over a week. The surgeon in Tooele pretty much gave me the go-around and just kept testing my levels and decided that it wasn't urgent that I have surgery (he was nice enough to give me a prescription for some pain medication though:)). So what do I do about the pain, doc? (other than the meds that made me loopy) He told me to go see my OB. We figure he just didn't want to do surgery because I am pregnant, I guess I can't blame him. Anyway, my OB said to get it out of there (my gallbladder) and referred me to a surgeon he works with a lot and who has a lot of experience doing the surgery on pregnant women. So on Tuesday (over a week after the onset of the attack) I had surgery to have my gallbladder removed. Oh what fun!

Anyway, I'm doing better. I'm still a little sore and just have a general feeling of blahness. Oh and I'm having some nasty headaches, ugh. I have to remind myself that not only am I recovering from surgery, but I'm also PREGNANT! The good news is that I made it to 13 weeks and there is still a healthy baby (at least there was as of Tuesday). So there's my last 2 weeks in a nutshell, I hope yours was better than mine.