Sun 26 Jul 2009 |
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| So I was sick after all! Friday I just couldn't do anything... I literally could not stop coughing. I'd coughed all night... and couldn't take it any more. I called my OB's office at 9am (because we're supposed to call them first) to beg for mercy. I explained the whole situation and was told a nurse would call me back. (insert eye roll here). I coughed from 9 until 12:30 – when the did finally get around to calling me back. What'd they say? Call your regular doctor. WHAT?! You think I'm going to get in to see my regular doctor when calling for an appointment at 12:30 Friday afternoon? When I started crying (and of course, croaking – I have almost no voice) on the phone the woman told me to go to urgent care. Well, thanks to the NC State Health Plan being so delightfully crappy, an urgent care visit is $75. No, thank you. I called my regular doctor – the soonest they could see me would be Monday afternoon – but that I need to call my OB. OH REEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? (insert another eye roll here). Drew came home from work around 4:30 and I high-tailed it to the CVS minute clinic. It was well beyond time to get checked out. I wasn't thrilled about having to go to a minute clinic... but the nurse couldn't have been nicer. Unfortunately, when she listened to my lungs she knew I needed a breathing treatment immediately. I have Bronchitis... and I needed a nebulizer to open the lungs up. Can't do that at CVS. So she sent me to an urgent care. GREAT. Well, this urgent care was different. It's just a regular doctor's office... and they charge like a regular doctor's office... and it was clean... and cheery... and right up the road from CVS. They got me right back... gave the same diagnosis as the CVS nurse... hit me with the breathing treatment (I felt 1000 percent better after that alone) put me on the antibiotic and sent me on my way. I was in and out in an hour. Friday night... I slept like I've never slept in my life. I'd wake up and cough... then close my eyes and literally... feel like I was blinking... but 2 hours would have passed. My body was finally resting and breathing and I had a pretty good break from coughing. Each day I've improved. Today we took the baby clothes out of the attic so I could assess what we have and decide what we need. Seeing these baby boy clothes out again... my goodness... it feels so real. These tiny little baby clothes! I remember when Grant wore them... and now he's running around talking in complex sentences... expressing emotions... how fast the time goes. I'm starting to dread those months with no sleep at all (especially considering how little I've slept this past week because of the coughing... )but I'm starting to get excited to hold a little peanut again. I don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse the second time around to know exactly what you're getting into. Oh well, it's like a freight train coming anyway... doesn't matter how I feel about it... there's no stopping it now!
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