Sick sick and then more sick....

"Oh great!  MOM'S SICK!!!"  Words from my four year old!  So compassionate, isn't she?!  LOL!  I have had the most wonderful week of being sick - probably the best I have ever experienced!!  Harty-Harr-Harr!! Sense my sarcasm? 

It all started last Tuesday...I wasn't feeling too hot, but didn't really have any serious symtoms.  I had a little cough and that was that.  I was feeling great and then WHAM! It hit me like a ton of bricks!  What started as a cough ended in disaster.  On Wednesday afternoon I started feeling some chest pain. I'm talking about some serious P.A.I.N. in the chest.  It hurt when I coughed, breathed, talked, sighed, moved...and it was getting out control.  By the time Gordon got home from work, I told him what I was feeling and I that I was a little scared about it because I have never felt pain like that before in my chest.  I didn't know if it was my lungs or if I was having a heart attack!!  Not likely, but still it felt that way!  

So by 7:30pm and a few phone calls back and forth with my after hours nurse, it was recommended to go to the ER.  I am so blessed to have famliy close by, so we called up Mom and Dad Lindsay and took the girls to them while Gordon took me to the hospital.  

Now, keep in mind I am also pregnant and extremely hormonal so you can imagine the tears - OH THE TEARS - of this sick, tired, pregnant lady!!!  Poor Gordon!! 

So off to the ER - it's now 8:30 and I am being taken back to a room where they put me on a nebulizer machine - a device used to administer medicine in the form of a vapor to the lungs.  That made me super jittery - like I had the shakes all over as if I was just given a shot of the strongest caffine in the world.  Then they had me breathe into this other machine to test my oxygen levels - which were fine. 

So a few other people/nurses/Dr came in to check my lungs all while monitoring the baby the whole time too - which I was soooo glad for!!!  

After four hours it was determined that I had Bronchitis and this condition that is common with respiratory infections called Costochondritis - it's basically inflamation in the tissues attached to the breastplate/sternum area so any tension on them causes severe pain.

So I was given my drugs, a pat on the back and sent on my merry way around 11:30pm.  That was Wednesday night.

Thursday night - a lot of the congestion in my lungs were breaking up and now I am having a very (as the medical world would call it) "productive" cough.  All good signs that things are working.  

Friday morning - I wake with HIVES!  I get them with every pregnancy, but this time was the worst case I have seen on my body!!  Sorry NO PICTURES! :)

So I am miserable beyond words, but there's nothing anyone can do more for me.  I am waiting out the Bronchitis and the only thing that is completely healed since I left the ER is the chest pain - thank goodness!! 

Friday night - no sleep, big party to plan/prepare for the next day for Evelyn = STRESS!!!

Saturday - Evelyn's FOUR year Birthday Party with some little friends!!  It deserves a post of it's own because it was the CUTEST Princess Birthday Party EVER!  And I'll just say for me...well, I had to put my big girl pants on and suck it up!  I wasn't feeling better at all, but I wasn't contagious and I wasn't about to cancel my little girl's birthday party so the show went on and I somehow survived.

Saturday afternoon - something else BIG hit me.  "Not THIS" is what I am thinking, but it did - a Sinus Infection!  Swollen eyes. Sneezing 5... 8... 10... 13 times in a row!!! Sinus headaches. Runny nose. Could it get any worse?!  

So here I am Sunday morning - no sleep, itchy-watery eyes, sneezing up a wazooo, coughing up a lung and pregnant with hives!!!  At least I am alive, right????