Last night I experienced something that I can only pray doesn't come around again... It was the most excruciating back pain I have ever experienced in my life, only about 100 times worse!
Jarred and I were sitting in the living room watching some SVU and around 9pm my back felt really sore. I opted to try and stretch out in bed to see if changing positions/locations would help. No go. It got worse... I was constantly changing positions from laying on my back, to hunched over the bed, anything I could think of to try and reduce the amount of pain I was in. Jarred had offered me Tylenol when I first went back to the bed, but me being the stubborn person that I am, declined the offer. Around 9:30 I was screaming for Tylenol and orange juice!
I consume said Tylenol and oj and then proceed to re-position over and over again for about 5 minutes. I finally decide to hop into the shower and see if the warm water will relieve the pain. About 5-7 minutes later I'm laid out in the shower floor, almost in tears, because I couldn't take it...
And then IT happened. I knew what I had to do ... I had to vomit.
So, I'm in the shower floor, leaning over to the toilet and give back everything I had eaten/drank for the past 6 hours. I don't know how Jarred heard me all the way at the back of the apartment with the bathroom fan (that sounds like a jet engine) whirring away, but bless his heart, he found me... Soaking wet, head in the toilet and there was nothing he could do for me... I felt so bad for both of us! Me for the pain/puking and him for the lack of anything he could do about it! What a pair!
So, I hop back through the shower to rid myself of the puke feeling, and endured the back pain for as long as I could. Once I couldn't take it anymore, I called the OB/GYN... The doctor was really nice, considering it was 10pm, and was asking me all kinds of questions... "How far along are you? Are you able to use the bathroom normally? What kind of pain is it? How long has it been there? Is it stronger on one side? etc. etc." Finally after all the questions, she tells me to take 2 more Tylenol and sip on water (I had let her know I vomited) and if it didn't get better within an hour to call her back.
Praise the Lord that it got better, because I was really scared there for a little bit! I had heard of women who have "back labor" and their description of the pain was the exact pain I was having. Here I am, 28w2d having what could possibly be "back labor" and I nearly had a meltdown! I can not imagine delivering this baby a full 12 weeks early! That thought scares me to DEATH!
Well, on to the remainder of the day. Hopefully it will be uneventful and Jarred and I can spend a Saturday just being together!
Lindsey
14 August 2010
11 August 2010
Crazy Wild Life!
Wow! What a whirlwind of events! Life is just simply blowing my mind right now!
We moved into our new apartment about 9 days ago...and while we still have a sea of boxes to wade through in what will soon be the baby's room, we're making definite head-way! Prince is most assuredly pleased with his new dwelling and really enjoys having a big sliding glass door he can stare out for hours at a time! He's also extremely full of himself, what with all the extra room to run around! Even though he's past the 10 year mark, he acted like he was 10 months old the day we moved in!
When we left PA last fall to move to OR, we downsized drastically. We rid ourselves of much that wouldn't do anyone any good being packed up in boxes for who knew how long (at the time!). I had a garage sale that much to my dismay didn't go well... I used to work in retail and actually had the garage set up like a little boutique (totally made me happy!), but I think it intimidated many "yard salers"... So much of the stuff we opted to not keep ended up going to family, friends, and the Chambersburg Goodwill. I'm just glad that people can use the things instead of us having to sort through what is wanted vs. un-wanted at this point!
This past week, we took the gift card that my two aunts and grandmother gave us at the Baby Shower to go and get the travel system from Babies R Us! We had a coupon for 20% off any one item in the store that didn't exclude the system we wanted, so rest assured I JUMPED all over that! We ended up saving $40 on that thing! YAY us! My mom also shipped us the wonderful gifts that I received at the Baby Shower that was thrown for Baby Murphy back in Texas. It was too much fun getting to unpack everything and remember who gave the kid what and hang up the little clothes (even if I have yet to wash them... that's coming though) and put the books on the closet shelf! It's almost surreal... no, it is definitely surreal... to think in just a few short months (less than 3 now!) there is going to be a new addition to this little Murphy family! Crazy!
Speaking of Crazy and New Additions... We've been trying to get the RV sorted out for sale. Cleaning and a few small repairs were in order before we could post it on craigslist.org (p.s. who doesn't love craigslist.org!). Before Jarred begin the listing, he looked through the auto section to see what all was going on out there. He ran across the most crazy posting ever! A LITTLE BACK STORY INSERTED HERE: When driving across the country a month or so ago, we discussed at some point (4-5 years down the road) getting a Chevy Tahoe. I love the look of them, Jarred wanted an SUV that was a 4x4 that he could play with and possibly put a diesel engine in... But we both agreed that since we've got 2 cars that are paid for, we'd wait until the right time came along. BACK TO THE ORIGINAL STORY: This posting was for a 2001 Chevy Tahoe. Jarred is clicking through the ad and at the bottom the lister states "Willing to Trade for RV"
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Jarred ran to get me so I could look at the posting. I had to laugh at it, there was no way that someone out there wanted what we had AND was willing to trade us for something we wanted! So I said to Jarred, "that's pretty incredible! If you want to go for it, send the guy a message!" Fast forward to the next day, Jarred gets up and lets me know that plans for the day had changed. (We were supposed to be in Reading at 10:30am for the cable guy to hook up our plan.) I was to go back to the apartment with the dog. Jarred was going to finish working on the RV and drive it up to Reading later that afternoon, and this guy was going to bring the Tahoe to the airport so we could all check each other's vehicles out and see if we wanted to do an even trade. An hour and a half later, Jarred and this guy come back from the tag agency and we now officially own a 2001 Chevy Tahoe and that guy owns a whole pile of headaches!
Tell me that's not totally crazy!!!
Plus, after all the trading vehicles business, we headed over to another craigslist poster's home to check out a dining room table! I loved it, Jarred loved it, we bought it, tossed it in the back of the Excursion and headed home... New (to us) table! New (to us) Tahoe! CRAZY WILD LIFE!
Lindsey
We moved into our new apartment about 9 days ago...and while we still have a sea of boxes to wade through in what will soon be the baby's room, we're making definite head-way! Prince is most assuredly pleased with his new dwelling and really enjoys having a big sliding glass door he can stare out for hours at a time! He's also extremely full of himself, what with all the extra room to run around! Even though he's past the 10 year mark, he acted like he was 10 months old the day we moved in!
When we left PA last fall to move to OR, we downsized drastically. We rid ourselves of much that wouldn't do anyone any good being packed up in boxes for who knew how long (at the time!). I had a garage sale that much to my dismay didn't go well... I used to work in retail and actually had the garage set up like a little boutique (totally made me happy!), but I think it intimidated many "yard salers"... So much of the stuff we opted to not keep ended up going to family, friends, and the Chambersburg Goodwill. I'm just glad that people can use the things instead of us having to sort through what is wanted vs. un-wanted at this point!
This past week, we took the gift card that my two aunts and grandmother gave us at the Baby Shower to go and get the travel system from Babies R Us! We had a coupon for 20% off any one item in the store that didn't exclude the system we wanted, so rest assured I JUMPED all over that! We ended up saving $40 on that thing! YAY us! My mom also shipped us the wonderful gifts that I received at the Baby Shower that was thrown for Baby Murphy back in Texas. It was too much fun getting to unpack everything and remember who gave the kid what and hang up the little clothes (even if I have yet to wash them... that's coming though) and put the books on the closet shelf! It's almost surreal... no, it is definitely surreal... to think in just a few short months (less than 3 now!) there is going to be a new addition to this little Murphy family! Crazy!
Speaking of Crazy and New Additions... We've been trying to get the RV sorted out for sale. Cleaning and a few small repairs were in order before we could post it on craigslist.org (p.s. who doesn't love craigslist.org!). Before Jarred begin the listing, he looked through the auto section to see what all was going on out there. He ran across the most crazy posting ever! A LITTLE BACK STORY INSERTED HERE: When driving across the country a month or so ago, we discussed at some point (4-5 years down the road) getting a Chevy Tahoe. I love the look of them, Jarred wanted an SUV that was a 4x4 that he could play with and possibly put a diesel engine in... But we both agreed that since we've got 2 cars that are paid for, we'd wait until the right time came along. BACK TO THE ORIGINAL STORY: This posting was for a 2001 Chevy Tahoe. Jarred is clicking through the ad and at the bottom the lister states "Willing to Trade for RV"
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Jarred ran to get me so I could look at the posting. I had to laugh at it, there was no way that someone out there wanted what we had AND was willing to trade us for something we wanted! So I said to Jarred, "that's pretty incredible! If you want to go for it, send the guy a message!" Fast forward to the next day, Jarred gets up and lets me know that plans for the day had changed. (We were supposed to be in Reading at 10:30am for the cable guy to hook up our plan.) I was to go back to the apartment with the dog. Jarred was going to finish working on the RV and drive it up to Reading later that afternoon, and this guy was going to bring the Tahoe to the airport so we could all check each other's vehicles out and see if we wanted to do an even trade. An hour and a half later, Jarred and this guy come back from the tag agency and we now officially own a 2001 Chevy Tahoe and that guy owns a whole pile of headaches!
Tell me that's not totally crazy!!!
Plus, after all the trading vehicles business, we headed over to another craigslist poster's home to check out a dining room table! I loved it, Jarred loved it, we bought it, tossed it in the back of the Excursion and headed home... New (to us) table! New (to us) Tahoe! CRAZY WILD LIFE!
Lindsey
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