11-6-06

So, I hate to be Discouraged...

...But I am. I turned 13 weeks today, and despite a WONDERFUL day last Saturday that tricked me into thinking this sickness was going to begin to go away, every day since then has been HORRIBLE. I am sicker during the day than I have been the last 6 weeks, I can hardly eat anything after 5pm...and even noon has me only getting a few bites of yogurt or pineapple down, and the evenings are spent battling constant vomit. I did not expect that my pregnancy sickness would go away at 12 weeks...I knew it probably would not. But I certainly did not expect it to get worse. I feel so out of sorts. I thought I was managing the sickness with my meds and keeping my routine, but now I am unsure of what to do about anything and sicker to boot. Some recommend taking the Zofran, but the research I did said it wears off after 6-8 hours which means I would spend 16 hours a day completely unmedicated which I believe would be worse than what I am doing now. So I am afraid to make the switch, but now even what I am currently taking is hardly doing the job. We are supposed to go to Jon's parents to see his sister who is visiting from Georgia. I am so sick I don't even know if I can go...

Oh yeah...and a sippy cup seal fell down into the heating element of the dishwasher last night and my house smells like burnt plastic (probably not healthy for any of us). I have tried airing it out...but it is FREEZING out. Plus Jon is staining his desk so every time I open the door to the garage the smell of polyurethane sneaks in. I feel stuck, stuck, stuck.

Sorry to be so down, but it had been a week since I posted...and well, this is my life. On a brigthter note, my mom has come up once a week the past few weeks and cleaned my house for me. Huge blessing! This has also allowed me to somehow stay up to date on grad school...thanks Mom!!!!