Pink Eye 10-13-06

I have Pink Eye

Ok...weird.

I have only had pink eye two times in my life...the first was in the spring of 2003...right around my 9th week of pregnancy with Landon. The second time...right now...and I turned 9 weeks today. Coincidence? The doctor says so...says there is no relation between the two...but I think my entire body just hates pregnancy so even my eyes rebel. As a result I am wearing my glasses from HIGH SCHOOL which are like three prescriptions behind and entirely ugly...and did I mention that it is difficult to lay on the couch in glasses. Oh yes...my eye hurts and I want to gouge it out...and my hubby is gone for the night. Anyone want to come over and watch a movie with me? I am lonely and bored and can think of nothing but pouring the entire bottle of presecriotion eye drops on my eye in an attempt to make it stop feeling like a real PLANK is sticking into it.

Ok, so I am being such a baby. In reality, I know that I have so much to be thankful for. Despite the sickness, the pink eye, the insomnia, the horrible food aversions....I just want to say that I am entirely and completely thankful for this baby. I love him/her and would go through much, much more than this to bring life to this child. That is the amazing part of being a mother. God allows us to endure these slight and momentary problems as our way of taking part in the creation of a life. How amazing is that. I can be sick...for 40 weeks if that is what it takes...but at the end of it, I will walk out of the hospital a healthy woman with a beautiful new life in my arms. My heart aches for people who have cancer and go through sickness much worse than my own from their chemo...and in the end...all they are hoping for is their own life. There is no big bright spot waiting for them at the end...and they do not know when the end will be...they just know that they have to endure in hopes of getting better. Oh how little I have to complain about...

Thanks again, friends (I just typed fiends...that would have been quite the typo) for the encouragement! All of you! Have a most wonderful weekend!