Last night, I started feeling really sick. The usual, coughing, sneezing, headachey sinus stuff that hits anytime the season begins to get cold. When I woke up this morning, I decided that it was to severe to try to ignore. So I called and was able to secure a doctor's appointment at 9:20am. It was going to be a tight squeeze with Hyde & Teddy having vet appointments at 10:20am. And those vet appointments on base are hard to come by. So I decided I would go to the doctor, come home, take them to the vet, drop them off at home, and then pick up my prescriptions after. Busy Busy Busy.
At the doctor, I was told I caught a virus that has been spreading around out here. It normally lasts about 10-12 days, but because I am pregnant, I can only take the ever so lovely small dosage of tylenol. He also prescribed some cough drops to help numb my throat. I had to wear a mask all around the office. They were pretty anal about the mask wearing.
I got finished with the doctor at 9:55am, and rushed home to pick up the pets. Hyde hasn't been to a vet since January 2008. Unfortunately he is to smart. He seemed to know by the tone in my voice that he was about to endure something unfun. So he attempted to hide from me, but I got them and thankfully made the appointment on time. Teddy doesn't do so well with vets. He likes to bite and bark, and be an all around bad boy. This vet said it was no problem for me to hold on to him while she took his temperature and gave him his shot, and it was the most behaved he has ever been. He climbed up unto my arm, held on a little tighter when it hurt, then when it was all over, climbed up higher unto my arm, and nuzzled his face into my chin. He definitely earned a treat when he got home. He has also lost some of his extra weight, weighing in at 7.7 pounds. Hyde, on the other hand, was a brat. He was not feeling any of it. It was discovered he had worms, and he refused to medicine. He actually spit it out, and we had to search the floor for it. He wouldn't even take it with kitty treats. So I hid it in my food. Hyde weighed in at just under 10 pounds. But now the fur babies are all caught up on their shots, and it only costs $32!! Hyde still has spoken to me though.
Now for the scary part of my day. After dropping the animals back off at home, I had to go back to the base to pick up my prescription for the special cough drops. Here you stand in a line to get a number from the pharmacy lady in window 1, then sit in a waiting room and wait for the other ladies to call your number. There were maybe 4 people waiting in front of me, so I stood in the line, feeling perfectly normal. It maybe took 10 or 15 minutes for me to be the next person in line, I don't really know. But thats when the weirdness happened. All of a sudden the room started spinning. It actually confused me, I wasn't sure what was going on, I just couldn't focus. Then my purse started to feel heavy, like extra heavy. With the room starting to blur more and more, the purse felt just to much to hold and I dropped it. Then I felt like my head was wobbling, and I grabbed onto a chair that was next to me in the waiting for your number to be called area, and held on to the back of it, and sort of fell to my knees. So I just sat on the floor for a second, messing with my purse. I was embarrassed that I couldn't stand, so I fished around pretending I meant to be there on the floor, and got out my military id card like I was preparing to be called next. I felt my head with my hand, and noticed I was sweating. The lady then calls me over, and I was somehow able to get up, and I walked to the desk. I sat my stuff down. I hand her my card. I try to talk, but I couldn't really manage words. She had my card though, so she got my prescription ready and told me I could sit down if I needed to, and was asking if I was ok. I just said bathroom. She pointed it out, and I went straight to it, with vomit coming up. Nothing gross happened, but I washed up and went into the lobby and sat down for about 30 minutes before shakingly driving home. My eyes felt heavy the whole way home, but I wasn't tired. I got home, took a bath, calmed down, and got some food in me.
I don't know what happened. It could have been I am dehydrated, it could have been I was hot because my jacket was still on, or my iron was low, or I just needed to eat. I was able to sleep for a few hours, and I haven't felt dizzy since, so I can't really pinpoint anything. But it was scary, and I hope it doesn't happen again. I am still stuffed up, and tylenol is not helping. But I would rather my baby be kept safe, then drug up on nyquil. I am attempting to keep my temperature with my broken thermometer to be safe, and if it gets 101+, David already knows I plan on going to the ER. I don't know what they will or can do, but I am sure I am not the first pregnant person to be sick. The thermometer is broken because is a few degrees under what the actual temp is, and my last temp was 97.7, so I am about 99 something. Hopefully this sickness will end soon. I hate being sick, I hate feeling negative.
So now on to something positive. It snowed again last night! So I took some video footage of Teddy outside this morning around 8am. It had started to rain, so Teddy wasn't to fond of that. It rained all day and now the snow is all gone. :( I can't wait to see Teddy react to the snow when it is thick and inches high!
