Wednesday, August 22, 1990
The extreme tiredness hasn't set in yet but I think I'm tireder than I would be if it wasn't for Chief (our dog at that time). Sometimes I just resent him so much and feel like if I lose this baby it'll be because of him. I get so tired of his constant need for attention. And his whining whenever we leave the room. But now he's added yapping to his whining, mostly right after Guy leaves in the morning. I'd been going down and hollering then spanking him but it was just too much going up & down the stairs. So this morning I decided to just ignore him. He did it for about 10 minutes & quit, then about 10 minutes later, as I was about to get back to sleep, he started in again for about 5 minutes. But by then I couldn't get back to sleep. I tried reading for awhile but never did go to sleep. I didn't hear him any more til about 7:30. I was planning on getting up at 8:00 so I went ahead & got up. But this time I fixed & ate my breakfast before giving him his. Of sourse I had to keep hollering at him to stop whining while I was eating. I played with him some before coming back upstairs, about 9:30. After I did my medicine I read a little more & went to sleep for almost and hour & a half. He did better this afternoon. I keep telling Guy that Chief is probably still messed up from Janice & Tim (my aunt and uncle) being here and then Guy having to work late all last week plus having duty weekend. I hope that's what it is and that once we've been back to normal for a couple of weeks he won't be so bad. But what if it doesn't get any better? I remember how tired I was last time & how I slept most of the afternoon besides about 10 hours every night. So if I neglect Chief to be sure I get enough rest he'll be whining & yapping all the time and I won't be able to get any rest anyway. I just don't know how I'm going to handle it.
Guy said all he wants me to do around the house is the cooking & the laundry. I've had a hard enough time keeping up with that.
I went in yesterday for a consultation with the OB. I guess I should back up some. Friday I was supposed to go in & see Kathy for instructions. When I got there Susan said Kathy was gone to see her sister who just had her baby. (She's told me last week she was due last Sun. & she'd be taking time off whenever it was) So Susan said Dr. Acosta would see me. That surprised me since I hadn't seen him at all since April He asked questions about all the dates & at what point the miscarriage was. He said he wanted me to continue the progesterone suppositories (I think) then get the weekly shots. Then he surprised me by saying he wanted me to the the obstetrician this week. Susan was there when we came out of the office & he told her what all to do. I was confused between what she said & what he'd said but decided they were talking about the same thing. She gave me two shots though and said the one besides the weekly one was progesterone like the suppositories but she was giving me it because it takes awhile to get through your system & it needed to be overlapped with the suppositories instead of being a gap from them to the time the shot would take effect. I had just the right amount of supp's left too. She called & mad the appt. at Maternal Fetal Medicine & they had her tell me to drink 32 oz before coming in - for an ultrasound.
Guy wasn't able to go with me. When the ultrasound girl called me back she asked all these questions first & then said she'd been told I was further along than that. Then she went to talk to Dr. Sayegh and came back & said they'd have to do a vaginal ultrasound because they wouldn't be able to see anything with a regular one. So after drinking all that milk & juice & water! I had to go to the bathroom before they could do it. What a waste! The girl kept saying not to be disappointed or worried if she couldn't see anything cause she probably wouldn't be able to cause I was so early. So I said "then why are we doing this?" She said because Dr. Acosta wanted it. That didn't make sense to me cause I was listening when Susan called to make the appt. and she didn't ask for an ultrasound appt., she asked for a consultation appt. (I called her later & she said that the ultra. was supposed to be part of the consultation) So, the girl did the ultra. & said she saw a spot but she couldn't tell anything for sure. She also said my ovaries were rather large & I told her that was fromt he pergonal & FSH.
When she finished I said something about supposed to see the dr. now & she said all they had me down for was an ultra. and that they didn't take private patients now, only referrals and I said I thought that's what I had (a referral). I showed her the paper Susan had written everything down on & she said she'd ask Dr. Sayegh. She came back & said they had apparently scheduled me for the ultra. instead of the consultation. That's when I really got confused til I talked to Susan later. She said they could give me an appointment with Dr. Levy in three weeks cause he wasn't in yesterday. They were saying I had to see him because that's who Dr. Acosta specified. But Dr. Levy's name was on the paper because that's who they told Susan my appt. was with yesterday. So I went upstairs to pick up the letter for Champus from Patty & asked Susan while I was there if it was ok to wait 3 wks. for seeing Dr. Levy & she said it would be.
So I've decided to go ahead & get prenatal vitamins myself even though we'll have to pay for them. We're already signed up for the Champus OB class tomorrow afternoon. Guy had already asked for the whole day off cause the way they had to work the past two weeks & it's finally letting up.
The letter Patty gave me said my due date is April 27. The ultra. girl said it was May 1. I guess for now 4/27 will be the official due date.
I'm so far behind in my writing I've started a list of things I need to write about so I won't forget anything.
My mom wrote about absolutely EVERYTHING!!
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