Mom and Dad's 10th Anniversary

Thu., December 27, 1990

     Today's the last day of Guy's xmas leave.  It started a week ago today.  I thought I'd have time to write in my journal more while he's here to keep Chief occupied and take care of the cooking & cleaning.  It just hasn't worked out that way though. (I'm supposed to be napping now.)
     Thursday (12/20) I had an appt. with Dr. Baker, the one who's taking Dr. Lazarus' place.  Nothing new to report with him, except he suggested I take Maalox instead of Tums for the heartburn because Tums has calcium in it & he didn't want me to have too much.  I checked the bottle & it said one tablet has 20% of your daily calcium requirement.  Maalox doesn't have any.
     I was so tired by the time we got home I completely forgot about Luana Carter's baby shower til I woke up in the middle of the night.  She had a little girl on Dec. 1.  We went shopping Sat. & got her an outfit.
     We were both planning to go finish our xmas shopping on Friday (21st).  But I woke up at about 4:30 feeling awful.  This had happened once before on a Monday (I can't remember if it was the 10th or 17th).  I had started feeling better but then I felt bad again about 30 minutes later.  I finally got back to sleep around 6:00 I think.  I called the dr's. office at 9:00.  Dr. Rand wasn't in but I talked to some nurse; I didn't get her name but she sounded a little older than the ones I've seen there.  I told her all my symptoms & she said it sounded like I was coming down with the flu.  I hadn't thought of that.  We had checked my temperature before I called & there was no fever.  She said to just stay in bed & rest & drink lots of fluids.  So I stayed home while Guy went & did his xmas shopping.  He called to check on me while he was out.  It didn't any more though, and I didn't come down with the flu either.  We had an appt. scheduled with a different OB, Dr. Crockford, the day after xmas so we thought we could ask him about it.
     When we told the dr. all my symptoms and what the nurse had said, he said if I didn't come down with the flu it was probably just my hormones because they cause all sorts of things to happen when you're pregnant.  He said it might be my blood sugar but that they don't usually check for that til 6 months which would be next month for me.  So I felt a little better after talking to him.  He did suggest trying to drink some orange juice, and I did this morning but it didn't seem to make a difference.
     I sure hope I don't turn diabetic for the rest of pregnancy & especially not to stay that way afterwards.  I'll be glad when Carole Krebsbach gets back so I can ask her all my questions. 
     I guess I'll try and get a little sleep before Guy comes to wake me up.  We're making our annual trip to Tandom's Pine Tree Inn for our anniversary dinner tonight.