"it didn't seem like she's been moving around as much today."

Wednesday, January 30, 1991
     I called Dr. Baker Friday to tell him I was feeling worse.  When I finally got ahold of him he said he could write me prescriptions for humibid and erythromycin.  At first he said he'd call it in to Boone then he called back & said they wouldn't let him do that & asked if I wanted him to mail them to me.  I told him I needed something before Mon. & said I could come to the hospital pharmacy after Guy got home.  He said he'd leave them at the pharmacy.  Guy wasn't too thrilled about it when he got home.  He'd asked for Sat. or Sun. off & they said no so he was in a bad mood.  But we went to the hospital and got the medicine, not without trouble.  I tried to explain it to the volunteer & he couldn't find it and called this girl over.  I don't know what he'd told her but I had to explain it again a couple of times.  Then she said she'd try calling the dr. & I said he wouldn't be there, he was leaving the prescriptions there because he'd be gone by the time I got there.  Guy grabbed my ID and said he'd go upstairs & see if anyone was there.  Not 2 minutes later the man found it.  I went to catch Guy but he'd used the stairs intead of waiting for the elevator.  He wasn't too pleased to find out he went up there for nothing.  No one was there anyway.  At least we got the medicine.
     After that we went to Sears to pick up the maternity jeans I'd ordered.  It's taken so long to get some.  I bought some at K-Mart and they were so comfortable but the first time I washed them they got little holes in them.  I started to mend them & found even more holes so I decided to take them back.  They said I could exchange them but there weren't any more.  I looked in the Sears store and at Penney's but they were so expensive and all had some kind of zippers or bows or something at the bottom of the legs.  I finally ordered them out of the catalog in size 10, the size the ones from K-Mart had been.  They were just fine then I washed them before wearing them and they shrank too much.  So I took them back & fiddled around and didn't order them again til last week, this time in size 12.  I washed them first and tried them on & they're fine.  They're just a little stiff cause they're not prewashed like the K-Mart ones were.
     Meanwhile, my cold has gotten better in some ways and worse in others.  My throat's not as sore but it still sounds kind of rough.  My nose isn't completely stopped up.  It moves from side to side & I still have to blow quite a bit.  The worst thing is when I lay down on my left side I wheeze so bad I can't breathe for coughing.  I haven't gotten much sleep the past two nights.  I can get comfortable on my right side but I wake up an hour or two later & my hip or shoulder or something is aching or numb & I need to move.  But every time I try my left side, no matter how many pillows I use or how I place them, I eventually start wheezing, if I'm not from the start, which is most of the time.
     I spen most of yesterday & this morning in bed.  I had an appt. with Dr. Graves at 2:55 this afternoon.  I was supposed to go an hour early for the diabetes screening.  I didn't know if I'd be able to drive so I called Barb Leland to see if she could drive me.  Guy said he'd come pick me up when he got off work.  She said she could and she even came in with me to visit a little while before she had to go pick up Jamie.
     Anyway, I had to drink this orange drink that was very sweet.  It wasn't bad at first but the more I drank the worse it got.  She told me to try just drinking it down & I tried but almost gagged on it.  I was supposed to go back in an hour for the blood test.  The girl said it was ok for me to drink water.  I'd taken some with me hoping to be able to.
     The nurse weighed me & took my blood pressure.  I lost a pound.  She called me to an exam room long before my appt. time & I thought that was great.  But I was in there for 25 minutes.  I finally got off the table and sat on the bench in the corner.  Dr. Graves was nice & friendly but he has a tendancy to get real close when talking with you.  He said he'd told Dr. Baker whatever medicine I needed to get well was ok.  He said I might want to go ahead & have my blood gasses checked before my next visit with Dr. Baker.  He said not to worry about the medicine or the effects of my coughing on the baby.  I just need to be sure to take good care of myself.  He listened to the heartbeat and it sounded fine to me.  I'd been worried because it didn't seem like she's been moving around as much today.