"Now that the baby is getting bigger I think it's starting to press up on my diaphragm"

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1991 (Part 4)
     Academy started sending us letters around the holidays saying they weren't paying any more on any fertility claims because of a one-year limit on any one illness.  Neither of us remembered anything about that so I looked up the policy & sure enough, that's what it says.  But they were basing the date on the charge that was put on our account by mistake in July '89.  Our treatments began in Sept. '89.  We went back & forth with them for awhile & finally they sent us a letter saying they were going back to a date in Dec. '85 as when we first had claims for fertility treatments.  I haven't looked it up but that's probably when we first saw Dr. Berenger.  So they said that ever other year from that date are the times they've paid & will pay for anything having to do with fertility.  Thankfully that covers all the treatments at the Jones' Institute.  But now I'm afraid they'll come back & say they paid some claims they shouldn't have and want the money back.
     Guy went to sick call one day last month and had his blood sugar checked.  They said it was borderline & to come back in a month.  He also asked them about a knot he's been feeling in his left arm--above his elbow on the inside.  They gave him an appt. at PNH on the 16th to have that checked but he had to cancel that when the ASF got activated.  He had hoped that it or his blood sugar would keep him from having to go to the Persian Gulf.  Hopefully he won't have to worry about that now though.  I figured it out on our anniversary that the reason he'd been "going off his diet" for the past few months was to see if his blood sugar would go up enough to keep him from being sent over.  He'd been telling me that he was working on a plan to keep from going but that if it backfired he might get kicked out of the Navy.  I'd imagined all sorts of horrible things so I was relieved to find out what his plan was.  I don't know when he'll be able to go back for another blood check or to have his arm checked.
     Yesterday was the first time I'd been out with Chief for quite awhile.  We went to the mailbox.  He did so-so.  Guy hasn't had time to work with him lately.  He's wanting to go running with him in the mornings while he's on the eve watch but hasn't yet.
     Ever since we went to the mailbox yesterday I've had this pain in my right side off & on, mostly off, like a stitch from walking or running too much.  It was hurting again after going to the commissary this morning so I guess it's just from overdoing.  It's getting harder to get comfortable, not only to sleep but just even sitting on the couch.  Now that the baby is getting bigger I think it's starting to press up on my diaphragm.  It's easier to breathe laying on my right side because I don't wheeze but it seems like it's harder to take deep enough breaths.  When I lay on my left side I can breathe deeper but I'm still wheezing quite a bit on that side.  Sometimes I can lay flat for a little while but I usually have to prop up one way or another.  If we do my therapy just before I go to sleep I just stay on my pillow(s) as long as I can.  But then my neck starts hurting.  We put that quilted snuggle bag on my side of the bed & also got the inflatable neck pillow to use.  Sometimes they help, sometimes they don't.