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34 Weeks: Alone in the Apartment

Kelly has been out of town since Wednesday morning. It's 8pm on Saturday right now. Today's activity has mostly consisted of sitting. My main activities of the day have been reading, watching television, surfing the net, jumping on my Urban Rebounder, talking to the baby to encourage her to wait until Kelly is home to come out and stressing out about being sued by the girl that lived downstairs from us in 2009 whose apartment was flooded when I accidentally plugged the toilet and it overflowed. Days 1-3 without Kelly were okay as I was working.   I never really anticipated the financial hit I would take by switching to a weekday day job from my regular weekend shifts at Detox. In charge pay and shift differential make quite a difference at the end of a two week period. I was lucky enough to be called in for an overtime shift at UBC on 1W Friday. That day went by incredibly fast. I felt overwhelmed the whole time I was there even though I really only had one patient all day. I

33 weeks

I could not sleep last night. It was too hot and Kelly has trouble sleeping with the windows open and the two buzzing fans blasting air at me. I woke up at 5:00 and thought I was going to vomit as soon as I stood up. I poured my Cheerios and milk and could only take a bite before I started to feel an incredible throbbing pain behind my eyes and in the back of my head. So I phoned in sick to work today. I feel like this baby is huge. My head has been pounding so I haven't opened the blinds yet today, although I can tell it's beautiful sunny day from the sun steaming through between each slot of blind. I've been experiencing a constant feeling of light nausea, tightness and heartburn-like pain all day. My daily activities have basically consisted of lying on the couch and going to the bathroom to empty my bladder that I'm sure the baby is sitting on and squeezing. I haven't really had anything to eat today; I managed to eat a pancake, my breakfast Cheerios and some ch