ole schnikees: 2018 :: 9/52

Warning: hemorrhoid story below, feel free to skip but I'd like it documented so i'm including it.

Monday night I was up every 2 hours if not more due to the pain from my hemorrhoids... they were awful. nothing was working to help relieve the pain. after 430a I couldn't fall back asleep so I got up at 530 and couldn't stop crying; between pregnancy hormones, the pain (3rd day of pain & the worst), and being so irritated that I was having the pain with not doing anything to deserve it and that we didn't have enough hot water for a bath or a decent length hot shower. I tried to wait until 8 am to call to move up my midwife appt from 2p but I couldn't so I called the midwife on call to see if there was anything else I could do or if they could even do anything. she said i'd tried everything and yes to move up my appointment to asap. they were able to get me in at 1020 so I brought Trevor over to Jodi's house and went. Janice the midwife and kim the in training midwife took a look at my hemorrhoid(s) (as the external part is the part that really hurt) and they called in another midwife, kris, to take a look and see if I needed to see a specialist/surgeon. kris said yes, even though it wasn't purple like they were looking for, it was big and hard. so they called up to general surgery and tried to get me in still that day; the surgery department was going to call me to tell me when they could get me in, so I was gonna go get my prescription and grab lunch but before I even got out of the women's department they could get me in right away. so I went upstairs and was greeted by name and taken right into a room. Denise was my nurse and she was so funny; we chatted about kids and then I got undressed and laid on the table. a little while later the surgeon came in, looked at it, and said it would likely take over a week to heal up on it's own or he could lance it or remove it. he wasn't very assertive but between us we agreed doing something about it was best seeing as how i'm going to be giving birth soon. when he looked again, he decided to remove it and good thing he did, there were 3 clots in it! they numbed me, took it out and it was over. by then it was about noon and I was shakey from being hungry and wishing Al was with me. I did have a point as I was waiting for the surgeon to come in that I thought about calling Al to come down but it all happened so fast that I didn't and don't know if he would have even made it.

I got dressed and left and was happy to not have pain for the first time in 3 days although I knew pain was coming once the numbness went away, but I was also super overwhelmed! I grabbed some lunch and my prescription (which was for the hemorrhoids; had I been in a better state of mind I probly wouldn't have even picked up the prescription), called Al to wake him up to go get Trevor from Jodi's, and then headed home. I was able to get a little nap in (Trevor did not nap), Al called in to work to help me that night, and once I woke up the numbness was starting to go away so it was painful again. even though I knew that this pain would at least be going away, I was done being in pain and was not in a good mood. I went in to go potty and take a bath and I couldn't get off the toilet because it was bleeding so much. so I called denise and she assured me it was ok and that I just needed to put more pressure on it and not get in the bath yet. I got dizzy and nauseous too so I put a big pad on, sat back down and ate something. it did then stop bleeding and the dizzy/nausea went mostly away.

Tuesday night I slept great and woke up in a good mood since I was finally not in pain anymore!!! I got in a bath, didn't have any more bleeding, and wasn't really even painful just different feeling down there. all 3 of us went outside late morning, Al cut the boards for the window trim and Trevor and I played with the snow. Trevor and I napped, then after nap Al and T took a shower and we went to hangar 54 up the road for wing night. it was delicious. then home for a movie. Once Trevor was getting ready for bed with Al, I had to poop but was super scared of it. so I went downstairs to sit on the pot at 8pm and had a horrible time with it. it was so painful!! it took me 45 minutes to push through the pain and get it out; it was awful!! then I came upstairs and started having some contractions; they felt like the ones i'd been having each night for a while at first so I decided to get ready for bed which usually stops them. by the time I got in bed the contractions had started to get stronger.

and here is where baby girl's birth story begins so i'll switch to another post for that :)