Well...my doctor's appointment was at 4:15 today. When did Brian come and pick me up? 3:45...we were running late. This sucked because I was doing my fasting blood draw and I had taken the sugar drink 45 minutes prior to my appointment...and they couldn't draw blood 45 minutes after that. They said it was fine though...SO, we get there, they draw my blood, poke me with the flu shot, check the baby (he's still squirming around in there...so active...so active...), pee in the cup, and then made my next appointment. I'm now on my 2 week appointments...so it's getting close to baby time, I guess.

Funny though, as we were leaving, I happened to have the glucose drink bottle and I asked them if they wanted it and she was looking at it and her and the doctor had these big "uh oh" type looks on their faces. She goes "did you drink the whole thing?" and I said that I did...well, it turns out, they gave me a bottle of 100mg instead of 50mg and I took twice as much sugar as I needed to (so, in other words, my blood test is gonna be messed up). SO, I get to do the fasting blood test again in two weeks...not so bad, I guess, but I just don't like the needle and the blood drawing. They did tell me I was anemic though (probably because of my meat aversions), so they gave me a prescription for an iron suppliment. If it's not one thing...it's something else.

After that, we went to the Verizon store to see if they could fix my phone. Ever since I went to Seattle, my inbox and message center has told me that it is updating messages - please check back later. Well, it's said that for a week...I really don't think that it's updating anymore. I took it to the store and the service lady had never seen that problem before either, so she was completely lost...and I guess my shit phone doesn't have software for it, so there's nothing to update (WTF)...my only options are to pay $50 to have them replace my phone with another phone that is exactly the same...wait until May 2007 to get my New Every Two phone...or I can do an early upgrade now, skip out on my free $100 (they give you that with the New Every Two) and then I just get a mail in rebate. To be honest, I don't use the message center that often, so I'm not really missing out on anything...it's just a great big annoyance.

Then, after that...we went to Safeway to get my prescription for my iron suppliment...I guess they have to order it, so it won't even be ready until tomorrow. MORE DRAMA! After that, I was just tired of running around...we went back to Brian's house where his dad made chicken parmesan. I didn't want the chicken...so I just ate the pasta. Watched a few TV shows...then, here I am, back home.

I'm just exhausted...and not to mention both my arms hurt (one's got the orange bandage from the blood draw) and the other one hurts because of that damn flu shot...AND I AM FREEZING!

Best go check to see if my drain has unclogged in the bath tub and then, I'm gonna go lay down in my nice, warm, comfy bed...and well, sit on the computer there (for the love of laptop computers and wireless connections!)

EDIT: I was so busy talking about the doctor's appointment and all the other stuff this evening that I neglected to talk about what happened right before I left for the doctor. I got a local phone call, so not getting those often, I picked it up. It was an attorney's office (WONDERFUL) and they wanted to let me know that I was delinquent on a credit card bill (no shit...I have credit card problems), but they stated that unless I started paying them some money, they were going to sue me. Okay...I'm thinking...I have no money to pay them (if I had the money, I would have been paying the credit card bills...ya know)...so I tell him this on the phone and he wanted to try and make payment arrangements. I don't make that much a paycheck as it is...and he wanted to start me out at a minimum payment of $250 a month! I can barely pay the bills I have now let alone this extra mone they want to pay. I talked to him for about a half an hour where he continued to try and get me to pay him some amount of money, any amount of money...and I just could not give him anything (I HAVE NO EXTRA)...so, he said he'd give me an additional 25 days to think about it before he had to move further and basically issue me a summons to go to court. Ugh...if you're young and still haven't messed up, believe me when I say this DO NOT GET CREDIT CARDS! They sound cool when you turn 18, but they can become your worst nightmare. No money is free money and if you don't have that money in your bank account, you should not be borrowing it from a credit card...plain and simple.

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It's definitely Monday...I can feel it in my body. You know, that feeling when you wake up and you automatically feel like shit, but you have to get up anyway...that's what I feel like this morning.

Not to mention, I'm fatigued and exhausted already and I barely just woke up an hour ago. I'm sure this is due to my anemia or something. You don't realize just how tired you feel until you really think about it. I thought it was just regular wear-and-tear on the body, but I seriously feel like shit. Sad thing, all I can think about is what happened to me yesterday and I don't want it to happen again either. I guess I am over analyzing things a bit too much. AND THEN, I had a horrible dream last night that I went into labor (now...at 29 weeks) and all I could think about was my baby not surviving and I was sitting in a hospital bed and people were walking by me, staring at me...criticizing me. I was so scared...

GRANTED, it was just a dream, but to many women, it's a reality. People do have their babies at 29 weeks...and people's babies do and don't survive. Call me selfish, I just don't want to be one of those women. I can truly see myself being one of those women who goes into premature labor due to stress and high blood pressure.

So far, my blood pressure has been normal (the last time it was checked as at the hospital and I was 121 over 80 which is practically perfect) but my family sort of has a history of high blood pressure and I could have it to, eventually. Case in point...I get my anger problems from my dad. We both have very short fuses. It gets to the point that (I'm sure some of you have felt this, at least once) you can actually feel the blood pulsing through your veins (i.e. I suppose where that saying comes from...makes your blood boil). That's how frustrated I get sometimes...and I know that's not healthy. I've gotten so mad (at myself, mind you...I never really get this mad at other people) that I start to hyperventilate. Now, that's pretty bad...I want to change.

But, enough about my medical fears and personality problems. No one wants to hear about that...lol...Most of the time I'm a happy-go-lucky person, easy going, easy to deal with...so you probably won't see my alter-ego at any point.

Anyway, I best get to doing something productive. Month end...lots of things to do that need to be done in the next 2 days.

EDIT - I talked to my doctor's office and the whole thing sounds strange. She asked if I wanted to come in earlier than next Thursday just to check everything out, and I decided not to. If it happens again, I'm going to go to the doctor's office and we'll figure it out there.

I also called the hospital on my lunch and registered for some classes. They start next Tuesday, so hopefully I can learn about stuff that I don't know a darn thing about (which is most of this baby thing...)...my evenings are going to be busy here coming up soon. Classes every Tuesday for the next month, hospital tour on the 6th of December, another class on some other random night...maybe one more class. It's going to be like going to school all over again...where will I find time to do anything!

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Well, I was running a little late this morning. I thought the extra ten minutes laying in bed was a good thing (BUT...it just ended up making me be late...lol). Damn snooze button of death! Not to mention, you wait an extra 2 minutes and leave the house that late, you'll run into 100 more cars than there usually are on the road...I really hate morning traffic!

I've got the strawberry oatmeal this morning. I really wish I had a big, heaping glass of whole milk and then milk on the side for this oatmeal (because that's the only and best way to eat oatmeal), but alas...I had the coffee maker that makes hot water instead. That'll have to do.

I've got my 28 week appointment tomorrow and I have to do my glucose test. I think it's 45 minutes to an hour before I even go to the doctor, I have to drink this Kool-Aid type drink and then fast pretty much half the day (I think they said 4 to 6 hours before the appointment...I don't remember...I think it says on the bottle). Then they draw lots of blood from me (okay, anything more than a little stick is a lot of blood to me...lol) and send it out for testing to see if I have gestational diabetes or if I am at a high risk or something. I don't think I'm going to fail the test, but ya know...with the luck I'm having lately...I wish. I already tested positive for the lovely Group B strep, so I get an extra coctail in my IV when I go into labor. They said they're going to give me a flu shot tomorrow too.

You know, the thing that I hate more than donating blood and all that fun stuff is getting shots. I think I hate getting shots a whole helluva lot more than drawing blood (go figure). Not sure if I've explained my fear of needles (yeah yeah...not good for a preggo woman) but I am deathly afraid of them. It has taken me many MANY years to get over enough of the fear to sit there calmly (or at least semi-calmly) to let a doctor draw blood. It was so bad that at one point, they had 4 doctors in the room holding me down to the table so they could get blood out of my arm at all (and I was like 16 when they did that). I extremely hate needles! I'm much better now...when I turned 18, I decided that it was stupid that I was freaking out over nothing. I started going to the Puget Sound Blood Center and donating blood and I think that was the best thing for me. I was helping myself get over my fear of needles, and helping people who needed it at the same time. It was a great feeling...but then I got extremely addicted to doing it. I would go in every standard 52/54 day period (the soonest you could donate again after donating whole blood) and donate some more. Then I started donating plasma (you could do it every 3 days, granted your iron level was high enough)...so I started doing that once a week. The reason you could donate plasma so soon after you had previously donated it is the fact that they take your whole blood out, separate it in a machine, take only the plasma, and then return the other 3 parts back into your body. It is not as exhausting as taking a pint of whole blood which takes all 4 parts. Regardless, I looked like a junky that wasn't a junky!

When I moved to Colorado, I got on this piercing thing...and started getting tons of piercings, so they don't let you donate blood for 12 months after a piercing (sterilization issues and infection in the bloodstream), so I curbed my donating. I've only donated 2 times since I've been out in Colorado. I did it once with a friend...and then I donated right before I got pregnant. You can't donate when you're pregnant (but, I guess they figure you'll be giving enough blood anyway...and you need all the blood you can get!)

But yeah...the fun that is my life (donating blood...woo!!)

SO, now that you know my worst fear...don't hold it against me...lol, but if you do...it's okay. My mom was the one that made fun of me the most...so I owe it to her to not be a wheenie about this whole thing. It's just a needle...it'll be done in a minute (if that).

Anyway, the mountains of paper are calling me...and I only have so much time to do it!

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