june20

June 20, 2001

Week 5

The exhaustion has hit! I'm so completely, completely tired all the time. I'm so tired that my body aches all over. Yesterday I was at work, and mid-morning we were in our second meeting in a row and I really had to hold back my frustration at the circular discussions, because it was really getting my on nerves! I'm sure it was just because I was so tired that it became so tedious. By lunch time I was so tired that I was almost in tears, so after eating a quick lunch, I went out to my car, turned on the air conditioning, and fell asleep for about 15 minutes. I woke up feeling much better. Amazing what a little nap will do!! I've been taking naps almost every day after work the last couple weeks, but my body seems to be getting even more persistant about forcing me to sleep. I'm sleeping like a log at night too! Mom said that this is a good sign; the tiredness plus everything else I'm experiencing means that my hormone levels are high which is good for a healthy pregnancy. On Monday morning I had my first experience with real morning sickness (I've been queasy here and there, but not truly nauseated). I was in the bathroom first thing in the morning (as usual these days), and as I was sitting there, suddenly I looked over to our countertop and saw a HUGE spider creeping across the counter! It makes me laugh now, because it was just a spider, but it made me feel so sick that I almost threw up! I yelled upstairs to Phil to come kill the spider, which he quickly did, but I remained very sick feeling all morning, until around lunch time. Ugh!

This afternoon Phil and I leave for Colorado - my first paid vacation time since our first anniversary, and probably our last trip without kids! A friend of Phil's from Evangel is getting married this weekend in Ft. Collins, so we are heading out for that. We are going to be staying tonight probably in the St. Louis area (it all depends on how far we get tonight though), and tomorrow we will be driving to Sharon Springs, the teeny little town in Kansas where Phil grew up. From there, it's on to Ft. Collins on Friday, where we will then be through Monday morning, when we'll start to head back. I'm really looking forward to the trip - I plan on sleeping a LOT. :) The only thing I'm a little concerned about is the 20 hours of driving. If my current level of nausea/morning sickness holds, it shouldn't be too much of a problem - we're just taking lots of crackers and water with us - but if it gets worse, this could be an interesting trip. I'm hoping for the best though. My car is comfortable and in good shape for the trip - or, at least, it will be. This morning on the way to work, by rear right tire decided to give up the ghost, so I need to get a new tire before we head out. I may get a new one on the rear left too, just for good measure.

It often is still just hitting me that I have a little life inside of me. It seems so amazing, and even though I have all these symptoms, sometimes just when you start to "forget" what is going on right at this moment, it just stops my thoughts to suddenly remember that I have a baby growing, right here, all the time. And the baby is never far from my mind, even in meetings, or driving to work, when my mind is on other things, always there in a corner of my brain, I'm thinking about little baby Gerthlet (as my friend Allie called him/her- I think it's cute!) I'm sure these constant thoughts will increase even more as time goes on, too!



	June 20, 2001 Week 5 The exhaustion has hit! I'm so completely, completely tired all the time. I'm so tired that my body aches all over. Yesterday I was at work, and mid-morning we were in our second meeting in a row and I really had to hold back my frustration at the circular discussions, because it was really getting my on nerves! I'm sure it was just because I was so tired that it became so tedious. By lunch time I was so tired that I was almost in tears, so after eating a quick lunch, I went out to my car, turned on the air conditioning, and fell asleep for about 15 minutes. I woke up feeling much better. Amazing what a little nap will do!! I've been taking naps almost every day after work the last couple weeks, but my body seems to be getting even more persistant about forcing me to sleep. I'm sleeping like a log at night too! Mom said that this is a good sign; the tiredness plus everything else I'm experiencing means that my hormone levels are high which is good for a healthy pregnancy. On Monday morning I had my first experience with real morning sickness (I've been queasy here and there, but not truly nauseated). I was in the bathroom first thing in the morning (as usual these days), and as I was sitting there, suddenly I looked over to our countertop and saw a HUGE spider creeping across the counter! It makes me laugh now, because it was just a spider, but it made me feel so sick that I almost threw up! I yelled upstairs to Phil to come kill the spider, which he quickly did, but I remained very sick feeling all morning, until around lunch time. Ugh! This afternoon Phil and I leave for Colorado - my first paid vacation time since our first anniversary, and probably our last trip without kids! A friend of Phil's from Evangel is getting married this weekend in Ft. Collins, so we are heading out for that. We are going to be staying tonight probably in the St. Louis area (it all depends on how far we get tonight though), and tomorrow we will be driving to Sharon Springs, the teeny little town in Kansas where Phil grew up. From there, it's on to Ft. Collins on Friday, where we will then be through Monday morning, when we'll start to head back. I'm really looking forward to the trip - I plan on sleeping a LOT. :) The only thing I'm a little concerned about is the 20 hours of driving. If my current level of nausea/morning sickness holds, it shouldn't be too much of a problem - we're just taking lots of crackers and water with us - but if it gets worse, this could be an interesting trip. I'm hoping for the best though. My car is comfortable and in good shape for the trip - or, at least, it will be. This morning on the way to work, by rear right tire decided to give up the ghost, so I need to get a new tire before we head out. I may get a new one on the rear left too, just for good measure. It often is still just hitting me that I have a little life inside of me. It seems so amazing, and even though I have all these symptoms, sometimes just when you start to "forget" what is going on right at this moment, it just stops my thoughts to suddenly remember that I have a baby growing, right here, all the time. And the baby is never far from my mind, even in meetings, or driving to work, when my mind is on other things, always there in a corner of my brain, I'm thinking about little baby Gerthlet (as my friend Allie called him/her- I think it's cute!) I'm sure these constant thoughts will increase even more as time goes on, too!