26 Weeks...come and gone

   
     I have been quite the slacker on our blog lately but in my defense I've been pretty dang miserable.  My flu turned into pneumonia, which then caused me to crack a rib which was really uncomfortable and then things got even worse.  On Saturday March 30th we were heading to bed and I coughed, that's right just coughed...but suddenly I heard and felt a pop and was in complete and utter pain.  Over the next hour or so I was on the phone with my dad trying to figure out what I had done, Damien was on the phone with 911 (a little over-reaction but he was just worried), and there were a lot of tears and sad to say screaming in pain. We finally managed to slowly make it to the emergency room and they weren't quite sure what was going on.  I couldn't take a breath and the pain was awful. They ended up having to do an X-ray and ultimately said I had a bad case of pleurisy.  We monitored Hannah for quite some time doing a non-stress test and I have to say hearing her sweet heartbeat and hearing the OB nurse say Hannah seemed completely unaffected by what was going on with me and how active and normal she seemed was the biggest relief and the only thing that made the pain bearable.  So the next few days were spent in bed and in agony.  There was little to no relief and I wasn't sure how much more I could take.  I finally realized I needed to work on getting better so I began using the spirometer that the ER dr sent me home with.  I woke up Monday morning and alas....relief!! The pain wasn't gone but one million times better.  Apparently I had a partially collapsed lung, which the spirometer helped to re-inflate.  Needless to say it's been a very trying few weeks but fingers crossed the worst is over!! I'm so thankful to friends, family and especially my parents for being so great and sending messages and my parents for keeping me calm and listening to me cry at all hours of the night and day.

      This picture is obviously from a few weeks ago but wanted to explain why I have been a little MIA lately.  Hannah sure is getting bigger and a lot more active.  At night especially she is all over the place and it's exciting to have Damien feel her so much and see how active our little noodle is.