So where have a I been the past few weeks?
Let me just give you a recap of my health since birthing.
First night home, sneezed before I got a chance to prepare, blew some stitches, the dr said I would still heal up on my own and I seem to be. Wish that was my only issue. :)
Day after getting home felt a yeast infection coming on my left side, burning while nursing. Had Mitch get me lotrimin.
By one week postpartum, I was at the dr with a bacterial infection on both "mams" bleeding, cracking a fissure on one side, blisters. AWESOME.
About a week after that, I felt the yeast returning. This time it's in my milk ducts to boot, which is very painful at times, just go to breastfeeding.com and read all about it!! I had no idea it was possible to have go into your ducts. Anyway, on one round of diflucan, 3 days. A couple weeks or days don't know it's all running together, horrible pain is back, another round of the same. Then that weekend I get an awful sore throat that I swear is strep, it turns out not to be but I end up running a fever, feeling like I am about to puke upon standing, and the baby has the same virus and is out of sorts for the weekend as well. The sick, calming and nursing the sick. My ladies are doing fine at this point. My virus seems to improve on monday and tuesday, burning pains in left side begin again, I go back to the dr, 2 weeks of dilfulcan this time. It takes a while to see improvements and my sore throat from my virus won't seem to go away even though the severity is lessened, it still keeps me up at night scratchy and swollen and hurts to yawn. My mamaries seem fine the beginning of last week, Alexa my sis in law is going to come over that week, and I'm looking forward to it, Wednesday rolls around, I'm feeling decent, the baby is becoming easier, happy, cooing starting 3 weekends ago and smiling from birth, giving me one 5-6 hr block at night. Anyway, I start to feel gaggy and nauseous while making my breakfast wed morning, I think I'll end up having diarrhea like Idid the morning before. But it's that, plus puking. I decide to lay down and I need to nurse the baby, 5 minutes in I'm feeling the feeling again, I burp her, put her down she's bawling, I go and puke again, it's amazing, I return to nurse, 5 more minutes in, I have to go and puke AGAIN. She is finally fed and thank the Lord Alexa is there!! She takes the baby. I try to rest, but no I must puke one more time. I have never puked/diarrhea so much in such a short amount of time, less than an hour, it was horrible, but short lived. That night Mitch sleeps in the basement, we don't need him puking, and of all the nights, Isabelle wakes up with a gusher of a bloody nose that takes 25 minutes to stop and I'm woosey. SIGH
So now, my breasts are giving me issues AGAIN, my throat still hurts 3 weeks later. It's pretty bad when your baby's fast asleep and your stupid ailments are keeping you up!!! So I go back to the dr monday, ( it was their idea) and I have a couple pills of diflucan left. So yeah, i'm weary, trying to function, in between stuff and somehow take care of myself JOKE!!! Mitch was really sweet last night and went out and got me a filter for the cool humidifier and sugar free coughdrops to help me sleep, I'm trying to stay off sugar to not feed the yeast in my body, which I LOVE sugar. :( So I'm hopeful that the Lord will see fit to give me some relief soon as He is well acquainted with the inner workings of my body and my troubles and I know he'll give me the grace to get through each day or hour. I think of that song " day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here" something like that.
The baby loves to smile and coo and loves when her siblings give her attention, her little bod is strong and she holds her little head up very well. That's all for now.. let's hope anyway. I just want to LIVE again!!! :)
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