Immunity Woman....FAIL!
I use to jokingly call myself immunity woman. I seemed to be able to beat out about any virus that came my way...that is, until I had a child.
Immunity WOMAN...FAIL! Who knew that 2 year old diseases were do distructive?!!
Well, beyond a few (or more) viruses that have hit our house this year, the biggest threat to my immunity has been a very odd and rarely bacterial infection. I have NO clue how I got it, I assume it is community acquired and NO one else in my family or anyone I know was infected. Weird weird.
I had what is called C-Diff. It is a bacterial infection of the intestines. It normally causes massive and horrible diarrhea. Often times leading to really bad dehydration and death. I escaped that. In fact, my diarrhea wouldn't have even flagged my attention other than the fact that at the time I was 34 weeks pregnant. I thought it was pre-term labor. Turns out, nope.....FAIL. I have a bacterial infection mostly found in people over 65 who have had hospital stays and taken antibiotics.
To make matters worse, I noticed a small boil or something on my thigh. I thought, eh, what the hell. Again, no pain so I never even noticed it. Went to the doctor, he drained it and then tested it and turns out....Staph infection...FAIL! No shit!
Seriously, a staph infection and C.diff all within 24 hours of each other while 34 weeks pregnant. What the heck are the chances of this? Not to mention, I had almost NO symptoms of either. I would have been a walking C.diff/staph woman for days/months/years had I not been pregnant and thought I was in labor.
Of course there are more details in the story, but I needed to blog this so that I remember the whole timeline of stuff for the future.
Weirdly enough, after dealing with this (and something wasn't right in my tummy around the July month for about 2-3 weeks as well), I can say that the first trimester was the easiest part of the pregnancy. As much as I love being a mom, and I do, I am quite convinced that I cannot allow my body to go through this for a third time. Mainly due to the fact that the anxiety of having an infection like this causes is just ridiculous. All the research out there claims that the medication I am taking (all done with now), Vancomycin, is safe for pregnant women (especially in the third trimester), doesn't mean I can believe it. No pregnant women studies are done, just rat studies. I am not a rat...well, maybe with these infections I am.
All I can do is trust in God. I trust that He will calm my anxiety and nerves, calm my fears about something being wrong with the baby (everything via ultrasound looks perfect), and cure me of these awful infections.
My husband has been a rock through this all. He has taken on more that I could have ever hoped for. Luckily, by the grace of God and a little perserverance on our part, the Christmas shopping is done, the decorations are up (not the tree) and we even got to have a nice date night on Friday night. We just ate dinner at Cafe Sourette in peace....I had the most wonderful stuffed portobello mushroom in the WORLD and sipped scarlett tea. It was delightful. We even ordered ourselves, for an early Christmas present and our only present to ourselves a Keurig Machine. I am in love with tea right now and I have a feeling Coffee will be entering our palettes as we grace ourselves with child #2 soon.
I am looking forward to life going back to "ordinary" soon. I know ordinary will never look the same with child #2 in the picture, but maybe my health can put some sort of semblance back into life!
Immunity WOMAN...FAIL! Who knew that 2 year old diseases were do distructive?!!
Well, beyond a few (or more) viruses that have hit our house this year, the biggest threat to my immunity has been a very odd and rarely bacterial infection. I have NO clue how I got it, I assume it is community acquired and NO one else in my family or anyone I know was infected. Weird weird.
I had what is called C-Diff. It is a bacterial infection of the intestines. It normally causes massive and horrible diarrhea. Often times leading to really bad dehydration and death. I escaped that. In fact, my diarrhea wouldn't have even flagged my attention other than the fact that at the time I was 34 weeks pregnant. I thought it was pre-term labor. Turns out, nope.....FAIL. I have a bacterial infection mostly found in people over 65 who have had hospital stays and taken antibiotics.
To make matters worse, I noticed a small boil or something on my thigh. I thought, eh, what the hell. Again, no pain so I never even noticed it. Went to the doctor, he drained it and then tested it and turns out....Staph infection...FAIL! No shit!
Seriously, a staph infection and C.diff all within 24 hours of each other while 34 weeks pregnant. What the heck are the chances of this? Not to mention, I had almost NO symptoms of either. I would have been a walking C.diff/staph woman for days/months/years had I not been pregnant and thought I was in labor.
Of course there are more details in the story, but I needed to blog this so that I remember the whole timeline of stuff for the future.
Weirdly enough, after dealing with this (and something wasn't right in my tummy around the July month for about 2-3 weeks as well), I can say that the first trimester was the easiest part of the pregnancy. As much as I love being a mom, and I do, I am quite convinced that I cannot allow my body to go through this for a third time. Mainly due to the fact that the anxiety of having an infection like this causes is just ridiculous. All the research out there claims that the medication I am taking (all done with now), Vancomycin, is safe for pregnant women (especially in the third trimester), doesn't mean I can believe it. No pregnant women studies are done, just rat studies. I am not a rat...well, maybe with these infections I am.
All I can do is trust in God. I trust that He will calm my anxiety and nerves, calm my fears about something being wrong with the baby (everything via ultrasound looks perfect), and cure me of these awful infections.
My husband has been a rock through this all. He has taken on more that I could have ever hoped for. Luckily, by the grace of God and a little perserverance on our part, the Christmas shopping is done, the decorations are up (not the tree) and we even got to have a nice date night on Friday night. We just ate dinner at Cafe Sourette in peace....I had the most wonderful stuffed portobello mushroom in the WORLD and sipped scarlett tea. It was delightful. We even ordered ourselves, for an early Christmas present and our only present to ourselves a Keurig Machine. I am in love with tea right now and I have a feeling Coffee will be entering our palettes as we grace ourselves with child #2 soon.
I am looking forward to life going back to "ordinary" soon. I know ordinary will never look the same with child #2 in the picture, but maybe my health can put some sort of semblance back into life!
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