And so it goes....

So for those of you unlucky enough to be around me during roughly the first half of my pregnancies, you know that I am miserable. Literally, debilitatingly miserable. Each pregnancy has been different. With Hilde I thought I could never be more sick, and it lasted a full 18 weeks. I lost 10 pounds during those 18 weeks.

Then with Enoch it was WORSE. I couldn't believe it, how could anything be worse? But, it was, and one night I started vomiting blood. So in a twist of fate, Dave called my doctor in the middle of the night only to discover she was on vacation and we needed to call her back-up, a doctor I had never met, and would never have met except for this midnight call. Dr. Taschman agreed to see me the next morning. I drove into his office and entered a slice of Mayberry right in the middle of Fair Oaks Hospital. His office was on the hospital grounds. His nurses had called in sick, so he was a one man show. An older white haired, immediately lovable man. He signed me in, drew my blood, weighed me, ran my blood tests and pulled me into his office with the old comfy chairs to discuss the situation. Well, he said, you don't have to be hospitalized. Phew, I thought, I definitely didn't want to do that. He then told me about a home remedy. He said that for some reason, the combination of Unisom and Vitamin B6 helped a lot of women cope more effectively with "morning" sickness. For one, it helps you sleep and get the rest your body needs, but something about the chemicals in the two pills has a positive effect overall. It was worth a try so we went and stocked up. It definitely didn't solve everything, but it was wonderful to me. Now I could actually sleep at night, and felt mostly normal in the morning. It was fantastic. Later on my own doctor prescribed me a drug they give patients of cancer treatments that is supposed to completely stop nausea in its tracks, which would have been even better. However, every time I tried to take it, I was sick within minutes. Nope, Unisom and Vitamin B6 was the only thing that helped me. I lost 15 pounds with Enoch, and my nausea lasted about 16 weeks.

So fast forward to today. I am 14 weeks along and although I have been better during the daytime hours than my other pregancies, nighttime is torture. I can't lay down, I can't slouch, I can't sleep. I literally stay awake until my eyes won't stay open and then lay down real quick and hope I fall asleep before nausea hits. Down about 12 pounds, it is starting to get a little better. Dave and I checked all of the stores here, but no sign of Unisom, and that would have been such a relief. But wait, last night I turn to Dave and say, you know, I never checked our medicine supply in the bathroom, I wonder if we brought any Unisom with us. Dave goes into the bathroom and promptly comes out with Unisom, a bottle of Vitamin B6 and my favorite prenatal vitamins (which we can't get here).

Are you kidding me? It was there all along? And poor Dave thought I had thoroughly searched everything, or else he would have looked months ago. Well, tonight I am going to log off, take my Unisom and B6, crawl into bed, and get a decent nights sleep. Oh, and of course pray that this time I am only sick for 14 weeks!