Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We enjoyed catching up with family and eating good food. Unfortunately I had been having headaches for several days leading up to Thanksgiving and by that evening my head was once again pounding. The next day mom and I got up and headed out Black Friday shopping... anyone who knows us knows that we are a little obsessed with shopping. We didn't see many things we needed to get up super early for so we slept in and headed out at around 10 a.m. We had breakfast at Panera Bread and went to the mall and Kohl's. I have had a little bit of dizziness from time to time during my pregnancy and it was pretty bad on Black Friday (in addition to my head and my neck hurting). I have been REALLY lucky during my pregnancy since I have not had to deal with morning sickness or any major symptoms besides a little bit of tiredness and dizziness.
After a few hours of shopping I told mom I just couldn't keep up and needed to get some lunch and head home to my couch. By the time I got home I was feeling really bad. I will spare you from all of the details but that evening I got very sick and ended up in the Emergency Room. I had called the on call OB and he said as long as I was keeping liquids down I would be ok but I couldn't keep anything down so I was worried about getting dehydrated. Mom followed Kip and I to Lewis Gale and after a short wait they started me on an IV. At 2 a.m. after 3 bags of fluids and some prescriptions I went to mom's house.
The next day I felt a little better. Stephanie brought over some food and I thought the food poisoning or stomach bug was over. Unfortunately that night I got sick again and mom and I ended up back in the ER at 3 a.m. After 2 more bags of fluid they sent me home and I was fine. Apparently there was a 48 hour GI bug going around and it was hitting pregnant women hard. I have never had a bad stomach bug in 29 years and I had only been to the ER once before this weekend. It was definitely not how I planned to spend my weekend after Thanksgiving (mom and I were going to go shopping in Charlotte). I really feel for the people who have to deal with morning sickness because my 2 days of being sick was enough to make me crazy.
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