22 Weeks

Another week has come and gone and I have lived to tell the tale. :) I am continuing to slowly feel better besides the ever present nausea which I have learned to coexist with. My appetite continues to be enormous so all I can guess is that baby is doing some major growing in there! I had my weekly nurse visit yesterday and got my lab results back today. Sodium stayed the same at 134 so still low but it was nice that it didn't dip back down. My potassium went UP from 3.8 last week to 3.9 this week which is great news since I haven't even been getting potassium in my IV bags for the past week. I was thrilled to see that! Glucose was good at 76 and my calcium was the only thing that was significantly low. So all in all pretty good lab results! The plan is for me to call my OB at the end of this week to check in with him and if all goes as planned hopefully he will okay for me to stop fluids. I have enough bags to go through Saturday so we will see. I am anxious to talk to him!

Not much else to report- I am just going to keep on keeping on and get through these next few weeks. I am trying hard not to get my hopes up about getting my PICC out because I was devastated when that didn't work out at 20 weeks so for now I will just make it a goal to get through the next two weeks when I have my next doctor's appointment. Until then, baby is keeping me good company and likes to play a lot at night! It is so funny to see my belly moving around with the little punches and kicks. I love it!

My nurse is unable to come see me next Monday so we have moved my appointment to Tuesday of next week. Hope to see good lab results again!

Since so many people have asked me about hyperemesis and what it is all about, I thought I would share this link to a website that has a lot of great information and has been really helpful for me.

www.helpher.org

There is a message board forum on the website that has been a huge support system to me- especially this summer when I was at my worst. It was helpful to read the stories of others and know that I was not alone in feeling so miserable! If you have time to check it out, you will learn a lot!