Last Thursday night, she decided to flip around. I could feel her moving around all night long, and since then the only place she has really wanted to kick is my bladder. It sucks. I'm hoping that she moves before the weekend so that everyone else can feel her kick.
My doctor appointment last week could have gone better. I have my first UTI. Luckily I don't have any symptoms, so that's good. I had absolutely no idea that I had one. I'll finish up my antibiotics on Thursday. Unfortunately, I failed my 1-hr glucose screening test. That means I have to take the 3-hr test, which is scheduled for Thursday. If I fail that one, then I will be diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I really hope I don't have it because I like my occasional ice cream in the evening. I didn't think I was big enough or had gained excessive weight to make me fail.
Friday night was interesting, to say the least. About two weeks ago, I was bitten by a tick. I know I got him in the evening after work, but I didn't find it until the next morning. I pulled it off like normal and didn't think anything about it. Last Thursday, while I was out of town, I noticed that the bite had a rash around it - about 4 in. in diameter. When I got back into town Friday afternoon, I ran by the doctor in town to have him look at it. Of course, the doctor is gone already, even though it's only 2pm. The nurse took a look at it and told me to call my OB ASAP and that they would probably have me go to the emergency room. I hadn't been worrying up until that point. I called my OB's office, but of course she doesn't work in the office on Fridays, so I had to leave a message with the on-call nurse. After what seemed like forever (about 3 hours), the nurse finally called back and told me to go to Labor and Delivery at the hospital in Texarkana. I called Leonard, and luckily he was finishing up at work, so he was able to make it home pretty quickly.
We made it to the hospital a little before 7 and went up to L&D. Not surprisingly, they didn't know anything and they sent us to the ER because they said they didn't know anything about tick bites. Once in the ER, we didn't have a long wait to get a room because there were only 4 people ahead of us. The triage nurse said that they always send pregnant women past 20 weeks upstairs for everything. We told them we had already been up there, so luckily they kept us down there. None of the doctors wanted me as a patient though, because I am pregnant. The doctor finally arrived a little after 8. Apparently, no one told him I was pregnant because he didn't know until he walked in the room. He looked at my rash, then left. The nurse came back later and drew blood, which is being tested for Lyme Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and one other illness. Other than the rash, I don't have symptoms of any of them. I'm on antibiotics as a precaution - 500 mg of Amoxicillin, 3x a day. We finally made it out of the ER a little after 10pm, not really knowing any more than when I went in. I'm hoping that I'll get the test results this week, but because they had to send them to an outside lab, I'm not holding my breath.
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