Day 54 - Hiatus

After lots of hectic travel, uhauling and US hauling, John and I are settled into his apartment which has become much more of a home than it was before. There is now a place to actually store things, as well as a beautiful, newly hand-painted BIG dining room table and a christmas tree begging for ornamentation. It feels really good to walk into John's apartment and feel like it's a warm and welcoming place. Soon it will be OUR apartment, but not without a lot of sweat and tears moving and purging tons of my "collections".

The past two days have been pretty horrific healthwise. On Friday morning I walked across the street to get some milk and had myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. A few hours later I started having cramps and dealt with them growing in intensity through my 3pm meeting. When John picked me up, I was in agony. When I got home I hopped in bed and was writhing in pain. At about 8pm I fell asleep and woke up bright and early yesterday feeling just fine.

I relaxed through the day and misunderstood Jen's birthday plans and missed the group outing to the brewery where I guess I would've sipped on some ginger ale. Of course, had I been ready in time I would've completely avoided the situation to follow. Around 6pm we walked to John's place to eat, Ahh yes, cereal please! I was a little bit concerned that the cereal was what had set me off the day before but couldn't imagine that suddenly, after 11 weeks of CHUGGING milk ALL the time, that milk was the culprit. Lo and behold, soon after I was in the same awful pain which woke me up from a nap. John sat with me and comforted me and fed me some peaches and water. I tried to go to the bathroom and failed. On the way out of the bathroom I got the undeniable urge to vomit and ran back in. Up came all of the peaches and awful smelling puke! I mean it was RANK. I could taste the Cap'n Crunch from earlier too, but to my knowledge none of it was in the toilet. To wrap up this visual, after tossing it up I felt just fine! No more cramps!! I don't understand it but it was incredible.

So here we are, Sunday- or better known as Day 54. I'm over 12 weeks pregnant and heard the baby's heartbeat last Wednesday. I have a ton of work to do so I am going to wrap this up prematurely. WE'RE going to be updating more regularly. Promise.