Sick of being ill now!! UPDATED with nasty midwife story today.

I know ive not been posting for a while but ive been so poorly  recently I just couldnt find the energy. Last weekend I was in hospital for 3 days with 3 different infections a UTI a bacterial infection and some kind of sickness bug, I got so dehydrated from being sick I lost all fluid and you could see the shape of the baby (was so scary) so ended up on a drip, anti sickness injections and antibiotics that went and gave me thrush (hmmm tmi sorry).

Finished my antibiotics on Saturday and started feeling a cold coming on and by Sunday I had lost my voice and my chest was so tight I could hardly breath. Sunday night (last night) I actually though I was going to set of contractions beacuse I was coughing so hard. Anyway went to the doctors today and I have to take more antibiotics, steroid tablets, a normal and a steroid inhaler and ive got some cream so I dont get thrush again.

I seem to have lost all energy and have forgotten what sleep is like totally feeling sorry for myself right now and can honestly say this has got to be the worst pergnancy ive had, my boys were so easy i enjoyed every second with no illness or complications. I am so glad this is my last one.

TODAY!! 

So saw my new midwife today and she was trying to be so nice, but with her was the most evil uncaring midwife I have ever met. I was almost in tears when I went in the room because with not being able to breath and being sleep deprived for so long im just so emotional at the moment. I tryed to tell my new midwife how hard im finding things and just generally wanted to chat as I have no one at the moment and the nasty midwife just butted in and said you will be fine you only have 5 weeks left....."why thanks for reminding me that"!!! She then took my bp which has always been low usually between 92/55 to 112/60 and got a 119/75. The new midwife seemed alittle worried I was obviously stressed out but the nasty one said your ok if it had been over 120 maybe id be concerned but this is fine!!!!

Oh man, you've had it really rough! I'm so sorry...))))Healing Vibes(((( and

Thank you so much Rainne!!  Ive felt so alone lately with my dp working nights and sleeping during the day and all my friends and family seems to be busy wth work or there own lives ive been struggling with feeling down and on my own for weeks. This chest infection and pregnancy asthma is really trying to get the better of me and even the smallest of things feel so hard to do. I think its because im so used to being active and having no problems during pregnancy this has really knocked me. Thanks again

Id also like to add that im pretty upset that not one december lady has even said i hope your feeling better soon. i know im not on often but i try to comment on most posts and have tried to be part of the little community. thanks girls!!

hang in there hon....seems a lot of ladies on here are going thru a lot and its hard for us to be upbeat and positive.....i wouldnt take it personally.  my bp has always been low as well but during this pregnancy very high...130 over whatever...but my doc has never seemed worried until it  hits 140....body has extra blood flowing around and has to work harder.  our babies r due 4 days apart and we r both having little girls after 2 boys, that can give us something to smile about

 Hey Lisa! 

That really sucks you have been so sick! I can only imagine how horrible you are feeling, having to stay at the hospital and all.. you must be pretty sick :( I know a lot of us are feeling miserable right now, I couldn't imagine being sick like that on top of it! Hopefully your other kids are behaving for you and giving their mama lots of hugs and kisses. Sometimes that's the best medicine!  Maybe you could call the nice midwife later and ask her to come alone or with someone other than "Mid nasty!" . You would think they would be more supportive and helpful other than "Sorry bout your luck". I will keep you in my prayers and hope you start feeling better soon so you can enjoy these last few weeks!

Well, I just saw this. I am sorry that midwife wasn't very caring. I think if she were in your shoes she wouldn't have been so flippiant. I hope you feel better soon

 Hey Lisa

 UGH! What a week! And that witchy midwife...some people just have no clue on how to support which is kind of frustrating since a huge part of being a midwife is SUPPORT. In her mind she probably thought she was being strong for you and she's nuts to think that was going to make any woman feel better. Sounds pissy and unsupportive to me! I really hope you start feeling better *HUG* Looks like it's been a real tough week for a number of our Dec girls.... *sigh*

 And please try not to take offense that you did not get responses from all the Dec girls right away. I can only speak for myself but I will admit that I'm not 100% attentive to everyone's posts all the time. I truly hope that people don't get too offended if I either don't respond to their posts right away or don't at all. I generally read every single post but just don't reply to every single one of them or tell myself I will the next day and then don't see the post so I forget. But even w/my flakey, internet ways I promise that I DO care!!! I actually didn't even see this post until I clicked it right now. I thought I had already read this post so I didn't click it yesterday or earlier today and for some reason just did and realized I had not.

*HUG*

I just wanted to say how sorry i am for being such a cow today! I dont know whats up with me, im usually so passive. I guess that midwife just wound me up and i had no one to complain to so took it out on you guys!!

SORRY AGAIN

 

You poor thing.  I'm so sorry sick season seems to be taking it all out on you! And that midwife needs a serious swat upside the head to improve her bedside manner.

But please, don't take it personally if the December ladies are being slow to reply.  I think we're all half distracted, low on energy and even feeling a bit cranky at this point, and it can be hard to be motivated to even type at times.   I definitely read all the December posts, but sometimes feel I'm too late to reply or someone has already said what I'm thinking.

We just have to keep reminding ourselves that we're almost there.  As soon as the babies start popping out, I'm sure we'll feel soooo much better and excited

{{{hugs}}}} and hang in there.

Lisa, can you fire the nasty one's butt?? I would, you or anyone don't need that, ever. And hugs to you, hope you feel better soon!

I don't know how I missed your initial post. I check them multiple times a day but I just saw this one today and it was clearly posted before. I am sorry that you have been dealing with infections and was in the hospital but I am glad you are doing better now. I know right now we are all feeling kind of lousy and need each other's support more than ever. I think that midwife was crass and you should have told her that you don't appreciate her tone or her being dismissive. I would have called her out about it. It does seem like 5 weeks is forever, at this point, because we all just want to have our babies in our arms and get our bodies back. I don't think you are acting like a cow to be upset that no one responded, I got my feelings hurt a while back that no one responded to one of my posts too. I didn't say anything but it made me feel disappointed that day because I have come to think of all you ladies as friends and support. You have all been wonderful and I appreciate everyone that posts to my posts. I would have responded to your post if I had seen it, but somehow it must have gotten bumped down where I didn't see it. I hope you are feeling better and the infections stay under control and know that we care about you and are all here for you. Big Big Hugs and lots of support and good thoughts headed your way. {HUGS!}

Lisa....Has my cr*ppy midwife decided to take a holiday up North????!!!???  She sounds exactly like my midwife!! 

I think sometimes they just don't want to hear us up the duffers moaning.......but that's kinda what they signed up for when they became a midwife.  Maybe she needs a new career? I told mine I was feeling a bit low....she told me it was unlike me and it was odd to see me not joking or with a smile on my face.  She then told me I'd be fine......thanks for the caring nature Mrs Midwife.

I'm sorry you feel that the Dec ladies didn't reply to you.  I too have felt that (not specifically on this site, but also on other sites) .  I did reply to one of your post in the general pregnancy thread but I'm not sure you even read it as it went onto the next page quite quickly.

I'm a totally flakey replier, I don't tend to get to reply to everyone as I tend to be fly-by posting...and also I sometimes have no advice, an opinion or anything of any value to add!

I hope your illnesses get better soon.  I can totally sympathise on the sleep thing.  I haven't had more than 2-3 hours sleep a night for the past 2 weeks.......I am so sick of clock watching at night, so sick of cruddy TV...and DH is on call this week and he has been paged and called out a lot this past week......so even if I do get to sleep at all I'm normally woken up by a bloody pager!!!!

Lots of hugs to you.xx.  (off to reply to more post as I have a few hours to myself today...yey!)