Update

Well, my life has taken such a crazy turn as of late, so I couldn't keep up with my journal. :(   Let's see: 1. I started my last phase of my internship!!! Yay!!! It is going well, but I am just SO tired when I get home and then I have hours of homework to do!  2. On my first day of my internship with my first pt. I nearly passed out! All of a sudden I felt nauseous and  the room started spinning and then it all went black. I wanted to leave or say something sooner, but it was my first day and first patient. I mean here is this guy trying to fill us in why he is in the hospital and all of a sudden it becomes about me. I just kept trying to fight it--mind over matter kind of thing, until matter won out! Finally, I leaned over and whispered to my co-worker that I thought I was going to pass out and she and the patient's son lead me to a chair {talk about mortifying!!}, then they called a nurse. The nurse took my pulse and blood sugar; both were fine. They got me some water and my co-worker walked me back downstairs to our office so I could rest. The one thing I didn't want was to have my pregnancy "define" me, matter of fact my "plan" was to "hide" it {although my preceptor knew} as long as I could. Best laid plans...cat is out of the bag now. HA! After I rested a bit I debated whether I should go to the doctor or not. At this point I still hadn't had my first OB appointment and the referral hadn't gone through yet. Plus, I am not a big "let's run to the doctor because I feel slightly off" kind of person anyway, I better be on my deathbed before I make an appointment. However, I just kept thinking "this isn't about just you anymore, you have your baby to think about you idiot!"  Needless, to say that pep talk won me a doctor's appointment. Of course when I show up and they realize I am preggers they want to know why I am not seeing my OB. I kindly tried to explain 3 different times that they had yet to give me my needed referral, so I had no choice but to come here. Refer me and I would be happy to leave. {Trust me this PCP is less than stellar, thus why I found a new one...heavy heavy sigh} Finally, Dr. E sees me... apparently, my bp just dropped drastically! Our baby is stealing all my blood, the little stinker. All I can do is drink drink drink and take it easy getting up and down too quickly. The Dr. then proceeded to refer me and explain that from now on I was to see my OB about these things, because he doesn't like to handle pregnancy stuff. HA! This guy is a hoot. Believe me I will gladly take this stuff to my OB, because you sir, frustrate me! Then again today I started having the same symptoms, but at least this time I was in our office sitting. Hope I can get this under control, but on a positive note at least I am always in a hospital...never too far from the L&D floor. ;) 3. I had my first real OB appt. today. My Dr. is so awesome! So I am very happy with her. We scheduled our sono to determine the sex! Yay for OCT 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Other than that I have been doing fine. Better than my sister who is also pregnant and is puking up a storm. Poor girl.  Well, I will try update more frequently!