The exhaustion. It’s…. Tiring!
So after I got home from work yesterday evening, Gene and I watched a few episodes of Arrested Development (which by the way, is becoming a quick favorite in this household) and then I hit the sack. I was so tired and my energy was shot. So I got up around 3:00 AM and here it is 4:30 and I’m still awake. It started with some nausea.. which I drank some milk to settle my stomach a little (Milk does it for me these days, believe it or not) and then came the heart burn, and then the congestion and then the coughing. So I decided to get out of bed and ever since I’ve been sitting up, I’ve been feeling quite a bit better.
I’ve been really lucky so far because I haven’t been extremely ill. I’ve decided that I need to start eating a lot of really small meals throughout the day, though. If I eat enough to fill myself up, I end up with an hour or two of pretty bad nausea. However, I’ve never actually vomited yet. So yay for that! The two biggest symptoms of this pregnant is the ridiculous exhaustion and tiredness and the Pregnancy Rhinitis that decided to rear it’s ugly head in the last few days. I’ve used a netty pot and a humidifier and also going to start using saline nose spray. We’ll see if I can get it under control, I hope so at least. Not getting a lot of sleep because I’ve been sleeping with my mouth open at night (can’t breathe out of my nose, at all!) and my mouth dries out so bad that I end up waking up every 20 minutes to drink water.
I think once the tiredness subsides, I will feel SO much better. Lately I just feel like a walking zombie. Sometimes I can’t even barely remember what I did throughout the entire day because it just seems like a blur to me. It’s actually kind of freaky sometimes, because I’m wondering if I even existed haha. Crazy times.
Well, I should go do something productive while I’m actually feeling AWAKE for once. Maybe do some laundry or something. I think we are going to try to make it out to The Great State Fair of Oklahhhhhomaaaa this evening. I hate to go on the Saturday before it closes but I haven’t had a chance to go before now.
Oh and when I got home the kitchen smelled sooo disgusting. I think from all the dirty dishes in the sink. So my sweet, awesome, fantastic, great, amazing, wonderful husband did all of the dishes and announced at 3:30 AM when he finally got into bed that the kitchen no longer smelled gross. How awesome is that?? I am so thankful because when I came home and smelled it, I felt like I would vomit and was worried that I wouldn’t be able to stomach the smell while I did the dishes.
