Trouble
I work at a call center. Passed my resignation about a month ago coz I couldn’t take it anymore. I have 5 more days of work but I called in sick today, and I really am sick- morning sickness all day long, for about 4 days now. I really hate this feeling. I had absolutely no idea morning sickness could last all day and this long. Well I guess it’s morning sickness. Maybe it’s hyperacidity, I experience it often. I still won’t consider myself pregnant ’til I get that ultrasound. I know that the three home pregnancy tests I took all turned out positive but still! I’m going back to the doctor this week for the interpretation of my blood and urine test, for that ultrasound, and to ask for meds for my nausea. It’s terrible I tell you. My boyfriend thought I was just being a diva coz I didn’t start feeling this way ’til after we went to the doctor, but I told him he better believe me. I got really worked up and told him I wouldn’t act like this for anything. I already felt wretched enough and he was making me feel even worse. I told him I wished he were the one who felt like throwing up any minute and salivate and spit all day. What a jerk. He made up for it though but I’m still paranoid that he thinks I’m just making this stuff up.
I’m 23 with not much in savings and I just quit my job. I’m not retracting my resignation because I can’t even imagine continuing with it. Our shift starts at 2 AM which is not even the part that sucks, it’s just the job itself. It really stresses me out and makes me feel sick, and after a year and a half in the industry I finally decided to quit. With the baby that might be coming though, I need a source of relatively high income, and fast. And the only possible way to do that is by going back to the call center industry. Shit. I need insurance too. I’ll know what to do. Just have to think it over.
These past few days though I’ve been imagining what my mother would say once I tell her. I keep picturing her saying such cold things to me about money. It makes me cry.
So weepy and confused right now. This really sucks. I keep questioning if I’m ready to be a mother already.
womantowomancbe said,
February 26, 2008 at 1:35 am
Check out the Help HER website (helpher.org) for more info on severe morning sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum). There are some nutritional things you can do that might help; and the sooner you get nausea under control, the better you’ll be–if you let it go, you might end up with severe nausea and vomiting so bad that you’ll need an IV. It’s uncommon, but it does happen. Check out the “nutrition” section under “for mothers” for some things you can do now–there are herbs and vitamins that can help with this. It’s best to get nausea under control now, instead of waiting until you’re even worse nutritionally deprived from not being able to eat anything. (Nutrition can’t solve every problem, but a lot of cases of morning sickness are related to poor nutrition, especially not enough of the B vitamins.
Even if you don’t find any information that makes you better, at least you can feel better for knowing you are not alone!
Kathy
womantowomancbe.wordpress.com
amongthebumblebees said,
February 26, 2008 at 9:06 am
Hi Kathy,
I’ve browsed through the website and other related ones, and although I don’t think I have HG, the information I’ve found does make me feel better. I’ve also been taking B12 vitamins everyday since last week.
Thanks very much for the comment and the info!