Scherer Family News

About midday Saturday,  I started to get my lovely cough - the deep, hacking, sounds like I’m tearing my throat to shreds cough. I knew I was in for something good. It didn’t get any better that night, and of course Michael got home from work feeling the same way. Wonderful! Sure enough, about 4am Sunday, the vomiting started, and by 11, I knew it was time to head to the ER. With not being able to keep anything in my system, I got very dehydrated very quickly.

Michael drove me to the ER. They brought me right in to a room. That is one thing I can say about the hospital in this town, they take care of a pregnant women fast! They stuck an IV in my arm, gave me some nausea medication, and we waited. I had horrible back pains, which I now believe was caused from both the coughing and being so dehydrated. They couldn’t give me anything, not for the cough or the pain. Absolutely horrible. They ran a UA, didn’t find anything wrong. Took an xray because they thought it was pneumonia, thankfully that came back ok. Oh, and they took blood, nothing on that either other then my potassium being low. The doctor determined it is a viral infection, which they can’t do anything for even if I wasn’t pregnant. So 2 liters of fluids, 3 Tylenol (that will probably cost me $15 a pop) and 5 hours of laying in the worlds most uncomfortable bed, I was on my way home. They gave me a prescription for Vicodin for the cough and aches - but was then told it would sedate the baby. No thank you! 

It’s now Tuesday, and I’m still sick. I was out of work today, and it looks like tomorrow will be the same case. My sinuses are burning, and it feels like an ear infection is brewing. It is so difficult to feel this way. They can’t give you anything when you are pregnant! I’m not the most pleasant sick person when I CAN take something, so I can only imagine how hard I am to deal with right now. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed that this passes soon. Time for a nap!