Mom Stuff

I dyed my hair this week. It's a dark chocolate but looks almost black indoors. I love it. I am much more of a brunette than I am a blond. Blond makes my face pink.

I've had a pain in my lower right rib cage every time I breathe for 11 days now. Today it is not as bad as it has been. I ended up at the doctors on Wednesday because the pain was so bad that I could not even take a deep breathe or even stand to take a shower. This pain started 5 years ago and I have had ultrasounds, xrays, multiple doctors visits, etc... and they could not tell me what was wrong. I blame it on the fact that I went to Sierra Doctors. I would not recommend that place to anyone. Anyways, their best diagnosis was possibly pluracy. So over the past 5 years this is the 4th time the pain has come back, only it was the worst it had been. I am unable to sleep on either side with the left side down being the most painful. The only way I can describe the pain is like a side cramp you get from running. Only those go away. This happens every time I breathe for the past 11 days. Lovely.

So anyways, I was able to get in to see my doctor Wednesday afternoon and she right away told me it wasn't pluracy because she has had it before. Finally! A doctor that knows something. So she proceeds to tell me what she thinks it is. The costal nerve is inflamed and so when I breathe and my ribs expand it hits the nerve. I can have surgery to fix it, take nerve medication, take ibuprofen, or do nothing. I am choosing to do nothing at this point because it has gone away before. So at least I know what is going on in my ribs.

Next order of business - I left the doctor's having to monitor my blood pressure. When I got there my blood pressure was 153/100 which is pretty bad. 30 minutes later it was 147/88 which is lower but still not good. Either I am developing high blood pressure or it is the new birth control pills I am taking as a trial run. I called my ob who had taken my blood pressure 2 weeks before and it was 126/64 (before I was on the pills), so I was totally normal then. She doesn't think it is my allergy medicine but recommends I don't take it for now and called in Flonaze. I have not picked it up yet and instead I am taking local honey to see if I can beat the allergies that way. When my blood pressure was taken by my OB it was normal and I had taken my allergy meds that day so I don't think they are the cause.

I stopped taking the new bc pills because besides the high blood pressure they were also starting to make me depressed. This was the second ones I have been on this year. The first ones were even worse. I have never had a problem before with bc pills but I guess my body has changed. :-(

I am also on a mission to lose 10 pounds. When I got weighed in I was shocked and not happy. I am 10 pounds over my starting weight when I got prego with Siena. I have this app on my ipod touch called Lose It!. It is the most awesome thing in the world. I suggest clicking on the link and reading about it.

(my new form of allergy medicine)