Saturday, August 13, 2011

Fun with Blood Thinner

If you don't wanna see some nasty bruises, you may want to skip this one. I'm mainly documenting all this fun nonsense for myself.
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If you are still here, the pic below is the biggest of my belly bruises. I was trying to get a pic of all the bruises, but didn't want to show that much of belly :) This one was SO much worse a while back. It was so bad I took a pic and texted it to my mom (who is an RN) just to make sure something wasn't seriously wrong. Thanks Lovenox!

 The next one is super blurry. We had a bit of an adventure yesterday. We went to a concert that started at 8pm in a town 2 hours away. I do my shots at 7pm. So we got to do the shots in the parking lot of a Taco Cabana. The Lovenox went okay except for a big spurt that shot out from the altitude chance from home and the parking lot (about 1500 feet difference in altitude). For the PIO injection the needle wasn't attached all the way so when the hubby started injecting it, it busted all over me. After several profanities from the hubby, he pulled the needle out and we started cleaning up. He then reloaded a new one and tried again. Something about the fun of the explosive shot made it bruise like crazy. Plus it bled extra so I also have the nice pink band aid shape since the sticky stuff breaks me out. Enjoy!


Now on to more fun stuff!!! Last night we saw Aaron Lewis of Staind in a solo, acoustic concert. It was EPIC!!! For one, I love Staind and I love their songs when done on acoustic. It was amazing. And it turns out that Aaron Lewis is hilarious. He was snarky and made funny replies to all the silly stuff morons shouted. Then he said he was going to do a cover song that encompassed Tool, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and several others. Everyone was totally excited. We had no clue what he was going to sing. Then he starts off in a girly voice singing Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. It was too funny, but he actually did a surprisingly good version!

Oh and in case you were wondering, I'm 5 weeks & 2 days today! I totally forgot that I had a digital preggo test. When I saw it of course I had to use it to see it say...


Not that I was worried cause I'm still feeling like I may puke at any moment for the second half of everyday. Thank goodness for mornings or I would get nothing done! I have also had to start eating every two hours or so. If I don't, I get very queasy and my stomach yells at me. So far nothing has been too bad. Ginger ale helps. 

And now I'm gonna go lay on the couch some more. If I don't move, I'm not queasy.

5 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness!! Lissie!!!! Those bruises are horrible!! And reacting to the band-aids on top of all that...ayiyi! If there was a Biggest Bruiser contest, you could win! Nausea sucks but it is such a good thing at the same time (in moderation ofc). Sounds like a crazy time doing shots in the parking lots. Your hubby is getting to be quite the professional nurse.

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  2. Thanks for the band aids by the way!!! We have used almost all of them! I'm using two a day (one tummy, one hip) and as long as I only have them on for 30 minutes, I don't break out.

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  3. Oh wow! That is a lot of band-aids! I'm glad 30 min on isn't long enough to make you break out. That really sucks though. OH! - and soooooo excited to see "pregnant" on that test!!

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  4. I've been on Lovenox this whole pregnancy and will stay on it for the duration... it isn't fun. I managed to stop it from bruising so much by injecting it (no ice or anything beforehand), injecting SUPER slow, and then not touching it at all afterward. It went from giant bruises to little pin prick bruises. I do occasionally get bigger ones, but they are nowhere as bad. But everyone is different in their response too, my sister bruised bad on Heparin no matter what she did. Hopefully you won't have to take that stuff for much longer.

    Glad you had fun at the concert. Hope your little on is growing and thriving in there!

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  5. Aww, sorry about the nasty bruises. Glad you are doing so well!

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