Good news

Well I'm officially done with progesterone shots and blood draws! Praise God!!

I'm a little nervous about letting my body completely do its own thing. But, on the other hand, maybe ignorance is bliss. I won't know every single number, every rise and fall. Progesterone will no longer be on my radar. That actually is pretty freeing!

Dr. S's nurse called today with the result of my blood draw after being off PIO shots for two weeks, and my level stayed the same. I know, according to the infamous PPVI graph, that it's supposed to rise from week to week, but since I was warned it might actually fall when stopping the shots, staying the same seems pretty darn good. And that means I no longer have to check my level (I'm actually going to miss the woman at the lab and will definitely be stopping in with Clara just to visit!).

So the nurse told me it was in zone three, although without even having the graph in front of me, I knew it was high zone two. When I asked about this and reminded her that I was a day away from 23 weeks when it was drawn, she reiterated that it was zone three and could even drop a but and still be safely in that zone.

Yet when I hung up and checked the graph, I saw I was right. For her to be right, I would have had to be twenty weeks. And I also realized this has been going on the entire time. Their definitions of what's in what zone is always off by two weeks from mine.

Has anyone who sees Dr. S run into this as well? Is it possible he doesn't use PPVI's exact chart, and his is different by a couple weeks?

There I go, worrying about it already! It's not a big deal, right? The last time I was nervous about it, you all so kindly convinced me it's really all fine at this point and that helped me a lot. And because of that, I basically already decided I'm going to give it up to God and not call back and get picky about weeks and levels. I'm going to let it go. At least I'll try.

In other news, I have pain on and off exclusively on my right side. It happens when I sleep on that side at night and also when I sit, at times, during the day. I'm assuming it's round ligament pain. I also wonder if it's just my post-three-surgeries abdomen reacting to a huge, growing uterus. I could have adhesions of some sort that are being forced to stretch or it could just be a squished intestine. Nice thought!

Something I love, though, is how much our little boy is moving around! Holy cow, when he's awake, he sure is active! Today as I was feeding Clara, with my right arm resting on my stomach as I held the bottle to her mouth, he kept making my arm move up and down! I'm like, oops, sorry Clara! Sibling interaction already :)

While I'm discussing pregnancy symptoms, I'm not sure I've adequately explained my fatigue as of late. It's bad. Can-hardly-get-up-to-pick-up-my-baby bad. I feel like an absolute zombie. I've never been so tired in my whole life. And it's only gotten worse since my new endocrinologist adjusted my thyroid meds.

I see her on Wednesday and I can't wait to hear what she has to say.

I'm going to mention my adrenals to her but I have no reason to believe she buys into that. I'm not even convinced it's my adrenals, though, because I don't have the dizziness that I to used to have with it.

I really think it's just really bad pregnancy fatigue combined with having an eight-month-old and being hypothyroid and not yet on the proper dose of my thyroid meds. But if I'm this out of it now, what's the third trimester going to be like? Oh well, I'm hoping I'll just be so excited to be that far along that I won't care!

Wow, is this a boring post or what? Sorry! I really do have more thoughtful thoughts swirling in my brain but they're not posts that I want to type on my phone with one finger.

To salvage this post, I will leave you with video of Clara laughing (because can't a laughing baby save anything?). We're in the hallway here because there was a tornado warning (you can hear the weather guy from my husband's t.v. station in the background). Everything was, of course, fine, and for some reason Clara was very easily amused while we waited...