morning ladies. well what a day yesterday. sorry I wasnt around. I spoke to Mrsq2b to update bnb but cant see any thread so sorry if one was done for me and I have just missed it. I am not a well bunny. what started as a cold ended up on my chest in a big way leading me to be unable to breathe night before last. as some of you know breathing when you over exert yourself can be tough. I woke about half 3 to go to the loo and coming up the stairs nearly killed me (our loo downstairs) I got back and found I couldnt breathe which made me cough which made breathing worse, this went round and round for about half hour with deep dry chesty coughing that wasnt productive making me almost choke for air.
so I called my midwife yesterday to see if I would be wasting the dr's time and she said forget the dr get yourself to A&E (my breathing at this time still wasnt fantastic) I said so dr out of the question and she sad go to A&E to get yourself checked out.
Hubby was 3 hrs away in bournemouth , mum already had a hospital appt that was rather urgent and my dad is due for a hernia op today so needed to be in gd health. ended up grabbing my angel of a neighbour to take me there but she was at work too but she got her hubby to take me instead, he then left when I went in to be seen to go pick her up from work and then she came and found me to sit with me.
was used like a human pincushion and have to say that the sample they took from my wrist OMFG that hurt, but was funny, if u could have heard me, I kept repeating to myself, labour pains will be worse than this, labour pains will be worse than this
anyway over 4 hours, several urine tests, temps, blood pressure etc etc later, I was given the diagnosis of a viral infection and given a course of antibiotics (which are safe to use with pregnancy) and already I feel a big difference. Just a shame I was awake at 2 this morning gonna call work soon then try and get back to sleep for a bit.
Have to say thanks to Mrsq2b for her thoughts yesterday though. thanks hun xxxx

Sounds awful. Hope you feel better soon. x

I can sympathize with the blood from wrist, I had a 6" bruise up my arm from it!!
Glad your on the mend, thank heavens for saintly neighbors!! Xx

omg dont it hurt. he goes ul feel a scratch....yeah right like fcuk lol. feels a bit bruised today but not as bad as I thought. I was more concerned as to if it was safe lol. was something to do with checking for oxygen in the blood.

glad your feeling a little better , ive seen my mum have that blood test and there were tears rolling down her face , and shes had 5 natural child births so i sympathise , you take care of your self and get some rest xx

Sorry to hear you have been unwell, hope your feeling better soon xx

Hope you feel better soon, at least you got some antibiotics to help.

The blood from the wrist sounds horrible, I didn't like it when the midwife took blood from the inside of my elbow (but then I'm a wimp!) - possibly not helped by the fact that she had to strap my arm to find a vein, felt like something out of the film Trainspotting!!

Eeeek that sounds horrible! Glad you've got some meds to sort you out and hope you are feeling better soon.

Why would they take blood from the wrist (nstead of the normal place in the arm)? Is it because someone has deep/hidden veins?

Sparklebaby, hope that you get a LOT better soon

QT

Oh my god hon sounds horrible Make sure you're resting up.
I've had blood taken from my wrist a couple of times,and oh my god the pain!!! x