Grrr. ARGH!

Yesterday was CRAZY. It started out frustrating... then it got "good" then it was frustrating/good. Make sense?

I had a doctors appointment yesterday and was also supposed to pick up a second carseat at the Health Department. Everyone at the health department had okay'd it and said it was fine for me to get a second one. So I show up at the Health Department at 9am with my money, pay and sit down to wait for the cop that hands them out. He gets there and doesn't even bother to listen to why I wanted a second carseat and decides that I don't need another one. JERK! Who is he to decide how I use my carseats and how I don't? (oh yeah, the guy that hands them out... >.<) I was so mad I wanted to hit something. I've never been mad at a cop before.. but then all the other cops I've interacted with have been pulling me over for something. =P

Sooo since I didn't get my carseat we had two hours to kill before my doctors appointment in the same place. Welllllll something was messed up with hubby and I's bank account so sis-in-law drove me over to Suntrust so I could fix it. I got in there and spent about 10 minutes at someones desk where she cleared up the bank account and gave us our $3.62 back. LOL. Sounds kinda silly but quite honestly I would not have been very pleasant company if I hadn't been able to get it fixed. >.< That made the day better knowing that I didn't have to put $33 of my car insurance money into the stupid bank account..

After that we had to go wash sis-in-law's car (white car = dirty lots!) and then we went to eat at Denny's cause she had sorta a buy-one-get-one coupon for burgers! I know that Denny's does great breakfast... but they do burgers great as well! YUM. I had a bacon chedder burger with lettuce, ketchup, mustard and..... you guessed it... A1 sauce! I'd love to have another one... alas!

OB appointment was next! That wasn't so bad either. I like going in to the health department for my appointments cause the two ladies there that did the Centering meetings remember me.. and it's always nice to be remembered. =D I talked to my nurse practitioner about a couple different things I needed to talk about.. asked a few questions.. and then she told me that I *really* needed to get in to my hospital (cause it's not normally one they "do business with") and talk to them about my 2 different due dates. She wanted me to go as soon as possible so sis-in-law dropped me off at my moms and mom took me to the hospital.

Begin the last half of the day!

We got to the hospital at almost exactly 2pm. Sat around for about 10-15 minutes and waited for the Admitting lady to call me and get my story/fill out paperwork. BTW it sucks having to explain my crazy/silly situation to like five seperate people! Anyways, she got all my stuff filled out and scheduled me for an ultrasound by their own ultrasound tech so that the midwife upstairs could look at it. Then Bob came and WHEELED ME to the ultrasound waiting room. I rode... in a wheelchair... It was fun and slightly embarassing at the same time. Bob was old. HE looked like I should be pushing HIM in the wheelchair! =O hehe!

Got the ultrasound done.. and just for the record the lady (okay, I forgot her name..) that did the ultrasound was GOOD. You could tell she'd been doing it for a while, she didn't drag the wand thing all over my stomach (that's pretty painful at 9 months along!) she lifted it and moved it and then set it down again. And it was the least-tickly ultrasound I've gotten to date. :) That is always a plus.

After the ultrasound they sent me up (and yes I had to walk this time =P) to Labor & Delivery to talk to the midwife and have an NST (non-stress test) done to check out the baby. They had me completely undress and put on one of those awkward hospital gowns that don't like large people.. especially pregnant large people.. (I'll admit, I only worried about some random nurse seeing my naked backside for about fifteen minutes.. I got over the caring about it reeeeallly fast) After peeing in a cup they had me lay down on the bed and hooked me up to this machine so they could moniter the baby's heartbeat and my heartbeat/blood pressure as well.

Sooo all is well, I'm laying there... laying there.. laying there.. we waited THREE HOURS for my urine test to come back! And then the nurse came in to tell me (the nurse was awesome by the way) that they'd gotten my urinalisys (err however you spell that) back BUT my blood pressure had gone up and it worried them so they wanted to run some labs on me and see how they came back.

The lab lady came up about 6:20 to get my bloodz, we got the results back around 7:30ish and were out by 8. Finally! I was beginning to think they were going to keep me there forever...hehe! The nurse told me I need to watch what I eat for these last couple weeks or whatever. Apparently that AMAZING hamburger I had earlier that day was the cause of my spike in blood pressure. That and the fact that it was *really* hard to lay like they were wanting me to lay..

Somewhere in all that the midwife on call came in to talk to me for a few minutes and I must say.. I reallyreallyreally hope she's the one on call when I go into labor! She was funny and really nice.. I told mom later that I'd be completely at ease with her and she wouldn't annoy me at all! lol. I'm a little worried about snapping and yelling at everyone in the room at one point or the other... but I'm gonna do my best not to! :)

Being in the hospital was a good experiance for me I think cause it sorta helped me hit that final "ohmygosh this is really happening" stage. It took me 9 months to get used to the idea of myself being pregnant... now that I'm used to the idea of being pregnant I'm having to get used to the idea of NOT being pregnant and having this squalling little kiddo totally depending on me.. (not really sure why I said it like that - cause that's not at all how I view it. =P) Anyways. Being in that labor and delivery room was like a mini-wake-up call. It freaked me OUT! There was this stand...machiney..type THING in the room off to the side where the plunk the baby down to weigh him and make sure he's alright and probably cut the umbilical cord, etc.. That "stand" thingy is what freaked me out. (okay, it's not scary looking - it was the idea that "wow, I'm going to pop out a baby and he's going to be laying RIGHT OVER THERE" that freaked me out.) Yeargh.

So anyways my sweet husband came to pick me up from the hospital.. we got home around 8:30 where he helped me in to bed and gave me this incredibly soothing massagey-rub-down thing.. I don't think I've fallen asleep so fast before! I'm gonna have him give me another one cause last night was about the best night of sleep I've had since my back started hurting.

Ahhhhhh okay. I think that's about all for now.. Sis-in-law and I have to go grocery shopping cause we're out of food! And hubby is out of Mountain Dew, imagine that.. :)