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WTF is Going On (Health Update) by thatlittlegoblin

Haaaaah geeze! I'm pretty beat!
Anyways, here's what's up with me:

My blood pressure is unstable still. This is due to complications I had during delivery (which led to an emergency c-section), as well as the cocktail of hormones my body's producing. I'm also dealing with abdominal and muscular pain due to both distension from pregnancy and from surgery.

And stress, lots of stress. Our initial estimate (before insurance) is a very large number due to my complications and need for an extended stay in the hospital for observation (they wanted to ensure I didn't have a seizure or stroke). We have no idea how much extra we'll wind up needing to pay, and won't know until we get the actual bill.

I'm resting as much as I can, taking my meds, and feeding/caring for our now 2 week old baby who is happy and healthy. I'm healing, but slowly because of the physical demands of infant care and lack of sleep. Cam's been a huge help, but there's only so much he can do rn- in two more weeks we can finally introduce pumped & bottled milk so that should make it a bit easier for me to get some more rest.

I've been losing weight. Trying to keep my caloric intake up is hard, especially since there's not a whole lot of time to cook and my choices are catch up on sleep or go grocery shopping. We've been eating a lot of take out, haha.

I'm sorry for being all kinds of scarce online- I hope this explains my absence a bit better. Hope y'all are doing well!

As always, if you ever need to contact me I'm available via email, skype, twitter, and here on Weasyl. If it's especially urgent, please use email! :D

WTF is Going On (Health Update)

thatlittlegoblin

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    get well soon!

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    Yikes! Seems like a rough road for you right now. Things will get better- this kind of major stuff takes time and boy is it a pain in the ass throughout the whole ordeal.
    My mom had to have an emergency c-section, and she wasn't as lucky to have a caring partner during that time, but I always hear all kinds of hell about it once in a while lol.

    So chin up, and keep at it!!

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      The hardest bit is that I keep accidentally overdoing it and making my bleeding start up all over again. We live on the 3rd floor of an apartment building, so I'm just gonna be trapped in here til I heal up I guess. = _=

      I'm an active person, being sedentary (or mostly so) is hard & I hate it!

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        My grandma was like that- couldn't STAND staying still. When my grandpa retired and sat around all day reading papers and stuff it would drive her nuts!

        Hang in there, though. It'll be all done with before you know it.

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    Aaah take care of yourself!!! I hope that these things even out soon!!!! Sending you well wishes

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      Aaaaaaaaa thank you, I hope to be all healed soon. Just gotta stop overdoing it!