Nausea and fatigue! Yes, my prologue can only start with those 2
words. It can continue with restlessness, drowsiness, moodiness, indigestion,
bloating, and so on. Oh yeah, surprise and happiness, too! :D
So we had just been back from our trip to Colorado, where I had
humiliated myself by being so tired and breathless that I could hardly walk;
while my husband and his friend coolly jumped up and down the rocks. Even after
we came back, I started feeling low on energy, I couldn't eat properly, and of
course, was super-nauseated. As my paranoid-self resurfaced, I thought I was
either anemic, or diabetic, or, you know, had cancer. A slightly more
optimistic fragment of my mind gave some weightage to food poisoning, while on another
weirdly and illogically pessimistically plane, I thought I was prematurely
menopausal! Hahaha beat that!
I decided to go see a doctor, when it got out of control. He
listened to me rambling about my symptoms and then casually asked me to take a
urine pregnancy test. I knew I had taken one at home, but thought, “fine,
whatever!”. The doctor returned in 5 minutes... and guess what; he said I am
most definitely pregnant. My mouth was left open and hanging. I had spent a
month worrying about what was wrong with me. The doctor also did a thorough
blood test by the way, just to be sure, as my home pregnancy test had come
negative. The blood test confirmed that I was 6 weeks pregnant! 6! Already!
After recovering from the initial surprise, there was no more
"recovery". It was almost as if the knowledge that I am pregnant made
me psychologically more symptomatic. I started having higher gag reflexes,
severe nausea, motion sickness, etc. etc... Worst of all, I couldn't eat
anything. There were several days when I would survive on just 3-4 pieces of
wheat toast a day. Oh but more about that, in the next post!
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