Imaginary Lines: Swollen

Don't you love it when you call your doctor's office to ask the nurse about your swollen hands and feet and before you can get more than 4 words out of your mouth she says, "Don't worry about it, it'll be gone by tonight."

'Scuse me? Well that would be a miracle since it has been going on for days, and my feet and ankles inevitably get worse at night. When I wake up in the morning my hands are so swollen and my joints are so sore that I can't even close my hand to make a loose fist. But she didn't ask me any of that. She also didn't ask me if I have any vision disturbances, or swelling in my face. Apparently she just "knew" without even asking. Well if that's the case she is quite the gem.

Lucky for me I don't have any vision disturbances, except the occasional raining lights when I go up the stairs too fast. My face was pretty puffy when I got up this morning, but seems to be okay right now.

I'm not sure if she even knew that I'm pregnant. Idiot. I have a good mind to complain about her to the doctor, but I don't want to make myself look like a jerk.

Anyway, it's a good thing I'm approaching the end of this pregnancy, because I just cannot physically take it for very much longer. I would love to go into labor, say, right now. Didn't happen. My body hurts and I can't sleep. There are some days, like yesterday for instance, when I have contractions all day long. Just enough to make me uncomfortable, but not enough to run off to labor and delivery.

I've just kind of given up on doing much of anything. I get these grand ideas in my head about cleaning my car and installing the car seat, and then realize that it's 100 degrees outside and doing that would probably just about kill me.

I was all geared up for a lone grocery shopping trip yesterday while Thomas stayed home with dad, and I got there only to have to slowly shuffle through the aisles while having repeated contractions. When I'm sitting down, my mind knows no end to the things that I need to and can accomplish. All it takes is actually starting on one of those tasks to find out that I just don't have what it takes right now.

I really hope I'm not in for 3 more weeks of this. You can come out now baby! All's clear!

I think I'll go sit and visualize my cervix opening, to see if it helps things along. Can't hurt, right?