My Worst Experience

Back in November I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed and after that happened....that experienced was deemed the worst experience of my life. I was in so much pain for so long. I remember my dad bringing me home....I was drooling blood all over my shirt, I looked like the joker cuz my mouth is small and the oral surgeon had to pull my mouth open really wide so it broke the skin up the sides of my mouth, when we got home my dad tried to give me some percocet for the pain...but I threw it up....twice....and that was incredibly painful...since my mouth was very swollen and sore and I had just had 8 or so stitches put in my mouth. My dad sat and fed me applesauce and smashed up Ibuprofen until I feel asleep. Go Dad!! I do however remember watching a movie about Kermit the Frog when he was baby frog and thinking it was really cute!
Well this weekend has knocked that experience down to #2. I've heard through the grapevine that when your pregnant your allergies and asthma can get really bad....but for some reason I never put two and two together. I've been allergic to cats for as long as I can remember...but it's always been just an annoying allergy....nothing severe. Well I'm sure you can all remember the cute little post a few weeks ago about the darling little kitty I got for my birthday. Well that little kitty may be cute.....but in my mind she has death written all over her now... :) It all started abt Wednesday...I was already congested just cuz apparently pregnancy makes you congested. (Seriously what doesn't pregnancy do to you??) My throat started to get a little scratchy and I figured well maybe the air is just dry or whatever or maybe I am coming down with a cold...since...once again....pregnancy lowers your immune system. Didn't think much of it. Then on Thursday it started getting worse and by the time night time came I couldn't hardly sleep...my throat was sore and swollen. I woke up around 4;30AM just miserable.....crying and breathing like a really out of shape person....thank heaven's Levi was home and he stayed up with me and kept giving me water until I calmed down and fell back asleep. Well I got to sleep in Friday morning cuz I had my DR appt to go to so I took the morning off @ work. When I woke up my throat was a little sore but I was better so I figured the night before was kinda the "break in the fever" and I was on the mends. Boy was I wrong.

I headed off to the DR and told her what was going on....she figured it was allergies and told me some tips and told me I was safe to take Benadryl and Tylenol but that was pretty much it. Nothing else. Well I seemed to be okay so after the appt I headed off to work. Work was good for about 2 hours....then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I seriously wanted to cry every time I spoke or swallowed. My throat was swelling up like crazy. I got my act together and told my boss and she of course told me to go home and get better. I went home and drank all the water my throat would allow me swallow and just got in bed....within a few hours tho I was in tears and miserable and called Levi and told him to please come home as quick as he can! He told me to get in a hot shower and see if that helps open up my throat and he was on his way home. I got in the shower and got it as hot as I could and waited for Levi.

Well Levi got home he looked at me and figured I had really bad tonsillitis. My glands were so swollen! You could feel them protruding out of my neck. He then said he was taking me to the DR. I of course refused and said there is nothing a DR can do for me cuz I'm pregnant and can't take any meds. He then decided to call my mom and see what she thought. My mom....being the awesome mom she is with all her mother instincts....said get me out of the house and bring me to her....and that is what Levi did. He also got the idea to throw the cat outside. Smart boy!
We got to my parents and my mom said there is no way I have tonsillitis or a cold cuz I have no fever, chills, headaches or anything.....I am just having a serious allergic reaction.

Well thank heaven my mom is like the herbal queen....she pulled out her books and started looking up herbal concoctions that were safe for pregnancy and would relieve me of my symptoms. This whole time I am crying (which is really hard to do when your throat is closing off and you can barely breath) and clinging onto Levi. By this point I had completely lost my voice and my ears were burning! Well after much trial and error my mom made this "foamation" that was a hot and cold compress for your head and after going from hot and cold several times around 1:30AM-2AM my nasal passage finally opened up and I could breath pretty good. My throat felt like it was seriously burned but I could at least breath.

My mom suggested we stay the night just to make sure I'm okay and it was pretty late. Well I slept pretty good for abt 2 hours and then woke up cuz ...thanks to pregnancy....I was salivating like mad!! I had to swallow like every 45 seconds and lets just say that wasn't happening cuz it hurt! Poor Levi who was so exhausted by now but he got up with me cuz of course I started crying again and told him how miserable I felt. I finally found a towel in my mom's closet and just started spitting on it cuz I couldn't handle swallowing anymore. Grrr!! I was so frustrated at this point!!

Well my mom got up in the morning and gave me a bunch of herb tea and made this big pot of some herbal something and I sat and breathed that in forever...but to no avail.....my breathing was okay but my throat was still just on fire! Nothing seemed to fix it.
By this point I felt hopeless....there was just nothing else to do but to wait it out.

My parents had to go work in the temple that afternoon so my mom said she will talk to some people at the temple and she will call me when she is done to see how I am. Levi then took me home. Levi sent me straight to bed with the vaporized going full blast. Oh and we borrowed my mom's air ionizer. Meanwhile sweet little Levi started cleaning up the house and vacumming up the floors and what not. Levi then realized he needed to get ready to go back out on the road on Monday and I hadn't done any laundry or shopping or anything for him. Levi called up Blake and Blake came over to help him and I thought...Hey.....and I asked Levi if him and Blake would give me a blessing...cuz I figured only God can fix this now. Of course they did and I wasn't immediately healed....I was breathing fine but I still hurt and I hadn't eaten in forever ....Levi had gone to the store early in the morning ...like 6:30AM...and bought me some bananas but even that was hard to eat. Amazingly enough though....I slept through the night!!! I woke up Sunday morning not a 100% but definitely rested!! I was feeling pretty good that by the afternoon I decided to sit outside since it was a beautiful day. My kitty was out there playing around....but with her little sixth sense she some how knew to stay away from me....I sat and watched her but after abt 15 minutes....I remembered that my DR said it it's windy or even breezy don't go outside!! Oh dear!! I ran back in ...but oops it was too late! My throat and ears started hurting again and my eyes started gushing out this nasty yellow stuff and got all bloodshot. Blast! I decided to go down to my mom's just to get out of the air ....Levi took me down but it just got worse and worse....so we headed back home.
I woke up three times that night to clean my eyes out cuz they kept sealing shut from all the junk coming out. I took Monday off from work and made myself sleep in until almost noon (it really wasn't that hard) and I woke up feeling pretty good. Levi had left early that morning. I got up and ate a bowl of cereal....a huge accomplishment and started cleaning and sanitizing everything in my house. Well as the day wore on....my voice was still scratchy, my eyes still bloodshot but very clean and my throat was still a little sore...but all in all I was doing pretty well.
Well today is Tuesday...I didn't sleep all that great last night....my throat is still pretty sore, I cough alot, and my eyes still red but all together I am not doing so bad. I figure it may take days or even weeks to get this completely out of my system.
I'm super paranoid now. I wash my hands alot now and don't open any windows. I cleaned my air filter and keep the ionizer going all the time and I have no desire to ever go outside.

I still feel horrible for my kitty tho...she is still so cute and is probably wondering what in the world she did that got her officially kicked out of the house. She's getting all dirty and scruffy looking!

(sorry so long)