A Trip To The Hospital

Last night was rather exciting to say the least.  I left work feeling very sick, tired, worn out, you get what I mean.  During work I had taken a total of 4 tylenol to get me through the day.  First I think I need to give you a little background information.  Everyone in my class is sick.  We have six kids out and about five more do not need to be there.  To quote their parents "well they don't have a fever."  These poor kids come in looking so run down, coughing, runny nose, and just lethargic.  Most of these kids are there for a few hours.  I don't understand why would you not just leave them home to rest and recover from their colds.  We also have strep throat and RSV going around.  My co teacher and I clean sooooooo much.  We have a janitor that comes at night and cleans but we still do it ourselves all day long. I feel like there is only so much I can do.  Every time the kids blow their nose they have to wash their hands and use sanitizer, as well as before lunch and bathroom breaks of course.  If parents keep bringing their kids to school sick I have no chance of not getting sick.  My job is very physical, literally I have to love on them when they need it.

Back to my exciting night.  Around 7:00 I thought I was having contractions.  My stomach was tightening for a few seconds and then releasing.  This was after I had vomited a few times.  I got extremely panicky to say the least.  I am only 17 weeks I thought how and why am I having contractions.  I also felt like I had the flu by this point, and really light headed.  So I insisted we go to the hospital.  We dropped Ava off at my Mom's house and we were admitted right away.  They hooked me up to a fetal monitor and once I heard the babies heartbeat I started to cry, because I knew everything was alright.  I swear I am going to work on calming down and not thinking the worse possible outcome.  I was very dehydrated, so dehydrated they could not find my veins.  The two nurses kept saying "poor thing they are just so small and thin nothing is raising she is so dehydrated".  I felt like getting sick I hate needles.  They also preceded to say "well I really hate sticking them more than once."  Well they had to stick me more than once, and never got anything to work so they finally decided to call in the vein specialist.  That title alone makes me cringe.  He was able to find a vein in my left arm and two bags of fluid slowly trickled in.  By 1:00 we were home and I immediately took some tylenol and passed out.  Once again I am home from work.  I don't know how much more of the cold and flu season I can take.  I forgot to mention I was not having contractions, they only measured as irritability from being dehydrated.