We had a lovely Christmas with Marc's family. We stayed with her in Dallas for a few days because it was our year with his family. After such an eventful day, I was exhausted. I helped a lot with cooking and cleaning, so by 10:00 I was beat and headed to bed. Around 5:00AM I was woken up by an intense pain in the left side of my back. I have had many kidney stones in my day and I feel like I am pro. I immediately knew this is what was causing me the pain. I woke Marc up with all my "not so pleasant" noises. The first thing he thought was I was in labor. I told him I was having a kidney stone and he insisted we go to the hospital. I started getting stones when I was 8 years old. I have had this problem my entire life, so it is not new to me. I know how to handle and how to deal with it. Fortunately, because I have changed my diet I haven't had a large one since I met Marc over 5 years ago. He has been with me when I have had small ones, but never a trip to the hospital. After about 30 minutes of pain, I decided this is a bad one and we should probably make our way to the closest hospital. With all the Christmas wrappings and gifts, Marc's moms house looked like a disaster zone. Needless to say, Marc couldn't find out keys and we parked behind his mother's car. Marc ended up calling 911 and had an ambulance take me to the hospital. This isn't the reason I wanted to blog, so to make this long story short...
Got to the hospital
In tons of pain
Doctor's not returning page
Pain so high I am vomiting
Cannot get meds until Doctor sees me
More pain
3 hour later Doctor comes and gives me meds (You have no idea what 3 hours of constant pain is like until you have experienced it. At least with labor, it comes and goes.)
Worst pain of my life
Wouldn't wish this kind of pain on my worst enemy
Pain so intense I thought I was going to die (Yes, I remember thinking this. Haha!!)
Okay, so now I am back on track. Once I was given the pain meds my nurse told me it would make me and baby very sleepy. They told me she would stop moving around as much and that I should try and get some sleep. I must have a very wiggly worm because the meds only made her move around more, like more than her normal self. This may sound cheesy to some, but I got this thought that maybe she was scared. I haven't taken as much as an allergy medicine but now I am pumping morphine into my body. I told Marc that I thought she was scared so I wanted him to come over to talk to her. He pulled his chair up and started rubbing my belly. He told her that she was OK and that mommy was OK, but in a lot of pain. He told her about taking her shopping and buying her fancy things. He prayed for her and her future. He talked about boy, goals, and places he wanted to take her. I am not lying when I say, it was within 10 minutes and we were both knocked out, sound asleep. We both have talked to her everyday for the past 7 months, but I have never seen what the effects of someone could have on her. I know it sounds cheesy, but he calmed her down from inside of me. It was the most special thing I have ever experienced. I will remember this day for the rest of my life and not just for the pain I felt, but for the way God let Marc have such an impact on our unborn baby girl.
Very sweet! Ugh and kidney stones are the WORST! They hurt soooo bad.
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