Yes, in the past few days, my legs have in fact looked like tree stumps.
I woke up on Sunday morning with severe pain in my calves...so bad that I could hardly walk all day. The pain continued into Monday and I looked like a crippled person trying to hobble around at work. By Monday night my legs were so swollen you couldn't even tell that I have ankles! Yesterday I received one of my pregnancy emails that stated "if you are feeling pain in your calves and extreme swelling, contact your doctor, this may be a sign of a blood clot" WHAT?! You can imagine my distress. Never in my life have I had the dreaded cankles and I could not fathom where my bones had disappeared to underneath the sea of swollen skin. Finally I call the doctor, it takes a couple of hours for the nurse to call me back and tell me that she wants me to come in today and in the meantime I need to keep my feet elevated above my heart. Which I will say this is hard to do...I don't consider myself an extremely active person, but apparently I am...because this was killing me to sit and keep my feet up! And this is hard to do at work as well. Propping your feet up on a wooden desk isn't exactly comfortable and I look like such a slacker doing so!!
Anyways, this morning, after heeding the doctor's advice all evening and during the night. I could see my ankles again!! I knew I had bones in there somewhere! So I proceed to the doctor and she tells me that with this heat it is not abnormal for me to experience some swelling. All women are different and some swell while others do not. Lucky me. She told me to stay off of my feet as much as possible, wear shoes with good arch supports and consume more potassium (like bananas). Great, so it looks like I may be dealing with this ailment for the remainder of my pregnancy. Oh the joy.
Good thing is my blood pressure is fine and the baby's heart beat sounds good, so we are healthy...just a little chubby looking at times :) so please forgive me if you see me on a day where I can hardly walk and my legs look like tree stumps...can't say I didn't warn you!
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So glad to hear it's NOT a blog clot. Those are scary things.
It's true about the elevating your feet thing...annoying, but it works. So be sure and tell Chris the dr said:
NO MORE HOUSE WORK.
Definitely do what the doctor says: Stay off your feet as much as you can. I am afraid I will begin to see lots of swelling soon, too. My mom had a lot of swelling and the doctor almost put her on manditory bed rest at the end of her pregnancy if she did not do what he said! I will learn to love having my feet up in the air in the evenings, because bed rest is not an option for me...I am super active at work! Good luck!!
Aw, I am sorry to hear that. I am glad it's not blod clots though. When I look at the time line at the top of your blog page I can't believe how much the baby has changed. It's so exciting, it really won't be that long before she is here.
Oh how you love this baby girl! And P.S. I think you are BEAUTIFUL no matter what. I hope that you get plenty of bananas and rest.
Relax. Play the pregnant card. Play the swollen feet card. In a few months you will never again get to be the pampered one. Eat it up! Milk it for all it's worth and then some more!
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