just got back from the hospital/ 36 wk update

Well I got sent to OB yesterday afternoon, because I was having really bad cramps, contractions, and really bad diarreah. I went in and I was having regular contractions. They were 5-7 minutes apart, I was really extremely dehydrated though, so they said it was just from that. They contacted Dr. Connolly and he told them to tell me that the stomach flu is going around and that if I got worse to come back in, and drink lots of fluids especially gatorade. Oh and I'm 1 cm dialated. Well I went home, and was just getting worse. I was drinking soooo much fluids and it was just going right through me and I was getting more and more dehydrated. SO finally about 9 pm I called my Dr's answering service and they paged him for me. He had me sent immediately back to OB where I was admitted overnight. I was like BEYOND dehydrated. I had to have 3 bags of fluids with vitamins and minerals added in. I'm still boarderline dehydrated. He said I've got it really badly and not to expect to be hydrated completely for the next couple of days. Until I'm better. I got in a huge fight with the nurse though at like midnight. My arthritis flared because I was soooo stressed. I asked for tylenol and they refused, saying they needed a dr's order and they weren't going to bother him this late. So I asked to take a shower because that always helps a whole lot. They again told me no. I couldn't believe it. They just kept saying it was muscle cramps because I was sooo dehydrated. I kept telling her no I have arthritis, the first time she looked at me like Ya whatever! And then after that she just completely ignored what I was saying. She told me I was dwelling on it too much and that I need to lay down and go to sleep. Finally at about one I was in a ridiculous amount of pain and literally sobbing. Finally I told her I wanted to go home, that this was beyond ridiculous. She told me I needed to chill out and that I wasn't going anywhere and that it was all just because I was dehydrated and that the I.V. fluids would start helping. I told her it wasn't muscle cramps, that it was in my joints. She gave me a dirty look like I was pushing it, so I finally lost it, I started screaming at her saying I had arthritis and I was completely stressed out and thats why I was hurting so bad, that I forgot my meds at home, and all I wanted was some fucking tylenol and if they weren't going to give it to me, then I wanted to go home, because my pain was out of control. She gave me another look and I became hysterical and screamed at her that I had lupus, and she better help me or I was leaving. She finally listened and said she was going to check out my chart. Apparently she didn't really read through my chart and didn't know I had it. It took them 10 minutes to get me 2 lortabs. Which is usually what I take at night anyways because my pain is sooo bad then. It was almost 2 am by this point. But it worked really well and I passed out the minute they kicked in. As my mom put it " I was the patient from hell last night!" Haha! This morning I had a much better nurse. I'm still really sick and and everything is still just going right through me. I feel really horrible! But I talked with my dr this morning and he said that he thinks I only have a week or 2 left and I should have her. He doesn't want me going to my due date but the hospital doesn't allow inductions before 39 weeks. He said if it was up to him, he'd do it at about 37 1/2-38 weeks because of how badly my body is doing with my arthritis. But anyways if I don't have her by the 13th, then I go in at 8 am on the 14th. Its already scheduled and everything. So we'll have Kiara here in 3 weeks!!!!!!! I'm sooo excited! I can't wait to hold and love and kiss my baby girl finally!!! And here's my little update. I'm 36 weeks tomorrow. I'm still really tiny and everyone thinks I'm only about 32-34 weeks! I went in last week adn I've only gained 16 lbs! I was surprised that I had gained even that much actually. I lost sooo much weight in the beginning (15 lbs by the time I was 15 weeks pregnant!) and I gained all that back, but I still have morning sickness and I don't eat a whole lot. I've been taking vitamins to make up for it. She was breech, which only my daughter would turn the wrong way at the last minute! She's been head down since 22 weeks! He said if she didn't turn by my next appt (which is next thurs) they were going to manually turn her! OUCH! But he said it's better than a c-section! I told him, maybe to him but I'd have to go through the pain of the turning and THEN labor on top of it! But I know he's right, I am soooooo deathly afraid to have to get one! I have nightmares about it all the time! He also said he's guessing she's about 6 lbs or so right now. That he doesn't think she'll be more than 7 1/2 lbs, but he's thinking high 6's or low 7's. I was also supposed to get my tubes tied. I signed the papers and everything at the appt before that one. I didn't really want it done, I wanted Critter to get a vasectomy, but the dr said it could take up to 6 months to fully work! My dr said I just can't have kids anymore, my body just can't handle another. I've had sooooooooooo many problems with this pregnancy! I DO NOT want more! We couldn't afford more anyways. So anyways I had it set up with him that I'd get it done the morning after she was born. I went in last week for that appt and he said he just didn't feel comfortable doing it, that he thinks I really regret it, and that if I want it that bad he'll do it when she's 6 months old. Uh he told me I couldn't have more kids but yet he thinks I'll regret getting the tubal done??? It doesn't make sense! So we went to Critter's dr today to get the referral to get the vasectomy done. I talked to the urologists nurse and was asking her questions. She said she could get us in the 2nd week of July for the consult and then you have to wait 30 days to get it done. So it'll be done mid-august. Which will be nice, since she'll only be about 2 months or so. We'l just have to use condoms til then :roll: Which sucks because I completely hate them! You get used to not using them after about 4 years or so of not! So anyways I've written a novel! So thats my little 9 month update!