Acupuncture is AWESOME! A few days after my session, I woke up and my sinus congestion broke loose. I felt half-normal! I have NEVER had this happen. As I may have mentioned earlier, since I started the heavy duty fertility drugs in November 2006 I would get sick every 6 weeks like clockwork. It would go like this: stuffy head, post nasal drip, cough, chest congestion, fever, go to the doctor, start antibiotics and Atuss (love that stuff!) and 2 - 3 weeks later congestion breaks up and I seem to get well. This time it lasted all of one week! I still am suffering with allergies being as everything is in bloom and I'm allergic to everything, but I'll take this over a respiratory infection any day.
On the work front, I'm not going to be able to go back to my private massage practice. I tried it and became out of breath quickly. So, money will be tight, but we are having a baby! The safety of the baby comes first.
This weekend has been very nice so far, despite the rain. Yesterday my brother and SIL boiled crawfish at my parents' house, so we made the trip to the country for an extraordinarily relaxing and fulfilling day. We had (of course) boiled crawfish, stuffed artichokes, other munchies and strawberry shortcake to top it all off. I had two helpings of that! YUM! I wish I had brought my camera and taken pictures. It's very unlike me to not have a camera in my hand, but since I've started gaining all of this weight (most of it starting with the OHSS in Nov.) I've been avoiding the camera. I'm looking pregnant now, not just fat, so I really should pick up the camera and start snapping away again. So, (hopefully) look forward to some pics on this site of my daily life and other more fun occasions. I may even get creative. Who knows?
BTW, exercise is coming along slowly. I went swimming twice this past week. I was able to swim for 10 min straight, freestyle, the first time and 15 - 20 min straight the second time. Both days after swimming I started dragging big-time, so if I have an appt. to go to that day, I will have to get my swimming in afterwards. I'm looking forward to my endurance increasing. Also, I did the prenatal pilates dvd once. I have lots of progress to look forward to there also, but it is a great workout and I'm looking forward to having "hot-legs" by October. As for my abdominals, well, I work those everytime I blow my nose.
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I admire the fact that you're exercising at this stage. That is so cool. I hope I can be that way too.
Strawberry shortcake sounds simply divine! Hey congrats on the exercise..that's great! And I'm glad the acupuncture is helpful. I've been trying to get some decent walks in since that's all they're letting me do for now. But even with just them, I notice a big change, I feel a lot better. Please do take some more pictures, I love updates. I told my husband we should take my first belly picture tonight. I guess eight weeks I should start documenting some stuff. Hope you have a great week!
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