24 Hours of Nonsense

Week 36: Baby Ava is about 6 pounds and 18.5 inches long! We are almost to the finish line!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!

So two weeks ago when I went in for my 34 week appointment my doctor noted that my blood pressure was pretty high and that I was leaking protein and sugar in my urine. It other words, I might have have pre-eclampsia. My doctor totally acted like it was nothing, but then proceeded to tell me that I needed to do a 24 hour urine test and get blood work done the next day.

Let me tell you about this "24 hour urine test". It is the devil. They give you a pan to do your business in and then you have to pour it from the pan into a giant tupperware looking pitcher...not once, not twice, but every single time you go to the bathroom, for 24 hours. OH, and to add to the pressure, the nurse tells me, "You can't lose a SINGLE DROP! If you do, you'll HAVE to do it all over again on Monday!!" Is this real???

So for someone that has to go about every 2 hours, this is a joke. Picture me getting up at 2am, 4am, 6am, completely exhausted. Couple that with my anxiety that I might lose "a single drop" and the fact that the pan that they give you is made out of a cheap bendy plastic...and of course I dropped the pan, twice, all over the bathroom, and I cried, for about an hour, twice. But did I tell the nurse the next day??? Hell to the NO! I am not doing that again. NEVER! EVER!

Anyways, at this week's appointment, the doctor confirmed that I must have just been having a bad day and that I DON'T have pre-eclampsia. In fact, my blood pressure was back to normal and my blood work and everything came back fine, so who knows what was going on with me that day that caused my body to be all off?? I was probably annoyed with a teenager, a dog, a stranger or some inanimate object.