A Crazy Day

Last night we were watching TV and just relaxing as usual when I started seeing white blobs/spots from my left eye. It got distracting enough that I couldn't continue watching tv. We decided to run to the closest pharmacy that was open to use the blood pressure machine and just make sure that everything was ok. We went and tested it three times over a few minutes and each time it checked out ok. We decided to come back home and try resting again. As I sat on the couch with my feet propped up, my left leg started to go numb. The heavy, tingly, like it's asleep kind of numb. It freaked me out, so I had Tyler stand with me and I started walking around just to make sure that I could and to get some blood flowing. A few mintues later, my left arm did the same thing. We weren't sure if the baby was on a nerve or what was happening, so Tyler tried looking it up online to get more information. Of course, our internet was down, so that left us our cell phones, which was a lot less convenient. Meanwhile, my leg was back to normal and the left side of my mouth had gone numb. At this point, I was wondering if I was having a stroke or a reaction to a new medicine or if it really was the baby. I decided to lay down on my left side, like the doctor always recommends, and just rest to see what happened. Within a few minutes, the feeling was all back to normal and all I had was an ugly headache. After dicussing back and forth of whether we should call the doctor or go to the hospital, I decided to just head to bed and Tyler said he would be checking on me to make sure everything was ok.
I fell asleep with a heated corn bag over my eyes to help with the discomfort of the headache. That didn't last long because I was up most of the night in pain. After a long night, my alarm went off and it was time to get up and head to work. I wasn't sure at first if I should even go, but I'm working so hard to save all of my time off work for when Madelyn is here, that I decided to push through and get ready for work.
When I got to work, my coworkers asked what was wrong and I told them that my head was hurting and gave them the story of the night before. A quick google search revealed that it was a migraine and all of the symptoms of the night before were what they call an aura.
I used to have migraines in elementary and middle school, but it's been a long time since I've had one. This was the first time ever that I had had any of those crazy symptoms, but being pregnant all I can do is take Tylenol. I took some when I got to work and after talking to my mom decided that I should call the doctor's office just to check to see if I needed to be seen.
The nurse called me back very fast and said that the symptoms I was having were not normal and that Dr. Driskell wanted me to come into Labor & Delivery to be seen immediately. I grabbed my stuff and headed for the hospital. I called Tyler and my mom on the way to let them know and Tyler met me there. They were aware that I was coming, so they had all of my files out and ready to go. They gave us a room in the Triage area and hooked me up to all of the machines for monitoring. The nurse took some blood and left to run some labs. She told me that I would be monitored for at least an hour, so she turned off the lights to just let me rest.
We knew immediately that Madelyn was ok because the monitor with her heartbeat was turned up so we got to listen to her the whole time. I honestly wasn't that worried because other than the migraine, I felt pretty good. There was plenty of thoughts in my head swiriling around though... "What if they found something and we had to have surgery immediately? What if I had to be put on bed rest for the next 3 weeks? What if we have to stay at the hospital for longer than just that day?" Truthfully none of that would have been too terrible, but it's just nerve-wracking to think about.
After about an hour and a half, the nurse came back in to tell us that all of my tests were normal and they were not concerned with pre-eclampsia. The migraine is not related to the pregnancy and the baby is just fine. She gave me some warnings to watch for and sent me home to rest. I was able to work from home for a few hours and get things done for work, which was nice.
It's the weekend now and we have nothing to do, so I'm going to be in sweats and either in bed or on the couch relaxing the entire time. No more to do lists or things to stress over, just plenty of time and relaxing!