Last night it happened. I was having the worst night of my pregnancy and what I feared most, getting a migraine while I was pregnant and unable to take anything, happened. It was not the most intense migraine I have ever had, but it was bad. It had been hovering about for close to 30 hours, making me feel really quite bad for a bit, but last night it peaked and I just thought, I don’t want to do this anymore, I don’t want to be pregnant anymore. All I could take was one regular strength Tylenol, taking Tylenol for a migraine is a bit like putting a band-aid on a cut that really needs stitches. I felt bad for complaining; I had been on a good “I am so damn miserable” streak for about 15 hours, so more complaining was feeling like too much, I was tired of hearing me complain, so I am sure Mr. Cuerda was! But I really could not take it. I came downstairs about 10:30 last night and asked Mr. Cuerda to go on his first late night run to the store during my pregnancy. I needed some Reed’s ginger ale
and some rainbow sherbet. I hovered over the kitchen sink, in the dark, with a cold washcloth on my head, standing in the hot breeze waiting for him to return with that sweet sweet elixir. He came back with the Reeds, some ginger chews and sorbet, which was actually a bit more cooling then the sherbet, and I sat in the dark slowly sipping the ginger ale for about an hour. I sipped on some sorbet and let the warm ginger work its magic, I could feel it releasing the tension and making the nausea go away so slowly and so peacefully. Oh, sweet relief was coming. It took until about 3:30 in the morning for me to feel almost totally better; I laid in bed sucking on ginger chews and still sipping ginger ale for quite a while. I am up and feeling much more human for a big fat hormone laden invasion of the body snatchers very pregnant person! So I think I am going to go for a swim today and stock up on some more Reeds, I can sense that it will become quite a necessity during this final countdown. Being pregnant really hasn’t been that bad, I can’t say that it has been the most wonderful experience ever, and I probably have had it pretty easy. That being said, I am pretty sure I am entitled to at least a couple of breakdowns throughout the experience, I think I should really save it for labour!