In the last post I said I thought I can see the end of the cold. Well, I had been sooo wrong. Last Monday I started feeling a bit sore on the left side (above ribs) - I thought it was from the coughing. On Tuesday, the pain spread and I basically could not cough standing up, or sitting down - the only way it did not hurt too much was standing up and bending, holding on to a table or some other surface. But that evening... just as I was about to get the cough medicine, I had a cough fit and heard the strangest grinding sound from my ribs, and then the pain... I literally set on the floor, gasping for air. I could not get up for a couple of minutes, and then I called my husband to help me up. I was in so much pain, I could not take a full breath, or walk, or sit down or get up... without my husbands help, crying with pain. I am pretty good with pain, but this was almost unbearable - on the scale from 1 to 10, it was definitely a 10. I called the obgyn on call, and they told me to take tylenol and use hot compresses. That helped a little, and by morning I could get up and sit down by myself. But the problem was when I coughed. That was terrible. On Wednesday I saw my doctor, who gave me tylenol with codeine (when he saw in how much pain I was), antibiotics and sent me to get chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia - apparently long lasting colds in pregnant women like to end in pneumonia. Wednesday night I had another coughing fit, there was more grinding sound, and the pain got even worse, if that;s possible. Actually, now it hurt all the time, not just while coughing. I could not breathe. I had the painkillers, but they did not kick in until the next afternoon. I could not believe I could be in so much pain. This was the second night when I did not sleep. The pain killers made me sleep, but it was such a weird sleep, I would not move an inch and when I woke up - I would be more tired than before. The pain gor bearable by Thursday afternoon, but not without painkillers. Today was the first day I dod not take any painkillers even though I am in pain, but it is not that bad. It just feels terribly sore, but I wanted to get off the meds as soon as possible - for the baby.

And the baby - it cooperated throughout the whole time. Sometimes with the cough so violent so late in the pregnancy - the water can break and labor can start, but thank god the baby is OK... Now I have three more weeks to get better, get some sleep and recover enough to be able to go through those first 6 weeks of not sleeping... Only three weeks, and I had so many plans.... They included two more trips for fabric/supplies buying, but right now I could not do that. I am still too tired an sleepy to drive and walk around. Maybe next week when my mom is here...