I woke up in a less than sunshiney mood this morning. After an hour or so of being awake, it became clear that this was due to coming down with some kind of bug. Suddenly there was lots of coughing, sneezing, and feeling crappy with a bit of a fever. Took a trip out to the DIY store for some crap or other and almost puked as I opened up the door to the garage and caught a whiff of grass cuttings which have been in there only since yesterday. Things went downhill from there. Got to the DIY store, felt awful as though I was going to pass out, came home, went to bed, slept for 3 hours, woke up, felt a little better, had a bath, had some food, now feel crappy again. Blah.
Freaking out a little about having this big needle in my spine on July 23rd. I wasn't, but after reading some threads on this it seems to be a standard elsewhere that people are switched from LMWHeparin's to regular Heparin a few weeks before the birth. My Haematologist said it would be OK to stop the Fragmin 24 hrs in advance, but apparently most people (ie everyone else who has this damn problem!!) stop much sooner and switch because it still hangs around in your system and then you risk being permanently paralyzed from bleeding in the spine when the needle goes in. Joy. It's on the list of things to discuss with my Haematology Doc, but I don't see him till June and I WANT TO KNOW NOW!
Posted by katie at April 25, 2004 07:30 PM