Kvetch.

I woke up with a sore throat that is still bothering me eight hours later.  The only relief is swallowing something cold or sucking endlessly on sugar drenched cough drops.  Either I'm getting sick, fucking again, which would just be a cruel twist of karmatic mis-fate or ... what I have suspected all day, my throat is burning from the stomach acid that pregnancy is forcing up my esophagus anytime I'm not exactly vertical.

On a similar note, I haven't written much about pregnancy this time around because, for one, it is what it is, similar to the last one and full of unpleasant side effects and symptoms that are sure to make you laugh and me cry.

For example, I always have to pee.  Prior to stepping into the shower the other night, I felt the need to ... fart.  So I attempted, and instead, I peed on myself.   I haven't shaved my legs in over a week and I only did it then because I was on my way to get a last minute pedicure because I can't even reach my toes anymore, and they were not pretty.  I haven't seen my vagina in months.  Nor has anyone else for understandable reasons.  

The left side of my face and neck are experiencing horrendous-teenage-boy-scale acne while the area just south of my eyes is experiencing dry, itchy redness.  There isn't a lazy follicle on my head right now and all of my hair is growing rapidly and haphazardly.  They tell you pregnancy isn't the time for going ultra short with your hair, well, it also isn't the time to go from super-chic-short to shoulder length because the growing out period isn't pretty when you are at a normal weight, let alone with the above mentioned skin misfortune and 30 extra pounds.

I won't even mention the humiliation of being winded after walking one damn flight of stairs. 

Anyway, since you came here  for something better than this, here are some pictures.

Comments

[minor catastrophes]

Ugh. I so remember all that you speak of while pregnant. Good that you have a sense of humor about it all :)

Hope that sore throat goes away soon. We have it at my house (in Montana) too...

[De in D.C.]

ohmigosh, look how grown up he looks! Where did little Noah go?

Sucks about the sore throat. Hope you feel better soon! (Gargling warm salt water helps me, assuming it doesn't trigger my gag reflex and make me throw up.)