Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | RachelT

Well... to start off with, DH has been completely miserable at work, so we're trying to figure out how we can get the he!! out of Iowa as soon as we can. Of course the pregnancy has to take presidence over anything else, so we're having a difficult time working out the details. I'm somewhat torn about the whole thing... as badly as I want to leave, I don't want to deliver my baby with a doctor who knows nothing about my pregnancy. Although, leaving would take care of the neighbor problem, and that would make things probably a lot easier for me to deal with.

Speaking of which... My neighbors have been "ok", however, I still have to remind them every few days that we're still here, and I need my sleep. Just this last Monday, DH and I went up to their door and yelled at the younger boy, and told him we'd start calling the police if they didn't keep it quiet. And twice now DH has gone over there through the door that's in our utility room, and shut off the loud tv for them. (once was before we threatened them, the other time was just the other night.) The first time was actually somewhat humerous... DH knocked on the door 4 times and shouted through the door. Since he didn't get a response, and there's no lock on the door, he opened it up and walked in. Both boys were fast asleep with the tv blaring. After he shut it off for them, one of the boys woke up and looked at DH with a dumb-founded look on his face (I'm sure he was surprised). DH told them that they needed to keep it quiet because they were keeping his pregnant wife awake.

Well... to add insult to injury... we had a huge spot of mold (it was green and black and fuzzy) growing in our bathroom (not exactly what I want to spend my time enhaling while I shower and go to the bathroom

). We ended up having our shower removed and all of the wall behind the shower replaced (the sheet rock was so wet and rotten that the guy could shove his finger through it).

While all this is happening... I've been experiencing lower abdominal pain. My doctor thought that maybe I was having pre-term labor contractions (I'm only 26 weeks), so yesterday I spent the afternoon in the hospital hooked up to all kinds of monitors. Thankfully it wasn't as serious as it could be and it turned out to be uterine irritability, but I've been advised to take it easy.

I'm doing the best that I can under the circumstances, but it's really hard to stay focused when I'm still very emotional from hormones. I have days where I'm fairly happy, but lately the bad days have been outnumbering the good. I've been spending a lot of my time crying, which is usually brought on by something really stupid like my cat jumping on the wrong part of my body or not being able to get comfortable lying down.

I've been reading posts here and there, so I'm mostly up-to-date on what's going on with everyone here. I'm really sorry I've been MIA lately, I hope you all understand. I really appreciate the concern, and I'll let you all know how things go.

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~ Rachel (IBS-C)
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade!!

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