Auras? Seriously???

I had a rough night last night.  I had held it together so well until John came home. Something about him just makes it easy to get all of my fears and anxieties out, which is one of the reasons why I love him so much.  After talking his ear off until 2am, I finally fell asleep for 5 hours straight which is a good run for me lately. 

When I woke up, the baby was kicking and moving like nothing was wrong (he's been pretty quiet for the last week) and I think it's a mixture of him being happy daddy is home, and him trying to tell me that everything is going to be ok.  My chest pains were gone, and my heart rate was up to the 60's.  My heart rate has been closely linked to my bp...my bp goes up, HR goes down, and vice versa.  Hardly scientific, but it'll have to do until my friend Amazon Prime delivers my new BP monitor tomorrow.  I also lost about 5 pounds of swelling from the full bed rest yesterday.  I was so excited that everything was going well when out of nowhere I started seeing Auras (those squigly lines you get before a migraine).

I get a few migraines per year, but haven't had one in a grip.  After the auras went away, the headache never kicked in.  This lead me to look up this sypmtom only to find out its a fairly dangerous preeclampsia symptom that COULD indicate brain edema.  I've called the Dr. and they told me to just stay on bed rest until my appointment tomorrow which gives me hope.  I'm really hoping it's just migraine related since my migraines are usually tied to lack of sleep and stress, which I obviously have in spades.  Either way, I'm a little disappointed, but this baby is kicking me a ton right now as I write this.  I'm pretty sure he's trying say "Calm down, lady!"

So now it's business as usual on my house arrest.  I have a bunch of work projects I need to work on, while I get caught up on some old Netflix discs that have been laying around for weeks.  Then I'm going to finish a blanket and cuddle up with my favorite publication that my favorite husband brought me yesterday.  SKYMALL!!!!!