4/27/05 - Little Scare

I had a really rough night last night, with a sharp pain in my side that grew steadily worse. I looked up my symptoms online and in the book, but couldn't find anything. I knew it wasn't labor because my contractions had subsided earlier in the evening. It scared me that the pain stayed in one place for so long, and got so intense. And with everything pushed out of the way to make room for the baby, it can be difficult to know where the pain is coming from. Finally I called my mother around 2am. She suggested I call the doctor on call, who happened to be the only one of the group that I haven't met, and the only male. He said it could either be gas, a pulled muscle, or a kidney stone. He suggested I take a Tylenol and see if that helped me sleep. I finally was able to get some sleep around 3am, and called in sick later that morning. I can only assume, since it finally went away, that it was gas trapped because my organs have very little room right now.