Hiccups

Today is the first time I've been able to feel the baby have hiccups! It's fun :)

Things overall have been going well. The shingles stopped spreading the same day I got them once I started taking antibiotics. They just continuously itch and burn, I'm still taking antibiotics for them. Turns out my stiff finger and arm and hand were NOT from tendonitis, but rather from the shingles causing a swollen lymph node near my collar bone. That is going down since I've been taking antibiotics, and it's not nearly as bad anymore. So things are getting better, just slowly :)

I've also come to find there is no way I can sit in a chair in a normal position. I have to sit so that I'm off to the side, or my heart rate goes crazy and I start getting dizzy. This can be frustrating as I have three classes a week, and each one is 4 hours long, with usually only one break for class (10 minutes).

I have also come to find that I do not handle warm classrooms well at all.

Two Saturdays ago I went to my Saturday class, and the classroom was 74 already (at 9 AM). Within the first 15 minutes I got close to passing out, so I excused myself to go to the bathroom and sat on the floor for a bit since it was cooler. When I thought it was all better, I went back to class, but within 15 minutes I got even closer to passing out than before (yes I can tell when I'm about to pass out, everything goes a certain color). So I excused myself and hurried out the door and found a couch to lay on for five minutes. My classmate has been in all of my classes for the past 3 semesters, and had informed the teacher that this was really not like me, and that I wasn't always like this (thank heavens). After lying down for 5 minutes, and finding three fans in the classroom to turn on that were all directed at me, I was able to go through the rest of class. Needless to say, this Saturday, we immediately turned the fans on and I was fine, as long as I didn't sit the "right" way in the chair and had it turned sideways.

Other than that, Kiernan's still kicking like crazy all the time. I can see my actual stomach moving when he kicks now and then, and he has definitely got the hiccups at the moment. It's really cute :)