Well, some of you may have already heard about the frightful night we had last Thursday (a little over a week ago). I was restlessly sleeping in bed (a result of
multiple mosquito bites had me tossing and
turning), when all of a sudden a painful bite woke me. I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom to try to see what had
happened - this was at 2 a.m. My hand was stinging, on fire, and generally feeling like something was very wrong.
I went back into the bedroom to wake Chris. I gave him the quick rundown after flipping on the light - something had bitten me, it hurt badly, and I thought we should find what it was in case it was
poisonous. I
started sifting through pillows on the floor, thinking whatever it was had likely gotten flung from the bed when I jumped out. Chris, still in bed, pulled the covers back on my side to look on the bed.
And there it was - a 2 inch long scorpion, still alive,
chillin in bed with us!!!
OMG! NOT what you want to wake up to, especially at 6 months
prego. We
immediately went into crisis mode - me jumping on the Internet to see how harmful the sting could be to me and the baby, Chris grabbing some kitchen
utensils to go on a scorpion hunt in the bed.
Good news:
- The sting would not hurt the baby
- I was fine, just in some pain
- We got to "trial run" the 24-hour emergency answering service for my OB - and he called me back within 5 minutes - a complete success
- My OB gave me good advice that was supported by the ER staff
Bad news:
- We had to spend 2 hours in the ER at 3 a.m.
- My hand hurt (and I was still itchy from the mosquito bites)
- We are now petrified of a repeat performance and another late night visitor (although we both realize the likelihood of this happening again is slim)
Here is a picture of the creepy thing, outside our house the next day. After Chris killed it he left it on our sidewalk so I could capture a photo to remember him by.
So needless to say, we hope to never go through that again. The weird thing is, we have never even seen a bug inside the house before - no spiders, crickets (which scorpions eat), etc. So why this guy turned up is beyond me.
We now have a new nighttime routine - brush teeth, turn off light, get out blacklight and search the room - scorpions glow under a blacklight so this is a sure-fire way to catch them!
Well, a few people commented that my last baby bump photo didn't show the bump enough! So here is a shot from yesterday - somewhere past 26 weeks and on my way to 27. As you can see, I have definitely "popped" in the past couple of weeks. There is no denying the baby now. 