TMI and Justin Bieber Died. haha

I woke up this morning and realized two things.
One: I had a terrible headache.
Two: I no longer had my awful period any longer.

This may be TMI for those of you who don’t like hearing about periods. If so, please skip to after the dotted line.

On one hand, I was celebrating… On the other, I was miserable.

Monday night, I ended up getting my period. It was light, but uneventful (except for the emotional wreck of a state that I was in), so I didn’t think much of it. However, come Tuesday morning, I had cramps that made me curl up or double over in pain, and it was absolutely debilitating. To top that off, the flow ended up getting very heavy toward the early afternoon, and I was literally going through a tampon every HOUR. It was a super plus tampon, too, which sounds absolutely and horrifically disgusting. The pain was nearly unbearable, I literally never had a period that was this miserable since I became a woman in 6th grade.

I almost brought myself to the doctor because it had me worried, but I decided that if it was that horrible come the same time the next afternoon, then I would go. (I was bleeding so much, I was exhausted and pale. People kept commenting on that, and it had me worried. Especially when I took my temp and it spiked to 101 without any cause or reason the day prior.)

Luckily, I never had to make an appointment. I got to thinking, though, why was my period so awful? Lately, it has been so light to the point that it was nearly non-existent. I mean, it lasted almost two weeks once or twice, but I thought nothing of it.

This is the conclusion I have come to:
Back in August, I took Plan B because of the incident that happened… I’m trying to forget about it. Anyway, that screwed my cycle up horrendously, and it was extremely late by the time I actually got my period again. Then, I decided to take prenatal vitamins to make my hair and nails grow. While that worked, it also made me bleed just a small amount constantly. So, I stopped it. (I think, if I would have continued to take the vitamins on a regular basis, the spotting would have went away, but I kept forgetting a day here, a day there… So I said screw it.) I think the fact that I was bleeding so lightly for a long period of time was the reason why I ended up bleeding like I was stabbed in the uterus.

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My headache went away after I went back to sleep for 30 minutes this morning, but immediately upon arriving at work, it came back 100000 times worse. (My boss said it was probably because of the kids, in truth, it probably was. haha) I was scheduled to work from 10:30 to 5:30, so I was anticipating an absolutely awful day. When I got there, the kids were behaving like hellions. Honestly, it was the worst I have ever seen them behave. I’m sure it’s because of all the excitement over Christmas in the next few days, but I wanted to cry. Thankfully, all the younger kids went down for a nap shortly after I arrived, but I had to deal with all of the school-age kids. I was expecting them to be full of energy, excitement, and sass – but I was actually pleasantly surprised for once. Sure, they weren’t great, but they listened to me. Especially when I told them that I wasn’t feeling well. (I’m sure the fact that we decorated sugar cookies, ate them, and watched a Christmas movie added it it, too.)

At 12:30 my boss was trying to get me out as soon as possible, but those who were out for the day or coming in later were not able to come in earlier, so we were left to figure out numbers and ratios between kids and teachers. My boss left, so things got really hectic. I didn’t end up leaving until 3:30, and I was feeling absolutely miserable at that point, but I was happy to go home and lay in bed.

When I got home, I took a nap for 3 hours, and took some more medicine. I’m feeling almost 100% now.

So, I just finished watching a CSI episode that had Justin Bieber in it. At first, I was horrified, but I laughed because I never thought that CSI would stoop that low to have such a tween "heart-throb" in an episode… But then he died. That made my day. Seriously, it was the best episode ever.

Tomorrow morning marks the beginning of my Christmas chaos. I have yet to wrap my gifts for Lyrical, and I still have a few more things to get for my dad’s gift. But at 11am, my brother, his girlfriend, my niece, my sister, my mom and her husband, and I are spending a few hours together for Christmas at my mom’s house. Then, at 3 we go to my grandma’s (my dad’s mom) to celebrate with his side of the family.
Christmas morning, Mary’s son and his girlfriend are coming over to my dad’s house for the yummiest Christmas breakfast ever. French toast casserole. SO YUMMY. Then, Christmas will end with the Packer game and celebrating at my aunt Carrie’s house. Yay.

I just realized it’s after 11pm. I have a crazy weekend ahead of me, I should probably go to bed soon. Probably.