The doctor woke me at 7am. I was so surprised because the baby usually wakes me up at 4am. The doctor said I need to get you up to go to the bathroom. Scott came over to the bed and stood there in case I needed help. The doctor brought the stand on wheels with the bag. I was doing well and didn’t need any help. After I got back in bed the doctor said all my test came back fine. She said, they are going to bring you some breakfast and we will see how you do at eating it. If you can eat your breakfast I will not need to hang another bag. Around 7:30am they came with my tray. Eggs, toast, oatmeal, milk, orange juice and a blue berry muffin. I ate the eggs, drank the milk and orange juice. I took a bite of muffin and oatmeal. They were good but it was too much food. I leaned back on my pillow. I was disappointed I was in the hospital clinic again. I said to Scott, I am so disappointed. I am suppose to be taking care of my kids and every time I think everything is going good something like this happens. He got up and looked at me with an unhappy look. He said, stop whining woman. Everyone has problems. Everyone needs help now and then. Matthew always told us if you fall down and you need help getting up, ask for help and get up. If you fall down again just get back up and every time you fall down get back up, but don’t just sit there and whine about it. Everyone here has fallen down at one time or another. Everyone knows its hard when you fall down, but don’t sit there and whine like a two year old. Get your god dam ass back up and start again. I looked at him and said, Wow, your right. Matthew takes such good care of me I have become soft. I am sorry I was whining. I am glad you pointed it out. He came back with, do I call you Mrs. or Angel? I replied, Angel will be fine. I shut my eyes and after a little while the doctor came in. She said, you ate quite a bit. Here is another bottle of pills. Take one right now. How are you feeling? I opened the bottle and took a pill. I said, much better. I hear you have been going to the gym and running on the tread mill, going to classes that require a lot of exercise and then going back to the gym. I said, yes. She came back, you are breast feeding, you have this new condition and all this exercise your body said I am tired. Your body decide to focus on your condition and shut everything else down. Mike said he was supervising everyone’s exercise program but not on a one on one. So here is what we are going to do. Scott here is going to be your shadow. Supervising your exercise, meals and just everything you are doing. If he tells you to take a nap everyday you do it. If he tells you to just go to bed you do it. If he says to eat something you do it. Anything he tells you to do or “NOT” to do you do what he says. No questions and certainly no back talk or I will have a talk to Matthew. Every week he is going to bring you by and I am going to do a quick check on you. You have been in here twice now in just a couple weeks and I am going to stop it. I said, No problem. Scott will have no problem with me. Scott stepped forward and put his hand out. I looked at him and said, What? He said, shake my hand and tell me we have a deal? I looked at him and said, sure. I shook his hand but he didn’t let go. He said, say it. Say we have a deal. I shook his hand while looking at him and said, we have a deal. Scott let go and said, Matthew is depending on me to do my job and if you let me down Matthew is going to be mad at me and I am going to be mad at you. One thing I promise you, you don’t want in this world is to have me, mad at you. I looked at him and replied, there will be no problems with me. The doctor said, you were dosing off when I came in so go back to sleep and I will check on you later. She turned back to Scott and said, she is not ready to go home yet and left the room. He called Mom and told her I had eaten half my breakfast but wasn’t ready to check out yet. Mom said, that’s fine. Tell her the kids are fine and I love her. When he hung up the phone he said to me, Mom said the kids are fine and she loves you. I smiled. Scott was looking at me with this intense stare. I don’t know if he was wondering if I would keep my word or if I had said something else. I shut my eyes and went back to sleep.
I heard Scott say its time to wake up. Your lunch is here. I opened my eyes and he had me sit up and adjusted my pillow. Then pulled my tray up to me and took the cover off the food. Some kind of tuna fish salad with a side of broccoli, a strawberry smoothie and other stuff. A lot of food again. I said, I love broccoli and started eating. I was feeling good and thought maybe the doctor will send me home soon. After I ate I was so stuffed. Again I couldn’t eat everything. I kept my banana and put it on the side table for later. Everything tasted great and I was so hungry even thought I had eaten a lot for breakfast. I think it was the smoothie that slowed me down. I went to pee and peed a lot so kidneys were working fine. When they doctor came in she brought an empty vitamin bottle. She put it on my tray and said, Here is another empty bottle for you. She raised the lid on the food and the plate was empty. She said, did you have any problem with eating? I replied, No. In fact I was really hungry. She started undoing the IV and saying, I am going to send you back. No exercise today. No pool either. You can sit at the table or on the grass and play with or breast feed the kids. Don’t carry the kids around for a couple of days. If you feel tired take a nap but if you start that I can’t keep my eyes open tell Scott. You were just suffering from exhaustion and should be fine. Tomorrow you might want to start with swimming. You just need to work slowly back into everything and know your limits. I got out of bed and found my shoes. I took the empty vitamin bottle, dumped the prenatal vitamins in it and replaced the top. I threw the prenatal bottle away and grabbed my banana. I turned around and Scott was clenching his teeth and looking at me like he was going to kill me. I smiled and said, I am ready to go. He angerly said, Let’s go. We went out to the table and Mom was there. I sat down and Scott said to Mom, The doctor said she was suffering from exhaustion and was to take it easy. She said, maybe she could go swimming tomorrow but no carrying the kids around for a couple of days. Mom smiled at him and said, that’s good news. I will help her more with the kids and she will be fine. Thankyou so much. He saw Paul at the next table and went over with him to talk. The doctor called Mom and told her Scott was going to be my shadow. That I had agreed to it. Mom thought that was great. I was watching Scott and you could tell he was angry. He told Paul I was hiding secrets from Matthew and he thought I was the one who tied up the man the other night. Paul said, what kind of secrets? Scott put his hand up against Paul’s ear and said, she’s pregnant. Paul said, really. Why doesn’t she want Matthew to know? Scott said, I don’t know and I am afraid to tell him she is keeping secrets. Paul said, why do you think she tied up that guy? Scott said, I think she did but can’t figure out how. I shook her hand and wouldn’t let it go and she’s as weak as a kitten. I just don’t understand her. He looked over at me feeding the baby and his face changed to a smile. He then said, The doctor said she is taking really good care of the baby and that he is really healthy. Matthew will be happy to hear that. Did you see him? He looks just like Matthew. Paul said, yes. He’s a little Matthew. Do you know if she’s having a girl or another boy? Scott replied, No. If I find out I will let you know.
The rest of the day went good. I just took it easy. When my head hit the pillow I didn’t think I would go to sleep because I had been sleeping so much. I didn’t have a problem.