"Again"??

Well, if it's not one thing it's been another since the birth of Elijah.  I will spare the details, but just suffice it to say my recovery from a 36 hour labor and delivery was very, very difficult and painful. Fortunately, my sweet mom was with me for 2 weeks to help. She was my angel. Once I got up on my feet again, I was hit with another medical issue requiring me to take antibiotics. Elijah Brooks did not like mommy taking antibiotics either.  Well, I got over that issue and then we landed ourselves in the ER only for our baby to be diagnosed with painful acid reflux. Thank the Lord that the medicine is beginning to help him now. We can definitely see an improvement and we are so grateful. It's the worse thing ever to see your child suffering.  Would you believe that I have now had another medical issue to surface?  For the past week, my hands have been getting increasingly more painful..., mainly in my thumb joints of both hands.  I thought my hands were just tired seeing that I lift a 12 lb baby twenty-four hours a day and nurse him 8 x's a day. The pain got so bad this past Thursday night that I couldn't stand it anymore. I realized that I could no longer lift Elijah Brooks without help.  All of you moms out there realize what this means. I am disabled with a 5 week old baby. I went to the doctor only to be told that I have "acute tendonitits of the thumb joints".  They told me to "rest my hands and let the joints heal".  I must say that I laughed out loud when they told me this.  I mean, how can a mom rest her hands with a 5 week old infant?  Both of my hands are in braces keeping the thumb joints stable. I am taking anti-inflammatory drugs which are not helping at all.  I am miserable and in terrible pain..., not to mention I am emotionally drained from this. I am just ready to be well and to be able to care for my son without needing someone in my house all of the time with me. Don't get me wrong, I thank GOD for my dear church family and husband, for without them I would not be able to handle this and would have a breakdown. I have had plenty of breakdowns, but I fear if I didn't have my sweet church family and Jay, I would go under.  I wish that we lived closer to family, but we don't.  I am just so grateful that our church is being the hands and feet of Christ to us right now.  I have been trying to keep my spirits up, but I won't lie, I have cried more than my share of tears in the last 5 days. When the baby cries, I cry because I can't pick him up.  SO HARD. 

Anyway, today I am putting a call in to the doctor and will be begging them to get me in to a hand doctor for cortisone injections in my thumb joints. If you are reading this today, please pray that I can get some relief SOON.  I am not excited about having a needle inserted into my joints, but I must remember that I just pushed a 9 lb baby out and had a large needle inserted into my spinal column!!  I think I can handle this!!!