Update. Or, downdate, as the case may be.

For friends who follow my blog, I figured the blog would be a good form of mass communication for me to fill you in on the last few days.

A couple weeks ago my neck and head started to hurt. Then they stopped hurting and started actively trying to kill me. A fever, some nausea, body aches, etc., later and I wound up in the ER. Had some tests run and they showed I had Mono and something fishy was going on with my liver.

More tests revealed a kidney/bladder infection and some form of Hepatitis. (This is when you begin to give your husband the side-eye. Dude, first Mono and *now* Hepatitis. Just who did you hang out with in college?)

MORE tests and a visit to a specialist, and here we are. What we know for sure is that my liver levels are up. Apparently the white blood cells in there all decided to drink the pink Kool-Aid together and now they're all dying off, sending the chemically thingies in my liver way up. So, that's just fancy doctor-pants speak for "Your liver is grumpy." (Well, raging at the machine is more like it.) They, meaning the nebulous cloud that is the medical community, have decided that this is NOT Mono related, but that the fact that I have Mono is probably merely coincidental. They, meaning that cloud again, sent me downstairs to have seven vials of blood drawn to be sent for more testing. They're testing for about 20 more things, and I have to have an abdominal ultrasound done tomorrow to take a look at my liver. (This whole process took about, I don't know, THREE MILLION HOURS today, and I was super grateful that my good friend Tiff came with me. She even talked me through the blood draw, which made me feel like a baby, but was also nice.)

So, that's where things stand right now. It has been a less than awesome week. But in otherwise awesome news, I got to see little Sparky on the ultrasound earlier and s/he is doing just fine. Kicking away, playing with his/her feet, even sucking his thumb! (The his/her thing was getting annoying.)

Also good news: All our friends have offered to bring us food, which is AWESOME! But it does beg the question, is making dinner something I was *supposed* to be doing before I got sick? Cuz, uh... I hate to break it to you world, but we've pretty much always lived off Cheerios and Ramen. Thanks for the generosity, though! I'll have to let my liver know to take a dive more often!

So much love to you fine folks.

-M & Co.