Support Hose!

I must say that so far (29 weeks), my pregnancy has been great...of course I have been more tired than usual, but I never had to go through morning sickness, which I am VERY grateful for! In the last few days, however, I have had the pleasure of experiencing fat feet. The doctors call it edema, but I think that is just a more fancy way to say that the feet are just plain FAT!

Carl and I went to Orlando this past week for the National New Church Conference, and this is when they really began to blow up. I don't know if it was because of the hotter weather, but they got huge! It didn't help much that the one day that I was out in the sun, I got sun burned which made my feet look even more desirable.

I had to call and change an appt. at my drs. office and while I was doing that, I just asked the nurse if there was anything I could do to reduce the swelling besides elevate, stop eating salt, and drink more water. I wasn't very excited about her response...."the only other thing I can suggest is support hose."

Support hose! I instantly had this image of me wearing sweet nude colored hose around my fat feet throughout the rest of the summer...very attractive. The best feeling about being pregnant is the anticipation of meeting our baby and seeing what he/she is going to look like, but I must say, I'm also looking forward to getting my feet back...at least I've been told they go back to normal after the baby is here!!!