I am a medical mystery.

Random post, but I am kind of frustrated. I am home sick today, I have some sort of flu-bug that Chris had yesterday. We had parent-teacher conferences last night, and by the grace of God, I made it through them which was an accomplishment considering I started throwing up yesterday (at school) at 9:00, and conferences went until 7:30!! So, I took O to the sitter's today so I could spend the day in bed, and gear up for round 2 of conferences that will be tomorrow night. I told Chris that I made it through conferences because I have had so much practice holding back being sick, thanks to severe morning sickness with both of my pregnancies. Yay, me.

SO, the medical mystery. When I was pregnant with Owen, I had my blood drawn close to a billion times, because they thought that we had lost the pregnancy, then when that was resolved, I had to get screened for Cystic Fibrosis, because I have a 1st cousin with it. And then you have your gestational diabetes test, daily blood draws when you are in the hospital...etc. You can see where I am going with this...I was basically a blood bank for 9 months.

Imagine my surprise at one of my last appointments when my OB's nurse says "Oh ya, we need to get you in here for your Rhogam injection."

Me- "WHA?! I think there is a mistake, I don't need that." (Rhogam is for preventing the mom's blood from attacking the baby, if their blood were to mix, which can happen fairly easily. And when I say "attack" the baby, I mean, the baby can die)

Nurse- "Ya, you got it last time too, at 28 weeks, and then in the hospital. You probably just forgot about it."

Me- "Um, no. I pretty much have a phobia of needles...I would remember getting it!"

So, my OB comes in, and I ask her about it. She flips through my file, and sure enough, I didn't get it when I was pregnant with Owen. Because apparently I didn't need it, because I was O-positive blood type. So, just to be safe, she orders my hospital labs, which match, and then to be extra safe, she has me do an addition "type and screen" blood draw to see if it comes back that I am O-negative blood type, which is what my blood screen at 9 weeks is saying. OB says that it was most likely a lab error for this pregnancy, and NOT to come in for the injection.

Fast forward to yesterday, when the nurse calls me to say that, I am, in fact O-negative and need to get in and get this injection ASAP. We are talking she is *freaking* out about me getting there asap, because I have never had one of these obviously important injections during either pregnancy.

So, my friends, please tell me how on EARTH it is possible for me to magically change blood-types?? Ya, I am not getting it either. So, sorry for the random post. I am sitting here in bed, waiting for Chris to get home with little man, and this (apparently painful) injection has been on my mind all day.