2nd Dr's Appointment

We had our 2nd Dr's Appointment last week on Thursday 8/13/09 with Dr. Castillo. We showed up to find a waiting room filled with other couples/families and my first thought was that it was going to be a long day. We signed in begrudgingly paid the fee, did I mention that my application to AIM and Medical has taken since June and I still don't have a determination of eligibility? I'm going to go off on a tangent here and express how I feel about this part of my pregnancy. I've worked and payed taxes since I got my worker's permit when I was 15. I graduated college just .2 short of cum laude from SDSU's Business School and never thought that when I got laid off in January and Mike finally made the decision to enroll in Nursing School that we'd get pregnant and be dealing with all of this. I will say with complete certainty that this whole process of applying for government assistance has been quite a humbling experience. With that said, this is just a temporary situation and one that I hope I will never have to go through again. This is America, the wealthiest nation on the face of this planet and to see and hear the things I have in those offices, affirms the belief that this country is in a lot of trouble. I pray about this and I encourage everyone to do the same.
Ok, so back on track. We pay and wait for our name to get called. When it finally it does, we walk back after making a pit stop at the dreaded scale (hate this part, LOL), and sit in a room to wait for the doctor. The CNA comes in and notifies us that the Dr had to leave on an emergency and that the nurse would be seeing us. This was a little disappointing but what could we do. We got the information on the Quad Screen and anxiously awaited for the part where we got to see the baby and hear the heartbeat for the first time. As I lay there on my back I had million things going through my head: did I miss a spot when I shaved?, I feel bad for Mike's view in his chair at the end of the table, am I supposed to be on my back for this long?, gosh that blue jelly looks really cold, I hope that everything looks okay with the baby, etc... Then after that initial shock from the jelly that looked so cold, I see our honey bunny. We'd soon come to find out that this child likes to do laps in my uterus! It didn't help that the girl hadn't really done an ultrasound before either! We saw the random fingers and toes, the head, the tummy, arms moving all around and legs making the most of acrobatic moves. And then there was the heartbeat. One of the most melodic of sounds I've ever heard in my life. There was the living, breathing being in my body and hearing that made it all real. I kinda expected myself to cry at the sound of it but my happiness, excitement and relief didn't let me. I looked at Mike who was smiling ear to ear and I was just peaceful.
We got the information for the lab and the ultrasound place and we were on our way. The next hour or so was spent with me being nervous of the impending doom that is a needle and the fact that I was starving. We ate at Pat & Oscar's and headed the lab. I didn't think about this until after the fact, but I kinda wish there was a place to notate the high levels of sodium in my blood were the result of 3 yummy breadsticks and some chicken cesar salad. But alas, I survived the death march with special thanks to a great phlebotemist and some entertaining distraction by Mike.
We have our appointment to find out the sex of the baby set for 9/3/09. My only concern is what the heck I'm going to do for the next couple weeks as I practically die from anticipation, and the fact that I have to drink 32 oz. of water before my appointment without being able to pee the usual 3-4 times an hour. WTH am I going to do?? Do they sell pregnancy Depends?!