House Guests While on Bed Rest

I am grateful to have loving and concerned friends who have come by to say hello and check up on me. I appreciate it immensely. However, it's the visits that catch me off-guard in my p.j.'s and no bra for example, that I do not handle too well. For example, the other day someone came to the door needing some updated information from my husband. As he's filling out the paperwork, he invites our friend into our house to say hello to me because he's positive I would love a visit. I had been standing, leaning, in the kitchen trying to prepare dinner. I hadn't showered yet and I was sweating a ton. I felt gross and looked it too. In she comes, all dressed up with a lovely smile...I felt like a trapped savage animal. What do you do, but smile back, comment on how nice it is to visit, admit you're feeling fabulous, and try to fight the urge to hurt your spouse for being completely ignorant as to what you NEED and WANT.

I have the sweetest elderly neighbor who has just managed remission from a horrible battle with cancer, She called wanting to come visit. At that particular moment I was busy visiting with my children and felt like it wouldn't be a good time. She promised to call me later in the week. Then I began to stress about it. I spend most of my day in bed or on the couch on the second story of our home. The stairs would be too much for her to climb. And, I have trouble being comfy downstairs for very long....I also have decided that answering the door every time someone knocks is out of the question because then I am going up and down all day and not resting...so sometimes it feels like trying to accommodate others good will puts me in a bad predicament that isn't helping me out at all.

Sometimes bed rest is just a total bummer and I can't think of anything positive about it.

We are trying to sell our brand new house because it ended up being WAY over budget. Showing the house has been ok. The children and my husband have pitched in a lot to help clean the house to make a decent presentation....until today.

Yesterday, my DR informed me that I may be heading towards preeclampsia and was ordered to take bed rest to a more serious level (if that is possible). I also have to take a 24 hour urine sample which brings with it some interesting items to the bathroom scene.

So, this morning, and not feeling well, I stayed in bed, and was still in bed as prospective buyers arrived. I am sure the sight of me laying in bed was uncomfortable for them. I can't even imagine what they thought of the bathroom paraphernalia. And, all I can hope is that they could see past me, and the bathroom, and the cluttered house that I can't do what I'd like to do about it, and would still consider buying a home from a very sick pregnant woman who could give birth at any time....