Saturday, July 28, 2007

The cankles are coming!

... yep, I've got that wonderful pregnancy condition known as "water retention".

My hands feel puffy about 75% of the time...even in the mornings when I wake up.

My feet and ankles though actually have that yucky pitting edema (Pitting Edema = swelling that doesn't pop back to normal shape when you push on it...it just stays sunken in and just looks yucky!) I know people say it helps to put your feet up, but I don't get why sleeping all night in bed doesn't help it even a tiny bit. I'm as puffy in the morning as I am in the evening... Today I even have it about 8 inches up my legs...
At least Megan told me today that I can wear my croc flip flops for her wedding! :)

So, for those of you who don't know what cankles are...

Cankles: Calves that become feet without taking an ankle break.
(Definition taken from http://www.urbandictionary.com/)

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