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The past 2 weeks have been absolute torture. I am in my third trimester of pregnancy and my fiance caught the Flu. Of course, due to us living in a 650-square foot apartment together, I caught it too.
Fast-forward to today... No more Flu, besides a little pesky cough that'll probably linger and be a total pain in my butt for the next month. EXCEPT, I somehow bruised my ribs from coughing so much when I was sick. Oh my god, the pain... I literally cannot move my right arm, or twist, or sleep on that side, or even shift positions in bed without excruciating pain. I don't even want to drive; my car is a manual transmission and the thought of reaching my right arm down to shift... UGH NO. I went through and canceled any/all appointments for this week just to avoid having to drive.

And the BEST part? My mom flies in from out of state in one week to stay with us for Christmas, and the apartment has never been more disgusting because we just got done being miserably sick for the past two weeks. My fiance works full time and is about as apathetic as they come where cleaning is concerned, and in my current injured state there is NO WAY I am vacuuming, mopping, scrubbing toilets, or tackling all the piled up dishes/laundry.

Basically, I am completely FREAKING out and praying for a miracle. I have considered just hiring maids, but we also have a bunch of junk I was going to move into a storage room because it's really difficult to work around all of it when cleaning. I can't really lift and carry a bunch of stuff right now either.. So maids are an option, but they will have a really tough time cleaning around all of our stuff. We downsized from a 1,100 square foot apartment about a year ago, so we have dining room chairs stacked in a corner and a bunch of annoying things like that.

My life truly could not be forcibly on hold at a worse time.