The Goggles! They Do Nothing!

That's how I felt about the Vicks this time around. Maybe the clog was too big, maybe it was too far below the surface, whatever. The Vicks did nothing. This time around, what worked was a heating pad and lots of rubbing during pumping, which happened frequently. As of 7pm last night I did 30 minutes every 2 hours, then stretched that out to every three hours between 1 and 7am (Dude. I physically cannot function if I'm only getting an hour and a half of sleep at a time, especially if I'm not feeling great to begin with.). The clog dissipated during the 7am pump. I'm pumping again now (9am) just to make sure the clog's gone, because we're hitting the road and headed south to my SIL's, and I truly hate pumping in the truck. But I'm pretty sure it's all done and over. Rightie's still tender, and Leftie's annoyed (I can just tell) about being pumped so often. I suppose I could have capped Leftie's port and just done single pumps on Rightie, but honestly, that's just too much trouble at 1am. Anyhow, here's a little tip:

If you get a clog, screw the staff meeting. Go to the drugstore immediately and get what you need. Start pumping it out. I don't care if you have to take a sick day -- do it. When I left my house yesterday I had a tiny clog. By the time I got to work and pumped 5 hours later, it was large. By the time I finally started treating it, it was huge. Didn't have to be that way, and I wouldn't have had to stay up all night (though to be fair, the cookie was up all night so I'd've been up half the night anyway {remember, my incredibly wonderful husband takes half usually -- he got stuck with the whole enchilada last night. Poor sweet man. I'll have to do something nice for him.}).