Live from room 591 . . .

Thanks to the beauty of wifi at the hospital, I thought I'd update you all on what's been going on this week right from the comfort of my own hospital room. Yesterday (Friday) we were supposed to come in for another non stress test. I did that and my blood pressure was still high enough that the doctor on call wanted to admit me for observation. I stayed all day yesterday and they kept me overnight, starting me on blood pressure medication and keeping my hiney in bed. I actually slept really well last night but the only time my bp was really good was when I was sleeping. . . so this morning, the new doctor on call inccreased my dosage of blood pressure meds and they checked my urine again for protein. I'm not spilling enough protein for them to diagnose me as pre-eclamptic so they've gone with a diagnosis of pregnancy induced hypertension. I'm still on the blood pressure meds, staying at the hospital another night and hopefully, tomorrow morning, I can talk the doctor on call into letting me stay until Monday when my doctor comes back. None of my tests have changed since last week when Dr. G said he'd probably only let me go another 7-10 days so I'm hopeful that I'll have a daughter by the end of this week.

To be honest, I could probably be okay at home and being patient waiting for her if I hadn't heard from three different nurses this week, "I don't think you're leaving here without a baby." I mean, why tell me that if you really don't know because that just gets me all ramped up for taking home my daughter and then makes me very upset when it looks like I won't get to.

I felt a little bad for the doc on call today. He's Dr. G's partner in the practice but he came in to tell me I'd probably go home and come back and I just started crying. It was so pitiful. lol. But we're going to talk to him again tomorrow morning because I don't want to be sent home from the hospital and then have to come back Monday a.m. for my appointment with the doc and possibly be re-admitted. Call me cheap but why would I want to pay two inpatient admission fees only to be re-admitted less than 48 hours later? Anyhow, so much is undecided that we're still in the holding pattern we've been in all week.

I'll update again once we have something to say. So far. . . no news is . . . well, killing me.