Monday, May 19, 2008

Hospital again.

I had to head over to the hospital again Friday night. I went home from work at 2:30 because I was feeling just awful. So I layed down for a while then checked my blood pressure. Now I never have high blood pressure, in fact it's always really low, so I had no idea what high was. So I called the nurse and told her my blood pressure was 147/94. Well apparently that is too high so she said I needed to come in right away. Okay, so I called Michael and he met me there. After waiting for an hour...two doctors were doing an emergency C-section...one finally came in and sent me straight to the hospital...ARG! I understand if the baby is in distress or something why I would need to go, but really I was just there Monday! I was a little annoyed...I'm not made of money people. We went anyway and they hooked me up to all the monitors and ran some blood work...lab fee's now too, fun. After 2.5 hours of monitoring they saw that beyond a few small contractions there was nothing to be alarmed about. Blood pressure back to normal, baby just fine, heart rate fine, etc. And then the nurse gave me this big bottle and told me I needed to do a 24 hr. urine collection...I know TMI. I said fine, being pretty annoyed by this point that I had spent 2.5 hours at the hospital when there was no reason for it. Well after we got out to the car I told Michael he could throw that urine thing away. He looked at me weird and said why?...well they had just checked my urine at the doctor's office and it was fine, I just spent 2+ hrs. at the hospital and it was fine, I was not about to carry around a jug full of urine that had to be on ice for the next 24 hrs. when I had Kailye's birthday party to take care of the next day. Besides that it was a Friday night into Saturday, super convenient don't you think? Yeah no! Plus on top of that I did not want another lab fee. I have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday I guess we'll see how he feels about my decision to say Hell No! I'm sure I'll get an ear full but really I didn't feel like there was any reason for it when there were absolutely no signs of distress or infection. At this point I'm ready to tell him he can carry the pee-jug around. After being told that if x,y, and z happen I need to come into the office. Then I get to the office and the doctor acts like x, y, and z are no big deal and sends me home. You're kidding me right...I left work to drive 15 miles away(in my gas guzzling bus), so you could tell me nothings wrong, it's normal, go home?...fun.

Well my blood pressure has been fine since Friday and I am still having just small contractions here and there. I don't think we will have this baby until mid June but I'm really okay with anytime now.

5 comments:

  1. Ahh, the joys of going in and out of the hospital and doc's office...memories. ;) Hang in there.

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  2. What a huge ordeal to go through. Thank goodness I am not pregnant any more. I do not miss the blood tests and doctors apointments.

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  3. You answered my question- as long as the baby is fine keep on going! Can you have her now, is she physically ready?

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  4. Yeah, okay- I FEEEELLLL your frustration beyond belief. Except for they ADMITTED me to the hospital in the HIGH RISK unit. (Picture me with my head cocked to the side my hand on my hip with a disgusted look on my face.) And even though my blood pressure went down the still insisted I stay in the hospital and do the pee test and then even though the NEXT DAY that turned out fine, they still KEPT ME IN THE HOSPITAL to do an ultra sound the next day. Couldnt' I have gone in and done that seperately? Yeah... I feel ya sister. I wouldn't have done it either. I'm just glad that after those 3 or 4 stupid days in the hospital they decided to take him. I would've been pissed if they didn't!

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  5. I did the 24 hour urine collection a couple times, it gives them a much better view than the little tests they run in office. I understand your frustration but just remember they are doing it for a reason and just want to make sure things are ok with you and the baby.

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