24 hours

When I was in high school, I fell asleep at the wheel and rolled my brand new (to me) 4 runner. As I was laying upside down in my car- I called my mom, craig, the house phone,my dad, linda mom, the business line, the personal phone line at their house not one answer. Finally I called my brother Spencer at work - and asked him why the crap no one will answer their phones! anyway- that is exactly what happened to me yesterday... why is it that when something is really important no one will ever pick up???


Well yesterday was somewhat of an eventful day. I went in to work like normal, and my ankles, legs and feet (cankles if you will) have been the size of texas. So I thought I would call my dr.s office to see if there was anything that I could do for them. The nurse called me back to tell me to drink more water- and to elevate my feet ( I drink a gallon of water every day at work alone, and my feet are almost always propped up). So I thought I would have one of the nurses I work with check my Blood pressure just in case (preeclampsia/ toxemia) well it was pretty high, so I called the nurse back- and she told me to come in and get some tests run. I went in and sure enough my blood pressure was a crazy 150/100 which is dangerously high, my urine had protein in it, and my limbs were swollen to high heaven. All signs point to preeclampsia and toxemia. I sat in the nurses station waiting paitently for her to come back with what the doctor wanted me to do- she came back and said- Ms Nelson- please head straight to labor and delivery at such and such hospital immediately. I suddenly burst into tears, (i think my hormones are working) saying- “im not ready! I still need to vaccum one more time, and I didn’t even pack my hospital bag yet!” she said- "you will be just fine, im sure your husband can help with all of that." and we were off. So we got to the hospital and all the ladies were just as cute as can be, and saw my "cute" texan feet, and saw what my bp was and got me all excited. We are gunna have a baby tonight! Well after a few hours of being monitored, they thought it would be a good idea to send me- a high risk pregnancy with a bp that high- home, To have a little bed rest time, and to pee in a giant container for 24 hours…. THEN they would tell me what is going to happen. Right now I am on my bed rest, I don’t want to get my hopes up like I did last night- I was so excited that I was going to meet my little boy! Only to have our dreams dashed to the wind. Well not completely. We will see him within the next several days regardless of what happens tonight. But still. Lessons on patience make me crazy…..
Stevey has been so dang cute, and is such a good caretaker, I really need to take lessons from him on how to take care of an invalid. He has been right there to my every beckon call. I love him so much and don’t know what I would do without him. He was so sad yesterday (well- and mad) that we didn’t get to stay at the hospital last night and meet the little man, he is so excited to meet his little boy. Soon enough I spose. Soon enough.