Taking the Scenic Route

Very good news to report.  First, notice I am NOT in the hospital after my test results today.   

Second, the numbers look ok right now.  They didn’t have my protein counts in, but the blood work and whatever else they were testing for was not horrible.  I am still on bedrest and I still need to monitor my blood pressure, but for right now, I am still at home and not on meds.  WooHoo!

I had some nervous moments today though.  They were ‘fitting me in’ and the Dr. ended up being in emergency surgery so I had to wait a bit.  Luckily, my dad came to watch Zane in the waiting room (in theory so that Zach could hear what was going on without having to wrangle Zane at the same time) so when the appointment was delayed, Zach had to leave.  He had to do a presentation on a project worth 40% of his grade in one class and then teach another class…canceling was not an option.  I was a bit nervous because they wouldn’t tell me anything or give me any hint of whether it was good news or bad and kept telling me that the Dr. wanted to speak with me personally.  I guess he wanted to be the bearer of some decent news for once.  lol. 

After the appointment, my Dad took Zane and me to Arby’s to grab some lunch.  It was sort of cool having lunch with my just my dad…that hasn’t happened in a really long time.  It was sweet.  Zach called while we were there to find out where to leave me some house keys because he realized that I was without a set of keys.  I was glad he called because I was able to tell him that everything was ok before he had to walk into his presentation.  I was hating that he had to leave not knowing if he would be coming back to see me in the hospital later in the evening.

The Dr. isn’t ready to move my c-section back quite yet (I want it very close to the due date) until we get closer.  There really isn’t any point to fiddling with it right now because it could change at any time and would just create more confusion if there is a change.  So, I am still slated for an early January delivery, but if all goes well, I might be able to move it towards the middle of January again.  

I especially hope to get past next Tuesday.  Tuesday is Zach’s last day of school for the semester and his schedule is utterly insane and very, very high pressure until then.  If we can get past that date at least it would be SO much easier on both our immediate and extended families (who are our support system & will be helping with Zane).   My mom works at my SIL’s shop and one of the full time people quit and my SIL was sent on a business trip for her other job this week, so my Mom is beyond busy this week. (and my SIL is out of town and brother is busy trying to help at the shop too)  One more week and all of my support people are in a better position.  What I really want is to make it until the middle of January, but one step at a time at this point.