Hospital Update

Yes, I'm still in the hospital and will be here for a while. I can blog via Blogger, but that's about it. I can access eBay, but not PayPal. No MySpace or AOL IM either because I have to use their laptops, and the Internet is way restricted. But still, better than no Internet...

OK, here's the story. The specialist said if I'm asked about my condition I am to say I'm severely preeclamptic. In a nutshell, I had a bunch of screenings run on my liver function and every time they do a screen, the levels come back worse and worse. This is a part of preeclampsia I guess. The specialist said I should "present myself" in a day or two either by my blood pressure going sky high or the baby's fluid drying up. My regular ob/gyn whom is still running the show said she's going to deliver him tomorrow via C-Section. As she said, the baby is 34 weeks. While he's only 4 pounds right now, he's healthy and everything is developed as it should be. Right now I'm healthy except for the liver function, which will fix itself as soon as he's born. Why not deliver him while both of us are healthy, so we both remain that way? So yeah, word round the campfire is he'll be born tomorrow, probably around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. C-Section with a spinal and tubal for me, woohoo!

As far as I'm doing, it's all right. I have an IV and I'm receiving fluids plus magnesium so I don't have seizures (eclampsia causes seizures.) The magnesium makes my face red, makes me feel hot and generally blahish. I've received two shots of a steroid so the baby's lungs will develop more quickly, and I begin blood thinners at ten tonight. I need blood thinners because the magnesium can make me wobbly and the specialist doesn't want me on my feet other than to pee. That's not enough movement to prevent blood clots, and even though I have the cool TED hose, I still need the blood thinner. Not a big deal. I've received two shots of insulin today because the steroid makes my glucose shoot up insanely high, and I'm on a restricted fluid diet because the magnesium can cause me to collect fluid around my heart or in my lungs. The good thing is, once I'm taken off the magnesium it's out of my system within 10 minutes and I'll be able to drink whenever I'm thirsty. Woo! All in all I could be muuuuuuuch worse, I'm not going to go into labor and I'm getting my C-Section.

The magnesium is starting to make me feel woozy, so I should take a nap. I'll blog more later; this laptop is mine until I go home.

That is all.