Wednesday, April 1, 2009

April Fools???

Today I am offically on Spring Break and maternity leave from school. It feels good to have finished up my loose ends at school and now I can focus on other things. We also had a doctors appointment today...but it ended up going a little different than we planned. We went into the room, the nurse checked my protient levels...which were good, and then went on to take my blood pressure. I've never had a problem with blood presure, so i figured that they would say, "looks good" like they always do. But...she asked me to take my sweatshirt off so she could take it again...then she did my other arm. Apparently, my blood pressure was in the 150/100 range. (She said a good range is 120/80...which mine usually is). So...my doctor came in, checked me, said i was 3 cen and that she could break my water if she wanted to. (which i assume means i'm thinning out more and more). then we disscussed my blood presure issue. She siad it was too high and wanted me to get looked at. She sent us over to the hospital where i got hooked up to the monitor and had some blood work done. If my blood presure didn't go down or my blood work came back bad then she was going to break my water and go from there. After sitting in the hospital for 4 hours, it went down enough to allow me to go home, and my blood work was good. I am on "bed rest" with the exception to get up to eat, shower, and go to the bathroom. I am going back in on Friday to the doctor to get my blood pressure checked again. At my appt (before getting sent to the hosptial) my doctor told me to take my bags with me if i come back Friday...so she may just break my water on friday.
So....while sitting at the hosptial my mom called to see how my appt went, and she thought i was giving her an "April Fools" joke...i had to assure her a few times i wasn't. :)
So...here I sit at home. We will see what happends Friday.

4 comments:

Brenda Stewart said...

Oh Betsy! I am sorry you are bed ridden! At least it shouldn't be for too long, right? Good luck tomorrow, I'll be thinking and praying for you and that all goes well and everyone is healthy! Can't wait to hear more!

Brad and Jill said...

I am so excited for you!! i hope tomorrow goes well hun! Call me if you need help:) Jill

Kylee said...

see the little one tomorrow AM for me i hope? either way i hope it all goes well at the hospital and i will either talk to you on skype tomorrow post baby or just wait to hear what's going on next! love you!

TracyVDM said...

Hey Betsy, I posted the directions for making the cake pops on my blog. :)

Also, you gotta share some more of that beautiful baby girl of yours!! :)