Name: fuge_chick Title: ER VISIT FOR ME AND PEANUT-FUGE_CHICK

OKay, so the last few days I've had some cramping and shortness of breath. It was getting pretty bad, so I had John take me to the ER tonight...
Well, fortunately, Floyd Memorial takes a sick pregnant woman A LOT more seriously than Harrison County does.
It took 15 minutes to get a room from the time we walked in the building...and that's just because we had to check in and wait on our insurance info to work :)
Once we got in the room, they had me change into a gown, and then we waited about 5 minutes for my doctor to come back. He felt my stomach, listened to me breathe and all that other good junk. Said he was gonna run some tests, give me some fluids, etc. He was worried because my blood pressure was pretty high when I checked in, and kept asking me if I had high blood pressure. I kept telling him no, that my pressure has always been almost perfect. So he was afraid of pre-eclampsia showing up already :(
He left...a few minutes later a nurse came in and ran an EKG to check my heart out....she was pushing her cart out and almost ran into the next nurse coming in. She brought in a portable X-Ray machine, and took an x-ray of my chest to check for blood clots. Then the next nurse came in right behind her and drew blood, then another came in to start my IV. My blood pressure was down a little by that, so they took down the bag they had up at first, because it had contained magnesium to lower my blood pressure, and gave me just a plain bag of saline.
After all the tests were run, they moved me over to the ER's ICU, right in front of the nurses' desk so they could monitor my heart rate and blood pressure. They kept the heart monitor pads, plus that finger thing on me for almost 2 hours, while I was getting my IVs done. My blood pressure was checked every 10 minutes...it was finally down to 132/61 at 330, so they let me come home. He said the top number was still high, but the low number was enough to satisfy him for now, and that I just have to check up with the OB in the next 48 hours....so I guess I'll go see Dr Sauer on Friday :)
No ultrasound tonight, but we're hoping now, because of the difficulties, he'll wanna check up on our peanut :)  ?

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Name: nicole76108 • Date: 04/30/2008 08:12:18

hopefully your blood pressure is ok. as well as your peanut. Give us an update when you know.  =

Name: briseis • Date: 04/30/2008 08:33:21

When I was 38 weeks pregnant my blood pressure went through the roof and I was sent to hospital. It came down again on it's own eventually though.

Hope everything will be fine. xxx  =

Name: fuge_chick • Date: 04/30/2008 13:15:31

Yeah, I'm really hoping that I can get in to the dr on Friday...once my OB confirms everything is okay, I'll feel ALOT better :)  =

Name: smashlee • Date: 05/01/2008 21:19:45

oh gosh as soon as i saw this title i freaked ashley!!! i hope that your okay.. kep us updated huh? glad that things are loking good for now :)  =

Name: fuge_chick • Date: 05/01/2008 22:26:15

we're doing fine.....got into the OB today and he said everything was good.....
We got to hear the heartbeat today for the first time :) It was 125 at our 7 week ultrasound......at 12 weeks 1 day today, it was up to 160 :D YAY!  =

Name: zoey9810 • Date: 05/02/2008 00:04:22

good that everything is ok!  =

Name: fuge_chick • Date: 05/02/2008 00:50:08

on the 30th we go back for that triple screen test, because I refused the amnio......(me and the dr were both worried about the miscarriage risk, since I've already had 2)
And then...sometime around the 13th of June I should be able to find out the sex :) We're SOOOOO excited for that :)  =

Name: zoey9810 • Date: 05/02/2008 01:22:34

why would they want you to have the amino???  =

Name: fuge_chick • Date: 05/02/2008 13:59:47

I don't know why he's having me do it.
I think he's wanting to check everything out since I've had so many problems. He was explaining it to me, but there were two other girls in the office who were almost at their due date, and one of them went into labor lol :) So, our convo got cut short...He said we'd finish discussing it at my next appointment. I don't HAVE to have it, but he said he'd like for me to, just to be sure of everything.  =

Name: DaisyUK-US • Date: 05/04/2008 00:57:36

I'm not going to have any of those screening tests. The accuracy of them isn't good enough to warrant them. They're only about 60% accurate so you could get a test that comes back inaccurate but then the only way to know for sure is the amnio. So if you're adamant about not having an amnio and if you're not going to terminate (hate that word) if the test does come back positive then I wouldn't have it done. It can stress you out for no reason at all.

I'm so happy to hear that you and baby bean are great!!!! How has it been with your mother in law lately?

I'm not too far behind you, my due date is November 28!!! We just saw our baby bean on Wed!!!  =