Today has been a busy day. I got up when my alarm went off to wake Bobby up like he asked me the night before. I mean he has an iPhone. You'd think it had an alarm feature or something. Oh wait.... it does? Huh. Somebody should tell him.... ;)
Yes, I'm a smart ass and it makes me more interesting. Anyway I had a doctors appointment with my hematologist today at like 2. Since I'm not allowed to drive for now, Bobby had to work 9-2 pm today and he's been using my car. I asked my mom if she could take me to my appointment and to get some groceries afterward. Plus Raven is currently on Spring Break this week. So that i had an extra pair of hands to deal with Raven. But, poor Mom, she's been sick with sinus problems and a sore throat so her voice kept leaving her today. It was kind of cute.
Back to the appointment itself. It took absolutely forever. First off, they're in the middle of merging two major clinics that deal with hematology and oncology. So they're still organizing charts and stuff while still working with all the patients. It took almost an hour just for me to be called back to have my vitals taken and some blood drawn. In that hour, Raven went from panicky little girl dealing with a sensory overload to a defiant little brat. Not listening, being disruptive and rude, knocking her chair into others. *sigh* It was raising my blood pressure which is something I'm trying desperately to avoid. Then I get sent back out to the waiting room to wait for almost another hour, it feels like, to be seen by the doctor in a room. I'm a pretty patient person but at this point I was reaching my limit and getting really annoyed.
Also I should mention that since my last admittance to the hospital, i was prescribed with a blood pressure machine and cuff. To keep track of my blood pressure and if it got way too high to come back to labor and delivery so they can observe me overnight and torture me with promises of delivering my baby. Leading me with a false sense of hope. But I digress.
So I bring the aforementioned item to the doctor per some nagger reminding from Bobby and a text from Mom before she picks us up. Just so they can check and make the thing is being accurate. Get in the room, the doctor is right there. He does the usual exam on me. Check my lung, heart, belly and legs. Long story short: The plan is I continue to take the one medication until Wednesday or Thursday morning before I'm to be induced. Then 12 hours I have the baby, they're gonna run that same medication through an IV. I don't know how long they're gonna do that. They are then going to switch me to another medication of the same type. I am going to continue to take that until I'm done withe breastfeeding. That tidbit threw me for a loop. I wasn't expecting that. The doctor seemed worried because I guess I made a face and he thought he upset me. I was mostly confused about it because I didn't have to worry about that with Raven. Then at the end, He had the nurses check my machine and found that it's pretty accurate. So my blood pressure is still higher than normal, but with no other symptoms that are concerning him he said to take care and things should be okay for me on Thursday.
So all in all, the stars are aligning in preparation for Luke to be welcomed into the world in the best way possible.
Also final note, I didn't mean to write a blog for the third day in a row. Surprisingly I didn't feel up to it until now. I guess you never know when the need to write will hit you. It's not bad. It feels good for me to write my thoughts and feelings again. I just never thought i'd do so in such a public platform. I hope I can continue to keep doing this in days to come especially after Luke is born. I'll figure it out. :)
Until next time, I hope you have a good day!
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