Friday, January 28, 2011

Yet ANOTHER crazy night!

Went to the hospital at 10 PM last night. I had a repeat of the same pain I had last weekend awful chest / back / and upper stomach pain. They took blood to check and see If it could be my gallbladder and everything came back normal. The midwife had a hard time finding my cervix to check it but said I seemed to be .5 % dilated and highly doubted I was in labor. After being here for a while they said the baby was " text book perfect " and " exactly what you want to see " and that they were only seeing small sporadic contractions . I started feeling the really intense pain again and they took me off of the monitors and told me to try walking around to see if that would help which it didn't my pain was so intense in my ribs and back and it didn't let up for an hour! I vomited a few times in the bathroom. By the time the on call dr came in to check on me the pain had slowed down a lot and he was planning to discharge me he told us if I had a repeat of the pain to come back in and to call my dr in the morning to follow up and ask for an ultrasound for my gallbladder. Behn kept insisting he thought I was in labor and wishing they'd hook me back up onto the monitors and when my back pain returned again he asked me to please just ask to stay longer since the pain was already back instead of going home and having to coming back so I did and they hooked me back up to the monitors and the midwife checked me again and said I was now 1 cm dilated and 60% effaced and having some contractions but they were not regular but they decided to keep me over night to see how / if things would progress since my cervix was changing. They hooked up an IV and told me I was not allowed to eat or drink anything until someone told me otherwise. At 4 AM we attempted to get some sleep they gave Behn a cot and he was sound asleep within 10 minutes I on the other hand could not get comfortable for the life of me and I noticed my contractions were starting to get a lot lower and more pelvic. I had contractions off and on all night and in the morning they sent me for an ultrasound to check on my gallbladder. The woman who administered the ultrasound was a bitch and refused to fix my IV for me when it kept leaking and eventually it detached and she told me it was only saline in the IV and she doesn't " do IV's " they checked all of my organs above my belly button and she was KILLING me while she was doing it omg it hurt so much! Then she refused to show me the baby because the Dr. " didn't order anything on the baby " but checked the heartrate for her paperwork - bitchbitchbitch! She had the radiologist come in and she told me that they did see gallstones but didn't think I had any inflammation so she didn't think it was very serious right now and she'd talk to the on call Dr. and have her get back to me. I went back up to my room and they had to start a new IV in my other hand because my first one was disconnected for so long so I now have two achy hands! The on call Dr. for L&D came in to talk to me and checked my cervix I was 1 cm dilated and 70% effaced - no major changes. She went on to tell me that a lot of people have gallstones and it never gives them any trouble but when I explained to her that this was the second time one of those attacks had happened she told me she'd talk to the surgery team and see what they recommend and they might want to keep me over night again and monitor me and not allow me to eat or drink anything for 24 hrs which is almost a death sentence to a pregnant woman! The woman from the surgery team came in and talked to me and told me there was no inflammation and since I was so close to full term that they wanted to put off having surgery until after the baby was born but if I had any more attacks to come in right away, and also that my white blood cell count was high?! They discharged me and told me to keep an eye on my contractions and if they became regular or more intense to come in. It was a very long and exhausting night for everyone involved but the little one is still inside baking for hopefully a few more weeks!

1 comment:

  1. Hope you feel better soon, I had gall bladder problems throughout my pregnancy & they were horrible after giving birth so my dr did a removal; it wasn't bad at all so don't be afraid if you do have to get it done. Good Luck!

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