Ok so I have needless to say a bit absent the past week. I have been in a crazy nesting flurry trying to get the homestead ready for little man to arrive. Which might be sooner rather than later.
So for the past few days my blood pressure has been elevated, which I wasn't entirely surprised at since I went through this with my last pregnancy. Last night when I kept getting the same elevated numbers I decided to call the doctor on call and see at which point I might need to be concerned. She said that the numbers sounded high but wanted to get an idea of the bigger picture. I opted to go ahead and go to Labor & Delivery and get checked out, just to be on the safe side.
When I got there my blood pressure was elevated but they weren't getting numbers as high as I was getting at home. So the doctor decided to do some blood work and a urine test just to get an idea of where I was at. All my blood work came back normal, but I did have trace amounts of protein in my urine, which at this point isn't alarming. To get a better idea of my urine protein levels, she sent me home to do a 24 hour urine collection (ugh I know but its not nearly as bad as you would think). Which I will take back to the Hospital Lab tomorrow morning, and will hear results later in the day. Everyone cross your fingers I can get another week or two with this kiddo in the belly.
Because..... Andrew's broken finger, which was supposed to heal easily on it's own, will require surgery. After his initial injury we were told it would take a few weeks in a splint to heal, and to follow up with the specialist. Well Andrew went to the hand surgeon and after new x-rays and a thorough exam, we were told the nail bed was damaged and to prevent nail deformation it would require surgery. Plus the fractured bone needs to be stabilized to heal properly, so a pin will be inserted. So this coming Friday Andrew will be having surgery to fix his ring finger, and I will be crossing my fingers I don't go into labor in the waiting room. Now just hoping that the workers comp claim processes quickly so that he can get the surgery this week. Anything later and we might both be in the hospital....
Needless to say it looks like Andrew will be down a hand when little man makes his debut. Which of course will only make things more interesting, but I know it will all be great! Hope everyone has had an awesome weekend and heres looking forward to the awesome July week ahead!
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