And More Testing....

Another Dr. Appt. Blood pressure still up - and I gained 4 lbs. in 4 days... Nurse said most is water retention, especially after she saw my ankles - or lack there of. I now get to go to the dr. every week, instead of most people's every other week. UGH. He wants to continue watching the BP, and now he wants to start making sure that our little guy doesn't get himself too stressed out as well. So I will be doing a NST *Non Stress Test. They told me basically they hook me up, I get to sit in a chair and they monitor the baby. Sounds pretty simple.

I finally have a person in my classroom full time. I'm really excited about that. My students have been showing their most colorful selves, so it's been even harder knowing that and still sitting on the couch all day long.

Oh well, time will pass. :)

Fingers Crossed didn't work

Well, my "incarceration" continues. The Dr. is worried about toxemia/preclampsia. I guess I'm showing some classic signs of it right now, and he is trying to slow it down. That's my best guess. I guess some of the symptoms are headaches (which I don't have), extreme swelling of the feet, hands and face, High Blood pressure, and fast weight gain. Yup - you guessed it, I have all but the headaches. So I'm out for the count until gunnar arrives. Dr. said he wants to make sure I make it another 7 weeks before he will not be so concerned. Lets hope that I can last that long.. UGH. OK, so I've had a lot of people ask what is this toxemia/preclampsi - well, basically the dr. said it's like my body is trying to reject the pregnancy - or a type of "allergy" to it. From what I've been reading, only a few people get it. UGH, and I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Good thing - I'm not on strict "bedrest", but was told to become more of a couch potato. Guess Days of our Lives will have a faithful follower for the next few months. Only problem is... this messes with my whole plan on spending the time with Gunnar after he was born, now I will only have the summer time... unless he comes early.

Fingers Crossed

OK, my fingers are definatly crossed - that this is the last day of my "incarceration".... as my sister so lovingly phrased it. I did get back my glucose testing results and those were all good - so that eased my mind a lot. Although I must admit - it's very nice not getting up to an alarm, or any specified time, and lounging around the house... lol.. although it's boring at the same time, because I'm not even supposed to be up doing ANYTHING... which my dearest friends, family and hubby are making sure. However, I must admit that my hubby sends me out on a couple errands once he gets home - I think so I don't "attack" him by needed adult stimulus when he comes home. Right now he begs me to go call someone just to leave him alone.. lol..
My Dr. appt. is at 4 today, so I will be beggin him to let me go back to work. It's hard when I know the kids are not acting correctly, and the subs are not following what is needed to be done. I hope that I can go back - just to get normalacy back in my classroom. This has def. been an eye opener, that I need to have things closer to being done for my maternaty leave... the whole time I'm thinking that I have 3 months and maybe I won't... maybe I will have to suffer on bedrest for 3 months.. UGH.. Lets all keep our fingers crossed. :)

The newest Development

Well, here's the latest development.. :(

I have been put on bedrest for at least 1 week. I'm REALLY hopeing that I will be able to go back after that - cuz it's only day 1 and I'm already stir crazy. :)

Here's the background. Saturday and Sunday I noticed that my feet seem to be swollen way more than usual. Dan said he could even see it in my face. So most of the weekend, I tried to take it easy, and elevate the feet - and drink lots of water. That didn't seem to help. On Monday I showed my feet/ankles to the school nurse - and she made me have my blood pressure taken. It was quite elevated she said. She made me call the Dr and tell them about the ankles and the blood pressure, they said that they would fax over orders to Tbird Banner Obi-Triage Center, and that I should get someone to take me. UGH - you all know how much it bothers me to no do things myself sometimes, and they wouldn't even let me drive to the hospital even though I thought I felt fine.

I get there - they hook me up to all kinds of monitors. Gunnar was kicking away, which was funny to hear on the monitor. It was almost like he was saying - hey, I like all the attention....

They monitored my BP and yup - it was elevated. The Dr/Nurse said that according to my chart, I was elevated quite above my "norm". So I had to lay there while they did urine samples, and blood work. They were specifically looking for Preclampsia. Well, good thing - they didn't come across anything that was abnormal in that area. After consulting with my OBGyn, told me that I have a week of bedrest to see if it helps with the BP, and then I might be able to go back to work.. UGH. I sure hope it does, cuz I know I won't be able to sit around the house for 3 months until Gunnar makes his arrival. Anyway, that's the newest development. Feel free to email me, cuz I will be extra bored, and need something to do.

Some Really Good News

OK, so those of you that know what happened with Dan and a Car accident the weekend of our wedding - will be VERY happy to hear, there is no longer any chance of a lawsuit. According to the Lawyer, the son who had started the lawsuit has passed on, and there are no heirs to carry on the lawsuit. This was great news, because we had just gotten a letter indicating that the trial was to start in July.

OK, now here's the other bit of news... since now my mom figured out the name of the baby, I thought we could officially let people know what his name is going to be......

Gunnar Howard Ridley