Hospital musings ....

Hi, still here :-)

My Dr is back from holiday tomorrow, and I will see him here to find out what the go is - so nothing to report yet, OK?

Moving onto musings :

Musing 1 : Is it permissble to punch a Midwife in the head when she wakes you up at 5:45am to take your blood pressure?
Musing 2 : WTF - isn't a hospital supposed to be QUIET?
Musing 3 : Shift change at 9:30pm handover, and the NEW shift comes into the room to see you at 11pm???
Musing 4 : The steriod injections I am on prevent you sleeping - errrrr, thanks, I ALREADY have that problem, didn't need it to be HARDER!
Musing 5 : In HUGE letters on the board 'REST" - can I point you back to Musing 2 & 3?

Anywho, here I am. Reading my book, strolling around - because I mean seriously, who of you is expecting me to sit still? I already have a notation in my chart "not in room" when they came in for something.

Babies are fine and moving about, they like to play up when the monitoring machine is on - you know, moving AWAY from the listening pad so you can't hear anything, and then the machine gets left on LONGER.
I have already told them when they get out, they will be beaten - I don't care WHOSE fault it was :-)

Oh Oh

Musing 6 : What is the nurses obsession with "what names have you picked out". I almost said Bismarck and Guthro - just to see (all my South African friends are rolling around on the floor now) :-)

OK, might be more later, but for now, that's all.

Cheers
Me

Hospital it is .....

Rightio - so 1st March and off for a scan, that I waited over an hour to have as apppointments pushed in front of mine were people who were LATE LATE, and so they shoved me back. YAY - not!!

ANYWAY - 35 weeks 6 days today, and the bubs are 2.5 and 2.7kg, which I think/thought was great. After scan, upstairs to Dr Vikki - and I am late for that appointment due to scan. Blood pressure taken - absolutely fabulous 120/80 - so doesn`t reallly explain the blurred vision or the spots before my eyes. I tell the Dr I feel `ick all the time, hot face, and the radiologist calls and there is alot of `uh huh, oh, reallly, uh huh, hmmmm` on the phone. Turns out that the cord blood for each baby is moving slower than they`d like and the babies have grown slower than they would have liked (HELL I think they are big enough, right????) So, suggestions of steriod injections, today and tomorrow, and blood pressure checks ...... and then Dr deciides to be safe and put me in hospital for fetal monitoring, and injections, and blood tests, protein tests - so here I am.

Lucky I brought my bag with me :-)

So, I have done the bloods, had the steroid injection, started the whole protein test thing, and here I sit. Unfortunately not in a private room yet - sharing with someone, but the curtain is closed and I have my iPod in, iPad open ..... Once I have the bubs, I move to a private room.

John has gone home to collect my books and stuff, as I didn`t bring everything along,, so blog it is ....... ready to be bored everyone??? :-) I am singing on the inside - boogie woogie in the bed ......lalalalalalalala