The last couple days Ive been feeling pretty lousy. I felt as though my blood pressure was up. I have been dizzy, had a headache, seeing floaters, and my feet were swelling just a little. I had my weekly doctor appointment on Monday and my pressure was up a little bit. They made me lay on my left side and it went back down. So they let me go home. I called the doctor today (thursday) and they wanted me to come in for a blood pressure check. I went into the doctors and my pressure was 154/? so again they made me lay on my left side. It didnt go down. So they sent me to the hospital to be monitored.
Rob met me at the hospital. I had a wonderful nurse named Barbara. She hooked me up to the blood pressure machine, and all the monitors for the babies and away we went! As usual she had a really hard time finding Baby B's heartbeat (shocker) but eventually felt confident she had both. They also took my blood to check for pre eclampsia.
I was there for a couple hours and they determined I was ok to go home. My blood pressure was down while I was resting and I showed no signs of pre eclampsia. Barbara did inform me that my platelet count was down to 94,000 and I may have to be put completely out for my csection. They usually cut it off at 100,000. The reason for this is that they dont want me to bleed out of the little hole in my back. She said they would take my blood again the day before my procedure to see if things have changed. I was really sad about this but hopeful I would be ok to have my spinal. Barbara said Dr Sarver wanted me to go on bed rest for the next 5 days before my big day!
So I will spend the next 5 days in bed :)
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