Well, the onset of blood pressure trouble was later this time [Yay!], but it seems to be ramping up to very severe much more quickly [as opposed to past pregnancies where it has taken about 2 weeks to go from "bad" to "serious"].
I'm trying not to freak out here actually. ;) My blood pressure has been higher than what my doctor said she wanted me in the hospital for for the last 3 nights and I'm not sure what to do really. If I were being a "good patient" right now, I would be at Labor and Delivery with the blood pressure I have at this moment [160/100] but... what do I do with the other kids?
My husband would be fine here with them over night, but he can't keep them by himself for the next few days or weeks if I am in the hospital... ARGH. I don't have anyone else who can keep them - my parents plan to keep them for 2 nights while we actually *have* the baby, but that's it. Not right now...
Just don't quite know what to do here. I know if I go in to L&D they are probably going to keep me until it is safe to deliver the baby.
And I'm having that lovely *extreme* headache already - the one caused by cerebral swelling... which definitely seems bad. So, I'm in a lot of pain [but I'm doing very well at offering this up as a prayer for a few people who really need prayers right now, so at least it is not in vain...].
Argh. This is where I didn't want to go this pregnancy. We don't have much of a support system any more [due to friends moving away, friends in the process of moving away, friends being seriously ill themselves, and the loss of quite a few friends after what happened last year when DH and I reconciled....].
So, anyway, I have some requests of you, dear readers: 1) please pray for the baby and I to be safe, and 2) please pray for my other children - my older children especially seem to be very upset at seeing me so sick now suddenly and I think they are having some flashbacks to last time, which isn't great for them, and 3) please send me your prayer requests - I am about to have a lot to offer up on your behalf! :)
I'm feeling less afraid right now than I would have expected to feel, I feel kind of peaceful about everything in a very odd way, but I do feel confused about what I should do from here. I think I need to pray for the Lord's clear guidance! [Why didn't I think to do that already?!!!]
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3 comments:
Melanie wrote:
Kelly, you need to go to the hospital. Take your kids if you must - when I was there with L there was a woman that had 3 of her kids with her bc they had no other choice. What are they going to do? Kick you out?
You know how serious pre-e and eclampsia are. PLEASE don't take any chances.
You are in my prayers mightily right now. PLEASE call your doctor and if she says go to the hospital, PLEASE GO!!!
I agree with Melanie. GO to the hospital. Everything else will work out.
GO TO THE HOSPITAL!
Have you asked your parents if they would watch the little ones? I am sure they would rather have them longer than something terrible happening to you and/or the baby.
I wish we lived closer, you could bring them all here.
Please, go to the hospital.
We will pray for you all.
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