Sat March 15, 2008..the beginning of a not so normal week!

March 15, 2008 - Saturday
monday...the beginning of not so normal week
ok so i am going to try and reaccount for this last week. as many of you know it has been a long, overwhelming week for our family and friends.
so last sat i went into the Labor and Delivery in Oak Harbor due to feeling sick/not quite myself and lots of swelling and lots of braxton hicks that hurt. went in and they monitored me and told me bed rest which was fine and all. i made an apt to follow up with my dr (dr sylvetti) on monday. Later sat night i threw up and then went to bed for the night and woke up feeling soo much better with the exception of back pain. so i didnt listen to the bed rest part and cleaned a bit and then relaxed when i needed it. then i went to bed and woke up monday feeling good witht he exception of some cramping...just htought iwas overdoing it.
so monday i went to the lending locker to get stuff for daycare (i was supposed to get certified this week) and then went to walmart and luncha dn then went to my drs apt. dr sylvetti wanted to rerun my bloodwork and my blood pressure was HIGH so he was a bit worried about that. he rechecked a urine sample for preclampsia again since i was swelling still. and told me bed rest and then hed get back to me with the results tomorow. so i left......about an hr later i am going ot go pick vinny up and my cell rings and i almost didnt answer it but i did and it was my dr. all i got told is that my results came back and it was worst than eh thought and i needed to get back tot he hspital ASAP to be driven my ambulance to madigan army hostpial in tacoma. then he hung up. im freaking out and i call sean and tell him to start acking btu have no info to give him. he starts freaking out. we get ahold of my parents to have them meet us to take vinny and Ali, vinnys daycare provider/my friend, was trying to calm me down and so vina nd i left and went to meet sean at the thouse. packed very little and then went to the hospital. the got me into a gown strapped on IVs and started pumping magnesium into me and gave me a steriod shot to help develope Owens lungs faster. the ambulance ride turned into a helicopter ride and sean left to head down there as he had to drive there. i had HELLP Syndrome for those of you interested
i arrived there after a long helicopter ride (due to weather it took longer than expected). and my mom and dad and vin and sean were waiting for me. they hooked me up to more ivs once in my room and said they were going ot rerun my bloodwork and tests and hopefully monitor me and send me home still prego in a bout a week. we waited and waited for the test results and finally aorund 11 pm my parents asked if they were going ot take the baby otnight and they said no so they left with vinny. well, about 130 am they came in with resluts form the tests and said they are prepping the ER and going ot take the baby. because my blood platlettes were soo low they didnt know if they could do a spinal as the risk for infection was higher. the only other option owuld be to knock me out but then owen would get some of the gases and he would have enough to deal with. they REran my blood and the numbers were going up but still low but they went ahead with the spinal.
THE C SECTION:
Once in the OR and having cut me open they noticed i had severe scaring form my c section with vinny and that my uterus hada ctually attached itself to my left abdomainal wall. so between all the scarring they couldnt cut thorugh and owen being breached and soo small they had ot make the desicion to cut me up and down in the inside. what this means is that if i were to ever have kids again i would need to have a c section by 36 weeks THE LATEST or if i had ANY ocntractions theywould have to take the baby RIGHT THEN. VERY risky for me to have kids again they said. as with the up and down insicion the risk of my uterus bursting is at 10% which then i could die and all if it happened. i really wanted a 3rd kid but i think this iwll be all as it doesnt seem worht it to sean or myself...its still hard to cope with. so it was a longer c section than with vinny where i was in and out in 30 mins. this was almost 2 hrs. i had him at 3:24 AM and he was 2 lbs 11 oz and 16.9 in. they wisked him away to the NICU and hauled me back to my room where i was exhausted. it wasnt untl later (cant even remember how muhc later it was) that i got to go into the NICU and see him all strapped up to ivs and tubes. i didnt get to stay long as i was soo tired and they keep it hot in there which was making me light headed. Sean got to go see him several times more than me for some time. he is soo prescious and soo small. we love him soo much already!
by today was only at 1 cc of food every 3 hrs and was on the cpap and the photo therapy lights which they assumed hed be on all of this for about a week.
visitors:
my parents, sandra and vinny although vinny didnt get to see him and becca and bubba