End of 3rd Week on Bed Rest

So my dr. appt is in a few hours....I have been taking my blood pressure about 4 times a day. It's looking good from what I can see, but we shall see what the dr. says.
Ben got back later last night from the golf tournament with.......FOOD from Mom Larson. Thank goodness, and thank you for the food!!! I don't know what I was happier to see the food or Ben :)
I will be updating later this afternoon after the dr. appt. I will also be attaching some pictures.
Have a good day!

Also, hi to all the people in Valentine whom have bookmarked this page ;)

Yay!

I have eaten well (and with low salt), kept my blood pressure down....and the house is clean!!!!!!! Mom came and did numerous loads of laundry, dishes, vacuumed and made smothered burritos, steak fingers, mashed potatoes, chicken noodles, peach pie, rice krispy treats, and chicken salad with croissants for when she's gone. Delish!!!! She also went and picked up my diaper bag that I "shopped" for online and went to the grocery store multiple times. What will I do now? Also, she used the ped egg on my feets. May I say that for it being a "buy on TV" item it is freakin awesome!!!!!! My feets are smooth and soft and it didn't hurt a bit. I highly recommend getting one of these!
I did learn today that my blood pressure goes up when I know I'm getting a blood draw and when I'm going to get some pie!!! I can get it back down in 5 minutes now :) at least for the pie.

Yessss............

I begrudgingly attended my doctors appointment today. If you have been reading you know why. Dr. S was back from 2 weeks being gone. I had brought my notes on my blood pressures at home. Since all lab work has been perfect and my BP is normal at home on left side I get to keep sassy!! My next appointment isn't until Monday! Not only that but if my BP stays the same then I will get to keep sassy until 1) I go into labor or 2) until my numbers change.
Mom is coming tomorrow.....laundry and dishes and cooking....which is good because I need some clean drawers! This will also give Ben a break and someone to keep me company during the day! Yay!

Still at home...

I did call the doctor's office today. The nurse I spoke to asked how long ago I had the baby. ?What? I tell her no, I was sent to the hospital for observation...perhaps she was told otherwise. I go in tomorrow at 1:40 to be told my blood pressure is too high. Whoohoo...I'm taking in my sheet with my own recorded numbers. We'll see what happens. I'm hoping they let me go to at least 37 weeks so that sassy can be full term. Today in the mail sassy got a lovely baby gift my great aunt Nancy made a adorable quilt! If I can get to the camera tonight I'll post pictures!

Home...

They did not wait for the results of all of the lab work...they(nurses) thought it was a bit ridiculous that I was still there. My blood pressure remained normal and I'm going to continue to take it at home every few hours (this am it was 134/77) just to show them when I go back into the drs. office this week. All of the monitoring of sassy showed that she was fine.....she did like to kick the monitor though :)
It was nice to have my dad stay with me all day at the hospital yesterday. Ben could go to his golf outing and get stuff done at home. Dad left this am, but went to HyVee this am and got me lots of fruits for this week(if it lasts that long) I LOVE my fruit. One of the ladies that works there even asked about me......sad indeed :P
Today I thought I would lay on my left side in bed.....then maybe, just maybe switch to the right for awhile, then back to the left again.
Enjoy your day!

"Happy" Fourth of July

......as I write to you from my hospital room. I have been put on observation for however long they decide. They thought that my blood pressure was creeping up yesterday and that it worried them so now they check it every 4 hours (it was every 30 minutes) and they should be here to draw more blood in the next hour or so. My blood pressure is now within normal limits, perhaps one should not make me aware of a surprise blood draw and then follow it up with blood pressure findings, duh.
So here I sit. Jake came to see me yesterday and helped us out to take Charles to the vet. The vet made a crack about him not being without groceries.....ha, so funny, not. Other than trying to escape Jake's attempt to get him in the carrier all went as planned.
We were also supposed to meet the pediatrician yesterday, but that was canceled as I was busy being committed.
Please watch some fireworks for me today as the doctor will most likely not let me out of bed to see the big show this evening.


P.S. Hospital food not so bad......

Quick update on Storm damage...

The insurance adjuster stopped by yesterday. He measured and climbed, etc. and stated that we would need:
a new roof
new air conditioner
new fence (the sides that are gone)
2 new downspouts
painting on west and south side
deck sanded/stained

I'll update blog later today with doctor's visit if it's important.