I know I've been MIA lately, so I need to do a bit of updating...so here goes...
I called the hospital Sun night for pain in my abdomen and they asked me to come in so they could check my blood pressure. I went in and spent 5 hours being monitored and them trying to figure out what was going on. My blood pressure was slightly high thanks to my lovely pain response, but no protein in my urine and everything else was looking okay. I got sick thanks to some severe nausea, but that didn't relieve the pain either. :( Both boys heart beats were great though so that's always a good sign. They took labs and my liver tests came back LOWER than they were when I had my OHSS, so that was good news. Bad news was no clue what it was. :-S They gave me Pepcid thinking that would resolve some heart burn issues...no luck. So then I ended up having a Maalox/Benedryl/Lidocaine mixture that made me feel better enough that I could go home. Plus, it was 1AM, so I was a sleepy girl. I slept and all was good on Monday. I stayed home from work since I hadn't gotten home until 2AM, but I felt okay. The sore area was still tender but I could eat and function like a normal human being again at least!
Back to normal on Tuesday and Wednesday...then Thursday morning, I woke at 3:00 AM just not feeling well. I had really bad shoulder pain and just felt all around not well. I tossed and turned and tried sleeping on the couch...then finally slept for about 45 minutes. I took the bus to work thinking a nap on the bus would help and I'd be able to get work done. No such luck...I couldn't function at work at all and had Cam come pick me up and take me home. I went home and slept for 3 hours, woke up and had a snack but then within half an hour, I had the same pain all over again. Uh oh...I waited an hour or so to see if it would go away. No such luck. Cam was at work, so I had a wonderful friend who was coming to see me anyways who brought me to the hospital and stayed with me. I felt even worse last night than Sun night. I couldn't even make it to the hospital before I vomited everything I had eaten all day. :-S
Once at the hospital, they redid my blood work...tried to use the machine to do a non stress test on the boys...and all the same stuff as Sunday. The Maalox mixture helped, but not nearly as well as before. They ended up needing to use an ultrasound to check on the boys since they were moving too much to stay on the monitors. The good news was the boys looked great. Bad news was my liver enzymes went back up and my pain wasn't really going away...to top it off my blood pressure was staying slightly high. So I got admitted. Spent all night and morning in a room with a HORRIBLE roommate. She was something like 21 years old and talked constantly with her husband...and not quietly either. It was not a good night and morning in that room. Not relaxing at all. More blood work and finding out that I had an order for an ultrasound of my gastro system (liver/kidneys). My early morning bloodwork showed continuing elevations in my liver enzymes, a bit concerning. Then my mid-morning bloodwork showed my platelets dropping....and then the doctor started talking about delivering the boys TODAY. I'm just 24 weeks today...scary stuff!!!
I had the ultrasound...painful when they're pushing on your ribs and around scars from my gall bladder surgery. :-S But the doctors told me all came back well from that. Yay! Then the repeat bloodwork showed my platelets going back up. More good news, yay! So now that's where we're at. Waiting for more bloodwork again tonight to see how it keeps going. Hopefully I'll stabilize...though they still can't explain my pain. They're talking like I'll be on hospital bed rest until delivery now...not cool, but better than the boys being born today! I want them cooking for a lot longer... I'll update you more on our discussion with the neonatal doctors later...for now I'm going to go breathe easy and call our families. It's sounding like I'll have plenty of time to keep this updated at least until the boys get here!!
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