Jailed

Copied and pasted from a message I left on a BabyCenter board I’ve been addicted to since finding out about the triplets. I’ve changed some of the bits to make them more understandable, I hope.

Hi All,
Just a quick post from James’ laptop as I’ve finally managed to barely get online. Mention James’ laptop only because I don’t have the roll call on this computer - otherwise I might try to post it - not likely though!! I don’t know when I’ll be able to sit down and concentrate and get it updated and posted.

Why you ask? I am in the hospital. I came in on Friday for my normal NST/BPP and a chat with the peri. I left being shuttled off to a hotel that’s very near to the hospital since they didn’t have any room for me here.

So much has happened in the sat 2 days - some of it not even babies related. My husband’s grandma had a massive stroke (she’s been having smaller strokes for years but is not expected to make it many more days) on Friday and I was down here in Minneapolis with my mom for this appointment. Best laid plans totally go haywire.

In the past 48 hours I’ve had my 2 steroid shots, done a loooooooovely 24 hour urine collection since I am spilling protein, and started having very painful contractions in my back every 12 minutes.

They’ve found room for me in the hospital today and it’s pretty clear I’m not going to be leaving here to rest some more at home.

With the colestasis I was told on Friday that I would deliver in the next 2 weeks since the numbers are rather high. Add in the spilling of protein and the while squiggly lines visiting me from the sides of my eye sight and now they’re worried I am in the beginning stages of pre-e. Wee

So, right now we’re waiting and seeing. Waiting and seeing as far as when they will deliver. I’m not going to get out of the hospital (which I am happy about since it’s a 3 1/2 hour drive home and I don’t really want to deal with contractions that whole way, thank you very much) …. although I am missing my plush bed at home, oh, and the kids too.

So, the babies could be here tomorrow … err today - it’s after 5am and my ambien stopped working (although it did help me sleep though most of those contractions). The babies could wait another 2 weeks. Sometimes doctors are hard to read. Thank god for these awesome nurses who will translate and tell me like it is!

I’d post the traditional picture of me laying in my best beached whale position in a hospital bed while talking on the phone, but I though I should spare you all … at least for a while. I’m sure it will come up once I am severely sleep deprived (like now?! LOL) for a good laugh.

More than likely the pictures of the babies and anything interesting going on about here will end up on my flickr page (it appears Childrens Hospital blocks flickr, although I can’t say I blame them) so we’ll try to post them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/moxygen

I am hoping to keep the babies in for as long as I can but there’s a point where it’s no longer up to me. Not a great feeling for someone who is such a control freak like myself.

I’m sorry I didn’t get to any personals this morning. I hope that everyone is doing well - or as well as you can. I think I am going to try to get in another snooze before they want to start poking and asking even more questions.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to this weekend, how about you??

They gave me ambien so I could get some sleep through the contractions. It helped and I was able to snooze in 2 hour shifts before having to wake myself up and turn to the other side. When I woke up at 4 to use the loo I felt nausea coming back and never made it back to sleep.

I’ll try to keep this updated - especially since twitter is blocked.