Changes to our Busy Week!

Ever heard the saying "Wanna hear God laugh, tell Him your plans."? Well, I've got to hear Him do some belly-rolling-chuckling lately! :)
 After looking over my last post, I will say, I got through the first half of my week as planned. I spent Monday in Geneva, and Tuesday we got a good report at Abi's neurology checkup. The EEG still showed some seizure activity, but only when she was provoked, not any "spontaneous" seizures, so that is good! He still adjusted her meds a little, but we get to wait longer between visits for now. I have some pics she wanted me to take during her EEG, but I'll have to add those later since, as we all know, I'm blogging from my comfy hospital bed!
So, Wednesday morning, started as normal. I got everyone off for their day, and Ellie and I headed to Dothan for her vet check-up and my regular scheduled  OB appt. I dropped her off at the vet and ran a few errands before my appt time. Once I got to the dr's office I told her I had been feeling a little funny the last week or so, and thought I may be having a few small contractions. Well, I had gained several more pounds than she was comfortable with, I had some spillage of protien in my urine, and my blood pressure was very high. She immediately sent me for an ultrasound in the office, and then on to the labor and delivery for some monitoring. They hooked me up to the fetal monitors, and sure enough, I was having contractions! (I'm currently 33 weeks) My blood pressures remained high and they did some lab work to look at my liver enzymes, kidney function along with some other things. (They told me they thought I had preeclampsia, but would do a 24 hour urine collection to confirm the diagnosis.)The dr on call did not like the preliminary lab results, so they gave me a steroid shot to help hurry and develop Kallie's lungs in case she needed to be delivered soon. One of the problems with preeclampsia is the blood pressure getting so high, it causes the mom to have seizures, so they also started me on a magnesium drip to help control my body from going into seizures since my b/p was staying so high. At this point, they were just going to keep me at Flower's and monitor me on the magnesium, but quickly decided to transport me to Sacred Heart in Pensacola. They have a high-risk ob group here as well as a NICU if she needs to be delivered early. So about 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, I was loaded up on the ambulance and brought to Pensacola.
Once I got here, (about 11:30 pm) it was very chaotic. The magnesium they had me on made me feel awful. Very glassy-eyed, yucky all over, flu-like feeling. Plus I was on continuous fetal monitoring, blood pressures every 15 min and continuous o2 sat monitoring, not to mention the catheter for my 24 hr urine. Ugh! I had tubes, plugs and wires coming out of everywhere. All the doctors on call were in and out of my room hourly all night doing different checks on me like temp, blood pressure, checking my reflexes and asking me lots of questions, so I got very little rest.
Thursday morning, Brandon's mom came down and stayed with me. It was pretty much the same routine, I got my second dose of the steroids for Kallie's lungs, doctors in and out, no getting out of bed, constant monitoring...and NO FOOD!! :) This little momma was starting to get hungry! But I tried to rest as much as possible and was actually able to nap a little. Late Thursday night (2am Friday morn), the night doctors came in and stopped my magnesium, my 24 urine sampling was complete and I was able to get up and shower and have a bowl of cereal. I started to feel much better. I slept on through the night, and Friday morning was much better.
Friday I was down to no IV, no monitors and only blood pressures every 2 hours. They told me delivery was not longer immediate, and that we could plan on staying here for a while to see how things developed. They moved me out into a regular room and Brandon finally got to come down here Friday evening! I was so excited to see him. It makes me realize how much we depend on each other for support, and it was really hard facing these things by myself. But we both know he needed to be home running the household and taking care of our other two sweet babies!
I'll stop here for now, but will continue to update on events as new news comes!