Got a pedicure today!

Today we had a good day. As I have said many, many times the nurses up here are just wonderful. Today my nurse was so sweet and came and gave me a pedicure. She came in yesterday and told me she would be in today and give me one. She has a lot of sympathy for the girls that have to stay up here long term because with her last son she had to stay in the hospital for 5 weeks. Tomorrow will be the 22nd day that I have been in here. Yesterday mom tried to get the doctor to let her take me over to the mall to get a pedicure. I told mom before she asked the doctor that they were not going to let me leave, and sure enough the doctor said no. I haven't had a pedicure in a few months so mom had taken the polish off of my toes the first Saturday I was in here since it was chipping really bad. I do like to have my toe nails painted but I really do not care about my nails since the paint normally chips off of them within a day or so. I am still trying to think of something special to do for all the wonderful nurses, so please still send your ideas for me.

Another thing that we Phillip and I did today was we played some cards. I had mom bring the card games that we normally take on vacation up here so that we would have something to do during the day. Last night we played Phase 10. We really enjoy playing it and normally we play with the neighbors up the street from us. It is more fun when you have more people playing but we still had fun playing by ourselves. Today we played Phase 10 and RackO. I don't know if he was letting me win or not but I won. He did really well at RackO but it is a game where you keep score so each little game doesn't count, just the end result counts. I do know that for a while he was cheating and once I caught him he miraculously stopped winning. We had a lot of fun playing and we will probably have more time to play some more before we leave.

Tomorrow is a big day for us. Sometime tomorrow we will have an amnio to check the lung maturity. I know a lot of you guys have prayed for us that tomorrow will go good and the lungs will be developed. We appreciate those prayers and we are still praying. They told me today that if the lungs are developed then I will go to labor and delivery tomorrow night where they will administer cervidil to help prepare the cervix for labor. They will watch me overnight and then tuesday morning after they let me take a shower they will begin a pitocin drip to start contractions. If the lungs are not developed then they will do all of this beginning either next Sunday or next monday as long as there has been some lung maturity. If the lungs are still very much immature then they will have to repeat the amnio next Monday to see how they are developing at that time. We are still praying that they will be developed tomorrow and if they are then we will more than likely be leaving the hospital on Christmas Day. We know if it is God's will then they will be mature enough but if not then we are prepared to stay a little longer. I am just thankful for all the family and friends that we have to support us while have been up here, and I know it will continue. Phillip is now off of work until January 5th so hopefully things will happen soon so that he will be able to spend some time with us at home before returning to work. I am getting off of here for the night but we really appreciate all the prayer and please keep us in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow as we undergo the amnio.