Merry Christmas

I just wanted to tell everyone that I hope you all had a very merry Christmas. Even though I was stuck in the hospital today was still a good day. Our day started about 5am when the nurse on duty kept coming into my room to do vital signs. I do not know why she could not get things together this morning but she did one thing at a time and waited until I was almost asleep again until she came in to do the next thing on her list. I was very aggravated when she kept waking me up especially since I reminded her last night that they did not have to wake me up while sleeping to get vital signs. Breakfast was also early today. I think it came around 7:45 this morning when it has been coming closer to 9. After breakfast I let them go ahead and hook me up to the monitor so that I would have time for a short nap before the family arrived. Phillip woke me up at about 5 til 11 so that I could get ready. As soon as I was ready mom, Allison, Scott, dad, and my grandparents arrived and we had a very good lunch. Mom had cooked for us today. Today she cooked ham, potato salad, creamed potatoes, green beans, corn, sweet potato casserole, and bread. It was very very yummy and we had enough left over for dinner tonight. Just as we were finishing up lunch we received a surprise. Our neighbors that have been watching over our little Maggie cat came to see us. It was so good to see them. We normally get together with them at least every couple of weeks for dinner and to play Phase 10 so I have really missed seeing them. I did tell them that we are getting pretty good at Phase 10 and that when we get out of here we are going to have to have dinner and game night.

The doctor came by this afternoon and said everything was still looking good. I told her I was getting very sleepy and kind of dizzy after taking my morning blood pressure medication and that I was having to lay down to take naps after taking it. She told me to start having the nurses take my blood pressure when I get to feeling like that so that they can make sure my blood pressure isn't dropping too low. She also ordered another toxemia panel tomorrow morning and said that if the amnio comes back with immature lungs on Monday that we will start another 24 hour urine at that time. They are keeping a look at my weight because this morning it went up more than usual. Weight gain can be a sign the the toxemia is getting worse but it could have just been that we had a big dinner last night. We are still praying that the lungs are developed enough on Monday so that we can meet our little one early next week. We ask that each of you pray for his little lungs to be mature on Monday. Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers and I hope each of you had a very merry Christmas.