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Thursday, September 4, 2008

My Hospital Stay

Well on Sunday I was admitted into the hospital and moved out onto the l&d floor in a private room. I was okay with this at first, thinking with the incoming hurricane Johnny and Devin could simply come stay in my room with me. Boy was I wrong! I wasn't even in a room 5 minutes and was informed that I need to give them the name of the person staying with me. They needed the name in a few hours because it had to be put on a registered list and the the hospital would go into lock down at 8 pm, meaning no one in and no one out. I did everything I could to get them to let Devin & Johnny stay only for it to be a no go. So after some mega crying, I came to terms with the inevitable and gave up. This now meant that not only would I be spending my first ever night away from Devin, I would be doing it during an incoming hurricane. I was nerve wracked. Johnny has never had to keep Devin for more than a few hours and I have never been away from Devin for more than a few hours. At this point it had already been about 24 hours since I had really spent any time with Devin. I was very depressed by all of this. We decided that Johnny would stay at home with Devin and that my mom would stay the night with me. I talked with Johnny and Devin on the phone a few times but was mostly in and out of sleep from the pain medicine and exhaustion. They had no extra pillows or blankets for guest and I wound up having my mom go home so she could get some rest and help with Devin the next day.
Monday morning I woke up excited and ready to see my little man. Only thing was I was in mega pain and no where near ready to go home. I figured the lock down would be lifted and I could have Johnny bring him up to the hospital for a while. With my luck I was not surprised to find out that no the lock down was not lifted but should be by noon. Noon comes and goes, lock down still not lifted. Finally at 4 pm the lock down was lifted and I didn't even know it but in comes Devin and Johnny. Johnny has a bag of essentials for me and Devin has the biggest hug and kiss in the world. I nearly cried my eyes out. Of course Devin was a active as ever and they didn't stay 15 minutes. He was ready to go see the babies in the nursery. And off they went. I was surprised at how well Johnny was doing 48 hours into all of this. That evening all the patients got moved out into the hall for what seemed like hours due to hurricanes being spotted in the area. That was annoying. I talked to Devin before going to bed that night and of course cried myself to sleep. It was nearly impossible to sleep this night, it seemed like the iv was louder than anything else and I kept picturing myself throwing from the 3rd floor window.
Tuesday was back to work for Johnny and mom came at 5:30 that morning to take over with Devin. I was happily released form the hospital at 10 am, after much begging and pleading with my doctor and the whole way down the elevator and to the car Devin held my hand and kept telling me how much he loved me. I felt so good to be home. Now if I can only get over this splitting headache.
I now have to take 2 antibiotics a day for a week and then one a day for the rest of the pregnancy and of course plenty of fluids to flush out my kidneys.

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