Afternoon Meeting

Went to my general doctor this morning. My BP was 150/100, which is still high. We talked a bit about how my BP was in the normal range (120/70 and 118/74) on the two days after delivery of Baby H and how my BP seemed to increase once all hell broke loose with her having "a mass" and everything that followed that. So, he isn't sure if I have chronic hypertension, remnant pregnancy-induced hypertension, stress-related hypertension, or a combination of two or all three. He decided to put me on a low-dose BP medication, lisinopril 10 mg a day, for the next two weeks. I'm also to monitor my BP twice a day to make sure that I don't dip below normal or if I feel weak, lightheaded, etc., I am to call him immediately. In two weeks, he will decide whether to continue this medication or increase it.

I took A to visit Baby H at the hospital this morning. We were there over an hour, and she was absolutely fantastic! I guess just not having both kids there at the same time is the key!

While we were there, Susan, our favorite NP, came up to me with a down face. She said "Well, her numbers stayed the same at 64 this morning." Her day nurse and I both looked at her and said "that was from yesterday. No labs were drawn today." Susan was very surprised and disappointed. She absolutely adores Baby H and told me that every day she comes in, she immediately looks for Baby H's labs to see how she is doing. When we told her that it rewritten for tomorrow morning, she said she wanted them done immediately. She didn't want us to wait until tomorrow because SHE wanted to know how Baby H was doing.

I just got the results of the labwork, which technically was a 32-hour lab. Her platelets are at 68. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I joked that I wanted to steal her out of the NICU and bring her home. She knows how bad we want her home, and she told me some more POSITIVE news...she just got off the phone with Dr. B, our pediatrician. She is having a meeting with the neonatologist in charge of Baby H's case and is going to talk to him about letting us bring her home earlier than waiting for 80! She doesn't know if he will let us do it, and I don't know what Dr. B had said to her, but she is going to push for release knowing that we will do whatever it takes and however often it takes to get Baby H's condition resolved. I told her that I will even drive to the hospital twice a day if I have to so she can get lab work done.

I won't know the outcome of this "afternoon meeting" until later on today, possibly evening. But gosh, I am just praying that they let us bring her home and recuperate her. We know she is slow going in her platelet regrowth, but according to my general doctor, 68,000 is out of the danger zone for internal bleeding, so maybe they can consider that.

PLEASE let this meeting go into our favor! I know they only want to do what is best for Baby H, and they don't want to release her if they feel they are putting her health in jeopardy, and I DO appreciate that and respect that. I just really want her home...