28 weeks and 6 days - Little Updates

A smattering of updates...

So, I've developed an interesting symptom the last several days.  I have little red dots (not bumps, just dots like when they use the blood pressure cuff too tightly) covering my entire body (other than my face).  I called the nurse's hotline yesterday, and she said to call my peri.  The other dr was on call, so I updated him about the situation.  I let him know about the morphine reaction, what they look like, etc.  He said that, if I'm not running a fever, that we could probably watch it until my appt tomorrow.  I normally run around 97.8 or so, but have been between 98.4 and 98.8 - I figure that probably doesn't count as a fever to anyone, so I'm just playing connect the dots currently and waiting patiently for tomorrow.  Every cramp and all of the pressure (which is pretty constant) kind of send me into a tizzy, but I'm just trying to be calm.

I guess I had forgotten to say much about the actual surgery.  Obviously I had wanted general, and could still have done it, but they strongly advised spinal for the pain management.  So, I was awake during the surgery (and that's when I heard the doctor tell me how short the cervix was, and I kind of silently freaked).  What I forgot to mention was all of the talk of venison during my procedure.  "Did she say 'venison,'" you ask?  Yes.  Deer meat.  The anesthesiologist sat in on the procedure to watch my vitals, and started talking about how he'd been hunting and needed to pick up the meat, which launched a discussion of all of the uses of deer meat (in which I actually tried to take part).  I guess the good part of this is that he was not on the business end when he had this discussion - I don't know that I would have wanted him to be looking anywhere at me and have venison be the first thing that comes to mind.  I am willing to bet I have one of the only cerclage stories ever that involves discussing venison, however.

I told my mom yesterday.  It ended pretty much exactly how I thought it would.  I hate being right sometimes.

I turned 31 yesterday.  I have such an amazing husband - he ordered me a new (purple!) laptop, brought me some roses, and got me a big chocolate cake, in addition to waiting on me.  He is just so very kind and thoughtful.

My check-up is tomorrow morning at 8:30 CST.  I hope to get some answers and insight at that time, but I know at this point that all we can do is wait.  I don't like that my outer cervical length is so short, even though the inside is great - I actually feel more scared about everything than I did before the surgery, which is the opposite of what I wanted to happen.  Sorry - just having a hard time with not worrying.

I'm missing Maddie a lot today.  I just wish I could have all of my babies here with me.