More Hospital Time

This time, it's controlled though. One of the conditions of Kelly's release from the hospital and the control of her blood pressure is that she go into the hospital every four days for a period of monitoring. If all is well they will send us home on bedrest. We have no idea what will happen if all is not well. We are going with optimism.

In any event, we will be watching the Inaugural parade from a hospital bed this afternoon. Hopefully, Kelly's blood pressure will be normal or not very high. Hopefully they will tell us that we don't need to come in again. Hopefully all the "scare" will be taken out and will be replaced by boredom as we realize that we'll be pregnant for a while longer and it's going to be a while before Connor makes his appearance.

We are excited to be going in, in one respect - it allows us to pepper our doctors and nurses with questions. Everyone makes fun of us because we have questions all the time. We want to know if "bedrest" means laying on her left side constantly or if sitting up sometimes is okay. We want to know how much time needs to be spent laying down. We want to know what exactly will happen if Connor has to be delivered early and what the cutoff is for having him sent to Children's Hospital in downtown DC. We want to know a lot. We like answers.

We were joking yesterday that we're going to be like an eye doctor with our questions. We'll put out the alternatives and say "better 1, or better 2" and let them answer. LOL

Of course, we realize how ridiculous we are and we accept that there are no certainties. But we like to ask anyway. It makes our doctors laugh...and it lets them know that we are paying attention and are interested in the mundane.

Now it's time to get Bailey up and prepare for the day. I have another day off - with Bailey in daycare. I am going to do some grocery shopping this morning. When the stores open, I am going to go purchase the cookbook that I found yesterday (the line was too long when I tried to purchase it yesterday) and then take the car to get the oil changed. Then to Kelly's boss's home to drop off some work. Then to the hospital with my love.

Not exactly a relaxing day off...but a day to myself, at least!