Settled In & Hibernating

Hello from snowy Moline!  I'm looking out the window and realizing that I made it back to the QC just in time before the storm hit.  The drive home started off fine, but of course being pregnant I had to stop for a potty break.  The walk from the car to the rest stop seemed to take forever.  Eddie pointed out that was the most I've walked this year.  Funny guy.  Once I was back in the car, I was extremely uncomfortable and struggled for the remainder of the trip.  I was never so thankful to lay down in a hospital bed. 

After we got to Trinity, I was temporarily put in Labor & Delivery.  They wanted me on the monitor for 24 straight hours.  Ugh.  Unfortunately, they put me back in the same room I was in when I was first admitted in the hospital a few weeks back and had that horrible night of mag.  I don't have fond feelings towards that room at all.  It smells atrocious in there and it's located right outside the nurse's hub and directly down the hall from the main entrance so there was no privacy and extremely noisy.  The first night back I was contracting like crazy so the nurse came in and gave me a shot in the arm.  That's the first I've had medication via shot throughout this whole ordeal.  It must have worked though because I've been pretty stable since then.  So after 24 hours being tied up to the monitor in the smelly noisy room, I got moved over to the Mother Baby unit.  I'm now in room 43 which is at the end of the hall and quiet and not stinky at all.  Yay! 

Yes, now that I'm settled in I am up for visitors.  I am now on the same regimen as I was at home with being on the monitor three times per day (7:00am, 2:00pm, 8:00pm).  Each session is an hour long. I'd prefer to avoid visitors during those times (and the half hour prior to and after each session) just because it's a bit different here than it was in Peoria.  In Peoria, the nurses could see the results of the session via computer at the nurse's station and could keep track of it themselves.  Here, I am the only one who can see what is going on so I need to stay on top of it and not be distracted by guests.  It's a bit of a bummer because I used to nap during these sessions and now that's not an option. 

The weather outside looks frightful.  At least if I'm going to be on bed-rest, now is the time to do it where it's the middle of winter when no one wants to go outside anyway.  My friend Yolanda said I'm hibernating now - I like that.  Time for a quick snooze before lunch.