Julie could have Joey anytime!

Oh am I tired.  I’ve been up for around 48 hours or so and my eyes can’t stay awake.

I went and seen Julie this morning at about 11a.m. and she was doing ok.  Still contracting, but having milder ones.  They haven’t completely stopped, which does worry me.  The problem I have is that she is visibly having contractions, and even says so, but the computer isn’t registering it because she moves too much and the stupid sensor isn’t in the right spot.  So when the maternal fetal specialist came in, he was like, well it’s good to see your contractions have stopped.. and I was like, um, no they haven’t they just haven’t been registering.  Sometimes Julie doesn’t speak up enough, but the last thing I want to happen is for them to believe she’s not contracting, then go home, and have something terrible happen at home.  They even told her to tell them everything she feels…. registering or not.

I went to Meijer and bought her a down pillow, a mountain dew, Uno cards, and some facial cleansing cloths to get her by.  Gosh forbid Tom go out of his way to do anything.

That man just frustrates me soooo much!  He’s just like my dad in a lot of ways.  Very nice and awesome when he’s in a good mood and not stressed but a horrible evil person when he’s grouchy or stressed out.  He tends to want to take things out on people the wrong way.

I took my mom out there later on this evening to give her the gifts we got her.  I think she liked them anyway.  I feel so bad for her not having the shower… the whole pregnancy has turned into a nightmare, and nothing compared to what her imagination showed her.  I told her it wasn’t an easy road, but she knows now… but a bit worse than I had it of course.  I’m just waiting to see what happens about 24 hours from now when they pull her off the magnesium.

Monday is tomorrow and i’m not looking forward to it.  Although my new laptop is expected to arrive tomorrow… a bit of good news for me anyway.  I will go see Julie for an hour or two each day until she comes home.  We gave her Matt’s laptop to keep her company.  Oakwood healthcare has a public wireless internet connection so that helps tremendously.

I had a bit of a scare today… but I won’t elaborate yet.

Other than that, nothing much.  This weekend went by way too quickly… grrr.  Oh well!!  I just want my friend to come home – even though she’ll be on full-time bedrest.

Boy i’ve sure seen enough hospitals in the last week to last a year.  Chris had to go to the hospital again this morning because he stabbed himself in the eye with one of his toy guns and scratched his cornea.  I’ve had that happen (except more severe) and it’s not fun.  He was crying all day long.

Then at about 5:30 my friend Julie calls me to tell me she thinks she’s lost a mucus plus (women know what this is!).  She said she was going to call Dr. Batchev and see what to do.  Well he told her to go to the hospital.  She called me back and said she’d update me later.  Well an hour passes by and i’m thinking something must be wrong because when you go the ER for pregnancy related issues they pretty much just stick their hand up there and feel and send you home within an hour. So after 2 hours I started to get worried and I called the hospital and told them to tell Tom to call me.  Well he called me and told me she was having contractions!  I was like, “What? When did that start?”.  So anyway I went up to the hospital but by time I got there her contactions were 2 minutes apart.  They didn’t start her on magnesium right away for some odd reason.  She was dilated to 2cm already.  She was a bit miserable.  So after about 5 hours they started her on magnesium and transferred her to Oakwood main.  She’s going to be there for a very long time.  She’s got to have a steroid shot every 24 hours, and once she’s done with that she goes to the antenatal department, which will be her living quarters most likely until the baby is born.  She is only 31 weeks so it would be considerably premature if she had it now.  Thankfully the NICU is right across the way.  I have plenty of experience dealing with a NICU – so she’s not alone.

Tom’s a flippin jerk.  He made strange off-the-wall comments all night long in front of Julie’s parents.  Grrr… that man makes me angry.

So anyway I was there until about 2:30a.m. and i’ve been up ever since.  I’m gonna call in a bit to see how the magnesium is working.  That’s the worst stuff in the world.  It makes you loopy, dizzy, scorching hot, and sick to your stomach.  Kinda like having the flu.  She is not happy at the prospects of being in there for weeks.  She can pretty much kiss her job goodbye though.

The baby shower was today, but obviously thats off. Thankfully I hadn’t put any money down or anything and Julie’s mom hadn’t paid for the cake so we aren’t losing any money.  Julie was most concerned about that because there is people coming that she don’t have phone numbers too, so her stepdad has to go wait up at the Olive Garden and let people know, and perhaps drop their gifts off.

Ok well I have other things to do than sit on here…