Visitors!

Last night I gave a lecture on validity and reliability (I'm teaching an assessment course) from 6-8pm. I was praying all would go smoothly, especially since my most recent hemmorhaging incident had taken place at 6:45pm on Friday. I had told my nurse to please give me any medications, take my vitals, etc. before 6pm so that I wouldn't be disturbed during that time frame. I was praying my dinner would be served by 5:30 so that I could eat before teaching, and it was delivered at 5:20. The class went smoothly, but I did have three people come into my room during that time span. The first was Paul's aunt. I felt terrible that she came over to visit, and I couldn't visit with her because I was in the middle of teaching a class. I didn't know she was coming, and Paul forgot to tell her I was teaching. She brought me an apple pie from McD's, which I enjoyed eating after my class was over. She also took my laundry. I think she thought I had lots of laundry I needed done. My reason for asking Paul to do a load of laundry at her house this weekend was I knew I didn't have 2 weeks worth of clothing. However he only brought me these clothes on Saturday afternoon so I didn't have tons of clothes that needed washed on Tuesday. I felt badly that she came over here for nothing. It was so sweet of her to take the time to come visit me. The second visitor was a woman who had a dog with her for pet therapy. I just waved my hands and shook my head "no." I'm not really a dog person so I don't feel any loss for having missed out on the pet therapy (which happens once a week). The third visitor was another nurse (not mine) who had baked some cookies. Thankfully she just walked over, and I took a cookie off the tray and continued to teach my class. It's funny because the rest of the day the only time I had a visitor was my nurse OR the doctors when they did their rounds. I figured if I told my nurse that no one would come into my room. I was wrong!

This morning I had three visitors, and I was ever so grateful for their appearance. The timing was perfect as I had just been wheeled back from my ultrasound (wasn't even out of the wheelchair yet) and in came Paul's dad pushing the kids in their double stroller. What a balm to my soul it was to hug, kiss, and cuddle with my two precious children. I miss them SOOOO much! Saying goodbye wasn't as hard today as it was last Saturday because I know Paul is planning to bring them down on Friday and Saturday. They were here for about 90 minutes. I read them a few books, fed them some snacks, and we watched an episode of Word World together. Bliss.

Oliver is back in the severe anemia category. I'm expecting the next fetal transfusion to take place tomorrow. They were waiting to talk with Dr. Tressler (the only doctor in the practice who does this procedure). I'm sure I'll find out the details when they do their rounds later today. I'm expecting to have the two steroid shots again today and tomorrow as it's been 4 weeks since I had them. According to my egg retrieval date, I am 28 weeks today. They say I'm 27w5d. They estimated his weight today to be 2 1/2 lbs, which is 10 ounces more than they said he weighed 15 days ago. If I have the transfusion tomorrow, the first two transfusions would have been 16 days apart. I've already requested that they schedule the procedure in the morning. Hopefully that will be possible.

This morning the hostess told me they didn't have any menus for me for today, but that they do have tomorrow's menus. I told her that the seven days' worth of menus were all stapled together, and I didn't unstaple them. I filled them all out. I didn't get what I wanted for breakfast so I got some cereal and yogurt from the lounge. I missed the fresh fruit and muffin that I always get with my breakfast. She did ask me at breakfast what entrees I wanted for lunch and dinner. I didn't get to select things like my dessert, but at least I got to pick my entrees. A trip to L&D is probably going to goof things up again (I have to spend a day in L&D after the transfusion). I really was surprised this morning. I falsely assumed things would continue to go smoothly with my meals.