I got sick and have missed several days of work and it is making me crazy. I enjoy doing something productive, but when you can't breathe and you don't sleep you are not very productive. My coughing was activating my asthma and was reaking havoc on my lungs. I was actively looking for a different doctor since I called my last doctor and tried to get to them. I finally found one! So excited!! :) I did a happy dance in the parking lot with Dylan. Too bad I didn't record it. HAHAHA! Anyways I was able to get seen since I was home with a sick little boy who had a virus in his eye and we couldn't put drops in his eye to help him get over it faster. But we went to the doctor and I am now on more breathing treatments and if I am still coughing like crazy by next week I am suppose to call. I hope that I stop because it just sucks. There isn't even a good way of putting that, and I know that the air quality doesn't help any. I am so ready to move far away.
Another week has come and gone and as I look back on this day I remember so much of it.
As I would feel you move around in me I was so grateful I wouldn't need to feel it forever. I felt so big and it was hard to get around and do everything I needed to do. As the doctor told me that I would have to have deliver at the U of U or the new hospital (IMC) I chose the U of U. (Don't get me wrong I think after a few years of working out the kinks of opening up a hospital it is a great place, but at that time it had only been open 3 months and there was no way I could chance it.) As I get to the hospital that morning I couldn't wait to see you! They had asked me not to deliver at shift change which is at 7pm. (Like I have control over that.) HAHAHA! You are my precious baby. As I was getting ready for the doctors and staff my head was killing me and as they were going to put an IV in they took some blood to figure out what was going on. It came back a few hour of miserable head pain that I had toxemia. They were finally able to give me something that wouldn't hurt you but help me get rid of the headache. The doctor had informed the staff what when I come in to break my water, but did they listen??? NO! They were concerned because I had too much fluid and each time you would float away. So finally after hours and hours of my body telling them to break my water they held you in place and broke my water around 4pm. They could have done this lots sooner, but didn't. After I want to say 2 hours you and I were both ready for your appearance. There were lots of students that were learning about us, because you are special. After you arrived (at shift change) I saw the doctor pass you through a little window in the room. It was going to be a while before I saw or felt you again. As the doctor finished up with me and they took me to a room I was wondering and waiting to see you. As soon as I could I made my way to your little bed in a room where there were 6 other little babies. I couldn't take my eyes off you. You were perfect! You look so much like Rhett, I knew that he was going to be so excited!! You had to be placed under the lights and I was told I could hold you for a little while. That was so hard! I wanted to feel you and hold you, but I was always close. I stayed with you until you were able to come home. I slept in a rocking chair near your bed and the doctors and nurses couldn't tell me to leave because I wasn't doing anything to be in the way of their job. I waited and watch and waited some more. As the days moved on and you "became more stable" according to the doctors I asked if you could come home. I begged nurses and doctors asking knowing that Nikole was going to have a birthday very soon and none of your siblings had even met you. Finally one morning I asked if you could go home and the nurse looked at me and said she would get the doctor. The doctor that was over the whole NBICU came to see me with a few other that follow him around. He asked me about how I would care for you and what I would do if this happened or that happened. He asked me about family history and I told him about your siblings and everything I have done and still do. His eye grew in size and in less than 2 hours he said, "Clone her and send him home, she knows what she is doing. I wish we had more parents like her." I was excited!!! It was Nikole's birthday and you get to come home. Yes you had a feeding tube and oxygen but you were coming home. Nikole had her birthday party and you were able to be there. I was nervous that you would get sick and end up back in the hospital after working so hard to get you out. But you didn't. I am so glad that you were able to join our family and the happiness you have brought to us with your sweet spirit.
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