A Room with a View

They moved me to a different room today - a room with a view. My last room, which is just across the hall, looked out over the building's pipes. If the photo on Ray's phone turns out, I'll post the view.

Today was a quiet day. Ray was able to spend the entire day here at the hospital and is sleeping on a cot in my room right now. I woke up bright and early to take the three-hour glucose but was unable to keep the drink down. Tomorrow we are trying another type of test that involves mixing a powder with diet ginger ale. My night nurse tells me that it should go better than this morning. Plus, she is going to give me some zofran via my IV beforehand, which will hopefully help. I appreciate that my doctors are willing to listen to my concerns about doing the same test I did today and that they are offering an alternative.

My nurse did a french braid in my hair after I took a shower this morning - how nice is that?!? I had another BPP and doppler study done today. Apparently (and unbeknownst to me), at a low blood pressure, my doppler didn't look good at all yesterday. Today, at a higher blood pressure, my doppler was much improved and provided relief to my doctors. Baby M did great on the BPP and the ultrasound tech saw her breathing right away. Since she is so little, it is critical that her lungs continue to develop as much as possible. She is still just moving away inside; kicking and punching and turning since she has quite some room to work with.

Ray and I looked over different options of colors for painting the rest of our house. Most of you know that we recently bought a home. It was built in 1978 and we've been putting some work into it. The bedrooms were painted the week that I was admitted to the hospital, and when my mom was here, she put all the rooms back together (that's a major understatement of all that she did). Thanks Mom! Now we just have the living room/family room, kitchen, hallway, and bathrooms to paint. It was fun to look over the colors together and decide what colors we want in the rest of the house. It felt like something normal I could do here.

The food here leaves much to be desired and makes it hard for me to eat what I should be eating, so we are working on figuring out what foods from the outside can be brought in and stored here. My aunt and uncle picked up fresh veggies to keep in the nurses fridge and some healthy snacks for my room. They also have been bringing me meals when they stop by. Thanks Laura and Ed! Two other friends stopped by with some delicous low sodium meals this afternoon, which was so thoughtful. It was also nice to catch up with them for a bit after they had Ray over for dinner last night. Thanks Diane and Maia! If anyone local wants to bring meals to Ray, I'm sure he'd appreciate it. I'm worried that he's been surviving on fast food when he doesn't have leftovers in the fridge. He's doing such a good job of holding down the fort at home while taking care of me and everything else he has on his plate. It can't be easy.