Update from Ray

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for supporting us through your prayers and positive thoughts.  We just want to let you know that we really appreciate that everyone is reading our blog and commenting and sending emails.  As Meghan has informed you in her recent post, the doctors have reduced her medications over the past few days because her blood pressure measurements were running too low with systolic ranges between 106 to 116 and diastolic ranges of 60 to 80.  

Unfortunately, this evening was not uneventful, we had a medical scare. I drove to the hospital right after work to spend some time with Meghan tonight and took a short lunch because I was excited to come see her.  I went down to the cafeteria to pick up dinner for both of us and brought it back to her room. The nurse came in to give Meghan her meds and took her blood pressure. We were all surprised to see that her blood pressure reached levels above 200/115. Even with this blood pressure reading, Meghan was not experiencing any symptoms. Earlier in the day, the nurse took out Meghan’s IV and her doctor said that she did not need it anymore for IV meds. When the nurse saw how high her blood pressure was tonight, she called the chief resident and was told to put in a new IV and give Meghan IV blood pressure meds. The nurse lowered Meghan’s bed and had her lay on her side and then gave her the IV meds.  Meghan laid there and took deep breaths trying to calm down.

Meghan asked me to update tonight because she is feeling discouraged and scared. She had a good cry after the IV meds got her blood pressure back down to a good number. We’ve been told about all the bad things that can happen when the blood pressure goes too high like seizures and strokes so it doesn’t make sense to us why they need to lower her meds to the point where it can still get that high. We know the doctors are watching her and the baby carefully, but it would be nice to see things stabilize more. We've been told that the doctors will continue to adjust her meds so her blood pressure hopefully won't go too high or too low.

Tomorrow will mark two weeks since Meghan was hospitalized and the beginning of week 27.  I may spend the night in the hospital since she is still feeling anxious. Right now, she is relaxing and eating frozen yogurt.