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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

2nd Labor and Delivery visit.... This MONTH!

That thought alone kinda freaks me out. I really don't want next month to be like this month.
Here it is, in not so much of a nutshell.
On Sept 12th I experienced intense pain in my chest. It was then that I went to L&D and they monitored Brooklyn and found that nothing was wrong. They sent me on to ER where they discovered gallbladder disease. At that point my liver enzymes were still in "Normal range" but on the high side.
Fast forward to Sept 22-24 I noticed a difference in the color of my urine (I know, people don't usually talk about this stuff. I'm not afraid though) Mine was ORANGE, that's right orange. That can mean basically one thing in my condition. That a gallstone was stuck somewhere and bile was filling into my digestive system and being processed by the old kidneys. Which is a very very bad thing. Basically the bile then gets into your blood stream and you can develop jaundice. You know, when you find bilirubin in your blood. Anyway, they did a urine test and a comprehensive blood panel. when I say THEY, that was my sergeon. Mind you, there are two doctor's right now that I'm trying to work with. Well, my sergeon called me later on that day and said, "Looks like you have protein in your urine, follow up with your ob for antibiotics." And that was the beginning, I should have known!
25th, I called my ob's office and had them pull the blood and urine report that was done. My liver enzymes are DOUBLE what they were on the 12th and I had high bilirubin. I get a call from my OB himself saying that he doesn't like the level of my liver enzymes and if I really have protein we have a problem. Get my butt to L&D. Well, a little while (about an hour) we made our way in without a 2 year old because that's the last place we need her all hyper. They repeated all the tests. My enzymes are still high, no protein and my bili levels are back in normal range. They sent me home with order to collect pee for 24 hours.
26th, OB called again recently and explained. Liver enzymes are one thing they use to diagnose people with preclampsia. They aren't positive if my liver enzymes are due to my gallbladder or not, but now it makes it harder for them to diagnose the preclampsia. They now have to rely on what my urine tells them and what my blood pressure is. I'm still collecting urine for the protein test which I will find out tomorrow and in the meantime my blood pressure is still good. He hasn't given an exact decision at this point, but I know what it's going to be. Preclampsia can only be resolved with the delivery of the baby. At this point that means that Brooklyn would be 12 weeks early. Hopefully that doesn't happen and I'm going to try to relax and hopefully have good news tomorrow.

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