All about my Experience:
So as you may or may not know.. Sunday, October 31 (Halloween!) I thought I was coming down with a UTI so I went to Patient First to get checked. My initial tests came up negative but they said it could have been negative because of how well hydrated I was but since I showed all the classic signs they gave me some antibiotics to knick it in the bud. Well all the while I had woke up with a dull back pain which was progressively getting worse. By noon I was on the phone with Dr. Jordan (who was the doctor on call) in excruciating pain and she told me to go to L & D and she would meet me there. My mom took me to L & D and got me registered and checked in. I was taken back to an ante-pardem room and put on monitors. My memaw and Jason showed up at about the same time. I hadn’t even been there an hour when the pain got so intense me entire body was shaking and I was throwing up. Poor Jason held my bucket and my hair back at the same time. They decided to start an IV on me. Nurse Wanda wasn’t very good at starting my line but she finally got it a few sticks later OUCH. Dr. Jordan called back and they decided to admit me and she ordered antibiotics for my IV and a renal ultrasound. She also ordered me some Nubain to help with the pain.
My Dad came by the hospital before the U/s and brought my mom some food and a pumpkin with a Stork carved in it that he made free hand! It was so adorable! The stork said “Charlotte” in the middle of it. Then I had my U/s and it was determined that I have a bladder infection and Hydronephrosis, which is a blockage in the kidney that causes the flow of urine to the bladder to be obstructed and the ureter (tube that carries urine from kidney to bladder) to become dilated and or obstructed. This is due to my uterus pressing up against my ureter and kidney. It’s very common in pregnancy. Because of my pain and throwing up though, they kept me over night. Around 9:00 they gave me more Nubain and around 9:30 they gave me an Ambien and I was asleep by just after 10. I only slept for about hour and a half increments waking up in pain or when nurse Bonnie would come into check on me (She was my favorite while I was there). Jason stayed the night with me, though he didn’t get much sleep because of Nurse Bonnie coming in to check on me so much, which he didn’t mind, and because our daughter thinks my womb is a jungle gym at night and sounded much like a wind tunnel on the monitor.
The next morning doctor Grimes (my preferred OB) dropped by and told me more about the results of my u/s and that the antibiotics they had put in my IV and the ones Patient First had given me would work on getting the infection under control and that hopefully the pain would go away in the next 24 hours other wise, I might have a stone lodged in my ureter which they couldn’t see on an ultrasound and would need to do a catheter with a scope to see, but he didn’t want to do that as it would further irritate my tract. He also told me that if they could get my pain under control and my appetite back, I could go home. Then after that I tried to eat breakfast but was in between Nubain doses and in pain and threw up. We’re not sure if it was from the pain or if it was from all the narcotics on an empty stomach, but doc said no more Nubain since I wasn’t holding any food down. They hooked me up to a 3rd round of antibiotics around 10am and the rest of the day is kind of a blur due to the pain. Tina and Burt stopped by to visit me and so did my Memaw. My mom sent Jason home to get some sleep around 11 that morning because he was about to fall over tired. Mom had to go to work around 1:30 and Memaw sat with me until my dad got there around 3:30. Shortly after that I started getting hungry and asking for food so the nurse called the doc and they let me go home! I was excited. At that point I would have rather been miserable in my own home with my own Tylenol and my DVR.
Charlotte’s Experience:
Apparently she does not like it when people try to monitor her heart rate because she would not sit still long enough for them to get any kind of significant run on her heart rate. So we’re going to chalk her experience up to “annoyed” that’s what she seemed to be anyways. They had the volume on her monitor on and we could hear every flip, kick, and punch. Once again, I had every nurse in there telling me I had a very hyperactive child. I think it was all the fluids they pumped me with. She was just so well hydrated she thought she should go swimming! But anyways, what few runs they did get on her, her heart rate was normal and she seemed to be unaffected by Mommy being sick or any of the drugs they pumped me with. Jason was shocked I sleep through all that moving and shaking she does at night. Apparently her already high activity level picks up while I’m asleep. My mom said the same thing while she was there with me Monday afternoon and I was napping. It makes me smile to know I have a healthy happy baby girl, even if I feel like death is upon me!
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