Gardening to Labor and Delivery.. OOPS!!

So Saturday I decide I needed to do a few things like register, go plant shopping and well plant the garden. I understand I have limitations. So I took a lot of precautions such as sitting on a piece of plastic and digging the holes carefully. Etc.. I did moderate leaning over as not to make myself pass out from having the blood flow to my brain. LOL! In between gardening I laid on my swing and took a nap. I even went and talked with the new neighbors for about 20 minutes. Resting between each exerting event.

After my day was done, Bean and I decided to take a shower, then maybe go out to eat depending on how we felt when we got out. I was pretty tired But I sure as heck didn't feel like eating a peanut butter sandwich either. I could seriously feel Bean pouring BBQ sauce on my spine and gnawing on my ribs! We were huuungry!

After a liberating shower I sat on the couch to rest my legs. A few moments later I felt my intestines begin to tighten. I realized if I don't get up and get something to eat now I might not feel like eating anything in about 10 minutes. So I grab some grapes and shoved them into my mouth but the pain grew so intense I had to sit on the floor in the kitchen. Why is it that when you are needing food in a hurry everything seems to disapear out of your kitchen. So I crawl over to the pantry and drag out some walnuts. Thank God they were low to the ground.

After about 15 minutes of laying on the floor I decide to try to get a hold of Dan who was working. To my luck he didn't answer! So I called my sister n law who is a nurse. I eek out, I am in sooooo much pain. Immediatly she started me on slow breathing exercises. After talking to her for a bit she calmed me down enough to get basic questions out of me. Her advice was to call my other sister n law to come check on me because she was really worried. OOOH, I hated to do that. You see she had just been in the hospital three weeks before for chest pains. Then then next week she went on family vacation to Disneyland. This of course included her inlaws. When she got back from vacation she spent a week with her sister who is pregnant and has been in the hospital. So she was pretty worn out with taxi cab driving and sick folks. I felt so bad to call her.

So after a few more minutes of trying to pull myself together I give in and call her. All I said was, oh girl I am in so much pain. She said, I am there. She packs up all three of her children in the van and heads over. She was like super woman as soon as she walked into the door. She made an assesment ane went right to work on me. Hot packs and back rubs I seriously felt like I was in a spa. (other than the intense pain) The kids even tried to bring me my walnuts but they ended up all over the floor. Ha!

Finally we both realized that I probably needed to go to the Emergency room. I am not the one to go the emergency room. You see I have only been there like three times in my whole life. I hate to go because you always have to wait forever!!

So she packs up the kids and throws me in the front. The song, wheels on the us go round and round play through my mind as we bounce down the road. Of course every bounce causes me to come out of my seat with pain.

So here I am bouncing down the road and I can't get a hold of Dan I try one more time. His sweet calm voice answers with a hello? I blurt out, Honey I on my way to the ER. I am in lots of pain. The sweet calm voice switches over to Man with a Plan Dan voice. I want you to call the doctor and see what they want you to do. I said, Honey they will say go to the ER. He said, just call. So I called my doctor and she said head strait to Labor and Delivery! SIDE NOTE: OK, When you are in the throws of pain you don't want to hear those two little words. Labor and Delivery. They are like the scariest words to hear. Even when it is time to deliver. Come on folks I am just trying to stay calm here.

After a quick call back to my brother telling them what was up, the phone promptly started ringing. Mom said, Honey everyone at the woman's retreat is praying for you. Call me if I need to come. Then she says in her pretend calm voice, YOU HAVE TO STAY CALM. You know the kind remain calm but under it all we know she is freaking out! I immediatly feel the panic begin to rise up in me and I say, Love you bye. Then promptly hung up the phone.

One thing our family is good at is the prayer phone tree. When one family member is sick, the clan is forewarned and all begin to pray. Lucky Me!

After a few moments of me moaning in pain and agony my nephew makes a obvious observation, Um Mom, we don't have any shoes on and we are still in our pajamas. We can't go inside the hospital looking like this.. I look back and said, It's O.K, you will fit in cause everyone is wearing pajama's at the hospital. We all started laughing. Then he said, Mom will you stand in front of me so no one will see me. After having a really good laugh I realized (praise God) the pain was begining to let up some.

By the time I got to the hospital almost all of the pain was completely gone. Though it did hurt for me to stand. So they had to put me into a wheel chair so that they could get me up to labor and delivery.

After running several test all they came up with was my heart rate was a little high, which she thought was due to stress. This is after laying in bed for about 20 minutes. Basically my vitals were 104/71.. Pulse was 75. Resp was 18 and my temp was 98.5. All with in normal limits. Now I am still sore when I am getting around. Walking causes some discomfort and when I am sitting on the couch leaning slightly forward and then stand up, I hurt pretty good. Course nothing like the bumps in the road on the way to the hospital. That was pretty painful. I am just taking one day at at time and trusting in Jesus. All I can say is Praise God from whom all blessings flow, I still have a baby growing in my womb.