Hospital Bed Rest Day 2

January 31, 2013
25 weeks 4 days
Hospital bed rest day 2

It is very hard to try to sleep while the nurses have to check my vitals, lungs, and reflexes every hr or 2 while on Mag. I finally gave up on trying to sleep about 6:30am. I have been put on a clear liquid diet due to the mag and I am now starving. So I talk to the nurse ask her if it were possible for me to get some real food since I have not been nauseous at all. She comes back in a few minutes later and lets me know that my Dr put me back on a normal diet. I couldn't have been happier!! I get the menu, which looks more like a restaurant menu than a hospital menu, and pick out what I want for breakfast, I call the dining service and place my order. They tell me it will be up with in 45 minutes...and about 5 minutes into the wait i start to get nauseous, then start getting dizzy, then my vision gets really blurry and i am trying to sit up as quick as I can to grab my "airline" bag before I vomit. Crap now I cant eat my breakfast. :-(  At this point I am on 200mg of mag an hour which is the normal dose. I am feeling pretty crappy but it keeps getting worse and worse so finally I say something about it to my nurse. The Dr ordered stat blood draw to check my levels of magnesium to see if I am getting to much. My level comes back at a 5 which means nothing to me but they say it is fine but decide to change my dose to 100 mg per hour. With in an hour I am feeling so much better.
After the kids get out of school Wes picked them up and brought them up to see me. That made my day!! Kyra and Skylar laid in bed with me while all of us watched a movie together. It was wonderful having my children with me. My Mom flew in from Michigan to help out while I am in the hospital so my sister went to pick her up at the airport then they stopped by to visit too! What a great evening at least until i decided to try to eat dinner. Again I got really nauseous and started to feel really bad again. The time came where my family had to leave since the kids still had homework to do and they had to get dinner still and it was already almost 8pm. It was so hard to say good bye to them. The emotional roller coaster of normal pregnancy has been exaggerated by the mag and being stuck away from home. I am not usually one to cry alot but the past few days it seems that i cry about any and everything. Poor Wes I don't know how he is handling it so well!!
I found out that my dr ordered me some sleeping meds in case i was having trouble so I decide to give them a try. I am super affected my meds so within 20 minutes I am having even more trouble seeing and am super tired but trying to stay awake to spend time with Wes. Now I don't remember any of the rest of this but this is what Wes told me went on.
I was laying in my bed which is across the room from the chair that he sleeps in. So I am laying there dozing in a out and start moving my arm around like I am looking for something and start to get a pouty face so Wes asked me what was wrong and I tell him that I know there are the things that are real and the things that are real that I make up, and that I thought there was a child there that was going to snuggle with me but it must have been one of the real things that I made up and not a real thing. So he points out to me that I do in fact have a child to snuggle with in my belly. He then placed my hand on my belly and I fell asleep again. At some point I woke up again and waved at Wes across the room so he waved back. Then I waved with both hands so he did as well. I said I guess you both are just going to do the same thing huh, and he said yes i guess so. Ok so as I type this all out it isn't nearly as funny as when Wes told me about it. And that ends another day...