Boo to a weekend in the hospital.

I like to work at a hospital, but I don't like being a patient there.  In fact, I hated it.  The nurses were very nice (for the most part...save the one I met today), Doctors were excellent, even the food wasn't too bad but all I wanted to do was come home snuggle my Vi and sleep in my own bed and I was only there ONE night!
Hopefully no more kidney stones for me during this pregnancy.  The nurse said to stay well hydrated and that will help flush my system so off I go to down another glass of water...

kidney stone(s)

That's the prognosis. So far, anyway. Marn will have to stay overnight for this one as they want to keep an eye on things and ensure that she's keeping hydrated. They will most likely be doing an ultrasound in the morning to determine course of action (ie: let it pass, or surgery??)
Anyway, two different people have now said "kidney stones are nothing that you've ever felt before". Awesome

Edit:
Forgot to mention that there is no infection of any kind and that there's no need to continue the medication that we got this morning. So it appears that its "only" kidney stones for now.

beautiful day to spend at the hospital

This morning marn woke up and wasn't feeling well. Had the feeling like she had to pee all the time so suspected that she had a U.T.I., or bladder infection. We called our doctor's office who has a doctors on call service and after talking to them, they suspected the same then gave us a prescription for antibiotics.
After getting and taking the first dose she started feeling worse and started having pain in her abdomen and lower back... and then started barfing. 3 or 4 times in an hour, so we called the doc's back who then suggested that we go to the labour and delivery department at the hospital for more thorough diagnosis and urine sample to confirm an infection. They would fax the info over so that they would be expecting us.

So here we are. Marn's been sick a few times since being here and after talking to the nurses and resident doctor, they don't think anything is wrong with the baby, thankfully. They do suspect that it's a UI or bladder infection, and they've been tossing the terms bladder stones, or kidney stones around. We're still waiting for the urine samples back to confirm anything.

Marn's got an I.V. in now along with morphine and gravol for the nausea and is resting. Not sure what happens from here, but I assume that once we hear back from the tests and once she gets through a bag of saline, we'll be going home. The prescription we have will continue, and she'll probably get something else for the pain.

I'll update later...

Teepee

I did it!  I made a tee pee.  I am not sure if I thought that I could really do it.  I followed my first pattern, made lots of mistakes, but it stands and Vi loves it!  Speaking of Vi - how cute is Vi with her Daddy in these shots?  I love the one at the table, Vi totally took Daddy's pose.  It made us all laugh.  Love my little family.

fun pics

I'm not sure where this pose came from, but I thought it was pretty cute.  There's another similar one a few pics down.

whoops!

...yes I'm cute

getting a little brave...

A little too brave!

it's the post-pony-tail look

Hi Mommy!

Echo fatty dog

So Echo had a vet appt. this morning, and other than being completely healthy, he's gained 15 lbs!
So that makes him a hair under 200 lbs.  F-A-T !

He should not be that heavy, and it's completely our fault.  We've barely been exercising him with walks, or dog park visits.... and we don't leave him outside very long because he runs into the neighbours yards all the time when we're not out there with him (which we can't stand).

So, that needs to change.  Thankfully it's practically summer (it's felt like it this week!) so it'll be easier to get out with him.

The meds for heart worm didn't cost as much as previous years either, so that was a bonus.