Here we are...waiting.
After talking with a very drugged up Mandy around 3 during our picnic in Central Park, Julie encouraged me to pack up and head home. My split loyalties between job and home were clouding my thoughts and she finally put the right words together to snap me out of it! Fortunately, she was able to take me back to my room to pack my stuff up while I made flight arrangements and was able to catch a flight at 7:45. So I flew home from NYC cutting the class I was teaching short...well...short for me, Mel headed back this morning to take over for me. And you know me, now I am working through some major guilt for not finishing the class and for taking him away from his family again. (Though when we stopped by his place to do a hand off of class stuff, he said all the right supporting things and was laughing at me, so I know it is ok now! Yea Mel!) The emotion I am feeling more than guilt for making Mel go back is one of being completely paralyzed.
Today, we went to meet Mandy for the second steroid shot. She is pretty miserable at this point. During the day yesterday, a nurse told her that at the beginning, when Mandy checked in at the hospital, she could poke the baby's head and she would float back up into the belly. By the time they checked her out last night, no amount of poking would dislodge her from the birth canal. So, Mandy is walking very slowly, cringing a lot, and is still contracting at a rate of 3 per hour. If she gets back up to 4 an hour, she is supposed to go back into the hospital. At that point we are not sure if they will continue to try to stop them or if they will let her go. The nurse who gave her the shot couldn't really answer our question about how quickly the shot was effective in making the baby's lungs stronger. She kind of said it would be pretty fast, but wasn't really convincing or specific. Mandy just called a bit ago to let me know that she has made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow at 2:20 to get checked out. With the baby engaged I believe she is wondering about the progress of her cervix. So we will head back up there tomorrow.
When we came back after eating breakfast, I was so tired I took a nap (not normal for me at all!) and slept for 4 hours. Since waking up I have checked on Ken's progress, looked through a little mail, though I didn't do anything with it, and have pet the dogs. The list of things I need to be doing is endless and daunting and just too much for me this afternoon! The phone call from Mandy about her progress and the doctor's appointment is nudging me enough to update all of you and then to get the babies room cleaned so that we can paint the base coat and trim before the polka party...which may need to be moved up!
Next I will make lists...what to do...what to get...what to completely freak out about...
hopefully that one is short!
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