Yesterday Kristin was very sick, and writhing in pain all day. She talked to the on-call OB doc on the phone and he told her to go to the ER to see want was going on. So around 6 pm we dropped the kids off at her parents' house and started our fun Friday night.
In the ER they did some blood and urine work and found that her white blood cell count was elevated -- a lot! That combined with the symptoms that she was having made them think that she might have appendicitis, so we started prepping ourselves for the possibility of emergency surgery.
The other thought was that she could have a kidney stone, so they took her (juiced on morphine) over to the ultra sound department to check for stones(they would normally do a CT scan, but that's not safe for the baby). Luckily they found no stones and could not even visualize the appendix. So back to the ER we went and waited for the doc to talk to the surgeon to decide what to do next. They decided to try an MRI to take a better look at the appendix, then back to the ER to wait for the results. Eventually the doc came in and said that it did not look like there was any appendicitis, so no surgery.
So, what they think is happening is that Kristin's uterus is smushing in on the tube from the kidney to the bladder on the right side, not letting the urine through like it should so it's backing up to her kidney and there is mild to moderate swelling that is causing all the pain. The only thing that they can to to fix it would be to put in a stent and they say people have tons of pain with those too, so they didn't feel like it was really worth it. Basically Kristin just has to live with it until the baby comes and releases the pressure. They gave her prescriptions for nausea and pain meds and told us to come back if the pain gets much worse or if she develops a fever.
We are just very grateful that Kristin did not have to have surgery and that there is nothing wrong with the baby. It was an exhausting night though and we ended up being in the ER for just a hair under six hours. Since it was Friday night, lots of places were still open, so I took Kristin to Sonic for a hot fudge sundae afterwords.
Oh yeah, while we were in the ultrasound dept I asked the tech to just look to verify that there was only one baby --which there is. That's all I asked for, but he asked if we wanted to know the baby's sex. He then showed us that we are having a BOY! I was so excited! I could not stop smiling for the rest of the ultrasound. I was kind of surpised how excited I was that it's a boy, but I think I would have been as excited for a girl too. It's just nice to know. I took some video while he was looking at the baby, so I'll try to put that on too.
So now we need to come up with a name. We don't have anything picked out yet, so we are open to suggestions here. And just to clarify: We are not going to be doing another L name.
