Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Man I am almost to 35 weeks...only 2 more weeks until I will have a full term baby, and man I can't wait. My doctor's appointment on Monday was good, although I started crying b/c I want this to be over...I have been feeling alot of contractions/cramping especially from Sat-Monday...any other woman would have gone to the hospital, but I stuck it out...my doctor said if I have more than 4 hours of painful contractions I need to come in to at least have the baby monitored. She also said that after 35 weeks she wouldn't put me on mag (the IV medicine that stops contractions)...I am not real sure what that means, b/c if she doesn't put me on mag then I would be in pain...would she deliver me? Believe it or not I don't want to deliver that early...I would feel better delivering at 37 weeks...I am hoping at my next appt we can schedule the section for either Sept 29th or October 2nd...I would prefer to have him on the 2nd mainly b/c I think I will feel like a failure if he was born in a month that wasn't his due date month...but I guess if my doctor agrees to the 29th I would probably go for it...

So it is the same old same old with my hand. My friend Tammy had to take me yesterday to see ANOTHER dermatologist b/c Stephen had an important call. I wish I would have started out seeing this guy....I have been wasting my time seeing that other dermatologist...I think her practice is focused more on botox and cosmetic type things...so at my Dr. Appt on Monday I showed Dr Adam my hand, and she immediately got on the phone with the department head dermatologist of Baylor...so that is who I saw yesterday. He immediately said he thought he knew what it was, I can't remember the actual name of it, but it is some type of fungus...but a fungus that is difficult to see in cultures and biopsies...so I believe (I hope) that we might have a diagnosis that could possibly cure me...that would be just fabulous. The only thing that I can possibly imagine touching are some little flowers that Kaylyn picked for me back when I was in the hospital...it is a mystery...

So on another note I think we have a name for the baby besides milli...I think it is going to be William...only to be called either Will or William....it is not 100% sure, I would say more like 90% sure. The other front runner is Joshua...which I really like, but for some reason Will feels right...is that wired? Maybe when I see him his name will come to me...

3 comments:

Lori said...

Hi Rachel! Hang in there. I can't even imagine what you're going through but we're praying for the baby to be healthy and you to recover quickly!!

Anonymous said...

Hey Rachel. I wanted to let you know that I'm still a faithful reader of your postings! I'm excited to see how close you are now! Rebekah

Anonymous said...

You could just turn that M over and call him Willi

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