possibly exciting news!

Today i saw the nurses at Kaiser to get the baby monitored. My blood pressure was lower than it has been in a while (still slightly elevated, but nothing like it had been) and there was NO protein detectable in my urine (which is also VERY down from previous) and the baby's heart had NO arrhythmia the whole time he was monitored!!

It's very easy to get my hopes up about all of this and think that at my appointment next week maybe the dr will say i don't have preeclampsia after all and i can be off of bedrest. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking because i don't think the husband man would let me off bedrest because he's paranoid that i would suddenly get worse. But maybe i can do be off of bedrest on a trial basis and see how my blood pressure does. Now i know that preeclampsia doesn't just go away until they deliver the baby, but i'm thinking at this point that this was all being caused more by the kidney stone than anything else. The stone, as far as i can tell, dropped into my bladder about two weeks ago after getting a swift kick from Catcher. It wouldn't have moved down on it's own because of it's large size, but i felt the baby kick it (it hurt like NOTHING else!) and then i started having bladder spasms and a bladder infection immediately after that. (i know this may be TMI, but it's my life right now!) So once they fixed the infection which was most likely caused by irritation from the giant stone rattling around in my bladder, all things seem to be returning to more normal levels. Now technically i still qualify as having preeclampsia, but things are definitely moving in a better direction since the stone moved out of the tube it was blocking. I thought from the very beginning that the high blood pressure and elevated protein levels could have been caused by the kidney in distress from the stone....but people see a pregnant woman with these symptoms and automatically assume they know what it is... preeclampsia. Well when i asked the Urologist about it in the beginning of all of this she said that if the kidney was so distressed as to be causing the blood pressure and protein, that i would be in severe pain. But you know maybe i just have a higher pain tolerance, i mean really, i've dealt with chronic pain from Arthritis for a very long time (since about age 7)so maybe i just wasn't feeling the pain the same way other people normally would. She said since i could control the discomfort without medication that the kidney couldn't be in that bad of shape or i would be in such serious pain as to NEED medication. Well excuse me for being able to manage my pain better than that, cause now that the stone is rattling around in my bladder and not blocking any flow from the kidneys, well suddenly the numbers are turning around a bit. Go figure.

I don't know if maybe this is just a fluke, or maybe it's just all been the kidney stone all along, only time will tell, but i am 29 weeks and we're moving further every day towards a bigger healthier baby. Maybe i'm just getting my hopes up for nothing, but i think at this point that if things continue to trend in this happy direction, that there's a possibility of a near full term baby...what do you think? Just being optimistic i suppose, but it never hurt.