Feeling Human again!

Over the weekend i decided to test a theory. My blood pressure has been running much lower than it was even just a few weeks ago. If i truly have "preeclampsia" this would not really be possible, because it never gets better during pregnancy, once diagnosed it only gets worse, and the only cure is delivery of the baby. Well if my blood pressures were getting better, it's proof that more of these symptoms are related to the dreaded kidney stone, than to preeclampsia. Now the symptoms for preeclampsia (elevated blood pressures, and protein in the urine being the basic first signs) are also similar to things that can occur from a kidney stone, and they did start only a week or so after i developed the kidney stone. However these symptoms developed after i'd learned to control the pain from the stone. In fact i learned to control the pain so well that when i layed in the right position i felt NO pain at all, i could literally shut off pain from that part of my body (took some serious mind work to figure out, but it was safer than taking pain meds thru the rest of the pregnancy) Well when the drs realized i wasn't in pain, they didn't think the symptoms of high blood pressure and protein could be caused by the kidney stone, they were just sure if the kidney was in that much distress all on it's own, that it would be hurting so bad i would not have been able to control it without pain meds....uh huh, yeah right!

So about two weeks ago, the baby gave the kidney stone (which until then had been trapped in the Ureter - the tube leading from the kidney to the bladder)a nice hard kick and dislodged it, sending it rattling down into my bladder. Well i've talked about all that before, but the interesting thing is that although the day after that happened my protein seemed to go up and they thought i was getting worse with preeclampsia, once they cured the bladder infection being caused by the stone irritating the bladder, then over these past two weeks, the symptoms have started to almost dissappear! The protein is nearly indetectable, the blood pressures are "near" normal (not quite perfect, but pretty close!) and i feel about a zillion times better. I mean i was able to tell my body not to feel "pain" from that part of me, but i couldn't control the effects that the weakened kidney were otherwise having on my body. Now that the stone isn't blocking the kidney anymore, and it's starting to heal, my whole body feels better. I mean i'm still pregnant so i'm tired a lot and i move slower :) but as far as overall, my body feels soo much better! I wish they would have done something about the kidney stone earlier, i kept asking the urologist to go ahead and do the stint just in case the symptoms were being caused by the stone, but she reiterated that if i wasn't hurting, it wasn't that bad off so she wasn't going to do anything about it. Maybe if they had done the stint and relieved the pressure off the kidney then these symptoms could have gone down even sooner and they wouldn't have freaked out about preeclampsia!

I don't know, i've still got a little ways to go, but i'm hoping to at least make it to March, the baby's due in April, but i don't know that they'll want to push it that far, depending on how things continue to develop, but either way, we're looking at a much larger, much healthier baby in the scheme of things, and we can only thank our Heavenly Father for the blessings which have been given to us thru all of this! I could never thank Him enough, i can only hope to show my gratitude thru service when this is all over, and hope to help someone else in need.