So, it ended up being a nice 11 hours of work today, and amazingly I am not too tired at all. My blood pressure was up first thing when I got to work, but not as high as yesterday so I thought I ‘d try to work since there was no one to take my place. So at lunch time the nurse checked it again and it indeed had gone up, but still not as high as yesterday. So I figured oh well, my ob never called me back so I guess I can keep working. I had a few cramps today and had to stretch often at work but it wasn’t too bad. Around 4:30 I got transferred a call from our phone room, where they all answer the phones of course, and they said it was my dr. The nurse apologized for not calling sooner, and I apologized that they had to track me down because I failed to give them our new work phone # since it changed when we moved offices. But she said my chart got misplaced and she knew she had to call but she couldn’t find the info to give the dr. And from working in a dr’s office I completely understood, but mind you I had already been working all day by now so whatever she had to say wasn’t going to help me much for today. So the nurse asked how my blood pressure was today, I told her and she was not happy, of course not. She said I really need to stop working, I told her I wouldn’t have worked today but I didn’t know since no one got back with me. So she told me she’d see me on Thursday when I have my next appt unless my ultrasound doesnt go well tomorrow.
So I hung up the phone and it hit me that today was going to be my last day of work until after I have the baby. It was the saddest feeling. I mean yes I’ve been dreading going to work everyday but I had all of these things I needed to finish up first, and Karen is still on vacation til Monday so I was worried about who was going to do my job. I talked with one of the nurses first before talking with my boss, so I’d get my nerve up. Then I dragged myself into my bosses office and told her what my ob had called to say. She seemed to know it was coming, she kept joking with me today about being there when I should be home resting, yet she never offered to have someone fill in for me so I could leave. But she was fine with today being my last day, I told her where all of my files were on the computer in case they were needed. And I left my co-workers, all of who had already left for the day, a long note telling them where to find what they needed to do my job and to call if they had questions or were having trouble finding something. So they won’t know till tomorrow morning that I wont be back until after Caleb is born. So it was quite sad as I wrapped up my nice 11 hour day, as I checked my desk to make sure everything was there that they would need til I got back. So there I was worried about having to keep working, yet now I am sad that I wont be working for a while; that just doesn’t make any sense. I guess it is the pregnancy hormones getting all confused.
I think Dean is not happy that I can’t work at all, but today was proof that it’s not good for me to be working because as the day went on my blood pressure just got higher and I started getting cramps. So I know it is a good thing, I just don’t know what I’ll do with myself until the baby comes, but it may be a lot sooner than we think. So tomorrow Dean is going with me to my ultrasound and they will measure how big Caleb is, so we should have a lot more information between tomorrow’s appointment and Thursdays with my regular ob. And Dean’s new computer parts arrive tomorrow too! So he took the whole day off, so that will be nice – to have my first day of bedrest to spend with my hubby. But I think he will be wrapped up in the computer and then I think he has to head to the theater to get ready for a reading of a new play that is tomorrow evening, but still we should get some time together before he gets too busy with his plans. And I think it will be hard on me knowing I wont be working, I can’t just sit around all the time, so I think this is going to be a challenge for me , but who knows, it might not even be for that long….we’ll see……
