We have a date!

Yesterday Billy & I went to the doctor for what we thought would be another growth ultrasound appointment. Instead we met with Dr. Oh who went through the routine questions and measurements. After some discussions about getting one of their perinatal doctors in-line with the OB, Dr. Martin, who is going to perform my hysterectomy, they decided that they could just schedule the c-section. Dr. Oh went and found Dr. Lam, who will perform the c-section at Good Sam hospital, and they agreed to do the surgeries/delivery on Thursday, OCTOBER 30, 2008! We have a DATE! As of today, we will have a daughter in 66 days! Crazy huh!? We were pretty excited with this news, although the doctors also decided that everything has been fine with baby and we didn't need any more ultrasounds...bummer. (I've attached a bump photo from today.)

P.S. Bill is attending his second physical therapy appt 8/27. He's been working a few hours at the office most days, but still isn't able to put weight on his leg and is still feeling a good amount of pain most days.

26 Weeks

Last Friday I had an appointment with the doctor that will be doing my hysterectomy in conjunction with my OB who will deliver the baby and do my c-section. His thoughts were to deliver at 37 weeks at Banner Good Samaritan in Phoenix (Voted 28th Best Hospital for Gynocology in the Nation) avoiding some other potential complications with my cervix. That would mean that as of today we have 11 weeks left, putting the delivery date sometime during the last week in October. I'm officially on the prego-fast-track.

At 9am today Bill had an appointment with the orthopedic doctor. While their they removed his soft cast from the surgery last week and they took out 20 staples in the incisions in his leg and took x-rays of the foot long plate holding his tibia together. I almost fainted due to the smell of his leg, and the fact that it was still oozing some blood, and then Bill got really pale at the end of the visit due to the pain of trying to get his leg into this boot they want him to start wearing. (What a sorry pair we were.) After all of that excitement we went home and filled Bill with pain medication and he napped.

At 4pm I had a follow-up OB appointment where they simply took my vitals and discussed the current state-of-the-prego-union. I asked about having my bed rest lifted a bit and the doctor was up for it until she did a physical cervix check and then said she'd prefer to revisit the idea at 32 weeks. AHHHHHH Crap!

I have to go this week for 'third trimester' testing, I guess for stuff like gestational diabetes, it takes about an hour...so I'll go back and do that later. My next follow-up is in 2 weeks and Bill has a follow-up in 3 weeks. Man could we use a stiff drink!

Bill Surgery

Bill went in today for surgery to have the plate placed in his leg to hold the 8-10 broken pieces of his tibia together. He was in surgery for about 2 hours and recovery for another 2 hours. I just left Chandler Memorial where, although in A LOT of pain, he was resting in his room. I've come home to care for 'Fletcher' and 'Bella', eat some dinner and get off my feet for a bit before returning to the hospital to spend the night with him. I'll keep you all posted on his recovery. xoxox