ups and downs

So yesterday turned out to be a pretty crappy day. I decided that I should probably have my leg checked out as it was getting alot worse and my ankles were really swollen. I went upstairs to the L&D floor and they sent me to Dr. Brinkley's office, who is the OB that delivered her. They took a look at it and sent me to the ER where I waited for 2.5 hours. They finally looked at me and said they thought it was a SVT, which stands for superficial venous thrombosis.. or something like that. It just meant that I have a bright red spot on my leg with a vein that isn't circulating right. The ER doctor thought that it might be DVT, which is the same thing, just with a deeper vein. That one is more serious and requires blood thinners to clear the clot. The machine they needed to check for that wasn't at this hospital campus so they sent me over to their other campus here in Everett. When i first got there they told me it would just be a minute and I ended up waiting almost 2 hours. There was a mixup with what room I was in so they couldn't find me. It wasn't DVT so I am suppose to be taking an antibiotic for some cellulitis but I haven't done it yet.

All in all it was a VERY frustrating experience and I wasted an entire day when I really needed to be here with Finley! I am trying to stay positive in all this but there are times when it feels like things are just piling up and hindering us from taking this precious baby home. I know that the Lord is in control but it is very easy to try and fight that plan he has, as it is clearly not mine!

Finley is doing really well. The only thing that is keeping her here now is feeding. This is a strange process as there seems to be no real consistent way to figure out how much milk she is gettting from me and that determines when she comes home. As I said in the last post, every nurse does things a little bit different so it's frustrating.

We ended up staying in a hotel last night and are planning on going home tonight. We are going to have the kids here with us tomorrow and spend the night in a hotel with them so they still feel loved. It has been a little hard on them but I think they are adjusting ok.

I will post a few more pictures later today. They had to move her IV and it is now in her scalp so she doesn't look that great.