Vicodin. . . Not for me

Went back to the hospital for another round of tests this morning. Basically did the same thing that they did on Thursday, blood work, Non-Stress Test (me being hooked up to the baby monitor), and urine analysis. Oh yeah and blood pressure check every 15 minutes.

Results?

Nothing new.  The results differ from what was done at my OB appointment yesterday.  I had high blood pressure and protein in my urine (signs of preeclampsia), and today blood pressure fine, no protein in urine, and blood work is normal. The nurse said "Low" but normal.  Not sure what that means.

I told them that my headache is still there, just coping with it more than anything.  Not a sharp pain like it was before, more of a constant dull pain. So what do they offer me? Vicodin.  Now at this point I had just awoke from a nap (not much else to do while you're lying in a hospital bed hooked up to a machine), and they give me this script.  Clint and I are like wow! Vicodin really?  So we drop the script off at Wal-greens before coming home.

I made my phone calls to the family letting them know that the tests didn't really show anything, and now I have to go back Monday for another round, plus a second trip later in the week. Every person I mentioned the Vicodin too, they were shocked that I could take that.  So I turned to the internet and began some research.  After reading several medical sites about the use of Vicodin during while pregnant, and talking to Clint about it.  We decided that I'm not going to take it UNLESS the headache returns to the numbing, nausea, dizzy pain that it was on Wednesday.  Being two weeks out from delivery at the latest, I don't want to risk anything with Dade's health.  I'm sure that the doctor knows what's she's doing by prescribing it to me, but it's my choice.  I've been functioning with this lovely thing since Wednesday, I can continue to do so.

I'm trying to figure out what to do about school.  I'm pretty much out of days, except my 10 weeks I've built up for maternity leave.  I guess I'll have to figure that out.  I have no idea what time my test is on Monday, they (the hospital) are supposed to call and tell me.

At this point, I know that Dade is healthy, so I wish they would just induce me and let me go into labor instead of playing House. Because let's face the facts here people my doctor is not Hugh Laurie.