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When Dr. Soffici originally gave us the twins odds he said there was a 20% chance I would get past the first week without delivering. We have now made it past the first week and have moved onto NEW odds that I have a 25% chance to get to 28 weeks. If you remember that is the magic week week where 99% of preemies survive without life long problems. As everyone keeps saying “take it one day at a time” (since when did bedrest start sounding like a 12 step program?)

Yesterday was pretty uneventful. I blew another IV but the doctor said I already had gotten a weeks work of IV antibiotics (I was getting an IV dose every 6 hours) and I didn’t need anymore. So I’m IV free at the moment. This gives me a new found respect for my patients when they were complaining about their IV’s. I would look at it and if flushed well, wasn’t red or warm I would tell them to try and bear with it so they wouldn’t have to be stuck again. I know what they were talking about now. While I am not a ‘hard stick’ (someone you cannot get an IV into because of bad or small veins) I have very sensitive veins. Yup thats me, the one with the pansy veins. As Souther said I’m “as delicate as a potato chip being mailed across country without bubble wrap”.

We did not get the steroids yesterday as we thought we were. Sr. Soffici is on call this weekend and he wanted to start them when he was here so he personally could watch my blood sugars. The nurse said he didn’t want someone else doing it. That made sense after Tadd told me he read that Dr. Soffici presented at a maternal-fetal conference in Vegas earlier this year. Of the 4 subjects he spoke on 2 were “Monitoring the Diabetic Patient” and “Preterm Labor”. I guess we are in some pretty good hands. I did not want this to happen but since it did I’m glad that we have a nationally renowned perinatolgist and one of the best NICU’s between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

• We now have 31 days till we hit 28 weeks.

• Babies are moving all around. Even poor Loen, she is managing to kick and move around even though she hasn’t much fluid around her. My girl is a tough cookie.

• I’m starting to go a little stir crazy. I’m used to getting stuff done and now people have to do things for me. Tadd scolded me for throwing away a drink container on my way to the bathroom. According to him the 2 extra steps to the trash can were unnecessary. This is when it would be a good time to know how to knit something. But I have tried my hand at knitting before and it wasn’t pretty. We both agreed that the aggravation it caused me last time wasn’t worth it.

Thats about it here in our little room. We didn’t post anything last night because Tadd got some very sad news. His childhood friend Ehren Peyerk, passed away after a long battle with cancer yesterday. Our thoughts go out to his wife and family during this difficult time.