A-ha

Sister wants her daily post, so here you go :)

Now we have answers to my sad blood clot. I got my blood drawn AGAIN this morning with the help of my sweet Mom who was my chaffeur for me. After a quick nap we went to Baby appointment. He was of course silly and tumbly, but still quite adorable. After an extra large lunch at Arnies I said good-bye to Mom and drove myself home. Hooray, I can still manage to drive. Although hopefully I wont be doing much of that.

My doctor called me this afternoon to say my heparin levels were way high, meaning my blood was too thin. Ugh- too thin, too thick. He said I need to be careful and avoid trauma. So now I am lying on the couch and thinking I should rubber pad the entire apartment. In fact, I'll let Jon open the mail...in case of papercuts. Starting tomorrow I'm up to 3x a day heparin shots BUT less meds, so forget the 3 needles every time. Thank goodness. I can even skip tonites dose which will let my poor tummy heal from all those pokes over the week.

Now the answer. I have a genetic clotting disorder called Factor V. Now we know. I was really annoyed yesterday reading What to Expect When You're Expecting because they said DVT's were so rare only 1 in 10,000 pregnancies have an occurance. That made me mad. Now I guess there is a little more of an answer behind it.