A Revised Plan of Attack

Okay! I am at home in our very very messy Grand Rapids apartment. I really can't complain about the mess, I would'v wanted Jon to be with me at the hospital like he has been than cleaning up here. Now I'm fighting the urge to get up and start cleaning properly. My leg is doing a good job of discouraging that clean behavior too. Plus it's really awkward to handle the crutches in the skinny hallways we have here. So for today I have agreed to fold a ton of laundry from my perch on the couch while Jon does the heavy lifting up and down to the basement.

As far as next medical steps here's the plan. I will be poking my tummy with heparin shots twice a day until baby is induced somewhere around 36 weeks (which is frightenly nearing). I will have daily blood draws at clinics daily starting this morning until my doctors are happy with my blood levels being at a therapeutic anti-coagulent level. Hopefully that'll settle down within a few days. And finally I will be making weekly visits to by OB doc to check on baby. He meanwhile is doing just fine. After breakfast yesterday I was put on the monitor to listen to him and the little boy was so squirrly it was hard to get a consistent heartrate. Then after 10 minutes of flips and rolls he chilled only to start hiccupping for the following 5 minutes. He is going to be such a silly little boy!

Now for the Laura sanity plan: I will take this time to finish my several crafts in the making including painting (from a chair) and finishing my frog man knitted stuffed animal. In addition, because I will have time, I will return to my secondary plan of relearning Spanish. Cross my fingers I'll be able to start taking a language class next fall. I would really love to add a bilingual extension to my resume (even if my ESL certificate is junk in MI) in hopes to rangle a job using both languages. Might as well use the time I have to focus a little. Because baby is coming.....so so soon!