More on Allison

Yesterday continued to go pretty smoothly, in relative terms, through the evening. Allison stayed in bed pretty much all day and rested. She didn't have any more pain episodes. Maybe the baby had helpfully shifted or any kidney stone had been passed.

Or not.

Right now, she's back in the hospital. The pain returned early this morning. After several hours in the OB Triage unit, the decision has been made to admit her. (I left out of yesterday's post that on Thursday, before the results from the renal ultrasound came back, one of the options being made available was keeping her in the hospital for observation while they tried to manage her pain and flush out any existing kidney stones. I was very much on board with this. After the ultrasound didn't show a stone, that went out the window and they just discharged her.)

Now, they are doing the things they should have done on Thursday. They are (as yet unsuccessfully) trying to manage her pain. They are giving her something to flush out any kidney stones. They are doing another fetal and renal ultrasound.

This time around, there is one note about the baby. A few times since she's been there today, his heart rate has been elevated. It hasn't been anywhere near where Ayden's would get, it's just been outside of the "normal" range at times. So, they have called in Dr. Graves, which is who took over Allison's pregnancy with Ayden (and delivered him) once we learned of his defect. They want her to read the fetal ultrasound, apparently. I get sense they don't really believe anything is wrong, but given the family history, they want to make sure. Allison and I suspect he is simply responding to Allison's body's response to the pain. The timing of the episodes seem to support this. Hopefully, that doesn't prove to be a rationalization.

At any rate, please keep Allison in your prayers. They will be moving her out of OB Triage soon (patients are only supposed to stay there for a certain number of hours). I will do my best to provide updates via the blog (I'm accustomed to doing this with Ayden, but not with Allison).