Doctor's Visit

Does anyone know how to break into Fort Knox??? If you do, please let me know. That is how the doctor described my cervix. Fort Stinking Knox!!! But we have a game plan.

As she put it, "If you still wake up pregnant on Monday morning, which you probably will be, call the office and we will schedule an induction." So, she continued to go on that they will schedule me for Sunday, September 28th at night. At which point they will give meds to soften the cervix overnight. She also said they will give me something so that I can try to sleep that night. In the morning they would start the Pitocin to get contractions going, etc. So at the latest we will have a baby September 29th.

She felt that my throat/fever thing is probably viral in nature and should be gone by the weekend...but also thought it might be a good idea for a strep test. If I did have strep the antibiotics would kick in before I went into labor and then they wouldn't have to give them to baby once it was born (if baby EVER comes out). They don't do them there at the OB office (as I indicated in my earlier post - wrong end of the body). But then I was thinking...couldn't they just use the swab that they used a few weeks ago to test for the Group B Strep in my woohoo and stick it in my throat??? Anyway, I called the primary doctor, explained my situation and they called me right back to tell me...they don't do strep tests (I guess not the rapid ones????). So our other alternative was the CVS Minute Clinic (It is a fallacy - it was not a minute). We show up at ours and as we get to the door, the nurse practitioner closes it and puts the out to lunch sign up. Sheesh. She told us to come back in a half hour. We get back there and she did a thorough exam - blood pressure, lungs, chest, etc. She finally gags me with the cotton swab and starts the rapid strep which came back negative and then does it again to do one to send to the lab. It is good that I do not need antibiotics...but frustrating b/c you know that when you get them, you start to feel better.

So now, I go back to the OB on Tuesday for another check (after scheduling the induction for the 28th). The doctor didn't seem like there would be progress - but wants to check things out. And then we wait some more.

I have a new end in sight now which is 10 days away instead of 2. I told baby to keep cooking too much...I keep trying to tell it now that it is done. Pray that there is some sort of progress soon and that this virus goes away and that Joe and Mom don't get it b/c they have been around me.

I still don't know what I am doing for Julianne's wedding this weekend. I want to make it to the rehearsal tomorrow (but if I feel as crummy tomorrow as I do now, who knows if I will make it) and the church on Saturday. The entire day with reception will be just too much for me to handle being this pregnant. It really upsets me to miss it. I was supposed to be the matron of honor!!