I HATE HOSPITALS

OK I don't always hate hospitals because they also bring beautiful babies into this world but from my experience the last 3 days I can honestly say that I do not want to go back to the hospital until it is time to have McKenzie. So here goes, Wednesday night I was feeling crampy and my whole body ached all over with the chills but didn't have a fever or the flu, so while at the hospital they hooked me up to the contraction machine and the heart rate machine for her and I got to listen to her little heart beat for about 3 1/2 hours. I was having some contractions in the beginning so the Dr ordered me to have 3 shots of Terbutaline, as well as a prescription of Procardia for me to take daily since I keep getting contractions. After the 2nd shot I didn't show any more irritation so they didn't give me the last shot but did give me the Procardia pill and told me to call the Dr in the am to order a prescription for the meds. (here's a little background for Terbutaline and Procardia, neither of them are made to prevent contractions on is a pill to help with asthma and the other is to help lower blood pressure but they have been tested and show effective to prevent or help preterm labor. I was on Terbutaline for 6 weeks with the boys but never had I had Procardia) OK so the next day I was feeling sluggish, more tired than usual, and just felt like my heart was racing but these were all normal side effects that Ive felt before with the shots so I just looked over them. I went to take a nap around 3pm and woke up around 4pm with severe pain in my chest which felt like someone was squeezing my heart and I was having an increased heart rate and a little shortness of breathe. The pain also would go down my arm and make my arm numb basically felt like I was having a heart attack. I tried to do some relaxation things like resting, taking a bath, and just trying to calm down thinking it might be anxiety and didn't want to get things checked out. Shauna insisted I go to the hospital because I have been now having the pains for over 5 hours, so back to the hospital I went day 2....Once I got to the hospital I went back to Labor and Delivery explained to them what had happened the day before and that I was given a prescription but had not taken it yet(will explain more later on that) They connected me to the monitors and McKenzie looked amazing no contractions and her heart rate was great so they said that they had done everything they can but they wanted me to go down to the ER so they could do some additional tests, all of this took about an hour. ER got me in right away and did an EKG on me which was normal and great the Dr then came and talked to me said that sometimes prego women get blood clots in their lungs and we need to do a CT scan to eliminate that possibility. He went over the different risks because its radiation that McKenzie would be exposed to as well as some fluids put in me thru IV so they can see the contrast on the scan. I decided that the risks were lower than if I did nothing so several hours and I mean several hours later after I got my IV in they took me for my CT scan, approx an hour after that Dr. came in and told me good news is that I don't have any clots but that they did see fluid around my heart!! MY HEART!!! that I will probably be admitted and watched the next couple days and will be given some additional tests and also will see a cardiologist and maybe go back to L & D. I had to do and Echo ultrasound on my heart which hurt pretty bad and then I was just being thrown around. I was in the ER this entire time and the cardiologist decided he wanted nothing to do with me because I was 32 weeks pregnant and L & D didn't want me because it was a heart issue. I had become so scared Shauna was with me since like 5am, finally they came in and told me that I have trivial percardial effusion which is a small amount of fluid around my heart that will do one of two things it will either reabsorb into my body as if it was never there(which usually happens) or it will continue to grow and I will need to have it drained which is so so scary! They told me I could go home but that I needed to followup with my primary Dr and also remind them when its time for the cesarean what they had found so they can just watch me a little closer during surgery. I have not been this scared since I was told the bad news about our boys. Its so scary to think that there was or is a possibility that I will need something done to my heart but so thrilled that at this moment is not a serious matter. Thank you to my wonderful wife for keeping me company in the hospital from 5am to 930pm and to my mother in law for keeping Ethan for us the whole time. I was there a total of almost 24 hours and I hope the next time I venture back to the hospital for that long I will be having McKenzie.