Believe in the unexpected.

Sometimes I really ought to watch what I say...

Just a couple of weeks ago when I was on msn with my msn kakis, I said that I couldn't wait to see baby Cadence. And for once, GOD decided to grant me that wish way in advance...

I saw some very faint, pinkish blood stains when I went to the toilet. That was on 17 August if my after-birth brain has left me some semblance of memory. I kinda ignored it and only mentioned it to the msn kakis the next day. So they mentioned that it was nothing to be treated lightly, because I also had such high blood pressure. It could be placenta abruption you see... So under their urge, I called the gynae the next morning and was told to go down to the clinic immediately.

So on the morning of 20 August, after a call to the gynae, I sent an sms to GG informing him about the gynae's visit and went off to Dr Sim's clinic.

I must admit I thought lightly of the matter coz the blood stains did not return and I did not seem to spot any of the placenta abruption symptoms.

However, since Dr Sim was quite afraid that things with me might repeat as did her patient who gave birth when baby was only 30 weeks, I was told to take the steroid jabs to mature baby's lungs. How glad I am now that she did that!!!

The next day, I remember meeting GG for lunch at paragon, after which I was supposed to just go to the clinic for the second jab and wait around for GG to come pick me home.

Alas, GOD had other plans...

Perhaps I couldn't sleep the night before (see the post at 3.33am...) and had very little sleep when I could finally do so, I ended up with a headache when I was at the clinic. The nurses seemed to think something wasn't right with me and asked if I was ok. So I casually mentioned that I had a headache and Doreen (one of the nurses) asked how my blood pressure was. So I told her it was scarily high when I took it that morning... like 160/110. So all three of them gasped in horror and I was asked to go lie down and PJ (the new nurse) took my blood pressure. She couldn't believe her readings and told Florence to take my bp. Which was the same as what PJ read. So they IMMEDIATELY called Dr Sim who was away at a conference.

Under her instructions, I was given this orange pill to suckle on to lower the blood pressure. From the initial looks of the pill, I thought 'hmm, orange colour = orange flavour. Shouldn't taste that bad.' How freaking wrong I was!!! It's this horrid, plasticky capsule, which the nurse has to poke a hole with before squeezing the offending liquid into my mouth!!! It was bitter, yucky and more yucky!!!

The sad thing was, after that, my blood pressure still did not go down...

Because the diastolic reading was really high (above 100), Florence called back Dr Sim, again, and this time round, I heard 'admit', 'immediately' and 'observation'. In my mind then, I was like 'Oh dear... admitting into Mt E?? That's gonna be costly!'

So after Florence got off the phone with Dr Sim, she came to tell me that I had to be warded immediately. I was in such a daze that all I could do was 'orh'...

I left the room to wait outside for them to instruct me on what to do next. I knew that GG was in a meeting so he couldn't pick up the phone but I called him anyway... No reply. So I sent him a message.

Then came the scary news...

From where I was seated, I could hear PJ on the phone and she was obviously talking to Dr Sim about me. I heard 'delivery suite' this time round and my tears couldn't have darted out of my eyes quicker! What??? Was Dr Sim going to deliver me on that same day??? I was scared, confused and worried! My baby was only 33 weeks, weighing in at 1.8kg at the last check! She wasn't ready to be born!!!

I teared and in the midst of that, somehow, I managed to message Dee (one of the msn kakis). I actually didn't expect her to read the message quite that soon but she almost immediately called me back. I really needed some encouragement and assurance so that phone call to her did me some good.

Plus the nurses must have sensed that I was scared and worried so they assured me that the only reason why Dr Sim said I was to go to the delivery suite was because there would be nurses to attend to me and all equipment was there for them to observe me.

I did feel slightly better after that.

Soon I was placed on a wheelchair and brought down to the delivery suite. Perhaps I was too anxious and all, I missed picking up GG's call. I only called him back when I was at the delivery suite and he sounded worried and in a slight frenzy. I told him that he needn't rush down to the hospital so he only reached at about 5.45pm after his meeting/workshop ended...

If I continue writing some more, this is gonna turn out really long. To cut this short, Dr Sim arrived at about 6.30pm, said I frightened her and the nurses, checked my bp herself, declared that I was to be warded to check for pre eclampsia symptoms...

And there begins my stay for the next six days in Ward 4B room 4424...

That, was certainly highly unexpected.