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We got to spend 7 hours in the ER! What fun!

Erin called her doctor to ask about her pregnancy and she recommended we go the ER. Yeah, you heard me right, pregnancy. For anyone who doesn’t know Erin is pregnant. While we got a faint red line a week or so ago, we weren’t completely sure. Let me rephrase that, I wasn’t completely sure. Erin was. Tonight we got to unofficially see the baby on the ultrasound and it was for sure there! “Unofficially? Hospital? Why did you go the the ER to get baby confirmation?” you may be asking. Read on.

We didn’t actually head to the ER to find out anything related to the baby. When she called the doctor to ask about a few things to see if she should come in, one of the things she mentioned was a pain and tingly in her leg. They then asked if she was short of breath. She had been lately and when she mentioned it they said, “Head to the ER right away!” Their concern was that if it was a blood clot it could be serious stuff. She did have a really bad bruise on her knee with internal bleeding a few weeks back but it was the other leg. Also, she doesn’t move much since she’s a computer programmer. Maybe those two things combined could be not so good. Well, on that advise, off she went.

She IM’ed me to let me know she was heading to the ER. When I found out I picked up Truster and dropped her off at Abby’s (Adam and Mara’s) to play. Thanks for watching her by the way! The ER is never fun but it would have been impossible taking her. I then went back to work. I was taking care of some stuff and casually mentioned the doctor’s concern to another Engineer. He told me about his experience with a blood clot. He told me about his lungs shutting down. He told be about beating the odds and living through his experience. Holy cow! I had no idea it was that kind of ordeal. Heart pounding I rushed back to be with Erin.

Of course, when I got there Erin was calm as could be. All she could talk about is the TV shows she was watching while she was waiting. When it comes to trusting God, Erin’s got it down. Some blood tests, an EKG, and a doppler ultrasound later and the Doc had no signs of anything gone wrong. In a normal situation they would have done a radiation based scan to watch the blood flow but the couldn’t. Blood tests confirmed a little one in there that shouldn’t be exposed to such things. Also, the ultrasound tech snuck in a little tummy action after she got done with her legs (hospital folks, you didn’t read that). We weren’t able to see much since its so early but there was something there! What a wonderful bit of fun in an otherwise horrible day.

The diagnosis: no signs of bad stuff from what they could see and pregnancy makes it too risk to do the real tests. Pray for Erin. She’s going to keep an eye out for any warning signs and rush back if anything comes up. In the mean time, I get to start talking to Erin’s belly again!

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