No place like home...

First off I want to say a huge thank-you to all my sweet friends for their prayers and kind words. Yes, I did go to Sacred Heart Hospital yesterday. To be honest with you when I went to the doctor yesterday I really couldn't picture myself getting better, I know I've only been down a week but I just felt so bad and had no relief for a long time. I told my mom that whenever I would sit up from laying down that I would get this forced cough that came up. My mom got very alarmed and said it was time to go to the hospital. Dr. Ripps had suggested that he might send me to the hospital on Wednesday anyways...why spend one more miserable night? I first went to New Life and they did an ultra-sound on my abdomen and there is fluid, which we already knew. They also did an ultra-sound on my lungs and said I did have some fluid accumulating on my lungs, so they admitted me to the hospital. By this time I was huffing and puffing just to get sentences out. At Sacred Heart they took me directly to the pulmonary and lung ward and started an IV, which was quite painful since my body was so dehydrated and my veins so dried out. The ultra-sound tech looked at my lungs and didn't see much fluid on them. (I was sitting there wondering if I had just psyched myself out) She called the Doctor in who does the fluid draining procedures, to see if he could detect anything she was missing. He looked at my left lung and said, there's a little fluid there, but not enough to warrant sticking a needle in your back. He looked over to my right lung and said "Oh yeah, there's a good deal more fluid here, we'll go ahead and drain this one" and just that fast he gave me a shot to numb the area (which is always the most painful part) and stuck a large needle in my back. I guess the way they do it is they use the needle to insert a tube into your back and then remove the needle and the fluid just drains from where it has built up. They ended up removing 500 mililiters of fluid from my back. Immeadiately as the fluid started draining I could breathe again. My right lung had actually started to collapse because of the pressure on it. After this procedure they took me to an observation room and just gave me something (maybe saline???) through an IV all night. I had my horrible stomach aches still last night, but thank God I haven't had even one today. The Doc has me drinking 2 liters of fluid a day right now, which means I can't go far from the bathroom. It has been one week exactly since the egg extraction and Dr. Ripps expects that this OHSS should be clearing up any time now. My electrolytes and sodium and all that is back in the normal range, so I shouldn't (Lord willing) have any more problems with fluid build up. I just have to wait for the water that's there to absorb back into my system. I have to tell you all that I really do believe that this child we will have is going to be some great encouragement to Jeremy and Me. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was God's will for us. Even though through the tough times you kinda question if you did the right thing I believe we have. I believe the Devil is just trying to make me fear the blessing that I am so close to getting. I have to thank God for his provision and his tender care. I also thank him for my friends who have been a rock to me during this time. You know what's funny is when I first learned we had fertility issues and it would not be easy getting pregnant I didn't want to tell anyone. I thought we'd just muddle through it on our own and eventually it would happen. Along the way I've learned that God gave me good christian friends to help me through this journey and I love you all. I hope one day the Lord will reveal to you just how much you've meant to me through this hard time. I know we all have our struggles, whether we share them or not, and I just want you to remember what this blog is all about. There is so much wisdom in the proverbs, and you can claim this verse with me: Proverbs 13:12- Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.