Birthday Nurse

Night #1 after having 5 wonderful nights off (except one night I went in @ 0300 so a nurse could leave early for her vacation)! Nice little recovery...nice little cervidil who actually slept...I swear mine NEVER sleep!....and a "nice" little PIH gal who came in at 0415. Severe Right Upper Quad rent pain/brisk reflexes/Liver enzymes of 400+ and 300+ ("normal" is mag'd her and then pitted her. Wonder what time she'll get cut? They were the sweetest couple, I would take them back tonight...

One of the big plus sides of working 3 nights in a row is that it makes the days go quick! It seems like I just woke up Thursday afternoon and now it's Sunday morning and I'm going to bed! It's gone quick (and I haven't worked out at all during those days...that makes me a little grouchy!)! I have decided a few things after the last 2 nights: I'm ready to have a baby, I've gone lots of days without a baby!!! I'm tired of Mag! I think our hospital is running a special on Mag. Friday night I sat on my butt the big majority of the night. I had one long-term ante and was triage. I did one trainwreck triage who decided she liked me, and wanted to ask for me by name when she came back for her "real" labor. Hey, a compliment is a compliment! After I sent her home I sat, and sat, and sat, and sat. We got a phone call that a hospital 2hrs away was going to transfer a 33wk PIH patient to us, so we all jumped and got ready for that. That was just before midni...

I apologize ahead of time if I miss totally obvious reasoning for why this happened, but to me it just didn't make sense... G1 29weeks presents to L&D sometime Monday afternoon for higher blood pressures and just not "feeling right." Her mom used to be a nurse in an OB's office, so of course Grandma knows "exactly" what is going on...anyway, her pressures weren't pretty (150's/100's consistently) but since it was a busy day in the office, her doc wanted us to just watch her and treat her pressures with labatalol . Her urine was dipping 4+ protein and you could tell there was some swelling going on. Labs came back " ok " not fantastic, so doc ordered a 24-hour urine to check protein, etc. So that buys her at least a 24-hour stay. She got her first dose of steroids for fetal lung development and hung out 'till Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday, her pressures are even worse and her 24-hour urine came back with 6 GRAMS of protein. That...