Baby muiscfrk2002 birth story
Jun 13, 2015 0:32:25 GMT -5
Post by musicfrk2002 on Jun 13, 2015 0:32:25 GMT -5
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Friday morning 6/6/15 my husband took me to the ER around 7 am due to me having a racing heartbeat, extreme dizziness, and trouble breathing. Previous to this, I had multiple dr appointments where they were watching me for pre-eclampsia, but i never had high protein or other typical signs, just a heartrate between 115-135/
The dr at the ER did a chest x-ray and sent me home with z-pak, robitussin with codeine, and a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Saturday morning we headed back to the er at 6 am. I was having difficulty breathing again, and chest pains. They did an EKG the second we walked in the door, that seemed to be okay, and again they weren't seeing much outside of the pneumonia diagnosis, but definitely wanted to err on the side of caution this time. So they admitted me and put me in the ortho wing of the hospital (no idea why still)
I seemed to be doing well that first day, up through around 10 pm sunday night where things started going downhill again. I was on 3 L of oxygen and they were doing breathing treatments every few hours, but things by monday morning were definitely continuing to decline.
They had brought in a tech to do an echocardiogram, and by the time that was over, I could barely breathe at all. Suddenly there were about 20 people in my room, including nurses, my ob, a lung doctor, etc. At this point they had determined they needed to take me down to the critical care unit because obviously we were no longer dealing with just pneumonia. They brought me down and I pretty much made them put me under general right away, they had already decided they were performing an emergency c-section, baby was doing wonderfully and they could treat me better after he was born. Apparently even after I was intubated, I wasn't breathing and they had to manually supply oxygen with a bag. From what my mom and husband said, there was an immediate response once Jacob was born, and my body started breathing again.
Right now, they have changed my diagnosis based on further tests and x-rays. They are still treating for pneumonia, but also now believe I have peri-partum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) which is a form of heart failure brought on by pregnancy, that most often goes away in a few months.
We are doing well today, I am off the vent and NG tube, and I have finally gotten to hold my son multiple times the last couple of days. He is doing so wonderfully and my husband is the best daddy ever. They are letting him stay with the baby upstairs and are planning on keeping both baby and I until we are both ready to go home...we are looking optimistically at tuesday or wednesday of this week
Friday morning 6/6/15 my husband took me to the ER around 7 am due to me having a racing heartbeat, extreme dizziness, and trouble breathing. Previous to this, I had multiple dr appointments where they were watching me for pre-eclampsia, but i never had high protein or other typical signs, just a heartrate between 115-135/
The dr at the ER did a chest x-ray and sent me home with z-pak, robitussin with codeine, and a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Saturday morning we headed back to the er at 6 am. I was having difficulty breathing again, and chest pains. They did an EKG the second we walked in the door, that seemed to be okay, and again they weren't seeing much outside of the pneumonia diagnosis, but definitely wanted to err on the side of caution this time. So they admitted me and put me in the ortho wing of the hospital (no idea why still)
I seemed to be doing well that first day, up through around 10 pm sunday night where things started going downhill again. I was on 3 L of oxygen and they were doing breathing treatments every few hours, but things by monday morning were definitely continuing to decline.
They had brought in a tech to do an echocardiogram, and by the time that was over, I could barely breathe at all. Suddenly there were about 20 people in my room, including nurses, my ob, a lung doctor, etc. At this point they had determined they needed to take me down to the critical care unit because obviously we were no longer dealing with just pneumonia. They brought me down and I pretty much made them put me under general right away, they had already decided they were performing an emergency c-section, baby was doing wonderfully and they could treat me better after he was born. Apparently even after I was intubated, I wasn't breathing and they had to manually supply oxygen with a bag. From what my mom and husband said, there was an immediate response once Jacob was born, and my body started breathing again.
Right now, they have changed my diagnosis based on further tests and x-rays. They are still treating for pneumonia, but also now believe I have peri-partum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) which is a form of heart failure brought on by pregnancy, that most often goes away in a few months.
We are doing well today, I am off the vent and NG tube, and I have finally gotten to hold my son multiple times the last couple of days. He is doing so wonderfully and my husband is the best daddy ever. They are letting him stay with the baby upstairs and are planning on keeping both baby and I until we are both ready to go home...we are looking optimistically at tuesday or wednesday of this week
