The Dish

Initially, we were going to try to keep some of this information to ourselves, however, now we feel like it would be best to let everyone know what is going on...

Tricia is about 6 or 7 weeks pregnant. We usually like to wait until closer to the 2nd trimester to announce it but we share it now so that there is a better understanding of our scenario. Apparently, they don't like pregnant women to be on the type of insulin that Tricia is using so they told Tricia to come check into the hospital on Tuesday and stay overnight so that they could monitor the switch. Precautionary mostly. On Wednesday morning they indicated that she would need to stay until Sunday for additional monitoring because the insulin levels weren't balancing her blood/sugar as quickly as they were hoping. Wednesday afternoon, Tricia went into another anaphalaxic shock but this time it was less than 10 minutes from the first itch to being transported to the Intensive Care Unit. They wanted to establish an intravenous bloodline so that she could receive fluids more quickly to her heart if she has another situation...this is a very painful process for Tricia. Three Dr.'s tried to establish this bloodline for over an hour and couldn't. Shortly after, Tricia began experiencing some very painful cramping so they have her on morphine. She has since passed several bowel movements that are 100% blood. So now we are dealing with multiple symptoms and multiple problems from Diabetes, pregnancy, bloody bowel-movements and severe reactions to something along the way. We are quite nervous about losing the pregnancy because of the location and severity of her cramping but Tricia remains our main concern.

This whole thing is even more difficult due to the precautionary measure the hospital is taking due to the H1N1 virus as childrenn under the age of 18 are not allowed inside the hospital. This means that Tricia hasn't seen the kids since Tuesday morning. The kids don't understand why mommy can't come home and dad is gone most of the time. We feel very blessed in so many ways: Tricia's parents are here to help and I work immediately next to the hospital.

We appreciate your prayers very much.

thanks



Bennie