Edmonton Or Fort Mcmurray?

I got a call from the on call obstetrician on saturday evening. He asked me to come in in the morning for more bloodwork and another NST. If they call me for an unscheduled NST/bloodwork then I can safely assume that the platelets dropped again. So I went in (had to miss church) and the tech took like 6 vials of blood as opposed to the normal 1. I finally got to meet Dr. Remtula who I have chatted with a few times on the phone. I like him which is always nice. He told me that if my platelets get to 55 or lower that they will need to send me to Edmonton to deliver baby. sigh. So the reason they took all the extra blood was to be prepared for that scenario (i guess they need more tests?). Last friday my platelets were at 61, yesterdays results were at 63. The plan is to induce me sometime mid next week. I'm really praying that my platelets can stay above that 55 until i'm 37.5 weeks so I can stay in town for delivery. Not that I dont' think I would get great care in Edmonton but its the inconvienance of it all. Driving there, leaving the kids here, having to drive back after, dealing with a whole new bunch of doctors that I haven't met and so on. Oh well, it could definitly be worse.

My body is definitly getting ready for this baby to come out. Three nights in a row I had painful contractions for over an hour. the first night they were 10 minutes apart then stopped and started again a couple hours later at about 6 minutes apart. The next night about 5 minutes apart and the next night 3 minutes apart. While it gets dissapointing every night when they stop, I keep reminding myself that every contractions is causing some sort of progress.

This week is pretty busy for us. I have an appointment with a specialist on Tuesday (in case this is not only a gestational problem), Gabe's school christmas concert on wednesday evening, my weekly NST/Bloodwork on Thursday, Doctors appointment on friday, then the Sunday school concert/church christmas program on Sunday evening. In between these I need to take the kids shopping for a present for Daddy and find the boys some dress shirts. I'm hoping that all the busyness of the week will help it all go by really fast :)