Second visit to the PNC

I go to the PNC and first thing I do is a glucose tolerance test. It's awful. It's orange flavored and burns the back of my throat. By the time I sit there for an hour to have my blood drawn, the awful orange goop has given me a raging headache. Then I go out to wait with every one else in the waiting room. I sit there for about another hour this time. Not too bad. I'd sat for much longer waiting to see the very popular doctor who delivered The Oldest. Then they call me in. I pee in a cup. They say my BP is too high. I again show them the pitting edema up to my mid-thigh. I hop on the scale and the gal weighs me. I can't believe what I'm looking at. I step off the scale to be sure I am seeing correctly. I move the weights back to zero myself. It's level. I get back on and start moving the weights and get the same number I had before. I've gained 9 pounds over night. OVERNIGHT! I tell the nurse taking the vitals that I've gained 9 pounds over night. She says that cannot be. She looks for my previous days' weight. She says that maybe the previous days' weight was wrong. She has Dr JF's report with my weight clearly stated. Even if yesterdays weight was wrong, that's still an 18 pound weight gain in 2 weeks. Crap! I'm sent out to the waiting room again until they call me in to see the NP.

Next I see the NP who takes a full and thorough history, again with the whole drawn out explanation of my BP, then a thorough exam. Then I see Dr ER and instantly like him. This whole PHC thing isn't too bad. He finds the baby's' heartbeat and lets me listen, even though the NP already did that. It's 170. He says that if Dr S couldn't find the source of the spotting I'm still having, he doubted that he'd be able to locate it. He goes over my history and really listens to me about my concerns. I really like him. We decide I should have another cervical stitch, just like my other pregnancies, and that he will do the procedure. He has Dr S's report and agrees with the baby aspirin every day and recommends an amniocentesis. He also tells me that the NP heard bilateral carotid bruits, and agrees that I should be on bed rest, if not for that, then the spotting. Then I'm sent out to wait again.

And again I get called in and walked down the hall to see the gal who goes over Dr ER's findings. She gives me a bottle of prenatal vitamins and several lab orders. Dr ER increased my Methyldopa to 500 mg twice a day. I tell her that Dr ER says he'll do my cervical stitch at 16 weeks. She tells me that he hasn't renewed his contract with the PHC so she doubts that he will be the one doing it. Crap!