8/12/2003 11:06:14 AM|||Ellen|||Paulie: The last name is Armijo
Clerk: No, there is no one here with that name
Paulie: No, she's here, it's A-R-M-I-J-O
Clerk: Go inside there and find out how to spell the name correctly
Paulie: No, that's how you spell it, IT'S MY LAST NAME TOO... do you want to see my ID?
Clerk: We don't need YOUR name, we need the patient's name .....

Finally Beth and Paul's name badges are approved, and they run upstairs to the second floor to visit me, where I am ensconced in a pretty turquoise room at Washington Hospital.

Rx to prevent unexpected hospital trips for fetal monitoring:
1) Don't wear a dress to your regular doc appointment.
2) Don't try to rush your usually 15 min. appt, as you will invariably end up with a 2 hour appt and a trip to the hospital
3) 3 liters of water everyday, drink it even if you don't wanna get up in the middle of the night to pee.

With a little help from Beth practicing her future Doctor (okay, not that kind of doctor but still) self, and a couple photo ops we got thru a couple hours of monitoring contractions brought on by dehydration and probably too much activity by my pregnant self. My parents came and amused me too as Bob ran around getting my things in case I had to spend the night. That was sweet...

Anyway, again, all's well that ends well.

Since to doc-on-duty had to deliver two babies last night, she was able to check my dehydrated, contracting self and determine that I was okay and sent me home. Thank goodness as being in the bed for only 2 hours already gave me a back spasm...

So I am bedrest, real bedresting today and through the week ... all activities curtailed. I did realize, again, that I am the only one who can bring the heir into the world, no one else is gonna do it for me. So in the meantime, things will have to wait. Such a bummer too as my bible study group was coming over tonight and Mel and the gals were s'posed to come on Sunday ..... But we have reset our priorities and focus, and remembered to endure with patience ....

Thanks friends and family for the love and support. And thank God for good medical support.


...That you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened ... so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father. ~ Colossians 1:10 - 12




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