It would take too much time to answer all the questions asked and all the letters received so we decided to put the answers and informations up here
What happened: yesterday morning after a fairly routine ultrasound and checkup the results came back not so shiney, they indicated preeclampsia. The following tests got the diagnose sure so I got admitted to the ward in St Michaels Hospital, had even more tests but we got assured pretty fast that there is no chance that we would be able to fly to Hungary in 4 weeks.
We slept on the whole issue (me in the hospital Ark at home - would call it a bit of a shock when we expected to come in for a small checkup then going back to work) not to make a decision in a shocked state but truth to be told, there was not much to decide about.
We cancelled the tickets we could, the rent in Hungary, luckily most of the things can be re-done, cancelled simply.
The options are not too good. The placenta doesn't function properly so I'm in the hospital under tight control and medication until delivery which is going to be a cesarean section that can happen whenever. Best case scenario seems to be 2 more weeks for the baby to be in but right now every single day matters a lot for Mano (Hungarian for a cute little Gnome) while she's in and not out. She has to come out when they can't push my elevated, spiking blood pressure down or Mimi shows signs of distress, not developing well enough or not moving.
At 28 weeks the chances are pretty good for survival (85-90%) and 10% chance to have some permanent damage might happen during delivery.
So right now we are waiting. I'm 28 weeks pregnant tomorrow and hope is that we get to 30. Father Christmas is coming a bit earlier to visit us and we can only hope that he will bring us a healthy (and almost surely a very tiny, boney and red) Mano.
We have received loads of supporting messages and emails from people and can't express how much this means to us. Unfortunately nobody can help, all this depends on time and nature.
We can only wait.
Vali, egyelőre csak a döbbenet, nem tudok mit mondani. Bárcsak tudnánk valahogy segíteni! Nagyon NAGYON drukkolunk Manóért és érted. Ha bármit kell hozni Mao-ról, írj, aztán feladjuk Dublinból. Basszus, nem jut eszembe semmi értelmes :-( Ölelünk, drukkolunk.
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