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We had very good, very regular check-ups on these
two visits. The visits of late are really routine. They are more for reassurance
of Maureen than any real medical reason.
The only points of interest in these visits, are that Maureen saw
Dr McGee the Internist.
She is the doctor that has followed Maureen's blood pressure for
the last 2 pregnancies. She is very nice, and has very good bedside manner.
The good news at the moment, is that Maureen's Blood Pressure is
staying at a good level, so on the 25th, she reduced Maureen's medication
of Methyl Dopa(?) from 500mg 3 times a day to 500mg 2 times a day.
The reasoning being that all is well at the moment, in fact very
good, so by reducing the medication it my mean her blood pressure goes
up slightly, but it will also mean that she isn't being over medicated,
and if need be, the dosage can be increased later, as there is a larger
buffer now because of the current lower medication!
On the 1st, the blood pressure medication was reduced to 250mg 2
times a day. Maureen's blood pressure is STILL at a good level, so that
is good news.
18 weeks is the time for the "Anatomy scan" where the Doctors check
for major development indicators. It's kind of a "Baby Check-list". They
use ultra-sound to check for major organs and body parts (i.e. kidneys
- check, heart - check, 2 arms - check ... as well as getting a measurement
of the babies and comparing this size against the norm.).
Because we are having twins, the babies are probably smaller, so
the doctors decided to wait an additional week to make the procedure easier
for them. They estimate it will take 30 minutes per baby to perform these
checks, so we are scheduled next week on September 11th for this procedure.
*** Note: the film festival starts on September 10th. We are only
going to go to 5 movies this year, but even so, I lined up at 7am on Thursday
morning just to hand in our 5 requests!
At that point the line stretched for 3 blocks, and contained 500-600
people!
The line started moving at 8:30 and my requests were handed in by
9:15am. (all it was was a booklet with our requests checked off!) We return
on Monday to see which of the 5 movies we got. |
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