An Unexpected Turn of Events

Jamie finally fell asleep around 10:30 after the nurses had checked her blood pressure to make sure it wasn't too high. It was about 144/80, so not horritble. And had given her some Ambien to help her sleep. I finally got to sleep around 1:30 after posting some things on line and reading for a while. Jamie woke up around 3:00 AM to go to the bathroom. She seemed to make it in there and back to bed ok. But she started coughing and she seemed disoriented and incoherent unless she was staring me straight in the face and talking directly to me. Every time she looked around she became confused. I called the nurse to come in and check on her. The nurse asked if I thought Jamie's cough had changed. It had become more congested during the night. She put Jamie on oxygen and listened to her breathing. She said Jamie's right side sounded very congested. She put a monitor on the baby and an oxygen monitor on Jamie to see how her saturation level was doing. Her blood pressure was 148/99. Her oxygen level was 81% before she was on the oxygen but the oxygen helped to get it up to 97%. The baby's heart rate was at 145 to 151 which was a good rate.
The doctor came in and listened to Jamie's chest and said that she thought Jamie may have blood clots in her lungs. They gave Jamie a shot of Heperin to help with blood clots, if she had any. Then they took Jamie down to do a CT scan on her lungs and an MRI.
Jamie had the CT scan at about 4:00 AM and when she came out she was in a panic because she could not breath. They immediately took her to Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU). I had to go to the waiting room while they got her settled in the room. At that time I called and told John what was going on. And around 5:30 we decided it was time to tell Josh so that he could come to the hospital because they had begun discussing taking the baby.
When they finally let me back in the room around 5:30 AM with Jamie the doctor said that she didn't have blood clots but they thought she might have pneumonia and they were giving her a breathing treatment. They also began givng her medicine to try to get her blood pressure down. It was rising to 160 /108.
After the breathing treatment they decided that she did not have pneumonia but that the pre-eclampsia was causing the problem of fluids leaking into her lungs and essentially drowning her. They put her on an oxygen mask that actually forced the fluids out of her lungs as well as supplying her oxygen to breath. Her oxygen levels improved to between 92 adn 97 as long as she was on this mask.
The doctors decided that it was necessary to take the baby as soon as Jamie was stable. First they needed to get her blood pressure down and get her oxygen levels to stabalize. They were giving her blood pressure medicine every 20 minutes or so to try and bring it down. And also gave her a diuretic around 8:30 AM to help reduce the fluids in her system.
At 9:30 AM they checked her legs for blood clots. They also checked her heart to make sure it was okay before they did the surgery. Around 11:00 AM the a group of doctors and nurses came in to prep Jamie for surgery. They put in IVs, and arterial line or something like that. Checked her blood pressure, ran blood tests to make sure she could have the spinal so she could be awake during surgery.
Around 12:00 noon family came in to say hello to Jamie before she went in to surgery. at about 1:00 PM they took Jamie down the hall and off to surgery. Let me tell you, that was one of the hardest moments of my life becasue I couldn't go wtih her and I couldn't protect her from what was happening. I felt so helpless yet knew she was in very good hands.
The good new in the next post.