First Hospital Tour

Since we've had our beautiful golden retriever, Buddy (we got him last June) we've taken walks almost every day.  Typically we walk about a mile and a half....sometimes three miles (depending on which route and who I go with).  Since I've been pregnant and the weather has been nice Buddy and I have kept up with that tradition.

During these walks in the last couple of months, I've noticed that after a few blocks, my calves start to hurt a lot.  It feels as though I've been doing the stair-stepper for a half hour and I've just walked a block.  But at each street we've taught Buddy to stop and sit, so it provided a lovely rest for my legs and I kept on truckin.  Anywho, since it's been going on for a while, I decided to check it out on the Internet.  On a couple of 'baby' sites, I found that if you experience any symptoms (including leg cramps) I should stop walking immediately and call the doctor.  Whoops....it's been a couple months like this.

I called the doctor and the nurse called me back shortly after and said that I needed to have an ultrasound done on my legs (weird) to rule out blood clots.  Ack!  I hadn't considered that at all...I perhaps expected that they would ask me to do a bloodtest to see if my iron, calcium or potassium was low....but not an u/s of my legs!!!  Since the doctor's office was closing shortly, I was told I had to go to the hospital.

I picked up John on my way to the hospital from work.  I had an ultrasound of each leg from upper thigh to ankle.  At one point she turned the volume on....I thought, what on earth for???  Then all of a sudden she squeezed my calf and a loud 'woo' came from the speaker...who knew legs could talk??  So each leg lasted about 12 minutes and she said I was clot-free. Whew!  We had to wait around for the doctor to call and tell us that there were no clots and that I should take tylenol for the pain, keep hydrated and we'd discuss it further at my next appointment.  I can deal with the pain, so I don't plan on taking tylenol...but perhaps I won't walk so often until my appt.  I will also grab some bananas at the store tomorrow to help the potassium.  I already drink plenty of milk and I take an iron supplement along with my prenatal vitamin.

So while that was a two hour visit that we weren't planning on taking, we got a chance to see the hospital....and boy was it nice!  Everything looks so new and the place is decorated beautifully.  They were recently named a top 100 hospital, so that's a great bonus as well!  We can't wait to take the official tour of the Women's and Children's Wing.  :)

So in the end, Logan and I are just fine....we just had our first precautionary measure.  :)

I'll be sure to post an update after my next appointment on July 2nd.

Good night!