Just got home after a 2 night stay in the hospital (long)

Sooo, I started out this week by having a stomach virus (vomiting/diarrhea) on Mon & Tues. On Wed, I finally started keeping stuff down, but I started running a fever. Thursday morning, I still had a temp and started having bilateral flank/back pain, worse on the right side. Being an ER nurse, I try to justify everything & wait til the last minute to go to the doctor. So, I went on to work Thurs morning. After about an hour, I got much worse. Starting vomiting, pain got worse, blood pressure dropped & heart increased due to the dehydration. My co-workers insisted that I check in. My urine & lab work looked horrible. They diagnosed me with dehydration, pyelonephritis (a yucky kidney infection), & a kidney stone. I got admitted to L&D because my OB wanted to keep an eye on me & baby. When they got me settled into a room, the nurse cam in to check baby's heart beat. She tried for like 15 minutes & couldn't find it. I started getting nervous because I've been hearing the heart beat with my doppler @ home for 2 wks. She went & got another nurse & came back to try again...3 nurses later, they finally found heart beat. Talk about a huge sigh of relief : ) Anyway, I spent a couple of nights in the hospital, got lots of IV fluids, & IV antibiotics. My OB put me on an antibiotic to take once a day for the rest of my pregnancy just prophylactic, since this is the second time I've had pyelo during this pregnancy. I feel so much better & hope to have a wonderful uneventful pregnancy from here on out  : ) !!!

Glad you are home and feeling better!

Glad you're feeling better and that the baby's OK.

I'm sure the OB nurses scared you to death when they weren't able to find the hb.  Probably aged you a few years there.

Rest up, take your meds and DRINK.

Im so glad everything is ok! I suffer from kidney stones alot, and they SUCK!! I bet you were so scared when they couldnt find that heartbeat hun! WOW! What a rough experience! Glad your ok though!!! :)