Joy's Committed/Admitted

Well it was a long weekend of wrapping things up at home and Joy getting her bags packed.  We also had a lot of last minute errands that we had to run for her.   Joy also prepared stacks of things lined up on the guest bed and showed me where her next stash of clothes are for the BIG days of pregnancy.

This morning Joy had a really hard time leaving the house.  She was tearing up when saying goodbye to the pets.  She managed to make it though.  When we got to Duke we had a long wait for our room.  At least it was long considering they knew we were coming.  I think we sat in the lobby for almost 2 hours.

Joy's nurse has been nice.  I can't even count how many doctors and nurses have come in.  I think we will need to start a log of who and when everyone comes in.

Lunch was blah and looked the part.  She just got sort of a standard meal for today, but was able to put in an order for tomorrow.  I don't think anything sounded too appealing and things seem to be on par with an airline meal.

She does have a window with a wonderful view of concrete.  According to the nurse it was suppose to be a court yard, but the engineers who built it don't account for the weight so it is just an ugly useless patio.  Perhaps the engineers were the same idiots who built Harrison over on NCSU's campus (the sinking cylindrical building).  We do get some close up views of the helicopters that land every now and then.

I guess some more positive things about today is that Joy is allowed to roam the hospital grounds.  This should help a bit with the cabin fever.  There was a nice fountain and court yard in the lobby so perhaps she will go there during the day when she isn't being monitored.

The NST we had at lunch went well.  Their little hearts were fluttering away at about 140-160.  Baby A was very active and spent a bit of time around 170+ but settled down.