It's a Big World, Mason

Mommy’s perspective

The day was supposed to be a routine (somewhat) doctor’s visit and ultrasound. I had been on bedrest due to high blood pressure, and so I wasn’t surprised that my blood pressure was high on the first doctor’s visit of the day. I wasn’t surprised when they made a big deal of it at the ultrasound, and had to advise them that yes, I knew I had high blood pressure, and no, this wasn’t helping said blood pressure.

What I wasn’t expecting was for events to start escalating from there. Before I knew it, I was told to report over to the hospital for a 24-hour monitoring session. I called Tim about it, but I didn’t think it would be anything drastic. We had already been through something similar the week before, and I thought it’d probably end up just being monitoring again. Plus, we were still two months out from the due date. Neither of us thought at any time up to this point in the day that there was a chance of Mason needing to be born right then. No way, no how. Up until this point, the doctors’ wanted me to control the blood pressure issue with bedrest alone.

I knew something was up when a little later at the hospital, the nurse came in with a phone, and handed it to me. It was my doctor, telling me that I had HELLP syndrome, and that they were readying the staff for a C-section. First thought? Oh my goodness…

I called Tim, and he did make record time to the hospital. I’m pretty sure our facial expressions matched as we made eye contact. Oh my goodness… And just a short time later, Mason Christopher Gourley was born. :)

It’s certainly been a roller coaster of a past week. But seeing how far Mason’s come along in the NICU, and seeing how many people have stepped up and helped us, really makes me feel fortunate. Thanks to all of you, from the bottom of my heart.

19 August 2010 ·

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