Heading to a new normal

From the monitoring equipment:  do not shower pregnant with electrodes on.  Pro tip.

2:45 PM November 20, 2015

The latest lab results have come back and they show that while the organ involvement has yet to stop, it is not worsening.  In sort this is where we want to be.  Blood pressure being controlled, by in large. Body systems healing themselves.  And a healthy mama and healthy kiddo.

Moments of surrealism abound.  Like the medical assessment "it is just that your baby is trying to kill you."    

The upshot here is we are now in the sense of days rather than hours, as was said before, with the word weeks being thrown around on occasion, allbeit with a high degree of caution.  The baby will quite possibly need to be early, but perhaps not as early as, you know, today.  Emily will need to be curtailed for the remainder of the pregnancy, and perhaps hospitalized, however that ends up being.  

All of which makes a guy kind of glad to find himself in Canada, but that is a different conversation all together. Though I still snicker as I pass the plaque unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen on the opening of a wing of the hospital, I am glad to be at home in a different place with one year behind me. I am just not sure how long it takes for monarchy to start sounding normal to American ears. Takes some getting used to.  

So the order of the day is now to rest.  Bryce has confiscated Emily's cell phone and turned it off for at least several hours in the hopes sleep might, just might be possible.  We will see if she gets it back.

Thank you each for your concern and your prayers and much much love.  We only hope to be given opportunity in time to fully demonstrate our gratitude.

PS:  the cell phone restriction fails miserably.