Well, we had a little scare on Thursday and Friday. I think only Judi knew the whole story. Let me cut to the finish first - everything is FINE! I'm fine. The babe is fine. All is well.

I had such a dreamy day on Thursday. I had breakfast (sort of) with my girlfriends. My new oven was delivered. My house was SCRUBBED clean. And then I saw the peanut! It was soooo mobile and active and the heartbeat was strong. It was all really good stuff.

Well, around 5 pm on Thursday I got a very concerned phone call from my doctor's office. Apparently some blood work came back with "critical" numbers. My platelet count was LOW - scary low. They were calling to see if I had broken blood vessels on my arms or on my face. Had I had any nosebleeds. Was I bleeding from ANYWHERE?!?! No, no, no and no. I felt fine and saw no weird blood issues. But the numbers were bad and they were concerned. I was to call them overnight if anything odd happened and I needed to come back to their office first thing Friday morning for more tests.

Friday they took SIX VIALS of blood to run a whole series of tests and they told me to NOT go camping this weekend, as was our plan. : ( SAD! But, if I was this critical, we agreed I should stay put. Sooooo . . . they got me an appointment with a hematologist (blood dr) for the afternoon and I was to take it REALLY easy and wait and see what she said. Late afternoon the dr called back and said oddly the results from today's blood work were totally normal - not a thing wrong. They were confused but didn't know what to do. They advised I go ahead and see the specialist.

Jeff went with me, as this was getting more concerning. The blood doctor was convinced it was a lab error, which had been one theory from the start, but a strange error. The office had asked them to re-run the tests and when the results are that off, they look at the blood under a microscope and triple confirm the results. They'd done all that. Still - it was looking more and more like that was the issue. The blood doctor took one more sample and we sat for a minute while those tests were run and ALSO came back normal. She said GO CAMPING!!

On our way home, the nurse called from my doctor's office and said she'd been in contact with the original lab throughout the day and they finally admitted to their error. Strange. We loaded the car and had a wonderful weekend in the mountains with Otto and our friends the Meskimen.

To put this to scale - my normal platelet count was around 350. I think it translates to 350,000. The critical test result said I was at 21, or 21,000. A pretty serious difference!

Anyway, all is well. I'm home and still feeling the icky pregnant feeling I've had for a while. I go back for one more ultrasound with this doctor on Thursday morning and then I am switching over to my regular OB/GYN for the rest of the pregnancy.

Talk to you soon.
XOX